Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....McCallum, James 1852 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JAMES McCALLUM. We have here again the story of the poor boy, who found in
America the place in which he might rise to a position of comfort and where he
might acquire a handsome property, for the father of our subject had but a half
crown in his pocket when he came across the seas from Scotland to Canada at the
age of thirteen. His son James was born in 1852 in Ontario, Canada, he himself,
Finley McCallum, in 1813. The father had acquired a good education for a boy of
his age before coming to America, and soon after his arrival in Canada he
undertook teaching, which he followed for a period of over twenty years, after
which he was chosen as Assistant Recorder of Halton County, Canada, in which
office he served for a full decade, and was then appointed Treasurer of the same
county and filled that honorable position with judgment and integrity until his
death, which took place December 1, 1881, making nearly twenty years in which he
had served as Treasurer.

  Jane Laidlaw was the maiden name of the young woman who in 1850 was united in
marriage with the father of our subject. She is a daughter of Andrew and Agnes
Laidlaw and became the mother of nine children, eight of whom are still in this
life, These children are by name, James, our subject; Agnes, wife of John
Creighton, of Manitoba; Christina J., Mrs. John Summerville, of Manitoba;
Elizabeth, who makes her home in Ontario, Canada; John F., of the same place;
Margaret who is the wife of Dr. McClanihen, of Toronto; Andrew, who lives in the
State of Washington and Mary E. of Ontario, Canada.

  It was at the age of seventeen that our subject began to make his own living
in the world and decided to come to Michigan while still quite a young man, and
he located in various counties from time to time and finally made his home upon
a farm in Tuscola County, in 1885. Two years later he bought out the firm of H.
R. Brown, of Wilmot, which business he continued to carry on, and handles a full
line of goods such as are found in a general store. On the 22nd of March, 1882,
he was united in marriage with Mary A. Kelley, daughter of Dennis and Mary A.
Kelley, of Bloomfield, Oakland County, Mich. The three children who have blessed
this home are Maud, Claud and Benjamin Harrison.

  It is hardly necessary after mentioning the name of Mr. McCallum's youngest
child to state that his political preferences agree with the teachings of the
Republican party and that he is a warm admirer of the man who fills the
Presidential chair. He has filled the office of Postmaster at Wilmot and also
express agent, and at present is Highway Commissioner.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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