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| ReunionsCallahan Family Keunian.Tin? animal reunion of the Callahan family (descendant* of Isaac Callahan I is to be held at Odon. the first Sunday in August. Several of the children settled In Odon about 1800. Last year Mil of the approximately 800 de«.oei * ints, attended the reunion. Isaac Callahan was the only son of Thomas Callahan, whose father, Henry Callahan. came from north Ireland near 1700 ami settled in Martinsburg. Va., now West Virginia. Henry wa* a soldier of the American Revolution laterguBKla merchant at Martlnsburg. lie and the Boyd fatuity some of whom settledin Lawrence county, west of Bedford, were active in the affairs of Virginiaat the time of the Constitutional Con-vent ion. 1787, and were residents therewhen (leorge Washington served hiscountry as first president. ThomasCallahan was born, 1777, emigrated to Pennsylvania al*out 1800, where Isaac was born in 1804. Later ^the family moved to Ohio and in 1816, to Vin-ftfiDei After two or^ three years they moved back to Ohio. In 1825 Isaac vis-it€»d the Boyds in Kentucky, who had emigrated there from Martinsbury, Va... before the Callahan family went to! Pennsylvania. While there he married Jennie Boyd, the daughter of John Boyd and in 1827 they moved to Lawrence county, the year after the father-in-law and some of the family had ttled there. Many of the descendants of Henry, Thomas and Isaac Calla ban live In Lawrence^ Daviess, Martinand Greene counties. Among them Dr.J. M. Callahan of the University of West Va., F. E. Callahan, of Bedford,ami others. Those at Odon desire alarge number to attend the reunion August 7. t
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The Washington Herald
Washington, Indiana, US
Sat, Jul 30, 1932
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