Introduction
Photograph and Information about James Joseph Callan
 

(From A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 
edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission.)

"After the war was over and the Indians were gone!"

Captain James Joseph Callan
(1833 - 1919)

(First white man to be married in Coleman County,
fathered first white child born in the county,
and later founded the second newspaper to be published in the county.)

Copyright 1985
Coleman County Historical Commission
Coleman, Texas 76834

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Shown is another photograph of James J. Callan was taken at the same time as the above image in the 1890s,
but was not available when "A History of Coleman County and Its People" was written.