Hugh Callen and Mary [Unk]

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Husband Hugh Callen ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 5 Jun 1773 - near Kittanning, Armstrong Co, PA 3
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           Died: 10 Feb 1842 - Clarion Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Callensburg, Licking Twp, Clarion Co, PA

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         Father: Hugh Callen (      -      ) 3
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary [Unk] ³

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           Born: 3 Oct 1775 3
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           Died: 
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Children

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1 M Thomas Callen ³

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           Born: 28 Sep 1797 3
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           Died: Bef 1887 - Jefferson Co, PA
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2 M John Callen ³

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           Born: 31 Oct 1799 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1887 - Clarion, Clarion Co, PA
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3 F Sarah Callen ^{2 3}

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           Born: 18 Sep 1801 - Callensburg, Licking Twp, Clarion Co, PA 3
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           Died: 1869 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Samuel Wilson (      -1873) 2
           Marr: 1823 2

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4 M David Callen ³

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           Born: 9 Nov 1803 3
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           Died: Bef 1887
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5 F Mary Callen ³

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           Born: 16 Feb 1806 3
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           Died: Bef 1887
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         Spouse: Michael Reichardt (      -      ) 3

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6 M James Callen ³

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           Born: 21 Mar 1808 - Clarion Co, PA 3
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           Died: 1893 3
         Buried:  - Callensburg Cemetery, Licking Twp, Clarion Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Wilson (      -      ) 3
           Marr: 30 Jun 1836

         Spouse: Eliza Laughlin (Abt 1808-1874) 3
           Marr: Clarion Co, PA

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7 M Samuel Callen ³

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           Born: 6 Aug 1811 3
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           Died: Bef 1887 - Reidsburg, Clarion Co, PA
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8 M Hugh Callen ^{1 3}

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           Born: 2 Sep 1813 3
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           Died: 17 Mar 1881 1
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9 M Watson Callen ³

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           Born: 2 Feb 1816 3
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           Died: Bef 1887 - Brockwayville, Jefferson Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Callen

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He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. [HCC 1887, 460]

He was the founder of Callensburg, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

In 1812 he bought three hundred acres and allowances; which plot included the greater part of the present site of Callensburg, Pennsylvania. He settled there the same year, building a house south of Licking, very near the spot where long stood a large poplar tree. This tree grew from a twig used by Mr. Callen as a riding-whip. On his return from church at Concord one Sunday he stuck the whip into the ground, and the lone poplar stood for years as a monument to the piety of him who planted it.
Hugh Callen, Sr., was not a particularly remarkable man, but he was a far-sighted, broad-minded, and generous man. He was a strong man in a moral sense; an honorable man in his dealings with men; a Christian and a patriot. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and was a United States pensioner for services rendered in that struggle. He was called to Clarion in 1842, as a witness on a land case, but he never gave his testimony. While eating supper February 10, he was taken sick, and died that night in his sixty-ninth year.

1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 460.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 979.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1521.