JAMES MCCALLUM
WAS born in Robeson County, North Carolina, October 3, 1806, moving to Giles County at an early age. Mr. McCallum was Clerk and Master
in Chancery at Pulaski; a long and active practicing attorney in the several courts of the State, and a Member of the Tennessee
State Legislature, 1861-63. He was a Representative from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65. Author of “Brief Sketch of the Settlement and
Early History of Giles County Tennessee” (1876), the definitive historical work on Giles County. He was a
Presbyterian, a Freemason, and served as Grand Master of the “Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Tennessee”
He died in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, September 16, 1889. He is interred at Maplewood Cemetery, Pulaski, Tennessee.
James McCallum and his family appear on these three United States censuses as such:
1850 Giles County, Tennessee Census, District 8, p. 469
Dwelling 879-879:
James McCALLUM 44 Male NC Farmer
$5,000 (Real Property)
Eliza McCALLUM 43 Female NC
Daniel J. McCALLUM 20 Male TN Farmer
Catherine L. McCALLUM 17 Female TN Student
Sarah McCALLUM 15 Female TN Student
Wm. H. McCALLUM 13 Male TN Student
James J. McCALLUM 9 Male TN Student
George B. McCALLUM 6 Male TN Student
Neill B. McCALLUM 1 Male TN
1860 Giles County, Tennessee Census
Lynnville District (Pulaski), p. 89
HH1268-1268:
James M. McCOLLUM 53 Male NC
Chancery Clerk & Master & Farmer
$25,000 (Real Property)
$21,500(Personal Property)
Eliza McCOLLUM 52 Female NC
Daniel J. McCOLLUM 30 Male TN Physician
Wm. H. McCOLLUM 22 Male TN Clerk
Sarah A. McCOLLUM 24 Female TN Domestic
James A. McCOLLUM 18 Male TN Student
George B. McCOLLUM 15 Male TN Student
1870 Giles County, Tennessee Census
Pulaski District, p. 146
HH380-380:
James M. McCALLUM 62 Male White NC Lawyer
$10,000-2,000
Eliza McCALLUM 52 Female White NC
Wm. H. McCALLUM 30 Male White TN Lawyer
Sallie McCALLUM 32 Female White TN Domestic
Sources:
Rose, Col. Solon E., from his Forward to Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County
Tennessee, published by the “Pulaski Citizen, 1928.” United States Federal Censuses, 1850, 1860, 1870,
for Giles County Tennessee
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