Approved Pension File for Martha B. Callis, Widow of Lieutenant Colonel John B. Callis, 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (WC-474273)

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Approved Pension File for Martha B. Callis, Widow of Lieutenant Colonel John B. Callis, 7th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (WC-474273)

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National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Callis, John Benton, 1828-1898

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Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Callis moved to Tennessee in 1834 with his parents, who settled in Carroll County, and thence, in 1840, to Lancaster, Wisconsin. He attended the common schools. He studied medicine for three years, but then abandoned its further study. He went to Minnesota in 1849; moved to California in 1851 and engaged in mining and the mercantile business. He went to Central America in 1853. He returned to Lancaster in the fall of that year and again engaged in mercantile...