"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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EDWIN W. CALLIS was born in Flemington, Hunterdon County, N. J., on January
17, 1827. His parents were natives of that State. He attended school until
he was about thirteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to the printing
business in the office of the Hunterdon (N.J.) 'Democrat'. He had a natural
inclination and taste for that business and served an apprenticeship of five
years. After that he worked in various cities and towns, in New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, until the year 1847, when he purchased a half interest in the
Mt. Holly (N.J.) 'Herald', a Democratic paper, and took the editorial
control of that paper until 1851, when he came to the conclusion that he
would like to master the "art preservative of all arts" in its various
details. Then he sold his interest in the 'Herald', and removed to
Philadelphia, Penn., where he worked in the leading book, job and newspaper
offices, and edited and published a literary and pictorial pater called the
'Family Casket'. He remained in that city until 1855, when he came West, to
Martinsville, Ind., and bought the 'Morgan County Gazette', as the paper was
then called. It was the first Republican paper published in Morgan County,
and continued in that faith until 1870. when local differences arose, and
the editor and paper filed into the Democratic party--the party to which Mr.
Callis originally belonged. It has been thoroughly Democratic ever since,
under Democratic cause. Mr. Callis is a natural nd thorough newspaper man,
from editor to pressman, and stands at the head of his profession wherever
known. He has a wife and six children. The latter, four girls and two
boys, range in age from fourteen to thirty years, and were all brought up at
the "case."
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