Samuel Benton Callahan

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Samuel Benton Callahan (born January 26, 1833 in Mobile , Alabama , † February 17, 1911 in Muskogee , Oklahoma ) was an American lawyer and politician . He belonged to the Creek Nation . He also served as an officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Samuel Benton Callahan, son of Amanda Sybil Doyle (1815-1902) and James Oliver Callahan († 1837), was born several years before the beginning of the economic crisis of 1837 in Mobile County . The family moved to Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma) in 1837 during the Creek Indians' resettlement . His father died on the way there. His mother then married Owen Simpson Davis (1810-1895) from Sulpher Springs ( Texas ), where Samuel then grew up. At one point he studied law and began practicing as a lawyer after receiving his license. Callahan married Sarah Elizabeth Thornburg. The couple had at least six children together: James Owen (1860–1913), Gypsie (1863–1963), Benton (* 1866), Sophia Alice (1868–1894), Walter McKenzie (1875–1922) and Edwin Thornburg (1879– 1892).

During the civil war , Callahan enlisted in the Confederate Army. He held the rank of captain and commanded Company K, the first mounted Creek Rifles, which took part in the Battle of Honey Springs on July 17, 1863. Callahan was elected to the Second Confederate Congress in 1863 for the Creek Nation and the Seminole Nation , serving from 1864 until the end of the Confederation in 1865.

After the war ended, he went to his family in Texas, where they had settled. Callahan later moved with his family to the Creek Nation in Indian Territory. Over time, he was a clerk at the Creek House of Kings active (Senate), held various offices in the trunk, farmed and had a ranch near Eufaula ( McIntosh County ), gave The Indian Journal out in Muskogee and was as Superintendent at the Wealaka Boarding School . He also became a Supreme Court judge in 1891. He died about four years after Oklahoma became a state and about three and a half years before the outbreak of World War I in Muskogee, where he was buried in Greenhill Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amanda Sybil Doyle Davis in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  2. ^ Owen Simpson Davis in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ James Owen Callahan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ gypsy Callahan Adair in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  5. ^ Benton Callahan on the genealogytrails.com website
  6. ^ Sophia Alice Callahan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  7. ^ Walter McKenzie Callahan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
  8. ^ Edwin Thornburg Callahan in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved February 7, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Callahan, Samuel Benton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician and officer in the Confederate Army
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Mobile , Alabama
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1911
Place of death Muskogee , Oklahoma