Sorry, but I disagree with your statement that there were no Callisons in MT
in 1920. There were at least 2 families--my great grandfather, Benjamin,
and his brother, Richard.
Susanne
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Subject: [CALLISON] Interesting
1840 census Callison families --
Missouri 2-3
Illinois 4-6
Indiana 2-3
Tennessee 4-6
Alabama 1-- Ohio 4-6
Virginia 2-3
Note: the census may have spelled their name as Collison/Kellison or
something similar
1880 The family had made it all the way to Oregon and Washington with
1 -23
family in each of those states.
Iowa, Missouri and West Virginia had the largest concentrations of 71-140
families listed
The next largest concentrations with 24-70 familes were NE, IL, IN, OH and
TN
The states with 1-23 families in addition to OR and WA were Dakato
Territory, KS, TX, MN, WI, AR, KY, MI, NY, MA, VA, NC, SC and FL
The remaining states had NONE
By 1920, the highest population for Callison surname was TX, IA, MO, IL
The following states had NONE -- WY, UT, MT, VT,
Name History and Origin for callison
First Name
Last Name
Last Namecallison
Scottish or Irish: reduced form of McAlison, a Gaelic patronymic based on
th
personal name Alison (see _Allison_
(
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact.aspx?fid=10&ln=Allison&f...
&) ).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN
0-19-508137-4
Callison civil war Veterans
29 Confederate
63 Union
In 1880 -- 35% of the population were farmers but 65 % of Callison's were.
My line certainly attests to this where is is much closer to probably 90 %
at
that time -- maybe even 100%
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