CALLAHAN, Stephen

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 162

Stephen CALLAHAN, saloon keeper, Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 
23 November 1845 [1854?] in New York. He came to Wisconsin when he was four 
years of age [about 1849], and located with his parents in Milwaukee. From 
thence they removed to Green Bay [Brown County], and thence to Oconto [Oconto 
County created in 1851]. In 1873 [from his given birthdate, when he was 
about twenty-eight years of age] he came to Alma and engaged in his present 
business. Stephen CALLAHAN married Mary PHILLIPPI, a native of Wisconsin. 
[Stephen CALLAHAN appears to be enumerated in 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo 
County, Wisconsin, p 322 C, in the household of Nicholas PHILLIPPI. Those 
enumerated in this household include (approximate years of birth calculated 
from census ages are added; all children born in Wisconsin): Nicholas 
("Nicolas") PHILLIPPI, age forty-nine, born in Germany about 1831 to parents 
who were also born there; his wife, Catharine, age forty-six, also born in 
Germany to parents born in Germany; daughter Jenny, single, age twenty-four, 
born about 1856; daughter Mary, age twenty, born about 1860; son Philip, age 
seventeen, a clerk, born about 1863; daughter Anna, age nine, born about 
1871; four male laborers unrelated to Nicholas PHILLIPPI; and Stephen 
CALLAHAN, age twenty-six, saloon keeper, born in New York, about 1854 (not 
1845 as given in the biography) to parents both born in Ireland. If the 
enumeration is correct and this is the same Stephen CALLAHAN as the biography 
subject, who is not identified in the census as a son-in-law of Nicolas, then 
he did not wed Mary PHILLIPPI until the latter half of 1880 or during the 
portion of 1881 before the biography text went to press. Submitter is not 
researching these surnames. Material in brackets added prior to submission 
to verify, support, or clarify information given in the biography, and to 
raise questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly