Edwin W. Callis

    Edwin W. Callis was born in Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 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 tot he conclusion that he would like to master the "art preservative of all arts" in the various details. Then he sold his interest in the Herald, and removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked in the leading book, job and newspaper offices, and edited and published a literary and pictorial paper called the family Casket. He remained in that city until 1855, when he came West, to Martinsville, Indiana, 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 ahs been thoroughly Democratic ever since, under his editorial control, and has done efficient and faithful service for eh Democratic cause.

    Mr. Callis is a natural and 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."

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.