Callahan/Dean Line

WilliamE.Callahan

I don't know much about the Callahan side of my mom's family except that William E.Callahan (b. July 5, 1872 d. November 16, 1959) was born in Middle Manchester, Nova Scotia, coming to the United States on February 3, 1889. He lived in the South Portland, Maine area until he married Katherine Dean on March 3, 1909. They moved to Tacoma, Washington, arriving in early May of that year. The Callahan family lived in several homes in Tacoma, eventually settling in at 613 So. Oakes Street ca. 1919. They lived there until Katherine's death in 1956 and William's in 1959.

I have been to Middle Manchester, Nova Scotia, and stood on the land where the Callahan family farm was located in the 1800s. According to a book on the area, the original Callahan family from the area was one of the nine families of "Loyalists" who were given land by the British government.William's father was Thomas Cultler Callahan. More details of the lineage can be found here.

Katherine Dean's father was Daniel LeBetta Dean and her mother was Hattie Anna Sawyer.

Katherine's first husband, George Henry Hooper, died while she was pregnant with their second child. Their marriage produced two children, Marion and Gladys, born five months after her father's death.

Marion married John J. Donohue and they had two sons, Patrick and Larry. Patrick died in a boating accident in 1959, and Larry lives in the Seattle area with his wife Sue.

Gladys married a fellow by the last name of Dooms and had two children with him, Ruth and Robert. Ruth goes by the last name of Susich.

Katherine and William had two children, Harriet Bernice and Franklin Dean Callahan. Harriet Bernice was my mother's mom.