Colusa County Biographies

Seymour H. Callen

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            Seymour H. Callen, founder of the Williams �Farmer,� was  born in 
State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, March 20, 1866.  He learned the printing 
trade in some of the best newspaper offices of New Mexico, and came to 
California May 1, 1884, arriving in Sacramento.  During the campaign of 1886, he 
was associated with A. H. Stephens in the publication of the Cloverdale 
�Sentinel,� a Democratic weekly, which was afterwards disposed of to G. B. Baer, 
of the Cloverdale �Reveille.�  After this he was employed in the State printing 
office, and as compositor on the San Francisco �Chronicle� and Sacramento �Bee.� 
 Mr. Callen issued the initial number of the Williams �Farmer� August 18, 1887, 
and has made that journal an active agent in the promotion of the local 
interests of Williams.  On July 1, 1890, G. W. Gay became associated with him in 
the publication of the �Farmer.�
            Mr. Callen was married, September 12, 1887, to Miss Carrie Bell, of 
Cloverdale, by whom he is the father of one child.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 458