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Facts and Events
Notes
- John MacCallum of Perthshire, Scotland, was the father of three sons, John, Neil and Duncan, all of whom emigrated to America, and one daughter, Elinor or Eleanor, who is only known of from a family bible owned by a descendent of Neil MacCallum. Duncan MacCallum was born ca. 1784 in or near Dundee, Scotland. Duncan is said to have graduated from Edinburgh about 1802 and shortly thereafter traveled through Europe on the Grand Tour. While in Paris he met Robert Fulton. So entranced was he with Fulton's stories of these United States and experiments with steam boats that he emigrated in 1805. He was a passenger on the Fulton's "Clermont" on its maiden voyage up the Hudson River (New York) in 1807. He married Ellen Guthrie, said to be from Pennsylvania and of Revolutionary stock, sometime prior to 1820. This suggests that he may have spent some time in Pennsylvania, perhaps after leaving New York and before going to Indiana.
- Source: http://www.bdhhfamily.com/duncan_mccallum.htm
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