Denver-Mineral County CO Archives Biographies.....McCall, David 1829 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

DAVID McCALL.

    David McCall comes of English and Irish ancestry and is one of those sturdy
pioneers who came to Colorado in 1875 and from that date until his retirement
was engaged successfully in mercantile pursuits. He was born January 14, 1829,
in Belfast, Ireland, and is a son of David and Lady Sophie (Scarlett) McCall,
the former a native of Ireland and the latter of England. The father was a
lieutenant in the Queen's Guards under George III and lost an arm while
defending Queen Caroline's body in the streets of London when rival factions
quarreled over the place in which the queen was to he buried. He was pensioned
and was subsequently sent to Ontario, Canada, as an Indian agent, taking with
him his wife, who was Lady Sophie Scarlett, and two children, David and Sophie.
The other children in his family, Margaret, Alexander, George and Frederick,
were born in Canada.

    David McCall received his early education in Canada and upon laying aside
his textbooks learned the trade of tinsmith. For many years he remained in
Canada but in 1875 came to the United States with his family, establishing his
home at Denver, Colorado. For a time he was connected with the Daniels & Fisher
store and subsequently conducted a hardware store at Creede for ten years, at
the end of which period he returned to Denver, where he continued as a merchant
and where he yet lives.

    In the middle '50s Mr. McCall was united in marriage to Julia Matilda
Hopkins, of Port Huron, Michigan, and to them were born the following children:
David, a machinist residing in Toronto, Canada; Jennie E., the wife of Edward
Whitley, of Denver; Marie J., the widow of F. W. Boehmer; and Charlotte, who is
making her home with Mrs. Whitley. The marriage of Marie J. McCall and F. W.
Boehmer took place on November 17, 1880. He was born December 9. 1857, and his
demise occurred January 2, 1899, at the comparatively early age of forty-two
years. Mr. Boehmer came to the United States about 1875, when eighteen years of
age, and became a bookkeeper in the Denver Dry Goods Store. He was well liked by
his fellows and associates and his death brought deep sorrow to his family. To
Mr. and Mrs. Boehmer was born a daughter. Anna J., whose birth occurred November
6, 1881.

    David McCall is entitled to be numbered among the pioneers of the state, for
he came here forty-three years ago and in his quiet and modest way has
contributed toward the upbuilding of the community and commonwealth.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918



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