CS Con Callahan, Samuel Benton - C.S. Delegate, Creek & Seminole Indian Tribes

Samuel Benton Callahan

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Born: January 26, 1833

Birthplace: Mobile, Alabama

Father: James Oliver Callahan 1810 – 1837

Mother: Amanda Sybil Doyle 1815 – 1902
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma)​

Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Thornberg 1838 – 1899

Children:

Josephine Callahan 1859 – 1945​
Dr. James Owen Callahan 1860 – 1913​
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma)​
Gypsie Callahan Adair 1863 – 1963​
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma)​
Jane Evelyn Callahan 1865 –​
Samuel Benton Callahan Jr. 1866 –​
Sophia Alice Callahan 1868 – 1894​
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma)​
Emma Price Callahan 1870 –​
Dr. Walter McKenzie Callahan 1875 – 1922​
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma)​
Edwin Thornberg Callahan 1879 – 1892​
(Buried: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee ,Oklahoma)​

Political Party: Democratic Party
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Education:


Attended McKenzie College in Clarksville Texas​

Occupation before War:

Editor of Sulphur Springs Gazette Newspaper
1858: Moved to Indian Territory establishing a ranch.​
Used his one – eighth creek blood to become a Creek Citizen.​

Civil War Career:

1st​ Lt. First Creek Mounted Volunteers Regiment​
Adjutant of First Creek Mounted Volunteers Regiment​
1863: Assisted his regiment in the reorganization.​
1863 – 1864: Captain of Company K, First Creek Regiment​
1864: Resigned from the Confederate Army on May 18th​
1864 – 1865: Creek and Seminole Delegate to Confederate Congress​
1864 – 1865: Participated in Congressional Proceedings only twice.​
He Introduce a bill calling for the annuities due the Seminoles be paid in cotton.​
He assisted all the tribes to exchange their old treasury notes and bonds for new ones at face value.​

Occupation after War:

1868 – 1872: Served in the Creek House of Government​
Private Secretary to Chiefs Roley McIntosh, Samuel Checote​
Clerk of the Creek Territory Supreme Court​
Editor of Muskogee Indian Journal Newspaper
1892 – 1894: Superintendent of Whealaka Boarding School​
1901 – 1911: Justice of Creek Territory Supreme Court​

Died: February 17, 1911

Place of Death: Muskogee, Oklahoma

Age at time of Death: 78 years old

Burial Place: Greenhill Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma
 
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His involvement with the Creek Indians came about even though he was only 1/8 th Creek. His delegation to the Second Confederate Congress was as a nonvoting representative.
 
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