James Morton Callahan
Personal Information
Description
He is Dr. James Morton Callahan, Sr., not to be confused with his son, my father and his Junior, who was published in his own right. He was born in Bedford, IN and died in Morgantown, WV. He married Maud Louise Fulcher, his junior of many years and with a brilliant mind of her own, she contributed articles to Encyclopaedias. I "source" my family genealogy, his oral history and more in the archives of West Virginia and Johns Hopkins Universities, where my grandfather served as Dean of Arts & Sciences (WVU), as well as was Phi Beta Kappa and a Fellow at Johns Hopkins. He was also, for a short time, Director of the National Archives. He couseled several presidential administrations in his day regarding policy.
Books
Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West ..
The diplomatic history of the Southern Confederacy
"This volume is a study of the efforts of the Confederate authorities ... to secure foreign recognition and support. It considers also the forces which controlled the European powers and defeated the attempt to divide the American Union ... It attempts to give a careful and purely historical presentation of the theories, purposes, policies, diplomatic efforts, and difficulties of the Secessionists ... It traces the inner working of the diplomatic machine during the many variations of the military and political situation, closely observes the attitude, motives, and policy of the great nations with whom the Confederate agents sought to negotiate, and throws light upon international questions arising between the United States and foreign powers"--Pref.