Charles McCall who is ably serving as United States Consul at Sault de Ste. Marie, Canada, was born on the 22d of June, 1863 in Victoria county, Canada, and is a son of Richard McCall, a carpenter, now of Baltimore, Maryland, who descended from ancestors who came to this country from the north of Ireland. He married Sarah McCall, and in their family were eight children, of whom our subject is the fourth in order of birth, the others being Samuel, a resident of Negaunee, Michigan; William; Annie, wife of Clarence Ryan, of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Richard, a resident of Sault de Ste. Marie; Sidney, who is located in Baltimore, Maryland; Isabella, who is married and resides in Grand Rapids; and Mary, also of Baltimore.

Mr. McCall, whose name heads this record, acquired his education in the common schools of Bruce county, Ontario, and when seventeen years of sge took up his residence in Sault de Ste. Marie, Michigan, where in 1879 he began reading law under the direction of George W. Brown. He was admitted to the bar, November 10, 1886, before Judge Steere, and in that city began practice, where he continued until receiving his appointment as Consul on the 27th of October, 1893. He has also served as Circuit Court Commissioner, of Chippewa county, for one term, and was Consular agent at the Canadian “Soo” during President Cleveland’s first administration. He is faithful to his duty, and is a man of sterling worth.

On the 4th of August, 1892, in Sault de Ste. Marie, Michigan, Mr. McCall was united in marriage with Miss Catherine M. Shawano, daughter of an Indian chief of the Chippewa tribe. Their children are Hazel, born Auguat 4, 1893. and Gottchein, born in February, 1895.

From the "Memorial Record of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan 1895"