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ALLAHAN, JAMES MORTON, farmer's son, teacher, superintendent of schools, graduate of Southern Indiana normal school and University of Indiana, newspaper correspondent, graduate student Chicago and Johns Hopkins universities, professor in Hamilton college. New York, lecturer in history at Johns Hopkins university, professor of history and political science, West Virginia university; was born in Bedford, Indiana, November 4, 1864. His father, Martin I. Callahan (1838-1904) was a teacher and a farmer, a man of strong domestic tastes, noted for his cheerful manner and his modesty. His mother was Sophia Oregon Tannehill and she largely influenced the moral and social life of her son. He was educated at home by his father, and at the public and high schools, working in the summer months on the farm, and in a stone quarry when fifteen years of age. He was graduated from the Southern Indiana normal school in 1886, and after some years spent in teaching and as a newspaper correspondent, he was graduated at the University of Indiana, A.B., 1894, A.M., 1895; became a graduate student of the University of Chicago in 1894, and of Johns Hopkins university, 1894-97 (history, jurisprudence, politics and economics); assistant and fellow as Johns Hopkins, 1895-97, receiving the degree of Ph.D., 1897. He has also studied and traveled in Europe. He was acting professor of American history and Constitutional law at Hamilton college. New York, 1897-98, and lecturer on American Diplomatic history (and historical archives) to graduate classes at Johns Hopkins, while engaged in research work at Washington, District of Columbia, 1898-1902. In 1899-1900 he substituted for Professor H. B. Adams (absent in the West Indies for his health) giving a special course of lectures on American history for graduate students. As director of the bureau of historical research, Washington, District of Columbia, he conducted on Saturdays a class of graduate students in consulting original sources of history. He was acting professor of American history and political science and associate professor of European history at the West Virginia university, 1902-03, and