The Callans and McClarys, by John Edward Callan - Callanworld

Dorothy, and had four other
children of their own: Phil Jr,
Mary Agnes, Rosella and Edward).
Mary Anne’s brother Harry
was also living at 15 Center
Street at about this time, according
to 1900 Census records.
Elizabeth “Lizzy” Carroll
lived just a few doors down, at 23
Center Street. It is not known
how Lizzy and Bernard began
dating, but it is easy to guess that
they might have known each
other as neighbors, and perhaps
for much of their lives.
Elizabeth “Lizzy” Carroll,
Al Callan’s great grandmother,
was born Oct. 2, 188. She was
the daughter of Andrew Carroll
and Anne Kennedy. Family oral
tradition says that Andrew, and
hence Lizzy, were descended
from the family of Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, the only
Catholic signer of the Declaration
of Independence.
There is currently no
known evidence of who Andrew
Carroll’s parents were, and
hence there is no known evidence
to support the claim that
he was descended from Charles
Carroll of Carollton. The Baltimore
Historical Society is
currently doing Carroll family
research that may shed light on
this subject.
Incidentally, the “Andrew
Carroll” mentioned in the
newspaper clipping is most likely
not Lizzy’s father, but rather, her
cousin. The census records show
that her father Andrew had a
brother, John, living just a few
The Gleason Works, a tool and gear manufacture
at 1000 University Avenue in Rochester,
where Bernard Callan and his son
George worked as machinists.
blocks away, and that John had a
17-year-old son named Andrew
living with him in 1900.
About the same time Lizzy
and Bernard were getting married,
another Irishman, William
Gleason, was making decisions
that would greatly affect Lizzy
and Bernard in the years to
come.
Born April 4, 1836,
Gleason came to America from
County Tipperary with his
mother and brother when he was
a lad of fifteen. He apprenticed
as a mechanic in a Rochester
machine shops and during the
Civil War worked at Colt’s
Armory in Hartford, Connecticut.
Returning to Rochester in
1865, Gleason began his own
machine shop, which evolved
into The Gleason Works, a tool
and gear foundary.
The original location of
The Gleason Works was on
Brown’s Race, overlooking the
Genesee River, along whose
banks practically all of the local
industrial activities of that time
were placed. The area is now
known as High Falls and has
been developed as a historical
district.
The present site of the
Gleason Works on University
Avenue was acquired in 1904
and the first building erected in
1905. By 1911 the activities of
the company had so exceeded
the space available on Brown’s
Race that the decision was made
to transfer all of the plant to what
Easy commute: Bernard Callan’s path from the farm in rural West Webster to work at The
Gleason Works tool and gear foundary.
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The Callans and McClarys
became known as 1000 University
Avenue. It was there that
Bernard got steady work in the
mid-teens, just in time as he had
had six children. These were as
follows:
George George (1904-1987) (1904-1987), (1904-1987) who
married Gertrude McGivern,
both of whom are featured in the
next chapter.
Edward Edward (1905) (1905) who died at
age five months. He is said to
have consumed some pills that
he got out of a medicine cabinet
and died of poisoning. His
funeral announcement:
Mary Mary Mary (1908-1978) (1908-1978). (1908-1978) Mary
never married, and worked at
Rochester Products, a component
manufacturer for General
Motors, for most of her life.
After her father Bernard died,
Mary moved in with her mother
Lizzy, and the two lived togerher
in Rochester, Orlando and
finally St. Petersburg, where
Lizzy passed away.
Carroll Carroll (?-1963), (?-1963), named
after his mother’s maiden name,