David Dewitt Callen was of Irish descent. His great great grandfather
     established Callensville, Pennsylvania in the early 1700s. David had five
     sons Edward, Otto, Vernon, Paul and Arthur.
          My recollection of Isabel and the Callen family includes Saturday (shop-
     ing and visiting time for local farmers) on Main Street so busy you could 
     hardly walk or drive. I had special "run-of-the-town" as at one time or
     another, my Callen relation could issue me, free of charge, ice cream cones,
     open-air theater tickets, hair cuts and other fringe benefits. I remember
     trips by team and wagon, to Isabel with Grandfather Edson Mease. We would
     unload the wheat, shop for Grandmother and return home for evening chores -
     round trip, about 14 miles.
          My parents Paul and Josephine Nell Mease Callen lived in Isabel where 
     Dad was a bookkeeper. My sister Kathleen was born there in 1918. I was born
     in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1920, where Dad worked for Southwestern Bell 
     Telephone Company. Our brother Lonnie was born in Kingman, Kansas in 1929.
          My cousins Paul Mease, Delbert Wehling and I looked forward to Saturdays
     in Isabel. We were all nicknamed "Bob" so any of our parents could issue a
     verbal reprimand and be sure they had reached the source of the problem. The
     three of us spent many happy days in Isabel and in roaming Sand Creek with
     our fishing poles and sling shots. I still return to the Isabel area several
     times a year to hunt and fish on Paul and Reva Meases land.
          Aunt "Mag" Callen ran the Isabel Hotel, seen in background of the photo
     of my Dad and his brothers.
          Children of Paul Callen: Lonnie and wife reside in Boulder, Colorado
     where he is a retired Lt. Col. of the U.S. Air Force and is presently Director
     of Emergency Preparedness for the city and county of Boulder; Kathleen
     married Chester Todd, a retired Vice President of Southwestern Bell and
     resides in San Antonio, Texas; Delbert "Bob" Callen is a retired Traffic
     Equipment Engineer with Southwestern Bell and lives with his wife Kathleen in
     Fort Scott, Kansas.
          
               
     Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987,  pg. 56 
     
     Submitted by: D.R. "Bob" Callen