====== MacCallum, Frederick William ====== (18 March 1863-28 Nov. 1945), missionary, scholar. (Frederick W. MacCallum, Fred W. MacCallum, Fred W. MacCallum) Born at Warwick, Lambton County, Ont. Parents: Rev. Daniel MacCallum and his wife Jeannette MacEwan. A portion of his youth was spent in GC, where his father was a Congregationalist minister in the St. Elmo-Maxville area. He attended Kingston Collegiate Institute, Oberlin College (c.1883-c.1884, preparatory work only), McGill University (did not take a degree), the Congregational College of Canada (graduated 1889), and Yale University (divinity degree, 1890). At Maxville, 6 Aug. 1890, he was ordained to the ministry. The year before, Janet McKillican the missionary mentioned in a letter that she had learned he was going to a college in the United States to prepare for mission work, and thought that his parents would badly miss this “very promising young man.” In 1890, MacCallum went to Erzerum (Erzroom) in eastern Turkey, as a missionary under the American Board of Foreign Missions, and he later served in the missions in central and western Turkey. At the time of the death of his mother in 1914 and of his brother the Kingston physician in 1934, he was in Istanbul, Turkey. (their obituaries) Meanwhile, on 1 June 1938, he had retired officially as a missionary. In 1938 he was teaching in Athens where his sisters Edith McCallum and Emily MacCallum were also living. (Munro) In July 1937, while back in Canada on furlough, he spoke at St. Andrew’s United Church, Martintown. (//Standard Freeholder// 21 July 1937) During WWII, he and his wife were evacuated from Greece to Cairo and then India because of the German invasion, and they were in India till early 1945. He died in Istanbul, Turkey. He supervised a translation of the Scriptures into Turkish. For this task, he drew on the expertise of Moslem and well as Christian authors and scholars. The translation was virtually complete by 1937, and by then several parts had already been published. The complete translation was published in 1941 under the direction of his son Lyman MacCallum (18 June 1893-15 Jan. 1955), who was born at Erzerum, and spent his life in missionary work among the Turks. There is a book-length biography of Lyman by Constance E. Padwick, //Call to Istanbul// (1958), which contains some notices also of his father Frederick. Frederick W. MacCallum was married at White Rose, Ont., on 23 July 1890, to Henrietta Mima Reid (25 June 1865-5 Nov. 1959), of Elmira or Collingwood, Ont. Like her husband, she was a missionary serving in Turkey. Outliving her husband, she died at Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Besides the son already mentioned, their five children included (1) Henry Reid MacCallum (27 May 1897-1 May 1949), who was born in Turkey. He was a Queen’s University graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, and a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, and was the author of the posthumously-collected //Imitation and Design, and Other Essays// (1953), and (2) Elizabeth MacCallum, who spent her first 15 years in Turkey. She was a teacher, author, official in the Dept. of External Affairs, and Canadian chargé d’affaires in Lebanon. She died in Otttawa 12 June 1985 in her 90th year. See also the entry for James P. McNaughton, missionary in Turkey. ---- //New York Times// 30 Nov. 1945, //Glengarry News// 30 Nov. or 7 Dec. 1945 * family obituaries, T. W. Munro, as in notes to Daniel MacCallum’s life * biog. sketches of him and wife in Vinton Books of missionary lives (photocopied typescripts in Yale Divinity Library Special Collections) * Padwick as cited, esp. 1ff, 78-79, 146-147, 165-166, 175 * //The Book of a Thousand Tongues// (2nd edn., ed. E. A. Nida (1972) 439-440 * Henry Reid MacCallum: //Who’s Who in Canada// 1945-1946 p. 1407; Queen's University Archives; life in //MDict// 484 *Elizabeth MacCallum: obituary (with much biog. detail, portrait) //QAR// Sept./Oct. 1985; report on her //Cornwall Freeholder// 25 May 1922 (teacher in Dawson City, graduate student) * Fred MacCallum, shortly to go to Turkey as missionary, conducts service at Congregational church, Martintown, //Glengarrian// 1 Aug. 1890 * home on leave from Turkey, 1900 (20 Years Ago column, //CF //13 May 1920) *Janet McKillican: letter 28 July 1889 (see her life for typescript letter collection) [<6>]