When James McCollum was born about 1788, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, his father, James McCollum, was 27 and his mother, Mary Harris, was 23. He married Elizabeth Harris on 15 February 1820, in Wilson, Tennessee, United States. He died in April 1840, at the age of 53.
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Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coluim ‘son of Colum’. See McCallum , which is the usual spelling of this name in Scotland.
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