Metzger once owned many building sites in Bay City

  Callie May Metzger was a woman in a man’s world. 
  While most women were housekeepers at home raising children, she was an astute business woman with political interests.
  She was the daughter of Louis F. and Clarissa Nickey Metzger and was born June 1, 1870 in Churubusco, Whitley County, Indiana.
  Callie was one of the first high school class to be graduated from the Standardized High School Course offered in the Churubusco Schools. 
  She attended a highly specialized kindergarten training school at Logansport, Indiana, but she disliked teaching.
  Metzger went to Valparaiso Normal & Business College and took a business course.
  She then took a position in the office of the Brown Lumber Co. at Mentone, Indiana. She held this, until she changed to accept a position in the McGill Land Co. in Bay City, Texas.
  Callie moved to Bay City about 1910 and quickly assimilated into the business, civic and religious life of the county. 
  Callie joined the First Presbyterian Church in Bay City and often attended services in smaller Matagorda County communities. 
  When the church purchased a new pipe organ for their new sanctuary, she was a major donor to the fund.
  A woman of keen intellect, clever business acumen, Miss Callie Metzger was at one time owner of or representing owners of many building sites in the city. 
  She was associated with Mr. G. M. Magill in the real estate business for many years and continuing in that business under the name of Magill Land Company for years after Mr. Magill’s death in 1938. 
  She owned and operated the business as an agent for real estate, insurance and oil companies. 
  She bought and rehabilitated farms and owned several oil wells.
  Metzger became one of the best of business women. As one of the early founders of Bay City she saw the Gulf Coast of Texas grow. 
  Metzger was active in the Bay City Business League, and in 1926 was the secretary of the newly formed Bay City Hotel Company which built the BayTex Hotel.
  After participation in all aspects of community life, Callie contracted tuberculosis was forced to retire from active operation in her business. 
  She had to remain at her residence most of the time. 
  That did not prevent her from continuing her interest in business and political affairs, in which she was a most astute member, watching developments from the sideline, but always genuinely interested and outspoken at all times of her views.
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