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Samuel Walker McCall was born in [[East Providence Township, Pennsylvania]] on February 28, 1851, to Henry and Mary Ann (Elliott) McCall, the sixth of eleven children.<ref>Evans, p. 2</ref> At a young age, the family moved to an undeveloped frontier area of northern [[Illinois]], where McCall spent much of his childhood.<ref>Evans, p. 3</ref> McCall's father speculated in real estate and owned a stove factory, which was closed by financial reverses of the [[Panic of 1857]].<ref name=Gentile835>Gentile, p. 835</ref> His education began at the [[Mount Carroll Seminary]] (now [[Shimer College]]) in [[Mount Carroll, Illinois|Mount Carroll]] from 1864 to 1866,<ref name=evans7>Evans, p. 7</ref> when that school closed to male students.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Carroll County, Illinois|year=1878|publisher=H.F. Kett & Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcarroll00kett}}</ref>
McCall's parents then sent him east to the [[New Hampton Academy]] in [[New Hampton, New Hampshire]], on the recommendation of a neighbor.<ref name=evans7/> McCall graduated from New Hampton Academy in 1870 and subsequently attended [[Dartmouth College]], where he was a member of the [[Kappa Pi Kappa|Kappa Kappa Kappa]] fraternity and graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] near the top of his class. While at Dartmouth, he published a newspaper (self-financed by himself and the other editors) called the ''Anvil'', and was tapped by the Dartmouth president to stand in for a sick teacher of [[Latin (language)|Latin]] and [[Greek (language)|Greek]] at an academy in [[Meriden, New Hampshire]].<ref>Evans, pp. 14–16</ref> The ''Anvil'' was one of the first student-run newspapers to comment on national and state politics.<ref name=Gentile836/>
After graduating, McCall moved to [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], where he studied law and gained admission to the Massachusetts Bar.<ref name=toomey/> He then opened a law practice in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] with a Dartmouth classmate,<ref>Evans, p. 18</ref> which he maintained for most of his life.<ref name=toomey/> In 1888, he and two partners purchased the ''[[Boston Daily Advertiser]]'', for which he served as editor-in-chief for two years.<ref name=Gentile836>Gentile, p. 836</ref> In 1881 he married Ella Esther Thompson, whom he met while attending New Hampton Academy;<ref>Evans, p. 10</ref> they settled in [[Winchester, Massachusetts]],<ref name=Gentile836/> where they raised five children.<ref name=toomey>Toomey & Quinn, p. 109</ref>
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