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Calhoun, Joseph – Callaway, S. R

Calhoun, Joseph

congressman, was a representative in Congress, from South Carolina, from 1807 to 1811.

Calhoun, Patrick

financier, was born March 21, 1856, in Fort Hill, S. C.

In 1889 he was appointed general counsel for the Terminal company, and the Railroad company of Atlanta, Ga.; and soon. after became its president.

Calkin, H. C

merchant, congress-- man, was born March 23, 1828, in Malden, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.

Calkins, Norman Allison

educator, author, was born Sept. 9, 1822, in New York. He was the first assistant superintendent of primary schools in New York city for thirty-three years, and was the author of Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching; Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations; and Natural History Series for Children.

Calkins, William H

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1842, in Pike county, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861, and served almost continuously until 1865. He was state's attorney for the ninth judicial circuit from 1866 to 1870; was a representative in the state legislature in 1871; and was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican. born

Call, Daniel

lawyer, was about 1765. He was a brother-in-law of Chief Justice John Marshall, and published Reports of the Virginia Court of Appeals, in six volumes. He died May 20, 1840, in Richmond, Va.

Call, Jacob

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1824 to 1825.

Call, Richard Keith

soldier, governor, was born in 1791 in Kentucky. He was appointed brigadier-general of the Florida militia; was a member of the legislative council of Florida in 1822; a delegate to congress from that territory, from 1823 to 1825; and receiver of public money for the land office. He was governor of Florida from 1836 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1844. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in Tallahassee, Fla.

Call, Richard Keith

soldier, inventor, author, was born in 1757. He was a major in the revolutionary army. He gave attention to scientific studies, and invented and modeled a railroad train and engine designed to minimize the atmospheric resistance. He has published a lecture on Physical Education and an Essay on Religion and Science. He died in 1792.

Callahan, James

capitalist, was born Oct. 12, 1818, in New Scotland, N.

Y. He was one of the founders of the Hawkeye Insurance company of Des Moines, Iowa, and has been its vice-president for over twenty years.

Callahan, James Yancy

clergyman, farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1852, in Dent county, Mo. He was licensed as a local minister in the methodist episcopal church in 1880, which relation he holds at the present time. He has been engaged principally in farming, sawmilling, and mining. He removed to Oklahoma in 1892 and settled on a farm, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress by the populists and democrats on a free silver ticket.

Callaway, S. R

railroad president.

He is the president of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad.

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