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Callender, Franklin D

soldier, was born about 1817 in New York. During the civil war he was on foundry and general ordnance duty, and was brevetted major in 1862, receiving his promotion to the full grade in 1863. He died Dec. 13, 1882, in Daysville, Ill.

Callender, James Thomas

author, was born in England. He was a writer who was exiled from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. He was the author of Sketches of the History of America; and The Prospect Before Us.

He was drowned in 1813 in the James river, near Richmond, Va.

Callender, John

clergyman, author, was born in 1706 in Boston, Mass. He was a baptist clergyman of Newport, R. I., whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful monograph of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony's existence. He died Jan. 26, 1748, in Newport, R. I.

Callender, Walter

soldier, merchant, was born Nov. 24, 1847, in Columbus, Ga. He fought in the revolutionary war and rose to the rank of captain. At the close of the war he retired to organize the firm of Callender, McAuslan and Troup of Providence, R. I.

Calthrop, Samuel Robert

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 9, 1829, in England. He is a unitarian clergyman of Syracuse, and the author of Essay on Religion and Science; and The Rights of the Body.

Calverley, Charles

sculptor, was born Nov. 1, 1833, in Albany, N. Y.

Among his works are The Little Companions; Little Ida, a medallion; and bronze busts, heroic size, of John Brown; Horace Greeley, on his monument at Green-. wood.

Calvert, Benedict L

proprietary governor of Maryland, was born about 1700 in England. He was appointed governor of Maryland in 1726, presiding at the first session of the assembly of Maryland on Oct. 10, 1727. He died on his voyage to England.

Calvert, Cecil

second baron of Baltimore, was born in 1606 in Ireland. His father, the first lord of Baltimore, died in 1632, before his patent to the province of Maryland had passed the royal seal; and consequently all the rights and privileges given thereunder were secured to Cecil, with the title of Absolute lord of Maryland and Aralon, in addition to the baronial estates of Baltimore. He died Nov. 30, 1675, in London, England.

Calvert, Charles

third baron of Baltimore, was born in 1629 in London, England. He was sent to Maryland as governor in 1661, and on his father's death in 1675, succeeded him as lord-proprietor, holding his title until it was wrested from him by the protestant revolution in 1688. He died Feb. 20, 1715, in England.

Calvert, Charles

fifth baron of Baltimore, was born Sept. 29, 1699. He was fourth palatine of Maryland, and proprietary governor. In 1732, finding his presence necessary to settle the boundary dispute with Pennsylvania, he arrived in the province and assumed the government in his own person, but returned to England in 1734. He died April 24, 1751, in England.

Calvert, Charles B

state legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 24, 1808, in Prince George county, Md. He was elected to the legislature of Maryland in 1839, 1843, and 1844, and was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-seventh congress. He died May 14, 1864, in Riverside, Md.

Calvert, Frederick

sixth baron of Baltimore, was born in 1731 in England. In 1751 he succeeded to the title of baron of Baltimore and to the proprietaryship of Maryland. He was the author of A Tour to the East in the Years 1763 and 1764, with Remarks on the City of Constantinople; also Select Pieces of Oriental Wit, Poetry and Wisdom. He died Sept. 9, 1771, in Italy.