Calkins, Norman Allison – Calvert, George Henry
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.
Call, Wilkinson
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in Russellville, Ky., but removed to Florida when a child. He served as adjutantgeneral in the confederate army in the war between the states; was presidential elector for the state at large in 1872 and 1876; was member of the national democratic executive committee in 1876, and delegate to the national democratic convention at St. Louis in 1876. He was chosen senator by the legislature of Florida under the provisional government established by President Johnson, but was denied admission. He was elected sena-- tor in 1879 and took his seat March 18, 1879, and was re-elected in 1885 and 1891.
He has been in the United States senate for eighteen years, and is one of the strongest anti-corporationists in the state of Florida.
Callahan, Ethelbert
farmer, lawyer, legislator, was born Dec. 17, 1829, in Licking county, Ohio. He has been a justice of the peace at Robinson, Ill.; a member of the state board of equalization, and a delegate to the general conference of the methodist episcopal church. He has twice been a presidential elector, and for four terms served with distinction as a member of the general assembly of the state of Illinois. He has been president of the Illinois State Bar association, and a member of the commission to revise the laws of Illinois.
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.
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.
Callis, John Benton
soldier, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1828, in Fayetteville, N. C. He studied medicine, but never went into active practice. He served in the civil war as captain of company F, seventh regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry; was promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, brevet-colonel, and brigadier-general for bravery during the war. He received a ball in the right lung at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863; and mustered out of volunteer service on Dec. 30 of the same year for disability. Six months later he was appointed major in the V. R. C.; and was assigned to duty as military superintendent of the war department in Washington, D. C. He was subsequently made captain in the forty-fifth United States infantry regular army; was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers, and served until 1868. He was elected to the fortieth congress from Alabama, and served with distinction. During 1873-74 he served in the legislature of Wisconsin.
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.
Calvert, George
first baron of Baltimore, was born in 1581 in England. He explored the region of Chesapeake Bay, and on his return to England requested a grant for a district south of the James river. Meeting with opposition from the Virginia company, he applied for a grant north and east of the Potomac, but died before the grant was issued, and his son succeeded to his rights. He died April 15, 1632, in London, England.
Calvert, George Henry
author, poet, was born Jan. 2, 1803, in Prince George county, Md. He was the author of Goethe: His Life and Works; Dante and His Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy; Three Score, and Other Poems, and a translation of Schiller's Don Carlos. He died May 24, 1889, in Newport, R. I. a