Bio: J. H. Calvert, & Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker




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J. H. Calvert, druggist.  Among the names which give standing to 
Shreveport, conduce to the welfare of society is that of Mr. Calvert, 
who is the proprietor of one of the best known establishments of the 
kind in the city.  For the purity of goods and fair dealing, his 
reputation has long been established, and accordingly his trade has 
assumed large proportions.  He was born in Adams County, Miss., May 28, 
1845, to John and Nancy (Galtney) Calvert, natives of Mississippi.  The 
paternal grandfather, William, was a pioneer of Franklin county, Miss., 
and as a planter accumulated a large fortune.  His death occurred in the 
same county.  His son, John, followed in his foot-steps, became a 
planter, and passed to his long home in Franklin County, in 1853, his 
widow dying in 1868, in Natchez, Miss.  Of a family of five children 
born to them, only two are living:  J. H. Calvert and a sister.  J. H. 
Calvert was reared in Washington, Adams County, Miss., and in this State 
his early scholastic advantages were enjoyed, he being first an 
attendant of Jefferson College, and later of Forest Home Academy, in 
Kentucky.  While he was attending this institution the war came up, and 
he started for home, boarding the last train that left Louisville for 
Natchez, and immediately after reaching his father's roof he enlisted 
int he sixty days' service, and helped to build the fortifications 
around Bowling Green, Ky., Gen. Reuben Davis, of Mississippi, being in 
command.  After the expiration of his time of enlistment his company was 
disbanded, but he immediately enlisted in the Natchez Southrons for 
three years, with Capt. R. A. Inge, and after  serving in a very 
satisfactory manner until 1864, he was honorably discharged, on account 
of sickness.  He was in all th principal engagements up to the time of 
his discharge, and although he was scarcely seventeen at the time of his 
first enlistment, he made a gallant and faithful soldier.  He was in 
very poor health for several years after the close of the war, but, 
notwithstanding, he was actively engaged in merchandising in Mississippi 
until 1875, when he moved to Milliken's Bend, Madison Parish, La., where 
he continued to follow the above-mentioned calling until 1882, after 
which he came to Shreveport, and embarked in the drug business with Dr. 
J. F. O'Leary.  At the end of four years Mr. Clavert purchased his 
partner's interest, and was in business alone until 1887, when he was so 
unfortunate as to be burned out.  He soon after embarked in the business 
with John L. Hodges, but at the end of a year, sold out to his partner, 
and purchased the  stock and fixtures where he is now located, and is 
doing a prosperous and paying business.  He is one of the leading 
spirits of Shreveport, and has proven himself a public-spirited citizen 
in every respect since locating here.  He is a member of the Confederate 
Association of Veterans.