CALVIRD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri ==================================================================== CALVIRD, Charles A. - b: 1854 St. Clair Co, MO source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 355 residence: Charles A. Calvird is a native of St. Clair County, Missouri, and he was born April 27, 1854. His youth was spent on a farm. He commenced the study of law in the office of M. A. Fyke, and was admitted to the bar in Henry County in February, 1875, and though young in his profession, in 1878-9, held the office of city attorney of Clinton. His career has been one of honest, continued and successful effort, and he has a bright and promising future before him. He was married March 30, 1881, to Miss Flavia Lindsay, a native of this county, and a daughter of J. Lindsay, one of Henry County's most worthy citizens. They have one daughter, Enid. ==================================================================== CALVIRD, Francis Marion - b: 1848 KY source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - page: 509 residence: Davis Twp Francis Marion Calvird - The Calvird family is one of the oldest, most influential and prominent families of Henry County, and Francis Marion Calvird, pioneer settler of Davis township, proprietor of 337 acres of rich farm land, is a worthy representative of this old family. Mr. Calvird has resided in Missouri since 1850 with the exception of a few years and has grown old and prospered with the county. F. M. Calvird was born January 8, 1848, in Kentucky, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Peters) Calvird, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia. The Calvirds came to Franklin County, Missouri, in 1850, but conditions not being exactly to the liking of Thomas Calvird, they removed to St. Clair County, Missouri, and resided in that county until death called them. Thomas Calvird died in 1858 and Mrs. Calvird departed this life in 1875. They were parents of the following children: W. B., of Newton County, Missouri; Henry T., died in St. Clair County; Mrs. May Severs, a widow living at Clinton, Missouri; Charles, judge of the District Court at Clinton, Missouri; Julia, wife of Miles Price, died in Henry County. Francis M. Calvird left St. Clair County in 1869 and roamed all over the southland, visiting nearly every State in the South while engaged in railroading. He began his railroad career in the employ of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, and worked as a railroad man for four years. In 1873 he returned to Henry County and began raising cattle. Even at this time there were large areas of free range over which cattle were allowed to graze unhindered by fencing or other barriers. Mr. Calvird took advantage of this condition and made his first money by herding his own cattle. As the country became more settled the free ranges were cut up into farms, he decided to abandon the ranging of cattle and get a farm of his own. He bought his first land in 1883, when he traded a bunch of cattle for forty acres in the northern part of Davis township. He erected his first home on this tract, but later bought his present farm on the State highway, west of Clinton in Davis township, consisting of 160 acres. This farm is well improved with a well built residence and other buildings situated upon a high point of ground from which the land gently slopes to the northward. The soil is very fertile, the Calvird farm of 337 acres being one of the most valuable in Henry County, and is noted for the big crops raised thereon from year to year. In 1876 Francis M. Calvird was united in marriage with Miss Anna Boyd, who was born in Warren County, Missouri, the daughter of Judge Joseph and Elizabeth (Adkins) Boyd, old pioneers and prominent people of Henry County. Six children were born to this union: Nettie, wife of Riley Hibler, Clinton, Missouri, mother of two children, Enid and Locke Hibler; Samuel Joseph, a rancher in the Panhandle country of Texas, married Kate Shye and has three children, Helen, Bernice and an infant child; Lucy, wife of Thomas Rogers, Kansas City, Missouri, has two children, Calvird and Thomas William Rogers; Frank Lee, farmer, Davis township, married Pauline Henny and has two children, Anna and Boyd Calvird; Sallie V.; Charles B., at home, married Nannie Gillilan. Mr. Calvird is a Democrat. Although he was reared in the teachings of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he is a member of the Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church. He is one of the best respected and widely known citizens of Henry County who has accomplished more than the average citizen in this county. ==================================================================== CALVIRD, William B. - b: 1843 Franklin Co, MO source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 505 residence: Clinton William B. Calvird, assistant cashier of the Henry County Bank, is a native of Franklin County, Missouri, and was born November 18, 1843, being the son of Thomas Calvird, a Kentuckian by birth, who was married in that state to Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, whose maiden name was Peters, and a native of Virginia. They reared seven children, of whom William is the eldest. In 1850, the family having lived in Franklin County some years, returned to Daviess County, Kentucky, where they resided for four years, subsequently moving to St. Clair County, Missouri. There our subject was brought up, residing in the locality till 1862, when he went to Pettis County. He was there engaged in various branches of trade, and in 1870 he came to Clinton and embarked in the hotel business which he continued until he was appointed deputy sheriff of Henry County, in 1873. After serving three years as such he was elected sheriff of the county in 1876, and after one term was re-elected and served till January, 1881. From that time he was occupied in clerical work in the recorder's office till December 10, 1881, when he became bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the Henry County Bank. This office he now holds. Mr. Calvird was married April 27, 1867, to Miss Sarah J. Pollard, a native of this state. They have one child, John H. Mr. C. is a member of the I. O. O. 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