Biographical Sketch of George W. Calhoun, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Judge George W. Calhoun, of Wright County, Mo., was born on the 24th of
July, 1824, and is the eldest of ten children, four of whom are living,
born to the marriage of James Calhoun and Barbara Pence.  The father
was born in the "Palmetto State" in 1803, and was reared on a farm in
Alabama, coming to Missouri in 1844, and locating on Wolf Creek, and
there died on the 10th of June, 1846.  He was a second cousin of John 
C. Calhoun, of South Carolina.  His wife was born in Madison County,
Alabama, about 1807, and died on the 5th of October, 1881.  The pater-
nal grandfather, William Calhoun, was born, reared and married in
Ireland, and there his first wife died.  He thereupon immigrated to
America, locating in South Carolina, where he erected a large mill, and
in time acquired considerable wealth.  He married his second wife in
South Carolina, and by her became the father of two children.  The 
maternal grandfather of Judge Calhoun was a German, who emigrated to 
America at an early day, and took an active part in assisting the 
colonists to free themselves from the British yoke.  He died in Tenn-
essee about 1835.  He was the eldest of seven brothers, the youngest of
whom weighed 250 pounds, and all were noted for their large statures 
and great strength.  Judge George W. Calhoun grew to manhood in 
Lawrence County, Tenn., and was there married to Rebecca Sanders, who
was born in Tennessee in 1820, her father having been a prosperous
farmer and blacksmith of Lawrenceburg.  They had eleven children:
Henry, who died at the age of twenty-six years; James F.; Louisa J., 
wife of Rev. Jackson Barnett; Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Thomas Moody;
William; Mary A., wife of R. Johnson; Barbara, wife of Rev. Joseph
Young; John; Martha L., wife of Gen. J. Strunks; Joseph, one of the
popular local educators of Wright County; and Brantley S.  Judge Cal-
houn located on a farm on Wolf Creek in 1844, and was there engaged in
farming for forty-five years.  In 1880 he was elected on the Republican
ticket as judge of Wright County, being re-elected in 1882 for two more
years.  He owns a valuable farm of 160 acres in Douglas County and two
lots in Norwood.  In 1864 he enlisted in Company G of the Sixteenth
Missouri Cavalry, having previously belonged to both the Home and State
Militia, and served until the close of the war.  For the past thirty-
five years he has been a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, and 
throughout his career has always supported the cause of temperance.

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