Hardin County OhArchives Biographies.....Calhoun, Dwight 1823 - 
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Author: Warner, Beers & Co.

   DWIGHT CALHOUN, farmer, P. O. Kenton, was born in Litchfield County, Conn.,
July 4, 1823. His parents were Justus Truman and Lucy (Hitchcock) Calhoun, both
natives of the same county. His mother was born April 23, 1790, and died in
Troy, Ohio, December 31, 1867. Justus Truman Calhoun was born January 1, 1789,
and was the son of Truman and Mary Calhoun, natives of Washington, Conn. The
former was born in 1770, the latter in 1773. Truman's father, George Calhoun,
with five brothers, Calvin, John, Joseph, James and Reuben, served in the
Revolutionary war, and settled in Washington, Conn. The descendants of Reuben,
Burt and Abel are the only representatives of the family now living in
Connecticut. Justus Truman Calhoun, the father of our subject, removed with his
family to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1833, settling in Berkshire Township, where
he purchased a farm, and occupied it until his death, on October 5, 1848. He and
his wife were the parents of five children four living-Henry, a Presbyterian
minister of Ironton, Ohio; Mary J., wife of Elijah W. Fenton, of Iowa City,
Iowa; Dwight, our subject and Lucy A., widow of John W. Weiser. Justus Truman
Calhoun died October 5, 1848. The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm,
and educated at East Blendon Institute. At the age of sixteen, he engaged in
teaching, and followed it during the winters, until 1859. He was married,
October 29, 1848, to Elizabeth J., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Monnett)
Caldwell, the former a native of Huntingdon County, Penn., and the latter of
Pickaway County, Ohio. Mr. Caldwell was born in the year 1800, and his wife in
1805. Mrs Calhoun was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, February 23, 1829, and has
blessed her husband with six daughters, five living, viz.: Anna E., wife of
Robert McCurdy, of Kenton, Ohio; Myra J., wife of D. Longfellow, of Minneapolis.
Minn.; Henrietta, Bessie Monnett, and Helen D. The eldest, Emma M. (deceased),
was for several years a missionary to the Indians. Of the six children, Emma,
Anna, Myra and Henrietta were educated in the Western Seminary at Oxford, Ohio.
In 1859, Mr. Calhoun removed to his present location in Buck Township. He is a
member of the Episcopal Church. He takes an active interest in Sabbath schools,
having been Superintendent for thirty years in different schools. Mr. Calhoun
devoted his attention for several years to keeping Italian bees, and was the
first person to introduce them in Hardin County. Emma Maria, the eldest
daughter, was born in Berkshire, Delaware Co., Ohio, March 27, 1850. In early
childhood, she exhibited those beautiful traits of character which were so
greatly developed in her maturer years of Christian life and work. She received
her early training in the union schools of Kenton. When fifteen years of age,
she taught her first school on the Bellefontaine pike, near her home. Her strong
desire to do good prompted her to organize a Sabbath school in the schoolhouse,
and, with outside assistance, the enterprise proved a success. She continued an
active worker for some time. Being anxious to obtain an education requisite for
mission work, she went to Troy, Ohio, in the spring of 1868, and continued her
studies with her uncle, Rev. Henry Calhoun, preparatory to entering the seminary
at Oxford, Ohio. The following fall she entered on a course in that institution,
and graduated in 1871. She then became a teacher in the union schools of
Evansville, Ind. In the spring of 1872, she returned home, and, October 8, 1872,
started for Yankton Agency, Dak., to assume the duties of assistant teacher to
Rev. J. P. Williamson. She taught English, while studying the language of the
Dakota Indians, in which she became very proficient. In 1874, she returned to
Kenton, bringing an Indian boy to be educated by the Presbyterian Church. On
account of ill health he was obliged to return to his tribe, and soon after
died. Miss Calhoun returned after a brief visit, and February 15, 1876, was
married to Rev. C. L. Hall, formerly of New York City, then a missionary at
Springfield, Dak. The same spring the two devoted missionaries went to Fort
Berthold, 1,000 miles up the Missouri River, and devoted their Christian work to
2,000 Indians, remnants of the once powerful tribes of Mandans, Arickarees and
Gros Ventres. In 1877, they visited her parents and were accompanied on their
return by Myra J., a sister of Mrs. Hall, who became a mission teacher for three
years. In 1879, Mrs. Hall attended the annual mission meeting at Brown Earth
Dak., and addressed the meeting in the Sioux language. She was probably the
first of her sex to address the Indians in their native tongue. Mrs. Hall was an
earnest and devout missionary, and devoted her entire womanhood to the cause of
advancing Christianity and enlightening the Indians of the far West. After nine
years of missionary usefulness, unsurpassed by any of her sex, she died at the
post of duty, April 17, 1881, leaving two children. She was buried by the side
of her oldest boy, Harry, who died July 17, 1878.

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"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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