BIO: James CALDER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 266-267.
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  CALDER, JAMES, son of William and Mary (Kirkwood) Calder, was born 
February 16, 1826, at Harrisburg, Pa.  He was educated in the public 
schools of the borough, the Harrisburg Academy, Partridge's military 
institute, and entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1845, 
from which he graduated August 1, 1849.  In September following, he 
joined the Philadelphia conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
and was stationed in Lancaster county, where he remained until 1851, 
when he was appointed missionary to China, sailing from New York in the 
spring of that year.  He reached Foo-Chow, his missionary station, in 
July following.  He remained at this point until the year 1854, when 
having changed his views on church polity, he withdrew from the 
denomination, and returned to the United States.  Soon after he became 
pastor of the Bethel church, Harrisburg, until the year 1859, and in 
the meantime editor of the Church Advocate, the organ of the Church of 
God.  In 1857, while serving in this pastorate, he took charge of the 
Shippensburg Collegiate Institute, continuing there one year, until 
owing to the death of his wife, he returned to Harrisburg.  In 1862 the 
larger part of the congregation here, with their pastor, connected 
themselves with the Free Will Baptists denomination, and erected a new 
church building on State and Fourth streets.  The Rev. Mr. Calder 
ministered to that congregation until 1869, when he was elected 
president of Hillsdale College, Michigan, a Free Will Baptist 
institution.  He continued at the head of that institution two years; 
when, in 1871, the presidency of the Pennsylvania State College having 
become vacant by the death of Dr. Burrowes, Mr. Calder was invited to 
succeed him.  He accepted the position, returned to Pennsylvania, and 
until June, 1880, remained in charge of that institution.  He then 
resigned and came to Harrisburg, where he remained until his death, 
which occurred November 22, 1893. From 1890 to 1893 he filled the 
position of lecturer of the State Grange of Pennsylvania, and at the 
same time assistant editor of the Farmers Friend, published in the 
interest of the State Grange.  Hillsdale College, in 1866, conferred 
upon Mr. Calder the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.  Dr. Calder 
married first, in 1850, Ellen C., daughter of the Rev. John 
Winebrenner, who died in 1858.  His second wife was Mrs. Eliza D. 
Murphy, daughter of the late Nicholas Reamshart, of Harrisburg, who 
still survives.
  To the first union were born four children:  Frank R., Harrisburg; 
James K., Hagerstown, Md.; Charles M., died August 18, 1880; A. 
Russell, Steelton, Pa.
  To the second union were born four children:  William Carey, 
missionary in Burma; Mary E., wife of Prof. John W. Heston; Everett, 
Washington; Howard L., Harrisburg; Wallace R., Harrisburg.