Someone cut the Cabinet Card off so it would fit in a frame.
Grandpa Calhoun
Born in Ireland 90 years old
Thomas Calhoun 1809-
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Update from Iggy:
In Tipton, Moniteau, Missouri, we find a Thomas Calhoun born on June 8, 1808 in Ireland (and not 1909) who died December 20, 1899 at the age of 91.
This is probably this fellow.
He married Jane M. Irwin Calhoun 1818-1874, they had a daughter Esther Calhoun Harrington 1844-1923 Esther married Wilson Shannon Harrington 1838-1912.
Esther and Wilson had a son Alfred Irving Harrington 1880 - 1921
Alfred Irving "Fred" married Mary Crawford Harrington 1880-1937
Alfred and Mary had a daughter Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson 1920 - 2011
Elizabeth married Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson 1919- 1996
Elizabeth and Fairleigh had a son Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson 1949-1969
In the 1900 US census, we find Peter F Ross, living in Tipton, Missourri listed as a photographer. This fits the cropped off words on the photograph and the time frame (c. 1899).
ReplyDeleteSo, looking in Tipton, Moniteau, Missouri, we find a Thomas Calhoun born on June 8, 1808 in Ireland (and not 1909) who died December 20, 1899 at the age of 91.
His FindAGrave memorial lists his wife and one of his daughters (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=89644550)
I'm not sure this is the "right one" - given that there are a half dozen Thomas Calhoun's in the 1880 US census born in 1808-1810 - but I think it unlikely that there was another one in a place as remote as Tipton, MO in c. 1900.
I don't know how "remote" Tipton Missouri might have been at that time, but all the other details seem to fit! Even the photographer :)
DeleteTipton (population 3,262 at the 2010 census) is about the geographic center of Missouri, and about 150 miles from the nearest city of any size.
DeleteI probably could have used a better word than "remote". :) Showing my city slickerhood.