Julian C. Calhoun

CALHOUN, CHRISTIAN, CAMPBELL

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 4/19/2005 at 07:17:15

Julian C. Calhoun
Was born in the county which he now represents in the legislature [Van Buren co.], on December 5, 1866. He has lived in said county all his life except for a few years when he was attending school in Kansas. He was born and reared on a farm. Attended the common schools of his community and the high school of Ness City, Kan. He was graduated from the Kansas State Normal school, at Emporia, Kan. in 1891, and from the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1893. He has been engaged in the practice of the law in his county since his graduation. In July, 1892 he was married to Gertrude M. Christian of Iola, Kan. Two children were born to them. One died in infancy and the other, Mrs. Ralph C. Campbell, now lives at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. During the war with Germany he entered the Y.M.C.A. service and was sent overseas. He was assigned to the educational department of the association and lectured on commercial law subjects and citizenship. He is a member of the Methodist church and of the republican party.

-source: Official Register, State of Iowa 1921-1922, Twenty-Ninth Number, Biographies of State Representatives, pg. 335-336

-transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall (not related to subject)