Calkin, Daniel 1837 – 1895

CALKIN, CALKINS, FINNEY

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Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:46

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 8, 1895 P 4 C 1

Died In Michigan
A postal card from Fayette, received at this office last Friday, and dated Aug. 1st, says:—“A telegram this afternoon from Montague, Mich., announces the death of Daniel Calkins. No particulars.” Mr. Calkins will be remembered as a former resident of Hesper township, and a very nice man. Several years ago he moved to Fayette to give his children the benefit of school privileges. Two years ago he purchased a fruit farm near Montague and has since resided there. The sympathy of a large circle of old neig{h}bors and friends will go out to his family in their affliction.

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 15, 1895 P 8 C 2

Death of Daniel Calkin.
Last week’s REPUBLICAN chronicled the death of Daniel Calkin, formerly a well known and highly respected resident of Hesper township, which occurred at Montague, Mich., on the 1st inst. Herewith we present portions of an obituary published in the Montague Observer which give the principal points of Mr. Calkin’s life:—
Mr. Calkin was born in Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N, Y., Oct., 1837. Sept., 1864 he enlisted as a private in the fifth Vermont Volunteers, Co. F., and served until December of the same year, when he was taken sick with typhoid fever and was taken to the 33d Fairfax hospital, Alexandria, Va., where he laid unconscious for three weeks and from which resulted the heart trouble that eventually proved the indirect cause of death. After his recovery he took up the study of medicine and soon was promoted to the position of hospital steward, in which capacity he served for two years, receiving an honorable discharge Sept. 14, 1864. He was married to Miss Esther M. Finney at Postville, Ia., Oct. 15, 1868, and moved onto a farm in Canoe township, Ia., which he cleared and two years later sold, purchasing a larger and improved farm in same township, where he served as assessor and school director. Five years ago he sold and went to Looking Glass Prairie, Hesper township, Winneshiek county. In Nov., 1891, he again sold and went to Fayette county, Ia., where he lived as a retired farmer for two years, when, at the importunity of his brother, L. S. Calkin, he came to Montague in August, 1893, purchased a nice home on Jones street, and thirty-five acres of fruit land. During Mr. Calkin’s comparatively short residence among us he has made a surprising number of friends. Mr. Calkin was one of a family of twelve children, six boys and six girls, ten of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. His mother is still living at Willsborough, Essex county, N. Y. The direct causes of death were chronic heart disease and chronic Bright’s disease, the latter affection being said to be positively incurable. He leaves a wife and five children, Rupert S., Emma K., Ralph A., Scott W. and Clara F., who are joined by a host of earnest sympathizers in mourning the loss of the truest husband, father and friend.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he was born Oct. 20, 1837 and died Aug. 1, 1895. He is buried in Oak Grove, Montague, MI. The name is spelled Calkin.