Joshua C. Calhoun 1832-1911

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Date: 11/6/2022 at 22:47:23

Joshua C. Calhoun
(July 11, 1832 - September 13, 1911)

J. C. Calhoun came to Mason City, Iowa, in 1870, thence to Fertile township, Worth county, and purchased his present farm. It contains 160 acres. He was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y. July 11, 1832. He is the son of Benjamin Calhoun, a native of South Carolina, and a brother of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, born in 1789. He went to Indiana, then to New York. In 1816 he married Martha Sheram a native of Cazenovia, N. Y., born in 1792. The father died there in 1841, the mother in 1868. They had a family of eight children, J. C. being the seventh child. He received a common school education, and followed sailing and farming. He was married in Jefferson Co., N. Y., July 29, 1856, to Maria T. Buskirk, born in same county, March 6, 1840. In 1868 they moved to Gananoque, Canada, and engaged in the hotel business, until 1870, when he came to Iowa. The had five children - Myron, deceased; Carrie, Ebin, Earl and Abbie. Mr. Calhoun is a democrat, but liberal in his views, always voting for the best man. He has held offices of clerk and sheriff. He is an A. F. & A. M. Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1884, p.757