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CALTHROP.


CALVIN.


inated Seymour and Blair. In 1868 he was made professor of materia inedica and therapeutics in the medical department of the University of Nashville, and in 1870 was appointed superin- tendent of the Tennessee hospital for the insane. The same year he was transferred to the chair of diseases of the brain and nervous sj'stem in the University of Nashville, and in 1880 to the chair of physiology and psychology of that insti- tution and of Vanderbilt university. In 1879 he was elected president of the American medico- psychological association, and in 1881 of the asso- ciation of medical superintendents of American institutions for the insane. He was one of the witnesses summoned to give expert testimony in the trial of Gviiteau, the assassin of President Garfield. In 1887 he was chosen president of the section on physiology in the 9th interna- tional medical congress, which "met in Washing- ton, D. C. In 1889 the University of Nashville conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. He died Aug. 3. 1896.

CALTHROP, Samuel Robert, clergyman, was born at Swineshead Abbey, Lincolnshire, Eng- land, Oct. 9, 1829. His early education was acquired at St. Paul's school, London, and at Trinity college, Cambridge. He became a Uni- tarian minister in 1860 and removed to the United States, where he was installed pastor of the Unitarian society in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1868. He is the author of Physical Develojiinent and its relation to Mental and Sjiiritual Develop- ment (1859); Cambridge and Kivgsley on American Affairs (1863); English Colleges and Schools (186.")); Religion and Science (1874): The Rights of the Body (1879); Father, Son and Holy Ghost (1880); The Fullness of God (1888); Gold and Silver as Money (1896), and The War of 1898."

CALVERLEY, Charles, sculptor, Avas born in Albany, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1833; son of Charles and Elizabeth (Charlton) Calverley. After studjang under Pahner in Albany for some years, he re- moved to New York in 1868, where he opened a studio. In 1872 he was made an associate of the national academy and three years later academician. He executed a bas-relief of Peter Cooper in 1876, which was shown in the Centen- nial exhibition in Philadelphia, attracting much favorable comment, A bronze bust, heroic size, of John Brown, which is owned by the Union League club, was exhibited at the same time. Among his other works may be noted: "Little Ida," a medallion; " The Little Companions." and basts of Horace Greeley (at Greenwood), Charles Loring Elliott, the Rev. JohnMacLean, of Prince- ton, Elias Howe, and a bronze statue of Robert Burns.

CALVERT, George (See Baltimore, Lord).


CALVERT, George Henry, author, was born in Prince George county, Md., Jan. 2, 1803. He was a lineal descendant of Lord Baltimore, the first proprietor of Maryland. He was graduated at Harvard in 1823, and subsequently studied at the University of Gottingen. On his return to the United States he for a time edited a news- paper in Baltimore, but in 1843 removed to New- port, R. I. He was a member of the Newport school committee and its chairman, and was mayor of the city, 18o3-'.")4. His publications include: Eliistrat ions of Phrenology (1832); A Volume from the Life of Herbert Barclay (1833); Don Carlos (1836); Count Julian (1840); Cubiro (184i0-'64); Scenes and Thoughts in Europe (1846-52); Poems (1847); Comedies (ls.-,6); Joan of Arc (1860); The Gentleman (1863); Anyta and other Poems (1863); Arnold and Andre (1864); Ellen (1869); Goethe, his Life and Works (1872): Brief Essays and Brevities (1874): Essays ^sthetical (1875), and Wordsworth, a Biographic Esthetic Study (1875). He died in Newport, R, I., May 24, 1889.

CALVERT, Leonard, governor of Maryland, was born about 1606, second son of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, and brother of Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore. He was sent as first governor of Maryland by his brother, Cecil, who had obtained a charter for the colony from Charles I. on June 20. 1632. The expedition set sail from Cowes on Nov. 22, 1633, in two ships, called the Ark and the Dove, and consisted of two hundred persons, part Catholics and part Protestants. They arrived at Point Comfort, Va., Feb. 27, and a few days later sailed up the bay and Potomac river, where they purchased from the Indians a tract of land about April, 1654, and laid out St. Mary's. Before the arrival of Calvert, William Claiborne, a Virginian, had established a trading post on Kent island, within the bounds of Maryland, but had obtained no grant of the land. Lord Baltimore instructed Calvert to make friendly overtures to Claiborne. These were rejected and Claiborne sent an armed vessel against St. Mary's which the Marylanders captured after some bloodshed. Claiborne then sailed for England and in Februarj', 1638, Calvert took possession of Kent i.sland without resistance. In February, 1645, while Calvert was in Virginia, an armed English ship seized St. Mary's and about the same time Claiborne re-established himself on Kent island. Calvert re-entered the province in 1646, and proclaimed a general par- don on April 16, 1647. He died June 9, 1647.

CALVIN, Delano Chipman, lawyer, was born in Jefferson ronnty, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1824; son of Alpheus R. and ^Minerva Calvin. He was edu- cated at the Black river institute, Watertown;