George Marion Calvert

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Entry in Who's Who in Hopkins Co., Texas
wdcalvert added this on 28 Dec 2014

George Marion Calvert was born January 5, 1835, in Williamson Co., Illinois. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, and what education he received was very limited. At the age of 19, he came to Texas and put up a cabinet shop in Titus County and followed this as a livelihood for sixteen months, after which he sold out and went to the Choctaw Nation and clerked in a dry goods store for one year. He subsequently returned to Illinois and clerked for J.W. Todd, of Saline, one year, then he and his brother, J.L. Calvert, began merchandising, following the business nearly two years. He then embarked in the livery business establishing the first stable ever established in Marion, Illinois. In 1859, he married Miss Sophia Woodul, of Lebanon, Tennessee, and was proprietor of a hotel in Marion about eight months. In September 1861, he moved to Texas and entered the Confederate army. Subsequent to the Civil War he began farming in Denton County, Texas. In the fall of 1867, he moved to Hopkins County and was a successful till 1870. On the 14th of February 1883, he was again married to Mrs. Mary Kincade. He is the father of twelve children, 10 boys and 2 girls, seven by the first wife and five by the second. He now has a lovely and attractive home two and a half miles southwest of Sulphur Springs, which is a public resort for young and old. He is a pioneer in the grape business, and one of the most successful fruit men in northern Texas. He is known as a free thinker and is a strong believer in liberty of thought and speech, and likes to see the day when every home will be free from master and slave.

• Residence: 1900 - Justice Precinct 1 (south & east part), Hopkins, Texas, United States
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