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Surname: Calhoun, Simmons, Simmonds, Bacon
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Henry CALHOUN, first child of Sheldon CALHOUN & Sally Ann BACON, was born
January 29, 1812, presumably in Frankfort, Herkimer County NY. He married
and had two children:
1. Julie CALHOUN married SIMMON(D)S and had a son. It is not known where
they resided, perhaps in NY or MI.
2. A son, possibly named John, married and lived in Juneau, Alaska and
had one boy and three girls. Our old "Calhouns of Connecticut" published
genealogy lists no first name, but a 1935 letter records him as "John."
According to The Centennial Gazetteer: A Guide to Juneau, Alaska Place
Names, page 8, one of the older streets in Juneau is Calhoun Avenue. It
was named for Mrs. Mary V. Calhoun, an early resident of the area. She
and her husband, John J. Calhoun, arrived in Juneau from Wisconsin in 1888
and established a dairy along what is now Calhoun Avenue. They occupied
the present site of the Governor's Mansion and grazed their cows along
Gold Creek, the south bank of which was sometimes called Calhoun Flats.
In 1902 they sold the dairy and moved to Seattle where John Calhoun died
on January 16, 1906. Mrs. Calhoun died at Nanaimo, British Columbia, April
27, 1912.
There are no children mentioned in the Gazetteer. The 1880 Wisconsin census
does list NY natives John and Mary Calhoun, ages 37 and 32, farming in
Fond du Lac, WI. Children at that time were Elen, 11, Leonora, 5, and Frank,
2.
QUESTIONS: Can anybody claim ANY of these folks so I can rule them out
as ours? Or, does anyone have an update on descendants? Anyone out there
from Alaska? This is one of our toughest unsolved family mysteries.
Many thanks.
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