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Source: GC-Fayette County Biographies
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Subject: James Calvert
Surname: CALVERT, EWING, RAGSDALE, PRESTON
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James W. Calvert, a native of Lexington, Ky., was born July 2, 1817, and
is the eldest of twelve children born to Willis Calvert, who was twice
married, first to Elizabeth Ewing of Fayette County, and second to Rebecca
A. Ragsdale of Boone County, Ky. The former died in 1827, and the latter
in 1861. Willis Calvert was born April 5, 1794, in Virginia; was a soldier
in the war of 1812 and was wounded at the battle of Raisin. He kept a hotel
from 1832 to 1847. In the latter year he moved to Nashville, Tennessee
where he died with cholera in 1849. He was justice of the peace for many
years, and was sheriff of the county. After his death the family removed
to Kentucky. The paternal and maternal grandfathers of our subject were
early settlers in Fayette County, Ky., where they died. The family is of
English origin. James W. Calvert was reared in Burlington, and educated
at the town academy. At the age of twenty-one he began to read law under
J. M. Preston, a lawyer who settled in the county in 1815. Mr. Calvert
began practicing in the spring of 1841, and continued until 1878, when
he retired. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and a member of the Christian Church;
politically he is a Republican. His uncle, James Calvert, was elected
sheriff
at the first election under the new constitution; he represented the county
in the Legislature during the war and was also provost-marshal; he was
born in 1806 and died in 1876.
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.