Thomas Chalmers Calvert

Birth Date

1826

Death Date

1898

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bowling Green, Kentucky, banker. Tennessee native. Son of Eliza C.Calvert. Married to Margaret Y. Calvert. Father of Eliza Calvert, Mary Calvert, Margaret Calvert, and Josephine Calvert. Attorney in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Cashier at the Bowling Green Branch of the Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1854 to 1865. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. A founder of the Presbyterian Female Seminary in Bowling Green in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District No. 2, p. 103B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District No. 1, p. 143. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District No. 1, p. 36. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green, p. 12. "An Act to Incorporate the Presbyterian Female Seminary of Bowling-Green," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: J. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 214. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1854 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1854), xxix. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1855 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1855), 30.The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1861 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1861), 38. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 19. Find A Grave, "Thomas Chalmers Calvert (1826-1898)," Memorial #31215333, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31215333/thomas-chalmers-calvert (accessed January 17, 2018). KYR-0003-092-0121.

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