Henry Marvin Calkin was born in Switzerland County, Indiana in 1822 to Thomas Calkin and Mary Hinman. He grew up there and married Elizabeth Larkin in Spencer County, Indiana in 1846 and had a number of children.
Henry traveled to New Orleans on a flat bottom boat, and while he was there the Calkin family contracted smallpox and he hurried home. His wife and some of the children died from the disease, and Henry also contracted it. He survived it but bore the characteristic pitted face from the sores.
Henry had gone to California during the Great Gold Rush and had experience in gold mining. Due to his resume, he was offered a position managing a lead mine near Chauncey, Missouri, so he headed there, where he married Mary Gibson, an orphan working in her sister's boarding house near Chauncey. After he married, he sent for his younger children who had been living in Illinois with two older daughters, Sarah and Mary, who brought them to Missouri.
It is said that Mary (Gibson) Calkin is buried on what was known as the Davis Salave farm on State Road A, later owned for many years by the late Jewel Franklin.
After Mary Gibson Calkin died, Henry married a third time to an Englishwoman named Mary J. Summerskill
Henry traveled to New Orleans on a flat bottom boat, and while he was there the Calkin family contracted smallpox and he hurried home. His wife and some of the children died from the disease, and Henry also contracted it. He survived it but bore the characteristic pitted face from the sores.
Henry had gone to California during the Great Gold Rush and had experience in gold mining. Due to his resume, he was offered a position managing a lead mine near Chauncey, Missouri, so he headed there, where he married Mary Gibson, an orphan working in her sister's boarding house near Chauncey. After he married, he sent for his younger children who had been living in Illinois with two older daughters, Sarah and Mary, who brought them to Missouri.
It is said that Mary (Gibson) Calkin is buried on what was known as the Davis Salave farm on State Road A, later owned for many years by the late Jewel Franklin.
After Mary Gibson Calkin died, Henry married a third time to an Englishwoman named Mary J. Summerskill
Henry Marvin Calkin was born in Switzerland County, Indiana in 1822 to Thomas Calkin and Mary Hinman. He grew up there and married Elizabeth Larkin in Spencer County, Indiana in 1846 and had a number of children.
Henry traveled to New Orleans on a flat bottom boat, and while he was there the Calkin family contracted smallpox and he hurried home. His wife and some of the children died from the disease, and Henry also contracted it. He survived it but bore the characteristic pitted face from the sores.
Henry had gone to California during the Great Gold Rush and had experience in gold mining. Due to his resume, he was offered a position managing a lead mine near Chauncey, Missouri, so he headed there, where he married Mary Gibson, an orphan working in her sister's boarding house near Chauncey. After he married, he sent for his younger children who had been living in Illinois with two older daughters, Sarah and Mary, who brought them to Missouri.
It is said that Mary (Gibson) Calkin is buried on what was known as the Davis Salave farm on State Road A, later owned for many years by the late Jewel Franklin.
After Mary Gibson Calkin died, Henry married a third time to an Englishwoman named Mary J. Summerskill
Henry traveled to New Orleans on a flat bottom boat, and while he was there the Calkin family contracted smallpox and he hurried home. His wife and some of the children died from the disease, and Henry also contracted it. He survived it but bore the characteristic pitted face from the sores.
Henry had gone to California during the Great Gold Rush and had experience in gold mining. Due to his resume, he was offered a position managing a lead mine near Chauncey, Missouri, so he headed there, where he married Mary Gibson, an orphan working in her sister's boarding house near Chauncey. After he married, he sent for his younger children who had been living in Illinois with two older daughters, Sarah and Mary, who brought them to Missouri.
It is said that Mary (Gibson) Calkin is buried on what was known as the Davis Salave farm on State Road A, later owned for many years by the late Jewel Franklin.
After Mary Gibson Calkin died, Henry married a third time to an Englishwoman named Mary J. Summerskill
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