He was a small man with one blue eye and one brown eye.
Came to this country as a stow-away on a ship at he age of 16. With only an equivalient of an 8th grade education, he
worked until he could buy a milling operations. He was the only man in this parts that paid each man a dime each day.
He later bought a cotton gin on the Scott County side of Mansfield and later a cotton gin in Packard Addition(mansfield-sebastian county side). To make the ginning of cotton faster, he needed faster engines. He ordered two engines from New York and then took one apart and redesigned it, so that is work counter-clockwise to the other, thus making the engines work faster and more efficient. He bought numerous houses in Mansfield and during the Depression, he allowed families to stay where they were and did not charge them rent. He believed in the family unit long before it became popular in the late 20th century.
He married Elizabeth Faulkenberry Ashcraft prior to coming o Arkansas. He met her in Cornith, Mississippi. They had numerous children. Elizabeth came into the marriage with a daughter from her previous marriage.
John Calvin was raised Catholic, but since there was not a catholic church in Mansfield, he went and joined the 1st United Methodist Church in Mansfield. When the church congregation decided to build a new church, John Calvin donated $10,000 dollars to this cause and in 1932 that was a LOT of money. The relationships between the Methodist Church and John Calvin did not stay good. On his deathbed,
John, knowing death was near, called out for a priest for last rites. When the members of the Methodist Church heard this, they refused to allow him to have a funeral there.
This may have been why Grover did not set foot in the church from that time onward.
John Calvin was a hard-working man, who like his son Grover, loved his family.
Appears to have had a son by another woman. I do not know his name.
Came to this country as a stow-away on a ship at he age of 16. With only an equivalient of an 8th grade education, he
worked until he could buy a milling operations. He was the only man in this parts that paid each man a dime each day.
He later bought a cotton gin on the Scott County side of Mansfield and later a cotton gin in Packard Addition(mansfield-sebastian county side). To make the ginning of cotton faster, he needed faster engines. He ordered two engines from New York and then took one apart and redesigned it, so that is work counter-clockwise to the other, thus making the engines work faster and more efficient. He bought numerous houses in Mansfield and during the Depression, he allowed families to stay where they were and did not charge them rent. He believed in the family unit long before it became popular in the late 20th century.
He married Elizabeth Faulkenberry Ashcraft prior to coming o Arkansas. He met her in Cornith, Mississippi. They had numerous children. Elizabeth came into the marriage with a daughter from her previous marriage.
John Calvin was raised Catholic, but since there was not a catholic church in Mansfield, he went and joined the 1st United Methodist Church in Mansfield. When the church congregation decided to build a new church, John Calvin donated $10,000 dollars to this cause and in 1932 that was a LOT of money. The relationships between the Methodist Church and John Calvin did not stay good. On his deathbed,
John, knowing death was near, called out for a priest for last rites. When the members of the Methodist Church heard this, they refused to allow him to have a funeral there.
This may have been why Grover did not set foot in the church from that time onward.
John Calvin was a hard-working man, who like his son Grover, loved his family.
Appears to have had a son by another woman. I do not know his name.
He was a small man with one blue eye and one brown eye.
Came to this country as a stow-away on a ship at he age of 16. With only an equivalient of an 8th grade education, he
worked until he could buy a milling operations. He was the only man in this parts that paid each man a dime each day.
He later bought a cotton gin on the Scott County side of Mansfield and later a cotton gin in Packard Addition(mansfield-sebastian county side). To make the ginning of cotton faster, he needed faster engines. He ordered two engines from New York and then took one apart and redesigned it, so that is work counter-clockwise to the other, thus making the engines work faster and more efficient. He bought numerous houses in Mansfield and during the Depression, he allowed families to stay where they were and did not charge them rent. He believed in the family unit long before it became popular in the late 20th century.
He married Elizabeth Faulkenberry Ashcraft prior to coming o Arkansas. He met her in Cornith, Mississippi. They had numerous children. Elizabeth came into the marriage with a daughter from her previous marriage.
John Calvin was raised Catholic, but since there was not a catholic church in Mansfield, he went and joined the 1st United Methodist Church in Mansfield. When the church congregation decided to build a new church, John Calvin donated $10,000 dollars to this cause and in 1932 that was a LOT of money. The relationships between the Methodist Church and John Calvin did not stay good. On his deathbed,
John, knowing death was near, called out for a priest for last rites. When the members of the Methodist Church heard this, they refused to allow him to have a funeral there.
This may have been why Grover did not set foot in the church from that time onward.
John Calvin was a hard-working man, who like his son Grover, loved his family.
Appears to have had a son by another woman. I do not know his name.
Came to this country as a stow-away on a ship at he age of 16. With only an equivalient of an 8th grade education, he
worked until he could buy a milling operations. He was the only man in this parts that paid each man a dime each day.
He later bought a cotton gin on the Scott County side of Mansfield and later a cotton gin in Packard Addition(mansfield-sebastian county side). To make the ginning of cotton faster, he needed faster engines. He ordered two engines from New York and then took one apart and redesigned it, so that is work counter-clockwise to the other, thus making the engines work faster and more efficient. He bought numerous houses in Mansfield and during the Depression, he allowed families to stay where they were and did not charge them rent. He believed in the family unit long before it became popular in the late 20th century.
He married Elizabeth Faulkenberry Ashcraft prior to coming o Arkansas. He met her in Cornith, Mississippi. They had numerous children. Elizabeth came into the marriage with a daughter from her previous marriage.
John Calvin was raised Catholic, but since there was not a catholic church in Mansfield, he went and joined the 1st United Methodist Church in Mansfield. When the church congregation decided to build a new church, John Calvin donated $10,000 dollars to this cause and in 1932 that was a LOT of money. The relationships between the Methodist Church and John Calvin did not stay good. On his deathbed,
John, knowing death was near, called out for a priest for last rites. When the members of the Methodist Church heard this, they refused to allow him to have a funeral there.
This may have been why Grover did not set foot in the church from that time onward.
John Calvin was a hard-working man, who like his son Grover, loved his family.
Appears to have had a son by another woman. I do not know his name.
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