Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
Boone Co.

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, Tenn., 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.

Calvert Ewing Ragsdale Preston
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Fayette VA Davidson-TN

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