Re: Dr. George V. Calhoun, WA State pioneer
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In reply to:
Dr. George V. Calhoun, WA State pioneer
Scott Ferrel 7/05/98
Oh dear ... I'm a full 13 years too late to respond helpfully for your anniversary event.
Anyway, I'm not descended from either Jane or Ellen Mein but from their sister Mary, who was close to both of her sisters. I do have a few stories about that family, which came from the Borders area of England-Scotland. Both Mary and her sister Ellen married Canadian doctors in Glasgow (Mary's husband was rooming with George V Calhoun when they attended medical school together in Glasgow circa 1861, and the two young men may have been cousins). Later, when Ellen married George Calhoun, and Mary married Dr Reuben Gross, and they both moved out to the West Coast of the United States, their older sister Jane and youngest sister Hannah came out to visit, and Jane married George's brother Sam, and Hannah married yet another doctor, a Dr. Whitehouse.
All of a pattern. I do have some photos of George V. Calhoun's family -- him, Ellen and their children. One of their sons (Grant or Scott, I think) and Mary's daughter Eleanor, together somehow gave Stanford University its "cardinal" color at an early game there.