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My great grandfather moved to Wyoming, Iowa at the same time as Dr.Calkins. His biography says that Dr. Calkins was also a descendent of Hugh Calkins. Can anyone connect him to my Calkins family which is Samuel/Marcellus/Riley/Seth of New York/Samuel. Dr. Martin said he had no cousins in town but he has to be a relative.
There is a museum in Wyoming, Iowa with Dr. Calkins' home and doctor's office on Calkins Square. The following biography tells his lineage.
Dr. Calkins was the first physician in Wyoming, Iowa; was born September 16, 1828, at Mexico, Oswego Co., N.Y.; his grandfather, James Calkins, was from Sharon, Conn.; his father, John Calkins, was born in Eastern New York in 1802, and, when a boy, moved with his parents to Oneida Co., N.Y., where he afterward married Caroline Halbert. They lived then lived in Mexico, New York.
Dr. Martin Henry Calkins, whose life record covered the intervening years between September 15, 1828, and September 27, 1909, was born near Mexico, Oswego county, New York, and was the second son of John and Caroline (Halbert) Calkins. His only sister died in 1852 and his only brother perished in a watery grave in 1865. He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Cushman, who preached the first sermon ever printed in America; of Mary Allerton, the last survivor of those who came in the Mayflower; and of Hugh Calkins, who came to America from Wales in 1638. He was also descended from Sir Thomas Kinne, who was knighted in 1618 and one of his Kinne grandfathers, Thomas Kinne, served in the war of the American Revolution. He attended the schools of his home county and became a successful teacher. He was teaching in Oswego, New York, when the first train of cars came to that city. When ringing bells and blowing whistles announced the approach of the marvel of the time the young schoolmaster said "School is out," and hurried away with the children to gaze upon the wonder which was then more marvelous than the flying machine of today. He held in 1851 one of the first state certificates issued by the educational department of the state of New York, his being number six.
He read medicine in the office of Doctors Bowen and Dayton in his native town and first attended lectures in the College of Medicine in Geneva, New York, and finished in the University of New York City. For three years he practiced in Constantia and North Bay, New York, and then came west, locating in Wyoming, Iowa, June 14, 1856, where he continued in the active practice of medicine until failing health in 1903 no longer permitted him to respond to the calls for his professional services. For forty-seven years he
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