Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkBios/10704 Surname: McCalvy, Reed, Rector, Shutter ------------------------- 1891 History of Clark & Jackson Counties Wisconsin Robert McCalvy, of section 25, Eaton Township, Clark County, was born in Ireland, August 29, 1827, the son of Patrick and Mary (Reed) McCalvy. The parents crossed the ocean when our subject was an infant, and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then in 1842 settled on Government land eight miles from Milwaukee, Waukesha County, where the father died in 1887, at the age of eighty-five years. The Parents had eight children, all of whom are deceased but our subject and a sister, Mary Mead, of Auburn, Fond du Lac County Wisconsin. The mother died in 1846. Two brothers, Thomas and Albert J., were members of Company A, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry; both were injured at the battle of Gettysburg. Thomas died from his wound, and Albert recovered and was returned to his command, and was killed in the battle of Petersburg. The subject of this sketch received his education principally by studying at home. Since his marriage he has been engaged more or less in the carpenters trade, but farming is his principal industry. He was a soldier in the late war, in Company G, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battles of Fort de Russy, Louisiana, Pleasant Hill Landing, Cloutierville, Cane River, Marksville, Yellow Bayou, Tupelo, Mississippi, Camargo Cross Roads, Old Town Creek, Augusta, Arkansas, Nashville, Tennessee, Spanish Fort, Alabama, and Fort Blakely. He never received a scratch, and was discharged a color guard. He endured many hardships, but remained to the close of the war. He kept a diary of events during his services. After the war, he lived in Fond du Lac County until 1868, when he came to this county, settling on his present farm of 160 acres, which was then covered with heavy timber, mostly hard-wood. He afterward cleared sufficient space to build a house and garden, where he was surrounded by Indians and wild animals. The former would camp near him and kill game, and always brought venison to his family. There were but five houses between him and Neillsville, a distance of fourteen miles, and there was but one house in Greenwood, and one in Loyal. Mr. McCalvy and his wife had six children when they first came to the county, where they lived in a log cabin with puncheon floor and shake roof. He still owns the original 160 acres, but has since cleared eighty acres, and now has fine barns and other improvements. He was married January 14, 1849, to Anna L. Rector, a daughter of John and Mary (Shutter) Rector. Mrs. McCalvy was born in Albany, New York, March 4, 1825. They have six children, namely: Adelia E., George E., Sophronia A., Margaret M., Thomas J., and Albert M., all of whom are married and have children. Mr. McCalvy is a Republican politically, and a strong supporter of the little school-house, and believes in standing by it. He attended a reunion of his regiment in Milwaukee in August 1889, and met many of his old comrades, and received a photograph of the assembled veterans on that occasion, and also a record of their names and addresses, and an account of the proceedings. His regiment captured a large cannon at Shiloh, and the General gave it to the regiment. It is taken to all the reunions, and is kept in Madison. Socially Mr. McCalvy is a member of the G.A.R. Post, and also of the I.O.O.F. Mr. And Mrs. McCalvy are members of the Presbyterian Church.