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family then moved to Virginia and from there to South Caro- 

 lina, in 1776, where John, the last bnt one, was borne, and 

 grew up on a farm; aspiring to an education he was sent over 

 to Georgia to his uncle. Dr. Waddle, then a famous teacher and 

 Presbyterian minister, and making such promising progress was 

 next sent to Yale College, where he graduated with great distinc- 

 tion, and where, by invitation from Dr. Dvvight, the president of 

 the college, engaged with that celebrated scholar in a political 

 discussion (they entertaining oi)posite views) which elicited from 

 the doctor the remark : " That young man has talent enough to 

 be President of the United States;" and the doctor predicted 

 someday, that he would be, if he lived. From Yale he went to 

 Litchfield, Conn., and attended the celebrate law school under 

 Judge Reeves ; returning to South Carolina he spent some 

 time in the law office of Mr. Dessaussure, in Charleston, and 

 also in Abbeville, S. C, with Col. Geo. Bowie. He served 

 two sessions in the South Carolina Legislature and then was 

 elected to Congress, and then to the United States Senate, 

 and was afterwards Secretary' of War, Vice-President with 

 Andrew Jackson, and died as Senator from his old State, South 

 Carolina. 



Mr. Calhoun married his cousin, Floride Calhoun, of Abbe- 

 ville, S. C, and settled j permanently near old Pendleton, at 

 Fort Hill. He raised seven children, Andrew P., Anna 

 Mariah, Patrick, John C, James E., Cornelia and William 

 Lowndes. Not one of the family are living, the two eldest 

 being the last to die. 



The eldest married a daughter of Gen. Duff Green, a man 

 of great distinction in liis day, and although Andrew P. was 

 educated for and would have preferred a political life, was 

 compelled to abandon the idea on account of his own and his 



