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phenomenal success of her sons, John and Pat, they are in 

 affluence again. It is but a decade since these two enterpris- 

 ing young men were struggling for a support, and now have 

 not only acquired fortunes, but have developed into great 

 railroad factors, and have had much to do with the present 

 prospective great development of the South. It is an unde- 

 niable fact that the R. & D. R. R. is largely indebted to the 

 brain of young Pat Calhoun for its vast proportions. He is 

 now a director and general attorney for this powerful syndi- 

 cate, and John is also a director and is president of the South- 

 ern Society in the city of New York. Mrs. Calhoun has 

 reason to feel proud of her children, and they are descended 

 from distinguished ancestry on both sides. We doubt if there 

 is a young man on this continent, to-day, who has accomplished 

 through the means of his own brain, more than Pat Calhoun ; 

 but little past thirty years of age, he has climbed within the 

 past eight years from absolute poverty to the top of one of the 

 greatest money powers- in the land, wields an influence and 

 handles fortunes in a manner that savours of the old stories we 

 read in the Arabian Knights. I feel I cannot close this refer- 

 ence to the family of Mr. Andrew P. Calhoun, without a word 

 about Miss Margie, the only daughter, and do so without per- 

 mission, and take the liberty, because I believe the name of 

 John C. Calhoun and his discendants belong to the Southern 

 public Though Miss Margie's efforts have been confined to 

 a more secluded field of action, she has proven herself no 

 idler; she seems to have inherited her grandfathers taste for 

 agriculture and fine stock, and in the management of her val- 

 uable stock farm near Atlanta she has exhibited a successful 

 and practical business management that challenges competi- 

 tion with the best farmers of the day. Her management has 



