THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
VOL. XXXV. APRIL, 1905. No 4. 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HENRY McCALLEY.* 
By Eugene A. Smith, University, Alabama. 
PORTRAIT— PLATE XIII. 
Henry McCalley, who died of pneumonia in Hunts- 
ville, Alabama, on November 21, 1904, was born in that 
city, February 11, 1852. He was the son of Thomas San- 
ford McCalley of Spottsylvania county, Va., and Caroline, 
daughter of Robert Landford who built the second house 
in Huntsville. 
^Ir. McCalley was one of a family of nine children who 
reached adult age. He lived at his home two miles west 
of the court house in Huntsville from his birth to man- 
hood. His school career was begun under the care of 
Mrs. McKay, then considered the most excellent teacher 
for young children. From Mrs. McKay he went to Dr. 
J. M. Bannister, rector of the Church of the Nativity, and 
afterwards to the noted Mr. Charles Shepard who is still 
living and engaged in teaching. At the well known school 
of Dr. Carlos G. Smith he was prepared for college soon 
after the end of the civil war. As the University of Ala- 
bama was at that time in the hands of the "carpet-baggers" 
and without students, he went to the University of Vir- 
ginia, from which institution he was graduated in 1876 
with the degrees of C. E. and M. E. At the University 
he applied himself very closely to his studies gaining the 
highest esteem of both professors and students but sacri- 
ficing his health. On his return home after graduation he 
spent one year on the farm with a view to restoring his 
health. 
* Read at the Philadelphia meeting of the Geological Society of America, 
1904. 
