"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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JARVIS P. CALVERT was born in New York City June 17, 1842, and is the
youngest of four children of John T. and Sarah (Reese) Calvert, of Rhode
Island and Pennsylvania respectively, and of English extraction. When he
was but an infant, his parents removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his mother
died in the year 1844, and his father in less than a year afterward. Until
about ten years of age, Jarvis P. existed a part of the time in Louisville,
Ky., and a longer period at Columbus, Ohio. From the age of ten to
twenty-one years, he lived on a farm in Ohio, and attended the public
schools. In the spring of 1863, he came to Indiana and stopped a few months
at Plainfield, and October 26, 1863, he enrolled at Indianapolis in Company
I, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry. From this command he was
transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry in the spring of 1865, and was finally mustered out of the service
April 10, 1866. While in the Sixty-third Regiment, he saw much hard
service, and took part in some nine or ten regular battles, and any number
of hot skirmishes. With the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, his
service was lighter, having been most of the time on detached duty as clerk
about headquarters. He returned to Plainfield and there studied
photography, and in February, 1867, opened his art gallery in Mooresville,
where he has since made great progress in his profession. May 19, 1868, he
married Delia Perce, by whom he has had born to him five children--Archie
B., Lennetta May (deceased), Gertrude (deceased), Percy H. and Bertha Emma.
Mr. Calvert is Steward and Chorister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of H. He is a Republican in politics,
and an advocate of prohibition.
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