Husband William Calder 1 2
Born: 31 Jul 1821 1
Christened:
Died: 19 Jul 1880 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1
Buried:
Father: William Calder (1788-1861) 3 4
Mother: Mary Kirkwood (1790-1858) 3
Marriage: 4 May 1848 4
• Residence: : Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA.
Wife Regina Camilla Greenawalt 1 2
Born: 10 Aug 1823 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
Christened:
Died: Aft 1896
Buried:
Father: Jacob Greenawalt (1784-1854) 1 5 6
Mother: Catherine Krause (1788/1789-1864) 1 5 6
Children
1 M Edmund Kirkwood Calder 1 7
Born: 21 Jun 1849 7
Christened:
Died: 31 Dec 1862 1 7
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M William Jacob Calder 1
Born: 1 Oct 1853 7
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Jessie Remington ( - ) 7
3 F Catharine Krause Calder 1
Born: 27 Jul 1857 7
Christened:
Died: Bef 1896 - Baltimore, MD
Buried: - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA
Spouse: William Robert Turner ( - ) 7
4 M Theodore Greenawalt Calder 1 7
Born: 2 Dec 1860 7
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Regina Calder 1 7
Born: 27 Jul 1862 7
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Ehrman B. Mitchell ( - ) 7
6 F Mary Kirkwood Calder 1 7
Born: 10 Apr 1865 7
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - William Calder
He had limited education from books, being inducted into the stage-line business at the age of twelve years. At the age of sixteen his father put him in charge of the Philadelphia Packet Line from Columbia to Pittsburgh. In 1851 he assumed the management of his father's business, and in 1857 undertook the completion of the Lebanon Valley Railroad. In 1858 he became a member of the well-known banking firm of Cameron, Calder, Eby & Co., which afterwards became the First National Bank of Harrisburg, of which Mr. Calder was chosen president. The same year he was elected a director of the Northern Central Railway, and was active in preserving Pennsylvania's interests in that corporation. At the breaking out of the rebellion he rendered the goverment important service through his large knowledge in the purchase of horses, and supplied the government with no less than forty-two thousand horses and sixty-seven thousand mules, establishing the price ($125 and $117.50) so low as to effect a very great saving to the government in this department. Mr. Calder was always foremost in the promotion of Harrisburg's industrial enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Harrisburg Car-Works, the Lochiel Rolling-Mills, the Harrisburg Cotton-Mills, Foundry and Machine-Works, the Fire-Brick Works, and the Pennsylvania Steel-Works.
In 1873 he was commissioned by Governor Hartranft a trustee of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, and reappointed in 1876. In 1876 he was appointed by the same Governor a member of the commission to devise a plan for the government of cities, and in 1880, just prior to his death, he was elected a director of the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. For many years he ably officiated in the management of city affairs through its Councils. He was among the founders of the Harrisburg Hospital and the Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an attendant. He was formerly a Whig, later a Republican, and influential in local and State politics, and one of the Presidential electors from Pennsylvania in 1876.
Upon the occasion of President Lincoln's visit to Harrisburg, when a plot was laid to assassinate him on his return to Baltimore, Mr. Calder was selected to escort him safely to take another train from the one intended at first, and thus his enemies' designs were thwarted.