Background
Calvin, Samuel was born on July 30, 1811 in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Calvin, Samuel was born on July 30, 1811 in Washingtonville, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the common schools and Milton Academy. He taught in Huntingdon Academy, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1836 and commenced practice in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.
Calvin was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1850. He resumed the practice of law and served as director of the Hollidaysburg School Board for thirty years.
A Fall 1961 Bulletin of the Blair County Historical Society republished an article by Doctor Harry T. Coffey (written May 1, 1896) about the early days of the town and the leading men of Hollidaysburg:
"Among the young lawyers and business men who afterwards became prominent in public affairs were such men as David R. Porter, afterwards governor.
James M. Bell, A. Porter Wilson and Samuel Calvin, (then a schoolteacher in Huntingdon). Number man was ever born better fitted to interpret Dickens, (Himself scarcely excepted) than Samuel Calvin.
He had a wide knowledge of classical literature, was a fine conversationalist, and I am indebted to him for some of the finest quotations from them, I can now recall, and also in developing my taste in the matter of reading only the best authors, especially English, whom he seems to have at his fingerends."
Mathew followed his father"s example and became a lawyer Descendents of Samuel Calvin live in several states.
Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the State revenue board and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1873.