Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1911-12-29
JOHN CALVIN DEAD.
Former Resident Passes Away
After Short illness.

Brattleboro, Vt, Dec. 26. John
Calvin, 81 years of age, died at the
Memorial Hospital at 10 o'clock this
morning following an operation by DR..
Maurice Richardson of Boston Sunday
afternoon for jaundice. Hemorrhage
followed the operation, which disclosed
cancer of the liver.
Mr.. Calvin was chairman of the Board
of Selectmen at the time of his death
and the 80 or more years in which he
has lived in Brattleboro have been de-
voted largely to the public service. He
gave up his business six weeks ago last
Friday and had remained at his home
on Walnut st. since then, until he went
to Boston Thursday for consultation.
John Calvin was born in County
Cork, Ire, August 10, 1854, and came to
America with his parents, Denis and
Joanna Driscoll Calvin, when months
old. They lived in Monkton, VT. He
finished his education there and left
home to learn the trade of tinsmith
and plumber when 20 years of age. He
went to Richmond where he entered
the emylov of George Barnum and re-
NAMED there until he finished his APP
premiership three years later. While
at work in Richmond he married
Mary Flannery, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Flannery, the ceremony be-
ing performed Nov IL, 1877. Upon fin
ishing his appl enticeship he went to
Middlebury, where his parents had
meantime moved, and formed a part
nership with John Hyde in the tin
smith and plumbing business, which
was dissolved three years later, when
Mr.. Calvin came to Brattleboro in 1880.
When he came to this town he en-
tered the employ of A. E. Wood and
worked as tinsmith and plumber for
him few months when he formed a
partnership with the late P. K. White
and they opened a shop in the Ray
Block, now occupied by E. Mancini.
This partnership was terminated about
a year later By the death of Mr.. White,
but few months before his death the
firm bought out A. E. Wood, then To-
Gated where Mr.. Galvin's present store
stands.
Since Mr. Calvin went to that stand
he has continued in the tinsmith and
plumbing business and in addition to
the usual amount of jobbng that falls
to country shop he had installed the
plumbing in many large residences and
at the time of his death was putting the
heating apparatus into the new Austine
Institution Building.
He was captain of the famous old fire
company, No. 6, % years ago and a
few years later was chosen assistant
chief engineer, position which he held
until the first reorganization of the de-
partment, when he retired. A few years
later he was elected a member of the
village bailiffs and for a number of
years was town chairman. For seven
years he was one of the Board of Au-
ditors and in 1906 and 1907 he was
member of the Water Board He was
elected member of the Board of Sc
lectmen, in March, 1909, for three
years and his term of office would have
expired the coming March.
In addition to his public offices he had
held many positions of prominence in
local and State Catholic secret society
circles. He was a member of the local
court of c. O. F. and was elected chief
ranger.
From 1899 to 1900 he was State vice
chief ranger and from 1901 to 1906 was
State chief Re was also a member of
Leo council, X. of C. He joined the
Greenfield, Mass, council in 1906. From
1901 to 1905 he was member of the eX-
ecutive committee of the National Fed
GRAFTON of Catholic Societies, being
elected at Chicago and reelected at
Atlantic City, N. j.
Besides wife, he leaves a son, John
E. Calvin, and four daughters, Kath-
crime NJ, Agnes E., Anna D., and
Maysie E., all residing at home. Miss
Maysie Calvin is student at the New
England Conservatory of Music. He
also leaves a sister, Miss Julia Calvin
of Hartford, Conn.
Funeral services will be held Friday
morning at 8 O'Clock in st. Michael's
Catholic church. Rev. M. j. Carmody
will officiate.