Henry T. Calton

    Henry T. Calton was born in Scott County, West Virginia, June 7, 1820, and is a son of K. G. and Mary (Taylor) Calton, both natives of North Carolina; the former died in Warren County, Ohio, April 8, 1845, the latter in the same locality March 17, 1848.

    Mr. Calton moved to Ohio when Henry was about fifteen years old, where he attended but one term of school. He began life for himself when twenty-one years of age, and April 17, 1842 was married to Miss Sarah Nelson, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Nelson, all natives of Ohio. This union was blessed by eleven children, four of whom died unnamed, the others being -John W., Mary J., William T., Orange S., Luther L., Henry N. and George W.; of these only three are living.

    In August, 1845, Mr. Calton removed to Madison Township, Indiana, where he remained two years, thence to Jordan Township, where he pre-empted land, and thereafter continued to buy until he owned 400 acres. Mr. Calton was the first in this county to break soil by horse-power, his happiest day being when he found a plow to reach the prairie loam. In 1874, he moved to West Lebanon.

    Mr. Calton is a pioneer, a Republican, a Prohibitionist, and, as also his wife, a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. For eight years, Mr. Calton was Postmaster of Walnut Grove, and Justice of the Peace in Jordan Township.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.