Abram Rensselaer Calkins (abt. 1822 - abt. 1893)

Born about 19 May 1822 in Malta, Saratoga, New York, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy Maria (Winslow) Calkins — married 11 Nov 1845 in Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States

Husband of Helen G. (Bingham) Calkins — married 6 Jun 1855 in Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States

Husband of Charlotte S. (Stone) Dunning — married 28 May 1863 in Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States

Descendants

Died about 17 Mar 1893 at about age 70 in Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States [uncertain]

Biography

Surgon Abram Calkins served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1862
Mustered out: 1863
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Seventeenth Michigan Infantry

Abram R. Calkins was born in Malta, Saratoga Co., N.Y., May 19, 1822, and died in Allegan, Mich., March 17, 1873. In 1833 he removed with his father to Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich. At this place his father died in 1837. He then entered the family of his older brother, Chauncey W. Calkins, and continued his literary studies. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Coats & Biglow, of Otsego, Mich., and graduated from the Geneva Medical College, N. Y., in 1845. Soon after, he opened an office in Allegan, where he was married, in November of that year, to Miss Lucy Maria Winslow, who was the mother of his two sons, the younger of whom, Dr. Fred M. Calkins, follows his father's profession in the same place. For nearly thirty years Dr. Calkins practiced medicine in Allegan, often fording streams and following an Indian trail through the forest to the rude home of the pioneer. Ambitious to succeed in his profession, full of energy and vigor, daunted by no difficulty, deterred by no obstacle, he became skillful both as a physician and surgeon.

Sympathetic and kindly in his nature, he was ever a welcome visitor at the bedside of suffering humanity. He displayed an active interest in every work that promised.

in his opinion, the elevation and welfare of mankind, and was helpful in every society of which he became a member. To the church he gave his presence, his counsel, and his means. In the school board he labored for the physical and moral as well as the intellectual advancement of the young. To the society of Freemasons he was a valued acquisition. In politics he was a Republican, positive and firm in his opinions.

He entered the army in 1862, and was appointed surgeon of the Seventeenth Michigan Infantry ; participated in the battles of South Mountain and Antictam. He served in the army for a year, when the severe sickness of his wife' induced him to resign his position. She died before his return. At the time of his death he was a member of the County and State Medical Societies, and also of the American Medical Society, having been sent by the State Society as a delegate to that body at its meeting in Philadelphia in 1872. Dr. Calkins was thrice married, the second time in June, 1855, to Miss Helen G. Bingham, and again in April, 1863, to Mrs. Lottie S. Smith, who survives him.

Although Dr. Calkins died at the age of fifty-one, he lived to see the comparative wilderness amid which he began his life-work bud and blcssom as the rose, the streams substantially bridged, the Indian trails succeeded by good roads, and the log dwellings replaced by attractive farm-houses.

Full of generous impulses, courteous, genial, and social, he was prized while here and mourned when gone. Active and busy to the last, his life was another sacrifice to the profession which, when once adopted, leaves a man no longer his own master. An affectionate husband, a watchful, indulgent, and loving parent, an obliging friend, and an upright citizen, it is well to cherish his memory.

VirginiaFreePress date: 1891.04.01 ^[1]

Birth and Family

Birth

Abram was born on 19 May 1822 at Malta, Saratoga Co., NY

Parents

He was the son of Simon Calkins and Joanne Wright.

Syblings

Marriage and Children

Marriage

Abram married

Lucy Maria (Winslow) Calkins (1828-1854) on 17 Dec 1845^[2] at Allegan, Michigan, United States

Helen G. (Bingham) Calkins (1833-1862) on 5 Jun 1855^[3] at Allegan, Michigan, United States

Charlotte S. (Smith) Calkins (1859-abt.1908)

Children

1. Frank Winslow Calkins (1848-1922)
2. Frederick Milo Calkins (1852-abt.1874)
3. Willie Bingham Calkins (1860-1861)

Residence

United States Census

Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States. 1850,^[4] 1860,^[5] 1870,^[6]

Death

Abram passed away on 17 Mar 1893 at Allegan, Allegan, Michigan, United States. He was laid to rest at Oakwood Cemetery, Allegan, Allegan County, Michigan, USA.^[7]

Military Service

Michigan, United States Rank Surgon Seventeenth Michigan Infantry HQ Staff ^[8]

Researchers Notes

See also:

Family Search Profile L4MT-JBN ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ VirginiaFreePress date: 1891.04.01 : P2C3. OBIT. FROM HF SENTINEL. DR F.M.CAULKINS IN ALLEGAN MICHIGAN. HUSBAND OF JENNIE [CAULKINS] WHO IS DAUGHTER OF LATE Philetus.O.LITTLEJOHN FORMERLY OF HarpersFerry.
2. ↑ "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939J-4JBP-P?cc=1810350&wc=Q868-NHF%3A150748101%2C150748102 : 11 May 2018), Allegan > Marriage certificates, 1835-1865, v. 1 > image 22 of 130; various archives, Michigan.
3. ↑ "Michigan, County Marriages Index, 1820-1937," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9KD-NW5?cc=2473289 : 29 November 2018), > image 1 of 1; Michigan State University Library. Documents Department, East Lansing.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DTT3-RBR?cc=1401638&wc=95R3-6YL%3A1031311201%2C1031311202%2C1031347701 : 9 April 2016), Michigan > Allegan > Allegan > image 8 of 18; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9BS3-9P8?cc=1473181&wc=7QGH-YYN%3A1589428970%2C1589429206%2C1589429208 : 24 March 2017), Michigan > Allegan > Allegan > image 8 of 47; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6P8N-4Q?cc=1438024&wc=KGQK-PTL%3A518655401%2C518666901%2C518671401 : 12 June 2019), Michigan > Allegan > Allegan > image 12 of 60; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images, memorial page for Dr Abram Rensselaer Calkins (19 May 1822–17 Mar 1873), Find A Grave: Memorial #89519512, citing Oakwood Cemetery, Allegan, Allegan County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Earl Munday (contributor 46874433) .
8. ↑ "United States Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4B4-9W5 : 24 March 2016), Abram R. Calkins, 1892.
9. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4MT-JBN

Acknowledgment

• Sources added by Jeff Michaelsen