Patrick Calhoun (immigrant)

Patrick Calhoun (1727–1796), was born in Ireland, apparently in County Donegal, but emigrated to Virginia with his parents, and from the family made their way to South Carolina. According to A Compendium of Irish Biography (1878),

"He and his family suffered severely during the war with the French and the Indians. Shortly after the peace of 1763 he was elected a member of the provincial legislature, and continued a member of that and afterwards of the state legislature (with the intermission of a single term) till his death in 1796. In the war of the Revolution he took an early, decided, and active part against the British. His son John Caldwell Calhoun (born in South Carolina in 1782, died at Washington in 1850) was Vice-President of the United States from 1825 to 1832, and held other important offices, and was undoubtedly the ablest and most uncompromising champion of slavery and the slave power in his day."

His great-grandson and namesake was the entrepreneur, Patrick Calhoun.

References

•  "Calhoun, Patrick". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
• Reynolds, Jr., William R. (2012). Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-6694-8. 

External links

• http://www.libraryireland.com/biography/PatrickCalhoun.php
• http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~celiadon/ps05/ps05_141.htm