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NAME CALHOUN 192 CALLENDER Abner was less than sixteen when he be- came a soldier of the south. He went through four years' struggle as a private, and sur- rendered with General Lee at Appomattox. He began the study of medicine under his father and was graduated from the Jef- ferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1S69. After a few years' practice with his father he went to Europe to perfect himself as a spe- cialist, having selected the eye, ear and throat as his line of work and, after two years in Europe, came home and settled in Atlanta, associating himself with Dr. Willis Westmore- land (q.v.). Shortly after becoming a specialist Dr. Cal- houn was asked to become a member of the faculty of the Atlanta Medical College. At the college there was an unused basement, and this Dr. Calhoun fitted up at his own expense, and there he cared for his moneyless patients. It was his money which bought provisions to be prepared by the janitor for these luckless ones. Dr. Calhoun married in 1877 Lula Phinizy, of Athens, daughter of Ferdinand Phinizy, and had four children, two sons and two daughters. Dr. Phinizy Calhoun was asso- ciated with his father in his professional work. The Atlanta Medical College was one of the father's chief interests and much of its success was due to his hard work. When steps were being taken to enlarge the college he gave $10,000 of the fund used. He contributed many articles to medical literature and was very keen on all matters of civic hygiene. Personal Communication. Atlanta Med. and Surg. Jour., 1884, n.s., vol. i Portrait. Calhoun, Samuel (1787-1841). Samuel Calhoun was born at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1787 and took his bachelor of arts degree at Princeton University, 1804, that of doctor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1808. For nine years he was a member of the Jefferson Medical Col- lege faculty, holding various professorships. Among these were materia medica and medical jurisprudence. For three years he was dean at Jefferson. He appeared as expert witness in a number of important trials. He was an intimate friend of George Mc- Clellan, and, on the latter's exclusion from the Jefferson Medical College, assisted his old- time friend in the foundation of the medical department of the Pennsylvania College. The spelling of his name he changed, in 1832, from Calhoun to Colhoun — a fact which has caused no little confusion in the tracing of his personahty. Dr. Calhoun, or Colhoun, was a large and handsome man, and of a genial and generous nature. He used to make excursions into the squalid portions of the city for the purpose of taking poor old men and women into restaurants and giving them hot meals at his personal expense. He never married. He died in 1841. Thomas Hall Shastid. History of Jefferson Medical College. Private Sources. Callender, John Hill (1832-1896). John Hill Callender was born near Nash- ville, Davidson County, Tennessee, November 28, 1832. His father was Thomas Callender, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, tobacconist, merchant, political writer and founder of The Richmond Recorder. His mother was Mary Sangster, born in Fairfax County, Virginia, January 10, 180S. In 1851 he studied law in the office of Nicholson and Houston, Nashville, and soon after in the law department of the University of Louisville. The illness of his father, fol- lowed by his death, recalled him in a short time, and his legal studies were suspended and finally abandoned. In 1853 he began to study medicine, taking his degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1855. December, 1855, he became and re- mained for three years joint proprietor and editor of the Nashville Patriot when he was made professor of materia medica and thera- peutics in the Shelby Medical College, Nash- "ville, Tennessee, until the Civil War. He was one of the witnesses summoned to give expert testimony in the celebrated trial of Charles J. Guiteau on the question of his sanity, and after a laborious investigation pro- nounced him not insane, though on leaving home he had a different impression. He was facile princeps in Tennessee as an authority in cases of insanity and diseases of the nervous system, and among the best alienists of the United States, whose really recognized experts may be counted on the fingers. In 1868 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical depart- ment of the University of Nashville, and in 1870 was appointed medical superintendent of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane. The same year he was transferred to the chair of diseases of the brain and nervous system in the University of Nashville, and in 1880 held the chair of physiology and psychology in the