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Meredith Calhoun
Meredith Calhoun (1805 – March 14, 1869)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meredith Calhoun )〕 was a plantation owner and a newspaper editor in Grant Parish, Louisiana, known for his editorial activism on behalf of the Democratic Party.
==Biography==
Calhoun was born in South Carolina but moved to Rapides Parish, Louisiana about 1830. He married Mary Margaret Smith Taylor, granddaughter of William Smith, an Alabama judge and former United States senator from South Carolina, on May 24, 1834.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early Mississippi Marriages )〕 Their children were William Smith "Willie" Calhoun (born ca. 1835) and Marie Marguerite Ada (born ca. 1845). The couple purchased 14,000 acres from Senator Smith, who had acquired the land in 1836. They divided the property fronting the Red River into four plantations on which they grew primarily cotton and sugar cane. The Calhouns established one of the largest sugar mills in Louisiana and their estate was valued in excess of $1 million in the 1860 census,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Calhoun, Meredith )〕 a considerable holding at that time.
"Calhoun's Landing," as the principal plantation was called, became an important shipping point on the Red River and the beginning of Colfax, the seat of government of Grant Parish, some twenty-five north of Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in Central Louisiana. Calhoun purchased the ''Red River Democrat'' newspaper and renamed it the ''National Democrat.'' The publication was strongly supportive of the 1860 Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.〔 Douglas, however, was soundly trounced nationally by the Republican choice, Abraham Lincoln, also of Illinois. Louisiana voted for the outgoing Vice President of the United States John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, running as the breakway "Southern Democratic" candidate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Election of 1860: Results by States )〕
Calhoun died after the American Civil War had ended in 1869 while in Paris, France. Mrs. Calhoun died on June 11, 1871. Their son, Willie Calhoun, became like his maternal grandfather, a state senator〔The Louisiana State Senate listing from the office of the Secretary of State begins in 1880, just before prior to Senator William Calhoun: (Membership in the Louisiana Senate, 1880–2012 )〕 and worked to establish Grant Parish separate from the more populous Rapides Parish to the south.〔〔''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'', in its article on Calhoun, uses as sources the ''Red River Republican'', ''Red River Democrat'', and ''Shreveport Times''; Rapides and Grant parish courthouse records; United States Census, and Mary Fletcher Harrison and Lavina McGuire McNeely, ''Grant Parish, Louisiana, A History'' (1969).〕
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