Flowers Of
The Forest
Passing
of Lady Colquhoun. James
Pearson, author of The
Chronicles Of Clan Colquhoun,
informed us “…that, sadly, Lady Colquhoun died on Tuesday 17th
April.
From the Glasgow Herald:
COLQUHOUN Kathleen.
Lady Kathleen Colquhoun Peacefully, on
17th April, 2007, Lady
Kathleen Nimmo Colquhoun of Luss, (nee Duncan) beloved wife of Ivar
and devoted mother to Iona and Malcolm.
Funeral service at
Luss Parish Church, at 2pm, on
Wednesday, 25th April.
Committal thereafter at Cardross Crematorium.”
From Peerage News: Lady Colquhoun of Luss, who died 17 April, 2007,
was the wife of Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun of Luss, 8th Baronet (b 4
Jan 1916), and the maternal grandmother of the 13th Duke of Argyll.
She was the former Kathleen Nimmo Duncan, 2nd daughter of Walter
Atholl Duncan, of Cadogan Sq, London, & sister of Marjorie Ray
Duncan, who married in 1938, the 6th Earl of Verulam. She married
Sir Ivar in 1943 and was mother of (i)
Iona Mary (b 1945) who married 1964, the 12th Duke of Argyll
(1937-2001); & (ii) Malcolm Rory Colquhoun (b 20 Dec 1947).
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It’s
been reported to us that Steven Lance Calhoun B.A., M.A.
of
Fresno, CA died last year. Over the
years Steve contributed much to this Society including an
extensively researched article in favor of a Colquhoun authoring one
of the most famous of Scottish songs,
On The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks Of Loch
Lomond which is now supplied to each new member (contact
us if you’ve never seen this article and we can send it to
you). Steve also compiled a list of over 118 ways “Colquhoun” was
changed throughout the world and a complete Sept/Cadet list that
includes such “forgotten” names as Garscadden and Camstradden. In
1992 Steve finished an unpublished history of Colquhoun Chiefs that
takes up where William Fraser’s history ends, published in 1869. It
is unclear at this time what will happen with the unpublished
manuscript.
Being interviewed by Ron Kelly on Channel 24 at
the 1988 Fresno, CA games.
Steve told me that he used to give a squad of 78th Fraser
Highlanders a dram of scotch each to fire off a blank round from
their muskets at the MacGregor tent each year at the Fresno games,
all in good fun of course. Steve was descended from William Cahoone
(1633-1675), the Block Island soldier/indentured servant/brickmaker
whose descendants include many “Cahoons”
in NC. Steve was able to find where his family name changed from
Cahoon to Calhoun as his ancestors moved west. He published a long
article in Orval Calhoun’s Our
Calhoun Family outlining William’s life.
Longtime member Patrick J. Calhoun, Jr. of Little Rock, AR lost two
family members. His 27 year old nephew, artist and musician Mark
Steven Calhoun, died 19 January 2006. Some of Steve’s work, also his
CD, can be seen at http://www.swaggerrecords.com/swagger/records/steven/calhoun/music-songs/credits/
“On
9/11, he was the manager of a stage that was located on the plaza
between the Twin Towers…He was an eyewitness to both ‘hits’ and
participant in the pandemonium, death and destruction that followed.
He somehow survived the flaming debris that showered the plaza.
Traces of the tragedy have subtly emerged in some of Steven’s
mixed-media pieces and songs.” Steve was the only male heir of
Patrick’s family.
Patrick also lost his father on 8 February 2007. Patrick Calhoun,
Sr. had led a platoon ashore at Utah Beach in the WWII Normandy
invasion in 1944. He endured 51 days of combat and was wounded at
the battle of St-Lo France in July. After the war, Patrick Sr. was a
business entrepreneur and active in GOP politics in AR.
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Ingraham Piper Big Winner at
Grandfather!
J.D. Ingraham from Lenoir City, TN won Grade III Piper of the Day at
the GMHG 2007. JD won 1st in March, 3rd in
Piobaireachd (pronounced "peeb-roch" almost rhyming with "rock" but
with a hard H) sometimes called the classical music of the pipes,
and 4th in Strathspey (dance tune in
4/4).
This gave him the higher average than the other pipers so he won
Piper of the Day in addition to the other 3 awards.
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ABNER WELLBORN CALHOUN 1845-1910
FIRST OPTHAMOLOGIST IN THE SOUTH
By A. Calhoun “Callie” Witham, Jr.
Abner Wellborn Calhoun was born in Newnan Georgia on April 16,
1845. He was the son of a prominent local physician Andrew B.
Calhoun MD. During his formative years he was helped by his father
in his practice and was educated in the town of Newnan. His
childhood was typical of a young person of that era until the war of
Southern Secession broke out in the spring of 1861. Young Abner
volunteered for duty in the Confederate army in that same year just
before his sixteenth birthday. He served in the Army of Northern
Virginia and fought in every major campaign for the entire four
years of the war. He was wounded on four separate occasions and
finally through the knee fighting in the trenches outside of
Petersburg Virginia. He obviously had seen a great deal of field
hospitals and physicians by the end of the war. Once Robert E. Lee
surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865 he walked home with
what remained of his company to Atlanta where began his studies
under his father. Once his preliminary studies were completed,
Abner left Georgia to study medicine in earnest at the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated with his M.D. in
March of 1869 and returned to Georgia to start his own practice.
During his early days of practicing medicine he took a great
interest in the plight of the blind and as well patients with
various ailments of the eye. In early 1871 he traveled to Europe to
study the diseases of the eye which was a relatively specialized and
new field of medicine. He learned fluent German and studied with the
brightest medical minds of the age in Vienna, Berlin, Paris and
London. He returned to Atlanta four years later and began to
practice and teach his specialty. He was the first to perform
cataract surgeries in the South which must have seemed miraculous to
the hundreds of patients whom he returned sight.
Dr.
Abner W. Calhoun was the region’s first specialist of the eye and
ear, first taught at the Atlanta Medical College, which was
originally established by his father, Andrew B. Calhoun, in 1854. He
founded the college’s medical library with his own volumes (most
written in German). This college later became the Emory University
School of Medicine in 1915.
As
the only scientifically trained ophthalmologist south of Maryland,
Dr. Abner Calhoun was the specialist of choice for many a Southerner
who had a serious eye problem before the turn of the century. He
served as faculty president from 1900 until 1910. He and
industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided funds to construct a medical
college building that later became part of Grady Memorial Hospital,
still a training ground for Emory residents. Unfortunately the only
physical memorial to this pioneering southern physician was the
medical library that was originally named in honor of Dr. AW
Calhoun’s contributions to medicine and ophthalmology. The library
was renamed in the late 1970’s during one of Emory University’s
quests for wealthier benefactors. Although the library no longer
bears his name there is a small room named after Dr. Abner W.
Calhoun where you can see an exhibit of his original text books and
instruments which started a great medical tradition that carries on
to this day.
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New Society Mascot!
Meet
Fergus, the new unofficial mascot for the North America Society. We
lost Seumas two years ago, went Scotty-less for a year,
then unexpectedly found another Wheaton
Scotty. Fergus will be one year old on
6 December 2007. Fergus’s coming out
event was the Hartwell games, the last one in GA you can take your
dog along.
More pictures of Fergus can be seen at:
Beth's
Newfangled Family Tree
347 Rocky Knoll Rd.
Walhalla, SC 29691
http://www.electricscotland.com/bnft/index.htm
Send your Scotty/Scottish breed dog pictures to:
sijepuis@bellsouth.net
