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Note: N242 1900-Census living with parents age 18 single
1901 - President of his High School Class, Central High, Minneapolis, MN
1918 married Ethel Helen Brown
1920-Census living in Minneapolis, Minn; occupation artist, engraving; Ethel is working as a secretary for a newspaper
1930-Census living in Minneapolis, Minn; working as an art instructor at an art school; Helen is “at home” and is a Christian Science Practitioner.
1933-Passenger list-arrival from Liverpool England. Probably on trip to visit his wife’s family
-impressionist painter
Instructor in Rhetoric - University of Minnesota; 1905-1906
1940 Census - Frederic D Calhoun (57), Ethel (55) are renting an apartment at 2011 Third ave So for $65 a month. Frederic is a teacher at an art school, making $2900, and has other income. Ethel is a Christian Science practioner, with 0 income recorded, and also has “other income”. Frederic completed 4 years of college, Ethel 4 years of high school. They were living in the same apartment in 1935.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota native Frederic D. Calhoun was born in 1883. He studied art at the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis School of Art. He later traveled to New York, where he studied with the Art Student's League on a scholarship in Illustration.
Calhoun worked for a number of years as a commercial artist, muralist, and instructor in Minneapolis. Several of his easel paintings are of the area lakes in Minneapolis and the North Shore of Minnesota. Calhoun died in 1956.
Known for: commercial art, mural and easel painting, teaching
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Other artists regarded as significant participants in the work of the Purcell firms included Alphonso Ianelli, the sculptor of large statuary groups for the Sioux City court house, and Frederick D. Calhoun, an impressionist painter who did a large oil perspective of the same building as well as interior design for other commissions.
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FREDERICK DAVID CALHOUN
Birth:
Jan. 12, 1883
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Death:
Oct. 12, 1956
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Buried on October 15, 1956.
Famous commercial artist. He was a student at the Art Student's League, New York City. (Illustration)
Listed in the "Who's Who in Art" section of "American Art Annual", 1917.
Family links:
Parents:
John Franklin Calhoun (1854 - 1922)
Clara Zenora Edwards Calhoun (1858 - 1940)
Sibling:
John Edwards Calhoun (1881 - 1945)*
Frederic David Calhoun (1883 - 1956)
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Lakewood Cemetery
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Plot: Section 8 - Lot 324 - Grave 3
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Created by: NWO
Record added: Aug 03, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 40235726
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