Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Calderwood, Howard Black July 24, 1859 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

HOWARD BLACK CALDERWOOD, Postmaster of Tyrone and a representative business
man of that place, a leader in the insurance line, a notary public and
secretary of the Improvement Building and Loan Association, was born in this
city, July 24, 1859, and is a son of James Monroe and Matilda (Hunter) Calderwood.
     James Monroe Calderwood was reared at Birmingham, Huntingdon County and
came to Tyrone a young man as a school teacher. Later he served as agent of
the Adams Express Company and as a notary public and as a justice of the
peace and was secretary of the Tyrone Building and Loan Association when it
was first organized. His was about the sixth or seventh house erected in the
place. He died in 1887 at the age of sixty-six years. He married Matilda
Hunter, who died in 1870. They were parents of the following children:
William Lowrie, who was born in 1849, for many years was special claim agent
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and died in Philadelphia, where he has
long resided; Howard Black; Mary Ella, now deceased, who was a resident of
Tyrone; and three who died in infancy.
     Until he was about eighteen years of age, Howard B. Calderwood attended
school at Tyrone, after which he accepted a position as express manager on
the Tyrone & Clearfield branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, with the Adams
Company, and continued one year and then became a clerk in the mercantile
house of Van Valzah & Wilson, where he was employed for eleven years. In 1887
he purchased an insurance agency, first handling fire risks only but later
taking life insurance also, together with building and loan work, his
combined interests making him one of the city's busiest men. However he has
found time to take an active part in public matters, has served both as
burgess and as assistant burgess and as a member of the council, borough
auditor and in other positions.
     On August 14, 1888, Mr. Calderwood was married to Miss Anna Irene Dixon,
a daughter of Elwood and Frances Dixon, formerly of Tyrone, but later of
Newburg, N. Y. Four children were born to them: Bessie, Virginia Dixon,
Howard B. and Dixon. Of these all survive except Virginia Dixon, who died in
1907. Mr. Calderwood and family attend the Methodist Episcopal, church. He is
secretary of the Tyrone Club and is a member of Tyrone Lodge, No. 152, Odd Fellows.

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