Colusa County Biographies

Waller Calmes

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            Since the fall of 1854 Waller Calmes has been a prominent resident 
of this county.  At that time he located on Grand Island, and engaged in the 
cattle business, which industry he followed for sixteen years.  Most of that 
time he purchased cattle in other parts of the State and drove them to Colusa to 
prepare them for the market.  He was born in Kentucky, June 9, 1831, and came to 
California in 1852.  In September, 1859, he was married to Miss Lizzie Cooper, 
daughter of Major Stephen Cooper.  He has living two sons and two daughters, and 
has lost two sons and one daughter, after they had grown to manhood and 
womanhood.  He lives in Colusa, but has a farm of fourteen hundred acres a mile 
south of the town.  He is a staunch Democrat, and served his county as 
Supervisor from 1884 to 1886.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 442