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Parents: John T. and Sarah (Reese) Calvert
Children: Archie B., Lennetta May (deceased), Gertrude (deceased), Percy H. and Bertha Emma
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He was a "world champion photographer at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893."

CENSUS INFORMATION:
1870 Morgan County Census, Brown Twp: Jarvis P. Calvert, age 27, b. NY, p. 349
1880 Morgan County Census, Brown Twp: J. P. Calvert, ED 262, p. 27, household 284, age 38, b. NY
1910 Morgan County Census, Brown Twp: James P. Calvert, ED 55, p. 3A, household 57, age 67, b. NY
THE MOORESVILLE TIMES, Sesquicentennial Edition, Aug. 8, 1974, p. 23 "Photo Gallery and home of J. P. Calvert"  write up about him with photograph of his home and gallery from advertising card

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He had his own process for developing with a solution that contained gold.

Index to Death Records, Morgan County, Indiana, 1899-1920
Calvert  J P, age 75, Sept 17, 1917, Place of Death Mooresville, bk H-9, p 83

Obituary, Reporter, 15 Sept. 1917
J. P. Jarvis obituary. Well known photographer of Mooresville victim of paralysis and general breakdown. Died early this moring at his home in Mooresville after and illness with partial paralysis and a general dreakdown. He was the leading photographer at Mooresville for ?0 years and was an old soldier. He was a tenor singer and often took part in the program of soldiers reunions. Survived by his wife who has been an invalid for years, two sons, A. B. Calvert, of Indianapolis and Per?ey Calvert, of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home.

Reporter 19 Sept. 1917
Jarvis P. Calvert d. at home on E. Harrison St. early Sat. morning from neuritis followed by papalysis. He was born in NY City in 1842 and when a mere babe his parents moved to Cincinnati where his mother died. When he was but 2 yrs. Old and his father less than one year later, leaving him an orphan at the early age of 3. When 10 yrs. He was teken into a farmer's family in OH and worked on farm and attended public schools until age 21. In spring of 1863 he came to Plainfield and in Oct. enlisted in Co I 63d Ind. Vol. While in this re. he negaged in number of big battles and many skirmished but later was transferred to Co. H. 128th Ind. Where he served most of the time as clerk in the quartermaster's dept. In Aptil 1866 he received hon. Discharge and returned to Plainfield and studied photography until Feb. 1867, when he came to Mooresville and opened an art gallery in a little rented room. He was soon recognized as an artist of more than ord. ability and drew a reumarative patronzage from the surrounding country. He continued in the bus. More than 50 yrs. Or until overcome by dis. 


"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL." CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884. F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE; BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE, PAGE 218  JARVIS P. CALVERT was born in New York City June 17, 1842, and is the youngest of four children of John T. and Sarah (Reese) Calvert, of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania respectively, and of English extraction.  When he was but an infant, his parents removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his mother died in the year 1844, and his father in less than a year afterward.  Until about ten years of age, Jarvis P. existed a part of the time in Louisville, Ky., and a longer period at Columbus, Ohio.  From the age of ten to twenty-one years, he lived on a farm in Ohio, and attended the public schools.  In the spring of 1863, he came to Indiana and stopped a few months at Plainfield, and October 26, 1863, he enrolled at Indianapolis in Company I, Sixty-third Indiana Volunteer Infantry.  From this command he was transferred to Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the spring of 1865, and was finally mustered out of the service April 10, 1866.  While in the Sixty-third Regiment, he saw much hard service, and took part in some nine or ten regular battles, and any number of hot skirmishes.  With the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Regiment, his service was lighter, having been most of the time on detached duty as clerk about headquarters.  He returned to Plainfield and there studied photography, and in February, 1867, opened his art gallery in Mooresville, where he has since made great progress in his profession.  May 19, 1868, he married Delia Perce, by whom he has had born to him five children--Archie B., Lennetta May (deceased), Gertrude (deceased), Percy H. and Bertha Emma. Mr. Calvert is Steward and Chorister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of H.  He is a Republican in politics, and an advocate of prohibition.

Note: His mother's maiden name was Reese. Joseph Reese was older photographer in Morgan County. RESEARCH RELATIONSHIP
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"the photo gallery of J. P. Calvert stood at East Harrison Street, at the location of the United Methodist Church annex, and educational center. The gallery was removed at the time the annex was built, and the home when the educational unit was buillt years later."
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OriginalSource: MOORESVILLE TIMES, Sesquicentennial Edition, Aug. 8, 1974, p. 23:
After learning photography in Plainfield, Jarvis P. Calvert opened a gallery in Mooresville in February 1867.  An advertising photograph of his gallery and house is included.

CDV with NPA logo

The World of Stereographs, Wm. C. Darrah, p. 200: included in list of Indiana stereograph makers: J. P. Calvert, Mooresville

1878-1879 - Bill Rodgers' Collection: CDV Christmas card of J. P. Calvert, Photographer, Mooresville, 1878 1879; with his portrait pasted on; verso: Message to Friends and Patrons: I have been engaged in the Photographic Business in Mooresville, nearly 12 years. I would also call your attention to my facilities for job printing, and would earnestly solicit your patronage when you wish any printing done.  Keeps on hand albums, frames, picture cord, tassels and nails, stereoscopes, views, &c. Wishing Merry Christmas.

1880-81 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1028

1882-83 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1088

1884-85 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 1064, Jarvis P. Calvert

The St. Louis Photographer, Jan. 1886, p. 25:
letter to editor from J. P. Calvert, Mooresville (about a double exposed plate made by amateur).  Also mentions  that last Aug. 11 "I had an experience that I expect very few photographers have had. I was about to make a picture of an elderly gentleman and his wife, and while fixing the gentleman in position the lady dropped dead right by my side."

1887-88 Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1331, Jarvis P. Calvert

1890-91 Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer, p. 1206

The Blue Book for Amateur Photographers American Edition, 1895, p. 241, P. J. Calvert [sic]

1895-96 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer & Business Directory, p. 985, James P. Calvert [sic]

1916-17 Polk's Ind. State Gazetteer, p. 1667 [Listed as J. P. Calvert, Montpelier. This is probably a mistake by the Gazetteer compositor.  Calvert probably worked in Mooresville; no Mooresville photographers are listed.]
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