SAMUEL CALWELL, was born in Harford (then Baltimore) county, of Irish and Scotch parentage, and was a resident of Bush River Lower Hundred, at that time one of the largest districts in the county. He married Ann Richardson, whose family was a prominent one locally, and lived for many years on a farm called the Grove, on Winter's run, near the present Almshouse, a part of this land being now in the possession of Mr. George Steigler His life seems to have been a quiet and uneventful one, as few reminiscences have been handed down to his descendants.
In February, 1775, he was elected a member of the Committee of Harford County to represent, with nine other members, the Bush River Lower Hundred, and was present at Harford Town on March 22, 1755, when he signed the memorable declaration of that date. Samuel Calwell survived that interesting event about twenty-five years and died in the year 1800.
One of his sons, James Calwell, migrated to Virginia, and was the founder and owner of the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, which he conducted for many years, helping to make it one of the most celebrated summer resorts in the United States, and some of his descendants are still living there.
Another son, William, established himself as a merchant in Bel Air, and died in the early part of the last century.
A third son, Thomas, removed to Baltimore and established large and successful flour mills there. The last named was the father of sixteen children, some of whose descendants are still living in Baltimore and Harford counties and in other states. A grandson, Joseph Cushing Calwell, a retired merchant, is living in Brooklyn, N. Y.; another grandson, William G. Wetherall, whose father's family settled in Harford over a century ago, is a prominent iron merchant of Baltimore city, and James S. Calwell, a member of the bar of Baltimore, whose summer home is in Harford, is another grandson, whose children by his marriage with the daughter and only child of the late Daniel Scott, and his wife, Cordelia Scott (nee Norris), are descendants of three signers of the Harford declaration, that noble band of patriots who risked their lives and fortunes that they and their posterity might enjoy constitutional government, viz: Samuel Calwell, Daniel Scott and Benjamin Bradford Norris.
