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Papers of Judge Solomon S. Calhoon (January 2, 1838–November 10, 1908), Jackson, who served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1890 and who was a member of the Supreme Court of Mississippi at his death. Most of the papers, 252 pieces, are petitions and letters of lawyers (June 3–August 1, 1908) urging Governor Edmond F. Noel to reappoint Judge Calhoon when his term expired on May 10, 1909. Other items are a program of exercises at the Canton Male Academy, July 31, 1851; a report of a guard mounted at Fort McRee by Lieutenant S. S. Calhoon, Company I, Tenth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C. S. A., July 5, 1861; certificates of Calhoon's election as district attorney of the Fifth Judicial District, November 15, 1866; as circuit judge of the Ninth Judicial District, April 6, 1876, and March 23, 1882; and as delegate from Hinds County to the Constitutional Convention, August 7, 1890; copy of Calhoon's speech to the Constitutional Convention, November 1, 1890 (printed in "Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi. 1890," pp. 700–703); and the charter of the Cottage Charity Hospital Association, January 11, 1898. One volume is the grade book of George W. Ash, principal of the Canton Male Academy for the session ending August 1, 1851 (12 by 18.5 cm., 20 pp.). The other is entitled "Autograph, Post-Office Address and County of Delegates, Officers and Employees of the Constitutional Convention of Mississippi Convened at Jackson, August 12th, 1890, for S. S. Calhoon, President, Jackson, Hinds County." (9 by 14.5 cm., 56 pp.).