History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 650. [Harrison County] [Cynthiana City and Precinct] SAMUEL CALHOON, farmer, P. O. Cynthiana, born in the State of Ohio, in the year 1831; his father was William B. Calhoon, who died in 1833, at the age of forty-five year; his grandfather, Matthew Calhoon, was of Scotch-Irish birth; his mother, Elizabeth Matthews, was from Pennsylvania. Samuel Calhoon married Miss Mandy Smith, of Harrison County; daughter of Martin Smith; and by this marriage he has three children, viz: Albert Sidney, Arthur Lee, and Mary Eliza. He owns 175 acres, one and three-quarter miles from Cynthiana, on Cynthiana and Leesburg Pike; and on this farm he is breeding a nice lot of short-horns. He is a member of the Orders of Oddfellows and Working Men, and a staunch Democrat, and his wife a member of the Christian Church at Cynthiana. Calhoon Matthews Smith = OH PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/harrison/calhoon.s.txt