George CALHOUN, registrar of deeds for Albert Co. died at 9 o'clock, Wednesday eve. 14th inst. ar his home, Hopewell Cape, of heart failure occasioned by pneumonia with which he was attacked the Saturday before. The funeral took place Saturday morn. He was interred at Lower Cape Cemetery. Mr. Calhoun was born at Hopewell, 28th Jan. 1814. His father, John CALHOUN, was born in the same parish. The Calhoun family came to this province from Baltimore, Maryland, leaving that country when it was under the British flag. Thomas CALHOUN, grandfather of the deceased, was the first, as long as he lived, the only magistrate in what now constitutes the County of Albert. John Calhoun married Rebecca RAND, a native of Nova Scotia, and she was the mother of 12 children of whom George was the tenth child and sixth son. He had only an ordinary common school education and was largely self educated. He farmed with his father at Hopewell Cape until he reached his majority and was subsequently a merchant and postmaster, never, however, completely abandoning agriculture and being the owner of a fine farm of 150 acres. When Albert Co. was set off from Westmorland and the county officers were appointed in 1846, he was appointed registrar of deeds. Mr. Calhoun was a member of the Baptist Church. His was married in 1838 to Lavinia PECK d/o Reuben PECK of Hopewell, by whom he had five children. John R. CALHOUN, the eldest son now living, was some years ago a lumber and woollen manufacturer at Summerside and a member of the P.E.I. legislature. He is now proprietor of the corn mill in St. John. Amelia Jane CALHOUN, one of the daughters, married Dr. BRADLEY, dentist, of Moncton. Mr. Calhoun had some interesting legal and other papers issued in the days of his grandfather and great-grandfather during the Reign of George III. Among his treasures was a letter from John C. CALHOUN (1828), then vice-president of the United States.