BIO: Calvin COULSON, Cumberland County, PA
  
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 127-128
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      CALVIN COULSON, in his lifetime an industrious farmer of South Middleton 
    township, was the son of William Coulson, who located in Cumberland 
    county about thirty-five years ago.
  
  128  CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
  
      William Coulson was born in York county, Pa., but came to Cumberland 
    county, and engaged in farming. He died at the age of sixty-five years 
    upon the same farm in South Middleton on which he made his first home 
    upon coming, to the county. He was greatly respected for his many 
    excellent qualities, many of which were inherited by his son, the late 
    Calvin Coulson. He was the father of the following children: Calvin; 
    Sarah J., married; Margaret, married; Louisa, married; Catherine R., 
    married; Alexandria, married; Jacob C., married; Levi S., married; Ira 
    J., married; and Anna May, married.
      Calvin Coulson was born in York county, Pa., and was brought to South 
    Middleton township by his father, working with him until his marriage. 
    On Aug. 6, 1876, he married Rachel A. Johnson, daughter of William and 
    Rebecca Johnson. After their marriage the young people lived upon the 
    Coulson farm, and then, after six years, they went West, settling in 
    Kansas with the intention of farming, but after six months they returned 
    to Cumberland county, and in 1889, Mr. Calvin Coulson bought the old 
    Sheaffer farm consisting of forty-nine acres, in South Middleton 
    township. Upon this property he and his wife located, and lived very 
    happily until his demise at his home in 1901. He left his widow and one 
    child, Mima, now attending school, a very bright and charming girl.
      Mr. Coulson was a man of great energy, a hard worker, and a man 
    universally respected. He died in the prime of life, and is deeply 
    lamented by many outside his home circle.