John Caldwell Calhoun

ID: 2804
This file appears in: County Named, 1860

John C. Calhoun, a conservative from South Carolina, often butted heads with northerner Daniel Webster and the more progressive Henry Clay from Kentucky. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: County Named, 1860

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #783 in Dixon—Webster County's county seat—remembers the nineteenth century political giant, Daniel Webster, the county's namesake. Daniel Webster made up one-third of the…