John Calvin Rawn

From "Family Albums of Harrisburg": Born in 1846 in the family home in Market Square, Mr. Rawn, a distinguished civil engineer, was a son of Charles Coatesworth Pinckney Rawn, lawyer, and Frances Clendenin Rawn. Leaving Princeton to serve in the "home guard" during the Civil War, Mr. Rawn later was graduated from that college. He was an accomplished baseball pitcher both at Princeton and Harrisburg. His brother, Major Charles C. Rawn, served in the regular Army. John Calvin Rawn married Miss Georgianna Van Ness, of Connecticut, and they had two sons, Edward Van Ness Rawn and Andrew Bryson Rawn, both of Huntingdon, West Virginia. He was once general manager of the Semet-Solvey Mining Company, of West Virginia; was associated for a time with the Pocohontas Coal and Coke Company, Roanoke, Virginia, and as engineer for the Roanoke Water Company, he constructed that city's water system. After his retirement, Mr. Rawn lived along River Road near Rockville, in a house he built and which was later occupied by his niece, Mrs. Carl W. Davis, and her family. Mr. Rawn died on October 26, 1926.