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Ottawa's Founder had
Checkered Past. Isaac S. Kalloch is the son of a distinguished New England clergyman, of the Baptist faith. He was a boy of splendid promise nearly forty years ago. His father decided that he must be a clergyman, although his tastes did not incline in that direction. He was sent to Waterville college, Main, and subsequently polished off at a theological seminary. He made friends everywhere, and rapidly developed into an orator of great power. About the year 1854 he was "called" to take charge of the congregation of Tremont Temple, in Boston, the edifice which was burned the other day. It was the largest amd most important "charge" in New England. Kalloch's fame grew rapidly. Crowds were turned away on every occasion for want of standing room, but the popular and handsome young pastor suddenly fell from his height and became almost a fugitive. One evening he took a lady who was visiting his wife, and drove her to Cambridge, where he delivered a very eloquent temperance lecture. On the return to his home in Boston, he stopped with his companion at the Lechmere House, in East Cambridge. The twain went to a private room. Liquor was called for, and sent up. Then the landlord and servants peeped through the transom and saw, as they testified, the couple under circumstances not permissible to any parties out of wedlock. The story was noised abroad. There was a trial, resulting in disagreement, but Kalloch was ruined. He left the East, and has since figured in politics, law and religion in Kansas and California. Five years ago he was a candidate for Senator in Kansas against Pomeroy, but Yorke's disclosures ruined everybody's chances but Ingall's, and Kalloch packed his trunk and went West. |
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