Calvin Caryl was born around 1801 in Ringe, New Hampshire, to David and Dolly Caryl. He eventually moved to Vermont, and he married Elizabeth Grover. Their son Aram was born around 1825. They lived in Plymouth, Vermont, until the 1840s, when they moved to Mount Holly, Vermont. Caryl worked as a shoemaker, and by 1860, he owned $300 of real estate and $500 of personal property.

 

His wife Elizabeth died around 1865 after falling from her chair, and he married Martha White on January 29, 1866. Martha probably died in the late 1860s, and he married Catherine Pratt on March 26, 1873. By 1870, he owned $400 of real estate and $400 of personal property. On January 11, 1879, a railroad car ran into him as he was crossing a bridge, and he was “thrown from the bridge to the bed of the river, a distance of some fifty feet.” He died “almost instantly.” As one writer noted, he was “a respected citizen, one who will be much missed in the neighborhood, as he was a quiet, inoffensive, industrious, hard-working man.”

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