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Amy Swan Calderwood

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  • This 1941 image of Amy Swan Calderwood (1876-1965) was taken at the home of Dr. Dan and Anne Dunbar Bryson and is part of the Stearns-Grueninger Collection. Amy Swan married Alcoa engineer Isaac Glidden Calderwood (1870-1941), the namesake of the Calderood Dam in Tennessee.. Irving Kip Stearns (1895-1942) was president of Carolina Wood Turning Company from 1928 until his death in 1942. Stearns’ grandfather, Jeremiah Shank, started the company in 1903 as Bryson City Pump Works and it grew to be a thriving industry for the community. In 1911, Stearns was in the first graduating class of Bryson City High School. He had one son, Joseph Pease Stearns (1917-1948). In 1935, I. K. married Betty Grueninger (1896-1971).