Peter Calvert I

Peter James Calvert, Sr was born on December 14, 1894 in New York City to Elijah and Carla Fanning Calvert. His parents were both born in Maryland, and his father became a businessman in New York.

Peter went to college in New York before deciding to serve his country during the First World War. He was sent to France, where he saw combat. In college, he met the woman he married in 1919, Nancy O'Riley. They moved to Boston shortly after marrying, so that he could attend Harvard Law School. They returned to New York when he graduated, and Peter got a job at a law firm. After the stock market crash of 1929, that law firm went out of business, and Peter was unable to find a job.

In 1930, Peter, too proud to move back in with his parents, sent a letter to his cousin Cecil Calvert III, who lived in Glen Arm, Maryland with his two brothers Nick and Spencer. Cecil invited Peter to move in with him. Peter accepted Cecil's offer, a decision that was not popular with Nancy. Soon, Peter discovered that his cousins were bootlegging moonshine, and eventually they became wrapped up in dealings with Gambino Crime Family. Peter was worried that if they were caught, he would be associated and would lose his law degree. In 1933, Cecil and his brothers fell out with the Gambinos. Peter was out having dinner with his family when a Gambino gangster tried to kidnap him. The family escaped and went back home where they saw police cars outside the house. Peter turned around, and the family caught a plane to San Francisco. Peter later discovered that the Gambinos killed Cecil, and sold Nick and Spencer out to the liquor agents. Nick and Spencer were arrested and later served time in prison.

Peter, with nothing to call his own, had to start over. He got a job as a waiter for a couple years before finding work as a lawyer in San Francisco. He retired as a lawyer in 1960. He devoted his time to planning for nuclear catastrophe. This planning worked out, as he was able to save his entire family when war did break out in October of 1962.