Dr. Milburn Calhoun, native and owner of West Monroe Pelican Publishing in New Orleans, died Jan. 7 following a long illness. The service was held at West Monroe and New Orleans with burial in the cemetery of Sibley in Choudrant.
Calhoun 1947 graduated from Ouachita parish high school and attended Northeastern Junior College, LSU and LSU School of Medicine. After an internship at New Orleans charity hospital, he practised Medicine Buras for nine years, interrupted by two years in the United States air force, and then practiced medicine in Nicholson, Baehr,
A lifelong Bibliophile, Calhoun founded Bayou book, old, rare and out-of-print book dealers who specialize in Louisiana and South of the subject, and in 1961, opened a bookstore Gretna with the same name. In 1970, he and family members obtain Pelican Publishing Company, New Orleans book publishing company they moved to Gretna.