Mezue ahịrịokwu a: Mgbe Simonds nwụsịrị na 1905, o mere ka ụlọ ahụ ghọọ họtel mara mma. Afọ abụọ ka e mesịrị, ọ lụrụ Barker Gummere, onye bụkwa onye ọrụ ego. Daisy kpọọrọ nwa ya nwanyị dị afọ iri na abụọ gaa biri na New Jersey n'ụlọ a na-akpọ Rosedale, nke ya onwe ya kwa haziri. N'ebe ahụ, ọ nabatara ndị ama ama dịka Woodrow Wilson. Barker nwụrụ na 1914, Daisy lekọtakwara mgbanwe e mere ụlọ ahụ ịbụ ụlọ akwụkwọ ụmụ nwanyị. O mechara kwaga Washington, D.C. Di ya nke atọ, Clarence Crittenden Calhoun, bụ ọkàiwu bara ọgaranya si Kentucky. Di na nwunye ahụ lụrụ na 1918. Daisy gara nzukọ ahụ.
1920 Democratic National Convention, nke kpaliri ya ịtọlite òtù na-ahụ maka ikike ụmụ nwanyị. Di ya kwụrụ ụgwọ maka owuwu nke Rossdhu Castle, nnukwu ụlọ dị nso na Beach Drive na Washington, nke Daisy Calhoun mere. Ọ mara mma nke ukwuu, ma a manyere ezinụlọ ahụ ịkwaga n'ụlọ ọnụ ụzọ ahụ na mmalite nke Oké Ndakpọ Akụ na 1929. O guzobekwara Women's National Foundation (nke a gbahapụrụ mgbe afọ ole na ole gasịrị) na Women's Universal Alliance (na February 1922), nke ikpeazụ n'ime ha mere ọgbakọ World Welfare Conference na 1923.