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Caldwell, Charles
physician, author, was born May 14, 1772, in Caswell county, N. C. He was a Kentucky physician, who beside publishing some 200 technical monographs and pamphlets, wrote The Life and Campaigns of General Greene, and translated Blumenbach's Elements of Physiology. He died July 9, 1853, in Louisville, Ky.
Caldwell, D. W
railroad president, was born in 1830 in Massachusetts. Since 1895 he has been president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad; and he is also president of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at Cleveland, Ohio.
Caldwell, George A
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845, and again from 1849 to 1851. He died Sept. 17, 1866, in Louisville, Ky.
Caldwell, George Chapman
educator, author, was born Aug. 14, 1834, in Framingham, Mass. He is a professor of agricultural chemistry at Cornell university, and the author of Agricultural Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice (with A. Breneman); and Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
Caldwell, Greene W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 13, 1811, in Gaston county, N. C. He served a number of years in the state legislature, and was a member of congress from North Carolina from 1841 to 1843. He was subsequently appointed superintendent of the United States mint at Charlotte, which position he resigned. He participated in the war with Mexico as volunteer captain of a company of dragoons. common
Caldwell, Henry Martyn
capitalist, was born in 1836, in Greenville, Ala.
He founded the Elyton Land company, formed with a capital of $200,000, which purchased a tract of several thousand acres in Jones valley at a railroad crossing, and laid it out in streets. Furnaces were built for smelting the iron from the neighboring hills, workmen were brought to the town, and houses, banks, and all the equipment of a center of industry were created near Birmingham, Ala.
Caldwell, James
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1813 to 1817.
Caldwell, John Curtis
soldier, diplomat, was born April 17, 1833, in Lowell, Vt. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and brevetted major-general in 1865. He was a member of the Maine senate; adjutant-general of the state in 1867; and in 1869 was United States consul at Valparaiso, Chili. From 1873 till 1882 he was minister to Uruguay and Paraguay; and in 1885, having removed to Kansas, was president of the board of pardons of that state.
Caldwell, John H
lawyer, congressman, was born in Huntsville, Ala.
He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.
Caldwell, John William
soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1838, in Russellville, Ky. He entered the confederate army in 1861, as captain, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel. In 1866 he was elected county judge of Logan county, Ky., and was reelected in 1870. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses, and declined a renomination.
Caldwell, Joseph
educator, college president, author, was born April 21, 1773, in Lamington, N. J. He was a noted educator, who was president of the university of North Carolina, and the author of A Compendious System of Elementary Geometry; and Letters of Carleton. He died Jan. 24, 1835, in Chapel Hill, N. C.
Caldwell, Joseph
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1808 in Iredell county, N. C. He entered public life in 1838, as a member of the state legislature, where he served a number of years, and was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1849 to 1853.