Caldwell, John
soldier, was born in Prince Edward county, Va. He removed to Kentucky in 1781, served in the conflicts with the Indians, and became a major-general of militia. He was a member of the Kentucky state conventions of 1787 and 1788, and of the state senate in 1792 and 1793. He died Nov. 9, 1804, in Frankfort, Ky.
CALDWELL, JOHN ALEXANDER, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 21, 1852, in Fair Haven, Ohio. In 1881-85 he served as prosecuting attorney of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was elected judge of the police court in 1887. He has been president of the Ohio republican league, and chairman of the national republican congressional committee. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a republican, and in 1894 resigned to become mayor of Cincinnati.