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Caldwell, Linus Boues – Calhoun, John Erwin

Caldwell, Linus Boues

clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 10, 1834, in Wilna, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman and educator of Tennessee, and the author of Wines of Palestine, or The Bible Defended; and Beyond the Grave.

Caldwell, Merritt

educator, author, was born Nov. 29, 1806, in Hebron, Maine. He was a professor of metaphysics at Dickinson college, and the author of The Doctrine of the English Verb; Manual of Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; and Christianity Tested by Eminent Men. He died June 6, 1848, in Portland, Maine.

Caldwell, Patrick C

congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1841 to 1843.

Caldwell, Robert P

lawyer, soldier, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1821, in Adair county, Ky. He was elected to the legislature of Tennessee in 1847, and to the senate in 1855. He was elected attorney-general in the sixteenth judicial circuit in 1858; was major of infantry in the confederate service; had his disabilities removed by act of congress, and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat, serving on the committee on revolutionary pensions.

Caldwell, Samuel Lunt

clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 13, 1820, in Newburyport, Mass. He graduated from the Newton Theological Institute in 1845, and for five years was a professor of church history in that institution. From 1878-85 he was president of Vassar college. He was the author of Cities of Our Faith and Other Discourses and Addresses. He died in 1889 in Providence, R. I.

Caldwell, Tod R

lawyer, state senator, governor, was born in 1818 in Morganton, N. C. He served in the state legislature from 1842 to 1844; was a state senator in 1850; lieutenant-governor in 1868, and in 1872 was elected governor of the state. He died July 11, 1874, in Hillsborough, N. C.

Calef, Robert

merchant, author, was born in 1648 in Massachusetts. He was a Boston merchant who published in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World, a satirical reply to Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World. Its line of argument was in direct opposition to the witchcraft persecutions, and the book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the grounds of Harvard college.

He died in 1719.

Calhoun, Edmund Rose

naval officer, was born May 6, 1821, in Chambersburg, Pa. He was appointed midshipman in 1869; was promoted commodore in 1876; and rear-admiral in 1882. His final services were performed as commandant of the Mare Island navy yard, and as inpector of vessels on the California coast.

Calhoun, James Edward

capitalist, soldier, was born in 1798, in Abbeville, S. C. He became occupied with planting and interests in land, and accumulated a very large estate, amounting to something like 25,000 acres in Abbeville county, S. C., and Washington county, Ga., extending on both sides of the Savannah river.

Calhoun, James S

governor, was born in Georgia. In 1851 he was appointed the first governor of the territory of New Mexico.

Calhoun, John

jurist, congressman, was born in Kentucky. For many years he was a circuit judge; in 1820 and 1821 was a member of the legislature from Ohio county, and in 1829, 1830, and 1840, a member of the same from Breckenridge county. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1835 to 1839. The county-seat of McLean county was named for him in 1852.

Calhoun, John Erwin

lawyer,.

United States senator, was born in 1749.

He was for many years in the state legis-- lature of South Carolina, and was a senator in congress from South Carolina from 1801 to 1802. He was a member of the committee which was instructed to report a modification of the judiciary system of the United States. He died Nov. 3, 1802, in Pendleton District, S. C.