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Caldwell, William Parker

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1832, in Christmasville, Tenn. He attended the Bethel and Cumberland colleges, and graduated from the Cumberland university. He was twice a member of the Tennessee house of representatives; once a member of the Tennessee senate, and was a member of the forty-fourth and forty-fifth United States congresses. He served as a presidential elector twice, and has been a delegate to several national nominating conventions. He has had considerable experience as a judge-holding positions where the regular judges were under disabilities.

CALDWELL, WILLIAM WARREN, business man, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a druggist and a graduate of Bowdoin college. He has published poems, original and translated, and has translated many lyrics from the German.