Cahan, Abraham – Caldwell, John H
Cahan, Abraham
journalist, author, was born in 1860 in Russia. He is a New York city journalist, and editor of Zukunft. He is the author of Yekl, a Tale of the New York Ghetto; and Raphael Narizokh (Yiddish).
Cahill, Juan F
diplomat, journalist, poet. His writings are better known throughout Spanish-America than at home; particularly through his editorials which have appeared in El Commercio del Valle, published in St. Louis, Mo., and of which he has been editor and proprietor for the past fifteen years.
Cahill, Le Roy
manufacturer, inventor, was born Aug. 22, 1841, in Portage, Mich. He converted a common plow into a riding plow. He is the owner of a large manufacturing house in Kalamazoo, president of the electric light company, and director of a number of prosperous corporations.
Cahoon, William
jurist, statesman.
He was a presidential elector in 1809; from 1815 to 1820 he was a state councilor; county judge for nine years, and lieutenant-governor of Vermont in 1820 and 1821. For seven years he was a member of the state legislature, and a representative in congress from Vermont from 1829 to 1833.
Cain, Richard H
clergyman, congressman, was born April 12, 1825, in Greenbrier county, Va. He entered the ministry at an early age and was sent as a missionary to the freedmen in South Carolina. He was chosen a member of the constitutional convention of South Carolina; was elected a member of the state senate and served two years; edited a newspaper from 1868; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Cain, William
civil engineer, author, was born in 1847 in North Carolina. He is a professor of civil engineering in the university of North Carolina, and the author of Theory of Voussoir; Solid and Braced Arches: Maximum Stress in Framed Bridges; Solid and Braced Elastic Bridges; Symbolic Algebra; and Practical Designing of Retaining Walls.
Caine, John T
statesman, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Isle of Man. He settled in Utah in 1852; engaged in various pursuits; was secretary of the legislative council in 1856-60; was a delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1872 and 1882; and served in the territorial council in 1874, 1876, 1880 and 1882. He was elected a regent of the Deseret university in 1876, 1878, 1880 and 1882; was elected recorder of Salt Lake City in 1876, and re-elected in 1878, 1880 and 1882. He was elected a delegate from Utah to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fiftysecond congresses.
Caines, George
author, was born in 1771. He was a reporter of the New York supreme court, and the author of Lex Mercatoria Americana; Cases in the Court of Errors; Forms of New York Supreme Court; Summary of Practice in New York Supreme Court; Cases in the Court for Trial of Impeachments; and New York Supreme Court Reports. He died July 10, 1825, in Catskill, N. Y.
Cairns, Charles S
lawyer, state legislator, was born July 4, 1856, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He attended Muskingum college and law department of the Michigan university. He was a member of the Minnesota legislature, and for years has taken an active part in the public affairs of the state of Minnesota, and with a view to improving the state and city governments.
Cake, Henry L
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 6, 1827, in Northumberland, Pa. He was elected brigadiergeneral of militia in 1854; on April 18, 1861, arrived in Washington in command of the first five hundred soldiers enlisted to put down the rebellion, and was quartered in the capitol twenty-four hours before any other volunteers had arrived.
Mr. Cake was twice a candidate for the state senate, and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortieth and forty-first congresses.
Calderhead, William A
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1844, in Perry county, Ohio. He enlisted in 1862 as a private in company H, one hundred and twenty-sixth Ohio infantry; was transferred to company D, ninth veteran reserves, for disability incurred in the service, and discharged June 27, 1865. In 1872 he settled on a homestead near Newton, Kan., and taught school one year in Newton. He was elected county attorney in the fall of 1888 and served two years; and was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a republican.
Caldwell, Alexander
jurist. He was for several years United States district judge for the western district of Virginia. He died April 8, 1839, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Caldwell, Alexander
soldier, congressman, was born March 1, 1830, in Huntington county, Pa. He enlisted in 1847 as a soldier in the Mexican war, entering his father's company, who was killed at one of the gates of the city of Mexico. He went in 1861 to Kansas, where he engaged in the transportation of military supplies to the various posts on the plains, and was afterward largely interested in the building of railroads and bridges. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican, and served during 1871-77.
Caldwell, Andrew J
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born at Montevallo, Ala. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. In 1870 he was elected attorney-general for the criminal district of Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., and served eight years. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.
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 Clay
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 4, 1832, in Marshall county, Va. He received his education at the schools of Iowa; became prosecuting attorney of Van Buren county, and a member of the legislature of Iowa from 1859 till 1861. He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and became major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the third regiment, Iowa volunteer cavalry. For a quarter of a century he faithfully served his country as United States district judge in Arkansas; and since 1890 has been judge of the United States circuit court of appeals for the eighth judicial circuit of Arkansas.
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
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.
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.