Caldwell, John Merrill – Calkins, Franklin Welles
Caldwell, John Merrill
soldier, clergyman, was born Aug. 29, 1839, in Rockland, Maine. He entered the union army in 1861, but was disabled after a few months of service. He joined the Rock River conference and served as principal of the Rock River seminary. In 1869 he went to the Princeton church, and since then he has been in charge of several prominent churches, among them the Ada Street and Western Avenue churches of Chicago. He is the presiding elder of the Chicago western district of the methodist episcopal church.
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.
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.
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.
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 Caldwell
vicepresident of the United States, author, was born March 18, 1782, in Abbeville District, S. C. He was a South Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again under Ty-- ler; vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States senator from: 1845 till his death.
He was one of the ablest of political leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first. rank. His literary style is both vigorous and concise, and displays at times a remarkable intensity of expression. He was the author of A Disquisition on Government; and The Constitution and Government of the United States. He died March 31, 1850, in Washington, D. C.
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.
Calhoun, Joseph
congressman, was a representative in Congress, from South Carolina, from 1807 to 1811.
Calhoun, Patrick
financier, was born March 21, 1856, in Fort Hill, S. C.
In 1889 he was appointed general counsel for the Terminal company, and the Railroad company of Atlanta, Ga.; and soon. after became its president.
Calhoun, William Barron
law-- yer, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1796, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature from 1825 to 1835,. and speaker for two years. He was a representative in congress, from his native state, from 1835 to 1843; president of the state senate in 1846 and 1847; sec-- retary of state from 1848 to 1851; bank commissioner from 1853 to 1855; presidential elector in 1844; and mayor of Spring-- field in 1859. He died Nov. 8, 1865, in Springfield, Mass.
Calkin, H. C
merchant, congress-- man, was born March 23, 1828, in Malden, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress.
Calkins, Franklin Welles
author, was born June 5, 1855, in Iowa county, Wis. He attended the Iowa Agricultural college in 1876;. taught school and read law for the succeeding three years.
In 1880 he began contributing stories of adventure and sketches of western life and character in the Youth's Companion and other prominent publications.
He is the author of work entitled Tales of the West, in three volumes; and more than three hundred of his serials and short stories have been published.
His power of vivid narration is conceded by the critics to be of the highest order of talent, and his stories are valuable for their lifelikeness and their truthfulness. to character and environment. a