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 HERRINGSHAW'S LIBRART OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. afterward largely interested in the building of railroads and bridges. In 1871-75 he was United States senator. He was president of Kansas manufacturing company in 1877-97; and since then president of the First national bank of Leavenworth, Kan. Caldwell, Andrew J., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born at Montevallo, Ala. He served in the confederate army throughout the civil war. In 1870-78 he was attorneygeneral for the criminal district of Nashville and Murfreesboro, Tenn. In 1883-84 he was representative from Tennessee to the fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat.

Caldwell, Augustine, clergyman, antiquarwas born Jan. 23, 1836. He is the author of Memories of Major Soule;

ian, author,

The Caldwell Records; The Caldwell Chronicles; and Ipswich Antiquarian Papers. Caldwell, Ben Franklin, business man, banker, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1848, in Greene county. 111. He was educated in the public schools of his native state; and graduated from the high school of Chatham, 111. For four years he was a representative in the Illinois state legislature and was a, member of the Illinois state senate for four years. In 1899-1905 and 1907-09 he was a member of the fifty-

a representative from Kentucky to the twenty-eighth and thirty-first congresses. 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 chemistry at Cornell university. He is the author of Agricultural Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis; and Manual of Qualitative and Quantitative Chemical Analysis. He died in 1907, in Ithaca, N.Y. Caldwell, Greene Washington, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born April 13, 1811, in

Gaston county, N.C. He served a number

of years in the North Carolina state legislature; in 1841-43 he was a representative from North Carolina to the twenty-seventh congress. 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. He died in Charlotte, N.C. Caldwell, Henry Clay, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 4, 1832, in Marshall coimty, Va. He was prosecuting attorney of Van

Buren county, Iowa; and was a member of



the state legislature of Iowa in 1859-61. He served as a union soldier during the civil

and sixtieth congresses from Hlinois; and has filled various other positions of trust and honor. He is a successful banker and real estate dealer. Caldwell, Charles, physician, author, was bom May 14, 1772, in Caswell county, N.C. He published some two hundred technical sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth

monographs and pamphlets; was the author of The Life and Campaigns of General Greene; and translated Blumenbaeh's Elements of Physiology. He died July 9, 1853, in Louisville,

Ky.

Henry Bromedge, naval was born June 11, 1823, in Hingham, Mass. He became captain in 1867; chief of staft' of the North Atlantic fleet in 1870; and commodore in 1874. He died Nov. 30, 1877, in Waltham, Mass. Caldwell, Charles

officer,

Caldwell, David, clergyman, was born March 22, 1725, in Lancaster county. Pa. He was an earnest patriot in the revolutionary war. Cornwallis offered one thousand dollars to any one who should bring him into camp; but all efforts to take him were unsuccessful. In 1776 he was a member of the state constitutional convention. He died Aug. 25, 1824, in North Carolina. Caldwell, Eugene Wilson, physician, au-

was born in 1870 in SavanMo. In 1893-95 he was engaged in experiments in wireless telephony for the United States light house establishment. Since 1897 he has devoted much of his time to experimental work with Eoentgen rays. He is the inventor of many appliances used with Eoentgen rays. He is part author of The Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and DiagnosCaldwell, George A., congressman, was born in Kentucky. In 1843-45 and 1849-51 he was thor, inventor,

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war; and became malieutenant-colonel, the colonel of third regiment Iowa volunteer cavalry. For a quarer of a century

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he was 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, founder, was born in 1836 in Greeneville, Ala. He founded the Elyton land company, formed with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars; purchased a tract of several thousand acres in Jones valley at a railroad crossing; and laid it out in streets. Furnaces v^ere 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, Howard Walter, educator, author, was born Aug. 26, 1858, in Bryan, Ohio. Since 1893 he has been professor of American history and jurisprudence at the university of Nebraska. He is the author of History of the United States, 1815-61; Studies in History; A Survey of American History; Some Great American Legislators; Life of rlenry Clay and Expansion of the United

States.

Caldwell, James, clergyman, was born in 1734, in Charlotte county, Va. As chaplain in the New Jersey brigade he soon earned the nickname of the soldier parson. April,