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During an engagement he supplied the men with hymn-books from a neighboring church to use as wadding, with the exhortation, Now put Watts into them, boys! He was shot by an American sentry during an altercation concerning a package, which the sentry thought it his duty to examine. A handsome monument commemorating the life and services of Mr. Caldwell and his wife was erected at Elizabethtown in 1846, on the sixty-fourth anniversary of his untimely death. He died Nov. 24, 1781, in Elizabethtown, N.J. Caldwell, James, congressman. In 1813-17 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirteenth and fourteenth congresses as a democrat.

He

died in Ohio.

Caldwell, James Louis, soldier, merchant, banker, railroad president, was born May 20, 1846, in Wood county Va., now Wirt county,

W.Va. In 1863 he

en-

the union army served until the end of the civil war; and participated in nvimerous battles and skirmishes. Until 1887 he was engaged in the mercantile and timber business. In 1884 he organized the First national bank; organized the Huntington street railway and built the first electric railway in the United States. He organized and built the Guyandotte valley railroad. He is president of the First national bank of Huntington, W.Va.; president of the Guyandotte valley railroad and president of the Consolidated light and railway company. In 1904 he was delegateat-large from West Virginia to the republican national convention; and was a, member of the committee to notify President Roosein

listed



as a republican; and in 1894 resigned to b come mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Caldwell, John Curtis, soldier, diploma was born April 17, 1833, in Lowell, Vt. 1 was made brigadier-general of volunteers i

and was brevetted major-general 1865. He was a member of the Maine stal 1862

i

senate; was adjutant -general of the state 1867; and in 1869 was United States consi at Valparaiso, Chili. In 1873-82 he was mii ister to Uruguay and Paraguay; and in 188 having removed to Kansas, was president ( the board of pardons of that state. Caldwell, John H., lawyer, oongressmai was born in Huntsville, Ala. In 1858-59 1 was a member of the state legislature c i

Alabama; and in 1859-64 was solicitor fc the tenth judicial circuit. In 1873-77 he wa a representative from Alabama to the fortj third and forty-fourth congresses as a demc crat.

Caldwell, John Merrill, soldier, clergymai theologian, was born Aug. 29, 1839, in Rock land, Maine; and is a son of Rev. Asbur Caldwell. In 1862 h

graduated from Wea leyan university. H entered into the unio:

army, but was disa bled after only a fe

months



velt.

Caldwell, John, soldier, state senator, 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 a member of the state senate in 1792-93. He died Nov. 9, 1804, in Frank;

fort,

Ky.

of service.

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has served as pasto of churches in Kenne

bunk and

in Hallowell

Maine in Dubuque Iowa and Princeton Rockford and Joliet 111.; and at the Ads Western avenue, Oakland avenue Park avenue and Park avenui



street.

South

churches in Chicago, 111. He has also beei presiding elder of the Joliet and the Chlca go western district of the methodist episco pal church. He has also been principal of thi

Rock River seminary of Illinois. Caldwell, John William, soldier, congress man, was born Jan. 15, 1838, in Rus«ellville Ky. He entered the confederate army ii 186] as captain; and attained the rank o: colonel. In 1866-74 he was county judge o: Logan county, Ky. In 1877-83 he was a rep resentative from Kentucky to the forty-fifth forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses.

Caldwell, John, soldier, was born in Vermont. He served in the light dragoons in 1813-14 United States army; and was honorably discharged in 1815.

Caldwell, Joseph, educator, college presi dent, author, was born April 21, 1773, ii Lamington, N.J. He was president of th( university of North Carolina. He was th( author of Compendious System of Elemen

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. In 1889-93 he was a representative from Ohio

tary Geometry; and Letters of Carleton. H( died Jan. 24, 1835, in Chapel Hill, N.C. Caldwell, Joseph Pearson, lawyer, con gressman, was born in 1808 in Iredell county N.C. In 1838 he became a member of th( North Carolina state legislature, where h< served a number of years. In 1849-53 he wai a representative from North Carolina to thi thirty-first and thirty-second congresses. H(

to the fifty-first

and fifty-second congresses

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died Jan.

3,

1853, in

North Carolina.