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major-general of state volunteers, and in May, 1861, he was placed in command of the city of Baltimoi'e, and in the following month accom- panied General Patterson on his Winchester expedition as second in command. Subsequently he was commissioned major-general of U. S. volunteers, and was chosen a member of the board appointed to revise the military laws and regulations of the United States. He published Services in the Mexica)i Campaign of 1S47 (1848). He died in Pliiladelpliia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1879.

CADWALADER, John, soldier, was born in Pliiladelpliia, Pa., Jan. 10, 1742. His name ap- pears in the list of members of the Philadelphia committee of safety, 1775, where he was captain of a company of volunteers, known as the silk- stocking company, whose members afterwards, with scarcely an exception, received commis- sions in the regular army. He served for a time as colonel of the Philadelphia battalions and was then promoted brigadier-general of the Penn- sylvania militia. He was in command of one of the three divisions of "Washington's force, which crossed the Delaware in December, 1776, and was present at the attack on Trenton on Jan. 3, 1777. General Washington, writing to the presi- dent of Congress shortly after this engagement, spoke of General Cadwalader as a " man of ability, a good disciplinarian, firm in his princi- ples and of intrepid bravery." General Cad- walader was the possessor of great wealth. He twice refused a commission as brigadier-general in the regular army, and when not engaged in the field at the head of his Pennsylvania troops he served as a volunteer, or under special orders for particular service. He engaged in a duel with Thomas Conway, the leader of the " Con- way Cabal," escaped injury, but shot his antago- nist in the mouth, wounding him severely. He died at Shrewsbury, Pa., Feb. 10, 1786.

CADWALADER, John, lawyer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 1, 1805; son of Thomas and Mary (Biddle) Cadwalader. He was gradu- ated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1821, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar Sept. 20, 1825. He soon became solicitor for the United States bank and was retained by the government in the famous Blackburne " Cloth cases." He was associated with Walter Jones and Daniel Webster in the Girard will case. In 1834 he was admitted to the United States su- preme court. During the city riots in 1844 he raised and commanded a company of militia, composed of prominent Philadelphia men. In 1854 he was elected a representative to the 31th Congress, and declined a renomination. In 1858 he was appointed by President Buchanan judge of the U. S. district court of eastern Pennsyl- vania. He was made a member of the American

philosophical society in 1867, and in 1870 received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. He was twice married; first to Mary, daughter of the Hon. Horace Bin- ney, and second to Henrietta Maria, widow of Bloomfield Mcllvaine and daugliter of Charles N. Bancker, of Pliiladelphia. He died in Philadel- phia. Pa., Jan. 26, 1879.

CADWALADER, John Lambert, lawyer, was born near Trenton, N. J., Nov. 17, 1836; son of Thomas and Maria C. (Gouverneur) Cadwalader. In 1856 he was graduated an A.B. from Prince- ton, and in 1860 an LL.B. from Harvard college. He read law with Daniel Lord of New York, and in 1874 was appointed assistant secretary of state of the United States, remaining in tliis office until March 3, 1877. He then became junior member of the New York law firm of Bliss & Cadwalader, afterwards Eaton, Taylor & Cadwal- ader, and later Strong & Cadwalader.

CADWALADER, Lambert, soldier, was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1742; son of Dr. Thomas and Hannah (Lambert) Cadwalader. He was graduated from tlie University of Pennsylvania in 1760, and entered into mercantile business. In 1765 he signed the non-importation agreement, and in 1774 was made a member of the commit- tee of superintendence and correspondence for Philadelphia. In January, 1775, he was a mem- ber of the provincial convention, and at the breaking out of the revolution he was chosen captain of one of the four military companies called ' ' The Greens. ' ' He was a member of the constitutional convention which met at Pliiladel- jjliia in 1776. On November 16 of that j'ear he was among the prisoners taken at Fort Washing- ton, and with the captured garrison was marclied to New York. He was unable to procure a release, and in January', 1779, resigned from the army. In 1784 he was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress, and took his seat in Janu- ary, 1785. He was re-elected to the two suc- ceeding congresses. Upon the adoption of the constitution of the United States he was elected, in 1788, a representative from New Jersey to the 1st U. S. Congress, taking his .seat in 1789. He also served in the 3d Congress. He died at Greenwood, near Trenton, N. J., Sept. 13, 1823.

CADWALADER, Richard McCall, lawyer, was born in Trenton, N. J., Sept. 17, 1839; son. of Thomas and Maria C. (Gouverneur) Cadwala- der, grandson of Lambert and Mary (McCall) Cadwalader. He was graduated from Princeton in 1860 and from Harvard law school in 1863. The following year he was admitted to the Pliila- delpliia bar. He was married Nov. 26. 1873, to Christine, dauj^liter of .1. Williams Biddle. He is tlit> auliior of The Lair of Ground Rents (1879).