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 CADWALADER.

CADY.

CADWALADER, Thomas, physician, was born in Piiiladelphia, Pa., in 1708; son of John and Martha (Jones) Cadwalader. His father emigrated from Pembrokeshire, Wales, to Phila- delphia, towards the close of the seventeenth century. He was educated at the Friends" public school, in Philadelphia, and began the study of medicine with his uncle, Evan Jones. He then went to London, England, where he studied for his profession, returning in 1731. During the winter of 1736-'37 he inoculated for smallpox. In 1745 he published his essay on the " West Ind'es Dry Gripes,"' one of the first medical essays pviblislied in America. On June 18, 1738, he was married to Hannah, daughter of Thomas Lambert of New Jersey, and settled at Trenton, N. J. In 1746 he was chosen first burgess of the new city of Trenton. He returned to Philadel- phia in 1751, was elected a member of the conamon council, and served rmtil 1774, also serv- ing from 1755 in the provincial council. He subscribed to the capital stock of the Pennsyl- vania hospital in 1751, and was one of the original physicians of the institution. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia library company, and a director periodically from 1731 to 1774; a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania from 1751 to 1779, and a member of the philosophical society and the society for promoting useful knowledge. He gave a course of lectures in the medical college of Philadelphia, of which insti- tution he was elected a trustee in 1765. He was a signer of the non-importation articles. In Jul}', 1776, he was appointed by the committee of safety to examine candidates for positions as surgeons in the navy, at the same time was made a medical director of the army hospitals, and in 1778 succeeded the elder Dr. William Shippen, as surgeon of the Pennsylvania hospital. He died at his farm, " Greenwood," near Trenton, N. J., Nov. 14, 1799.

CADWALADER, Thomas, soldier, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 28, 1779; son of Gen. John and Williamina (Bond) Cadwalader. He was graduated from the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1795, and was admitted to the bar. In April, 1799, as a private in a troop of cavalry, he aided in capturing the ringleaders of an insur- rection in Pennsylvania, which grew out of a resistance to the enforcement of a law levying a whiskey tax. In the war of 1812 he was a lieu- tenant-colonel of cavalry and was later placed in command of an advanced light brigade. He was afterwards major-general of Pennsylvania militia. He was offered by President Monroe the position of minister to the court of St. James, but declined the mission. In 1826 he was made one of three commissioners to revise the tactics of the U. S. army. From 1816 to 1836 he was a trustee of

the University of Pennsylvania. He was mar- ried, June 25, 1804, to Mary, daughter of Col. Clement Biddle. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 31, 1841.

CADWALADER, Thomas, soldier, was born at Greenwood, near Trenton, N. J., Sept. 11, 1795; son of Lambert and Mary (McCall) Cadwalader. He was graduated at Princeton in 1815, and stud- ied law but did not practise. He was appointed, June 2, 1830, dejiuty adjutant -general in a bri- gade of the New Jersey militia, and on April 10, 1833, lieutenant -colonel and aid-de-camp to Governor Seeley. On July 30, 1842, he was com- missioned brigadier -general and made adjutant- genei'al of New Jersey. In 1856 he was sent by the governor to Europe, to report on the fire- arms in iise in the European countries. In March, 1858, he was brevetted major-general by the legislature. He was married, Dec. 27, 1831, to Maria C, daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur. He died at Greenwood, N. J., Oct. 22, 1873.

CADY, Albemarle, soldier, was born in Keene, N. H., Feb. 15, 1807. He was graduated at West Point in 1829, and was engaged in frontier and engineering duty until 1838, when he was ordered to service in the Florida war. In the Mexican war he was at the siege of Vera Cruz, and in the battles of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco and Molino del Rey, being wounded in the latter engagement, and receiving the brevet of major for liis gal- lantry. He participated in the action against the Sioux Indians at Blue Water, Dakota, in 1855, and in 1857 was promoted major. He was on duty on the Pacific coast during the early years of the civil war, and was placed on the retired list in May, 1864, although on duty in New Haven, Conn., until November, 1865. He was brevetted brigadier-general March 18, 1865, for long and faithful service, and died in New Haven. Conn., March 14, 1888.

CADY, DanieL jurist, was born in Canaan, Columbia county, N. Y., April 29, 1773; son of Eleazer Cady, a farmer. He was educated at the town school and academy, was admitted to the bar in 1795, and began practising law at Florida, Montgomery county, but soon removed to Johnstown, Fulton county. In jjolitics he was a Federalist. He was elected to the New York state assembly in 1809 and was re-elected a num- ber of times. In 1814 he was elected a represen- tative to the 14th Congress. He was in active practice for over fifty-five years. He was elected a judge of the New York supreme court in 1847, was re-elected in 1849, and during that year was ex-officio a judge of the court of appeals. He re- signed from the bench in 1855, being eighty -two years old. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Hamilton college in 1834. On July 8, 1801, he married Margaret Chinn, daughter of