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CALDWELL.

CALDWELL, Alexander, senator, was born in Huntington county. Pa., March 1, 1830; son of Captain James Caldwell. At the age of fifteen he entered into business and in 1847 at the out- break of the Mexican war he enlisted in a com- pany raised and commanded by his father. In 1861 he removed to Leavenworth, Kansas, and in 1865 he helped in forwarding the construction of the Missouri river and the Kansas central railroads. In 1870 he was elected to the United Statfes senate, and served, 1871-'73. He was a manufacturer, 1877-'97, and president of the First national bank of Leavenwortli from 1897.

CALDWELL, Ben Franklin, representative, was born in Greene county. 111.. Aug. 3, iy48 ; son of John Caldwell. He was educated in the public schools and in 1853 removed to Sangamon county, and subsequently engaged in farming. He was married. May 27, 1873. to Julia F. Cloyd. He served four terms in botli branches of the Illinois legislature ; became president of the State bank at Cliatham, and was elected a representative in the 56th, 57th and 5Sth congresses as a Democrat.

CALDWELL, Charles, physician, was born in Caswell Count}', N. C, May 14, 1772. He gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania M.D. 1793. was brigade surgeon under Lee 1791-"94. and pro- fessor of materia medica in Transylvania Uni- versity in 1819. He edited the Port-Folio in 1814, and CuUin's Practice of Physic 1816. and is the author of Life and Camj^aigns of General Greene (1819); Memoirs of Horace Holley (1828). He died in Louisville, Ky., July 9, 1853.

CALDWELL, Charles Henry Bromedge, naval officer, was born in Hingham, Mass., June 11, 1823. He entered the navy in 1838 as a mid- shipman, was promoted master in 1851 and lieutenant in 1852. He defeated a tribe of canni- bals in an engagement at Wega Fiji, in October, 1858, and burned their town. He was actively and conspicuously engaged in the civil war, distinguishing himself at the bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. He participated in the action at Grand Gulf in June, 1862, was in command of the Essex of the Mississippi squadron in 1862-'63, taking part in the Port Hudson operations of the latter year. He com- manded the Glaucus of the North Atlantic blockading squadron from 1863 to 1864, and the R. R. Cuyler of the same squadron from 1864 to 1865. He reached, by regular promotion, the rank of commodore, June 14, 1874. He died in Waltham, Mass., Nov. 30, 1877.

CALDWELL, David, educator, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., March 22, 1725. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1761, and in 1763 was licensed to preach by the New Bruns^vick presbytery. He was ordained at Trenton, N. J., in 1765, and went as a mis-

sionary to North Carolina, holding pastorates in Alamance county, besides practising medicine and conducting a private classical school for fifty years. He was a member of the state con- stitutional convention that met at Halifax in 1776. He opposed the adoption of the Federal constitution in the convention called to ratify it. During the revolutionary war, Cornwallis offered a large reward for his capture, and allowed the troops to loot his plantation, burn his books, and destroy his property. He was offered the presi- dency of the University of North Cai'olina on its fovmdation in 1791, but declined the office. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by the University of North Carolina in 1810. In 1812 in a sermon at the Alamance court house, when he was eighty -seven years old, he urged the duty of self-defence and the enlistment of volunteers to carry on the war with England. See bio- graphy by E. W. Caruthers, D.D. (1842). He died Aug. 25, 1824.

CALDWELL, George Chapman, chemist, was born at Framingham, Mass., Aug. 14, 1834. He was graduated at the Lawrence scientific school. Harvard, in 1855, and from Gottingen university, with the degree of Ph.D., in 1856. Soon after his return to the United vStates he became assist- ant in chemistry at Columbia college. During 1859-'62 he was professor of chemistry and phys- ics at Antioch college, Ohio, and from 1862 to 1864, hospital visitor of the U. S. sanitary com- mission. He was professor of chemistry in the Pennsylvania agricultural college, 1864-'67 ; vice- president of the college. 1867-'68, and in the latter year professor of agricultural and analyti- cal chemistry at Cornell university. He was one of the founders of the Society for the promotion of agricultural science, president of the Associa- tion of official agricultural chemists, and presi- dent of tlie American chemical society. Besides his reports and special papers he published: Agncultnral Qualitative and Quantitative Chemi- cal Analysis (1869) ; A Manual of Introduc- tory Chemical Practice, with A. A. Breneman (1875) : A Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, with S. M. Babcock (1882). and Ele- .ments of Qualitative and Quantitative ('hnin'cal Analysis (1892).

CALDWELL, Henry Clay, lawyer, was born in Marshall coimty, Va., Sept. 4, 1832; son of Van and Susan Caldwell. In 1836 his parents removed to Wisconsin territory, where he gained admission to the bar in 1852 ; in 1856 was elected prosecuting attorney of the district, and in 1858 was sent to the state legislature. In 1861 he joined the Union army and was commissioned major, and afterwards promoted lieutenant- colonel and colonel of the 3d Iowa cavalry. In June, 1864, he was appointed by President