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 CALDWELL.

CALDWELL.

Lincoln district judge for the district of Arkansas. On March 4, 1890. he was appointed by President Harrison circuit judge for the eighth circuit, to succeed Judge David J. Brewer. He received the degree of LL.D. from Little Rock university, Little Eock, Ark.

CALDWELL, James, clergyman, was born in Charlotte county, Va., in Ajiril, 1734; was gradu- ated from the College of New Jersey in 1759, and in 1762 assumed the pastorate of a church at Elizabethtown, N. J. He made many enemies by his advocacy of the cause of independence, and during the revolution earned the sobriquet of the " soldier parson," while acting as chaplain of the New Jersey brigade. In 1780 his church and house were burned by Tories, and his family fled to Connecticut Farms, N. J., where his wife was Jdlled by a stray bullet, during a sortie made by British trooj^s from Staten Island, N. Y. In 1780 he successfully defended Springfield, N. J., against an attack by the British. He met his death at the hands of an American sentry, dur- ing a dispute, and his murderer was delivered to the civil authorities and hanged in 1782. His son, John E. Caldwell, was educated- in France by General Lafayette. In 1846 a monument was erected to Mr. Caldwell and his wife in Elizabeth- town, N. J. He died Nov. 24, 1781.

CALDWELL, John, politician, was born in Prince Edward coiuity, Va. He went to Nelson county, Ky., in 1781, where he became jiromi- nent in state politics. He attained the rank of major-general during the Indian troubles in Ken- tucky. In 1787, '88, '89 he was elected to the state conventions at Danville. In 1792 he was a member of the Kentucky senate under the first constitution, and served a second term in 1793. In August, 1804, he was elected lieutenant- governor of Kentucky. He had six sons, two of whom, Anthony and William, fought in the siege of Yorktown. He died while presiding over the senate in Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 9, 1804.

CALDWELL, John A., representative, was born at Fair Haven, Preble county, Ohio, April 21, 1853; son of Alexander and Sarah Caldwell. His education was acquired in the common schools, and at the age of seventeen he began to teach school. In 1871 he went to Cincinnati, and, after teaching for three years in Mill Creek township, began the study of law. In 1876 he was graduated from the Cincinnati law school, and after teaching for another year he entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1881 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the city, and re elected in 1883. In 1887 he was elected city judge, and in the succeeding year president of the Ohio Republican league. He was a repre- sentative in the 51st, 52d and 53d congresses. He was chairman of the Republican congressional

committee in 1892. He resigned his seat in Con- gress to accept the mayoralty of Cincinnati, assuming this office May 4, 1894, for the term expiring June 30, 1897. He is the author of the anti-lottery bill.

CALDWELL, John Curtis, diplomatist, was born in Lowell, Vt., April 17, 1833; son of George Morrison and Betsey (Curtis) Caldwell. He was graduated at Amherst in 1855, and became princi- pal of Washington academy. East Machias, Me. In October, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 11th Maine volunteers, and was promoted brigadier- general of volunteers in April, 1862. He served in the Army of the Potomac from its organization until the last year of the war, when he was president of the advisory board of the war department. He sat for a term in the Maine senate, and from 1867 to 1869 served as adjutant-general of the state. In 1869 President Grant made him consul to Valparaiso, Chili, and in 1874 United States minister to Montevideo, Uruguay. He returned to the United States in 1882, and subsequently removed to Kansas, where, in 1885, he was appointed president of the board of pardons of that state.

CALDWELL, Joseph, educator, was born at Lammington, N. J., Ajjril 21, 1773; son of Joseph and Rachel (Harker) Caldwell. He was gradu- ated from the College of New Jersey in 1791 ; in 1795 was tutor at Princeton, and in 1796 was elected professor of mathematics in the Uni- versity of North Cai'olina, of which institution he became president in 1804. In 1812 he resigned the office and returned to tlie chair of mathe- matics, but on the resignation of his succe.ssor in 1816 he again became president. In 1824 he was .sent to Europe by the trustees of the uni- versity for the purpose of purchasing books and apparatus. In 1827 he built an astronomical observatory at the university, the first in the United States. In 1816 the college of New Jersey and the University of North Carolina conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He is the author of a Coin2:)endious Si/stem of EJemevtanj Geom- etry (1822). He died at Chapel Hill, N. C, Jan. 27, 1835.

CALDWELL, Lisle Bones, educator, was born in Wilna, N. Y., J;iii. 10. 1834. He was gradu- ated at Baldwin universit}', Berea, Oliio, in 1868. Wiiile engaged in teaching he studied theology and spent some years in preaching in various Methodist Episcopal churches. From 1877 to 1886 he occupied the cliair of natural sciences and physics in the east Tennessee Wesleyan univer- sity, and from 1886 to 1894 was professor of ap- plied clieinistry and agriculture in theU.S Grant university, Atliens, Tenn. He published : Wines of Palestine: or, the Bible Def elided (1859), and Beyond the Grave (1884).