Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 188.  Jefferson County.

ISAAC PALMER CALDWELL, of Louisville, one of the young member of the bar
already known to fame, and the sole representative of the well-known and
honored name of Caldwell at the bar of Louisville, is entitled to a place
in this chronicle of the legal fraternity of the state.
     Mr. Caldwell is the only son of Isaac Caldwell, the greatest lawyer
of his day at the Louisville bar, who has followed in the footsteps of
his illustrious father, giving his talents to the law.  He is the eldest
child of Isaac Caldwell and Kate (Smith) Caldwell, the latter a daughter
of Daniel Smith, and English Catholic, who emigrated from the east shore
of Maryland to Kentucky at an early day.  Born December 11, 1857, in the
city of Louisville, he is one of the native sons of the place, and has
seen it grow from a small village to one of the great centers of
population and wealth of the country.  His birthplace, on the corner of
Sixth and Chestnut streets, now the vortex of business life, and then
known as Jacob's woods.
     Reared in an atmosphere of intellectual culture and of wealth, Mr.
Caldwell has had every advantage of education, and after instruction by
private tutors he attended Seton Hall College, at South Orange, New Jersey
a Catholic academy under the presidency of Archbishop Corrigan.  He
graduated with the highest honors of his class, in 1876, delivering the
valedictory and receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later that of
Master of Arts was conferred upon him.  He studied law under the
preceptorship of his father, and at the law department of the University of
Louisville, of which he is a graduate, being the valedictorian of his class
there also.  He entered upon the practice of law in Louisville in 1883.
     On the 11th of December of the same year he was united in marriage to
Miss Jane Donald Robertson Jacob, daughter of Hon. Charles D. Jacob, four
times the mayor of Louisville and minister for the United States government
to the United States of Columbia in 1885.  Mrs. Caldwell is connected with
the oldest families of the state--the Tylers and the Taylors, of which
latter President Zachary Taylor came,--and over whose remains on the old
Taylor place, near Louisville, a monument was erected at the dedication of
which Charles D. Jacob, her father, was selected as the representative
of the Taylor family to make an oration.
          Following his marriage Mr. Caldwell was, in 1884, elected to
represent a district in the Kentucky legislature, his opponent being
Henry Clay, a brilliant young lawyer and a grandson of the "Great
Commoner."  In the session following his election he was on the committee
on banks and railroads, and was instrumental in securing the passage of an
act increasing the exemptions to mechanics and laborers, placing them upon
an equal footing with farmers and other householders.
     It was his privilege and pleasure to place in nomination for the
office of United States senator, John S. Williams, who was seeking
re-election to that high trust, and was opposed by Hon. J.C.S. Blackburn.
The contest was most exciting and bitter.
     Mr. Caldwell declined a re-election and has since held no political
office.  For several years he was interested in the building ofMiddlesboro
and engaged in the practice there, but about 1887 returned to Louisville
and as attorney for the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Kentucky, which
office he still holds, has been wholly devoted to his profession.  He
enjoys a liberal patronage and is noted for his skill in debate, for his
ability as an orator and his aptness in examination of witnesses; is quick
at repartee, sarcastic when sarcasm is needed, and has inherited the tact,
the courteous manner and the kindly nature of his father.
     Mr. Caldwell was reared in the Catholic church, while Mrs. Caldwell
is a member of and attendant at Christ Church Cathedral of the Protestant
Episcopal church.

Caldwell Smith Jacob Tyler Taylor
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