Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 
1887, Boyle Co.

CHARLES CALDWELL.  The name of Caldwell is an honorable one in American
annals.  No family made a brighter record for patriotism and bravery
during the war of the Revolution and in the trying pioneer times, when 
the States were coming into shape on new soil.  From Rhode Island to 
Florida and as far west as Texas, this family extends to-day, growing 
out of the parent stock described in this sketch.  Stanch defenders of 
Presbyterianism they have been friends of education, influential in 
politics and useful members of society.  The earliest record of the 
Caldwell family relates to three brothers, John, Alexander and Oliver, 
who were seamen on the Mediterranean in the latter part of the 
fourteenth century under two men named Barbarossa.  The influence of 
the latter was ended by the governor of Aran, after about twenty years, 
and those connected with them scattered over the world.  The three 
brothers returned to Toulon, in France,  where they had been born, and 
settled near by, at Mount Arid.  Earning the enmity of Francis I, of 
France, after his escape from imprisonment under Charles V, of Germany, 
the brothers were again forced to change their location.  Going to 
Scotland they purchased, near Solway Firth, the estate of a bishop 
named Douglass, with the consent of James I, on condition that the said 
brothers, John, Alexander and Oliver, late of Mount Arid, should have 
their estate known as "Cauldwell," and when the king should require 
they should each send a son with twenty men of sound limbs to aid in 
the wars of the king.  An heirloom is a cup, from which it is seen that 
the estate took its name from a watering-place.  The cup represents a 
chieftain and twenty mounted men, all armed, and a fire burning on a 
hill over the words "Mount Arid," and a vessel surrounded by high waves.
Joseph, John Alexander, Daniel, David and Andrew, of Cauldwell, went 
with Oliver Cromwell (whose grand-mother was Ann of Cauldwell) to 
Ireland, of which he was the lord governor.  After his promotion to the 
protectorate of England they remained in his interest in Ireland until 
the restoration of Charles II, when John, David and Andrew fled to 
America.  Joseph died in Ireland and Daniel continued there, but 
several of their children immigrated to America, settling on James 
River, Va., and elsewhere.  Another account renders it improbable that 
the last John, mentioned above, came to America.  His son, John 
Caldwell (as the name had come to be spelled), married Margaret
Phillips in County Derry, Ireland, where several children were born to
them.  December 10, 1727, they landed at Newcastle, Del., going thence
to Lancaster County, Penn., and about 1742 in Lunenburg (now Charlotte)
County, Va.  Here they were joined by relatives, forming what was known
as the "Caldwell Settlement" for many years.  John Caldwell was the 
first justice of the peace, and his son, William, the first militia 
officer commissioned by George II for that section.  He died and was 
buried by the side of his wife in 1750. Their children were William, 
Thomas, David, Margaret, John, Robert and James.  Each of these men 
contributed some things to American history.  James Caldwell, D.D., the
seventh child, one of the founders of Princeton College, was murdered 
by British soldiers at Elizabethtown, N.J., and his descendants 
received, by way of pensions, clerkships at Washington for many years.  
Two of his sons led in founding the Liberia colonization scheme, and 
gave name to Caldwell, Liberia.  Martha, daughter of William Caldwell, 
became the mother of John Caldwell Calhoun, the statesman.  The whole 
family was distinguished for patriotism during the war of the 
Revolution.  One son, John, died while lieutenant-governor; was buried 
at Frankfort, and honored with a monument at public expense.  He gave 
name to Caldwell County, of which he was an early settler.  Samuel was 
a major-general in the war of 1812, and the first clerk of Logan County 
court. Both were members of the Legislature frequently, as was Robert, 
who presided in the House when the famous resolutions of 1708 were 
adopted.  The latter's daughter, Eliza, became the wife of O.H. 
Browning, Lincoln's Secretary of the Interior.  Mary, daughter of 
Robert, married Dr. R.C. Palmer.  David Caldwell was buried in the old
churchyard in Lunenburg County, and his widow with her children settled
at the point marked "Caldwell's Station" (near Danville) on Filson's 
map of Kentucky of 1784.  One of the sons was John, who married Dicey 
Mann, having descendants David, William, Beverly, Polly and Phoebe.  
Robert moved from Virginia in 1781 and settled where William L. 
Caldwell now resides, near Danville.  He took up several thousand acres 
of land at that point and was identified with the Pioneer life and 
early settlement of what was then Mercer County.  He married Mary Logan
and had a large family of children, who have occupied various positions 
of responsibility and trust in Kentucky.  He led a plain and 
unostentatious life; was early identified with the Presbyterian Church 
at its first development in his locality and many of the early 
religious meetings of that body were held in his primitive, yet 
substantial dwelling. This ancient building, which was probably erected 
soon after his first settlement, is still standing on the farm of his 
grandson, William L. Caldwell, and is now used as a barn.  It was a 
large building constructed of hewn logs, sealed with cherry plank
sawed by hand and joined by hand-made nails. Robert Caldwell died in
1806, and his remains were interred upon the farm where he had passed 
the greater part of his industrious life.  William Caldwell, one of his 
sons, married a Miss Wickliffe, a sister of Gov. Wickliffe; was an 
extensive farmer, and in his business and social relations commanded 
the respect and confidence of a large circle of friends.  He had but 
two children, Lydia, who married a Mr. McCord of Washington County, and 
the late Charles Caldwell of Boyle County.  The latter, whose name 
appears at the head of this sketch, received a good English education 
in his youth, and upon attaining manhood married Elizabeth, daughter of
Jeremiah Clemens of Danville, and shortly after settled on the farm 
where his grandson, Jeremiah C. Caldwell, now resides.  He was one of 
the most prominent and successful farmers Boyle County has ever had, 
and became widely known as one of the  largest and most extensive
cattle raisers and cattle feeders for the markets of the East. He also
speculated extensively in pork, at one time buying and packing large
quantities.  He was a man of decidedly methodical and systematic turn 
of mind, industrious, frugal and thrifty, of undoubted integrity and 
uprightness of character, an elder in the Danville Presbyterian Church,
a trustee of Centre College, and a prompt and liberal supporter of all 
worthy evangelical and charitable objects.  He died in the possession 
of a large estate accumulated by the exercise of these virtues, which 
all admire but few emulate, and by the provision of his will left 
liberal bequests to the Caldwell Female College of Danville, and the 
Theological Seminary of that place.  His only son, Jeremiah Caldwell, 
married Margaret Wilson of Bardstown, and spent his life in agricultural
pursuits on his father's farm.  He had two children: Charles, who died 
in boyhood, and Jeremiah C. Caldwell who passed away at the age of 
twelve years.  The larger portion of the estate of Charles Caldwell was 
devised to his grandson, Jeremiah C. Caldwell.  He received a thorough 
English education at Centre College, Danville, but being designed by 
his grandfather to engage in farming operations, did not pursue the 
entire curriculum,  He was early inured to a life of industry, and 
under the careful and judicious guardianship of William Logan Caldwell 
developed such a stability of character and such a decided capacity for
the intelligent transaction of business, that the trustees of his 
father's estate put him in possession of it nine years before they were 
compelled to do so, and he is to-day one of the largest and most 
successful farmers in Boyle County, a large handler of cattle for the 
Eastern markets and a prominent business man.  He has inherited many of
the characteristics of his grandfather, takes a lively interest in
church and educational matters, and is the president of the Farmer's 
National Bank of Danville.  He occupies his grandfather's farm, and is 
the seventh in line of descent from John Caldwell, who immigrated to 
this country in 1727.  The line of descent is as follows: John, 
William, Robert, William Charles, Jeremiah, Jeremiah C. Caldwell.  The 
latter married Annie Belle, daughter of Judge Fontaine T. Fox of 
Danville, and has four children: Charles Wickliffe, Eliza Hunton, 
Jeremiah Clemens and Fontaine Fox Caldwell.  William Logan Caldwell is 
the fifth in line of descent from John Caldwell, whose emigration to 
this country together with the full genealogy of the family is 
described in the preceding sketch.  His grandfather was Robert Caldwell,
and his father James, the son of Robert.  The story of the early
settlement of the latter on the place now occupied by the subject of
this sketch, has already been told.  James Caldwell was the youngest 
son of Robert and led an active and industrious career as a farmer on 
the old place.  He was a man of strong convictions, of original and 
forceful ideas, an uncompromising follower of Henry Clay, and an 
advocate of the gradual emancipation of the slave.  He was a devout man 
and a useful member and elder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
near Danville, of which he was a liberal supporter.  He died in 
February, 1850.  He was married three times, first to Mary, the 
daughter of Gov. Slaughter, of whom were born three sons and one 
daughter, who have now all passed away.  For his second wife he married 
Phoebe, daughter of John and Elizabeth Henderson and a representative 
of an old Virginia family, by whom he had two sons, Rev. Robert H. 
Caldwell, a Presbyterian clergyman of Boyle County, and William
Logan Caldwell.  His third wife was Phoebe Caldwell, a distant relative
of his family, who died without issue.  William Caldwell, to whom this 
sketch is chiefly dedicated, was born on the ancestral place where he 
now resides, March 13, 1827.  He received a good English education, and 
at the age of sixteen was placed in charge of his father's farm.  Upon 
the death of the latter in 1850 he inherited the family homestead and 
has since devoted all his energies to its cultivation and improvement.  
He is a man of high character, of generous impulses and unswerving 
rectitude, and it can be truthfully said of him that no man in Boyle 
County is more worthy of the esteem of his fellows, nor enjoys in a 
higher degree their confidence and respect.  He has been the executor 
of many trusts, which he administered with fidelity and satisfaction; 
has led a simple, blameless life, carefully avoiding public station and 
undue notoriety and confined himself strictly to the legitimate phases 
of agricultural life.  As a farmer he is both successful and 
progressive, and is recognized as one of the leading breeders of 
"jacks" and "jennets" in the United States.  He is also an extensive
breeder of high class cattle and hogs and of thorough stock in
general.  He is a member of the board of directors of the Central
Kentucky Stock Association and sends a monthly report of the conditions 
of the farming districts of the State to the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington.  He is an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of
Boyle County, a director in the Boyle National Bank at Danville, a 
commissioner of the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum at the same place, and 
president of several turnpike companies.  Politically he was formerly 
an old line Whig, but now acts with the Democratic party.  During the 
civil war he was true to the Union cause, and even when surrounded by 
the officers and troops of the South, boldly proclaimed his fidelity to
the general constitution of our country and his faith in the ultimate 
triumph of the national arms.  He was married,  in November, 1847, to 
Ellen B., daughter of Eli Crumbaugh, of Caldwell County, Ky., and has 
had nine children, of whom eight survive: James B., who occupies a farm 
adjoining his father's; Robert C., a practicing physician at Bloomfield,
Ky.; Nannie C., who is ardently engaged in home missionary work and 
travels extensively; William L., Jr., who resides with his father; 
Ella, widow of Dr. R.C. Palmer, Jr.; Maria, who resides at home; 
Obadiah B., a student in Centre College, and Lucy E., a student at 
Caldwell College.

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Clemens Wilson Fox Slaughter Henderson Crumbaugh Palmer
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