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Albert Gallatin Caldwell (1887)
Albert Gallatin Caldwell (deceased), attorney at law, was born in 1817, in Shawneetown, the son of John Caldwell, a native of Brownsville, Penn., and who married Sarah, a daughter of John Badollet, a Frenchman. The latter and Albert Gallatin (not our subject) were schoolmates together in Geneva, Switzerland, the former coming to America in 1786 and the latter in 1780, both locating in Pennsylvania. In 1802 Gallatin was Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson, and secured Badollet's appointment as register of the land office at Vincennes, Ind., and John Caldwell obtained the same office at Shawneetown. Badollet's privilege of naming the fourth county in Illinois Territory, resulted in this county having its present name, Gallatin, in honor of his old friend and schoolmate. John Caldwell died in 1835. His children are Eliza, wife of Alexander Kirkpatrick; John B., teller of the State Bank at Shawneetown for a time and afterward a farmer, who died in 1856; our subject; William L. (deceased), a Shawneetown merchant; Margaret, widow of John Caldwell of Indianapolis, and Martha, who lives with the last mentioned sister. Our subject was educated in Shawneetown. In 1841 he married Eleanor, daughter of Joseph Castle of Philadelphia, and born in 1822 in the latter place. Their children are Charles, and Sarah, wife of George Ridgway. Mr. Caldwell was one of the leading members of the county bar, and an eloquent speaker. In 1850 he was elected to represent his county in the Legislature, and the following year he died, passing away in his prime, leaving many friends to mourn his loss. He was a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
[1887. History of Gallatin, Saline, Hamilton, Franklin and Williamson
Counties, Illinois. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 530-531.]
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