CHARLES CALDWELL

Charles Caldwell, son of David Story and Abigail (Newman) Caldwell, was born July 30, 1841, at Byfield, Massachusetts. He pursued his preparatory studies at the Dummer Academy, Byfield, and also at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered college at the beginning of the Fall term, August 24, 1860.

In June, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventh Squadron of Rhode Island Cavalry, and was a corporal of Company B. After a four months' campaign in Virginia, he returned to college and graduated with the class.

He immediately commenced the study of medicine, attending lectures at Dartmouth Medical College from August until November, 1864. He then received the appointment of Surgeon's Steward in the Navy and was assigned to the gunboat Honduras, of the East Gulf Squadron, with headquarters at Key West, Florida. He remained on this boat until the close of the war. He then went to Manchester, New Hampshire, and continued his medical studies with the late W. D. Buck, M.D., and Professor L. B. How, M.D. In the Fall of 1866, he went to Hanover, New Hampshire, with Professor How, as Demonstrator of Anatomy. In November, 1866, he went to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and remained until July, 1867, when he graduated.

In August, 1867, he commenced the practice of his profession at Exeter, New Hampshire, where he remained until March, 1868, when he took Greeley's advice and started West, stopping at Chicago, Illinois, where he remained one year. He next went to Peru, Illinois, and remained for one year. Leaving there in the Spring of 1870, he went to Chetopa, Kansas, bordering on the Cherokee Nation. He practised there among the new settlers, and the men who were employed in grading the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, until August, 1871, when he was offered and accepted a position at Fort Arbuckle, Indian Territory, as physician to the men, four hundred in number, who were surveying the Chickasaw Nation. He remained there until the completion of the work, in May, 1872. He continued in practice among the Indians, Whites and Freedmen in the Territory and Northwestern Texas until October, 1876. From the Spring of 1877 until July, 1880, he was located in the lead regions, at Joplin, Missouri, and Galena, Kansas. In September, 1880, he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he is at present engaged in the practice of his profession.

He has been Town Physician for two years, of the town of Lake, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on the South. He is Attending Physician in the Gynaecological Department of the South Side Dispensary, Chicago.

He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics, he is a Republican.

He was married January 1, 1871, to Miss Mary D. Smith, of Peru, Illinois. Mrs. Caldwell died March 25, 1871.

He was married, second, December 1, 1874, to Miss Amanda C. Painter, of Mansfield, Ohio. They have had no children.

Submitted by Deborah Crowell