Daily Republican., 1879-09-11
SECOND EDITION,
BIOaKAPAICAL.
Life Of Well Known Baltimore
Ply sicfan-An Interesti .g Ex-
tract.

Life Of . Well known Baltimore
Ply sicfan-An Interest," .g Ex-
tract.
We publish to-day an interesting se-
lection from the valuable volume recent
ly issued by the National Biographical
Publishing Company. tgiv-s brief
but concise sketch of the life of DR..
John J. Caldwell, a well-known Balti-
more physician.
John Jabez Caldwell, M. D., was
born at Oak Hill, New Castle county,
near Wilmington, Delaware, April 28,
1885. His father, John Sippls Cald-
we'll, was in early ife an agriculturist,
but in later years was actively engaged
in real estate transactions in New York.,
He married in 1885, Rebecca, youngest
daughter of Richard and Rebecca Baker
of Chester county, Pennsylvania, whose
ancestors, members Of the Society Of
Friends, were contemporary settlers
with VIM. Penn.
They had four sons and eight daugh.
ters, all still living, with the sxcsp-
tion Of the youngest son. John s.
Caldwell was man of remarkably fine
appearance and superior character. He
died March IA, 1878, at the residence
of his son Alexis, in Brooklyn, in the
sixty-eighth year of his age. He was
Of French Huguenot ancestry, the name
originally Colville. John Caldwell, son
Of Sir David Caldwell, of the North Of
Ireland, whittier the family had fed in
time of persecution, came to America in
the early part Of the eighteenth cen.u.
ry, and settled in Delaware. Three
brothers, Captain Jonathan, Captain
Joseph and Rev. James Caldwell, the
last of Springfield, New Jersey, were
famous in the Revolutionary period.
the first named, captain of Delaware
company, which bore his name, was
the great-grandfather Of the subject of
this sketch, whose great-grandfather,
Jabes Caldwell Of Bolingbroke, Talbot
county, Maryland, served at different
periods in the State Assembly and 9th
or positions Of honor and trust with
Edward Lloyd, Charles Goldsborough,
and others equally distinguished.
Young Caldwell attended the public
schools Of Delaware and Pennsylvania,
and later the celebrated Quaker board
ing-school of John Bullock, at Whining
ton. He graduated with the highest
houors from the New York Medical cal-
legs in 1860, having been for three
years previously student in the Belle
vue Hospital. He was engaged in sue
cessfua practice in New York when, in
1862, he entered the United States
Army as a surgeon, remaining till the
close of the war, when he settled in
Brooklyn. In January, 1873, he re-
moved to Baltimore, where he has made
speciality Of diseases of the nervous
system, to the nature, phenomena and
treatment of which he has devoted
much study and attention and in which
he is acknowledged one Of the leading
authorities of the country. DIR. Caldwell
is one of the first and most constant con-
tributors to the medical journals of the
United States, the long list of his valn-
able papers quite exceeding the limits
of this sketch.
He is an active member of many
medical societies, in whose delibera-
lions he has always taken a prominent
part, and has held many honorable
msi,ions of q professional character
From 1862 to 1866 he was Acting As
sistsnt Surgeon in the United States
Army, on hospital, transport and field
nty. from the Hudson to the Rio
Grande, from which places he wrote
many interesting letters to the New
York "Daily Times and News" Dur
ing the cholera epidemic of 1866 and
'67 he was Medical Officer in the Health
Board Of Brooklyn Surgeon in charge
of the Brooklyn Central Dispensary
from 1866 to 1869; Delegate to the Mas
, sachusetts State Medical Society from
the Medical Society of the County of
Kings in 1867; and Delegate to the
: American Medical Association from the
Baltimore Medical and Surgical Socie-
ties in 1875 and '76. voluminous
writer, an enthusiastic student, and
devoted to medical and general science,
: DR.. Caldwell has already achieved
fame, and his star is in the ascendant.
He was united in marriage June 6,
1862, to Miss Anna Ridgely, daughter
S of R. Horace and Mary Worthington
Love, Of the "Forest," Baltimore coun-
: ty, a direct descendant of Sir Arthur
Johns Of England.
This distinguished officer is msn-
toned in "Webster's Unabridged Die
5 tionary' as follows: ''THE BLUE HEN,
A cant or popular name for the State of
u Delaware. This sobriquet is said to
u have had origin in certain Cap
tain Caldwell's fondness for the amuse-
=. ment of cook-fghting. Caldwell was
e for time an officer Of the First Della
ware Regiment in the war Of the Revo-
!, !, luton, and was greatly distinguished
3, tor his daring and undaunted spirit.
He was exceedingly popular in the regi-
/, ment, and its high state Of discipline
- u was generally conceded to be due to his
exertions; so that when officers were
10 sent on recruiting service to enlist new
men in order to fill vacancies caused by
q death or otherwise, it wasa saying, that
\ they had gone home for more of Cald-
wells game cooks; but, as Caldwell in.
s. sisted that no cock could be truly game
unless the mother was blue hen, the
n expression Blue Hens chickens was
y su ubstituted for game cocks. ."-'Dela'
!. ware State Journal" July, 1860.
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