The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-02-15
4 FAMOUS FAMILY.

THE CADwALADERs IN MARTLAND-CoN-
NEcTEp WITH SOME OF THE MOST DIS
TINouIsuED FAMILIES or THE STATE
TWO DESCENDANTS OF THE FAMILY LIKE
LY To BECOME BRITISH DUKES
\ week ago intelligence was received of
the death of that venerable iurisi, Judge
Cadwalader, of Philadelphia and now comes
the announcement of the death of his only
remaining brother, Gen. George Cadwala-
der. Down to within few days ago he
was in apparently good health, but on Sum
day evening he was seized with apoplexy
and died Monday afternoon. He studied
law and practccd in Philadelphia. lie
served during the Mexican war and part of
the time was military governor of Toluea.
When the veterans of that war formed
an association, lie was made its permanent
president. He held the commission of a
major general OF volunteers in the late war,
aud at the beginning commanded the de-
partmcnt of Annapolis. Afterwards he
commanded the second ard sixth divisions
of the army of West Tennessee, and after
Loyal League Of the United States.
The Cadwaladers are famous family.
Their ancestor, John Cadwalader, came to
America the secretary of William Penn
and settled in Philadelphia. His son. Tkos.
Cadwalader, distinguished physician of
Philadelphia, had three sons, all of whom
became promiue men. Lambert Cadwal-
ader born in lsil, lived at Trenton, y J.
He was colonel of the Third Pennsylvania
Regiment during the revolution. and sub
sequcntly WAS a member OF the Continental
Congress. His children were John, who
died young, and Thomas, who died in Tren-
ton in 1878 ut the age of So Thomas Cad
walader became major, general of the New
Jersey militia, and was member of the
board of visitors To West Point in 1863.
John Lambert Cadwalader, of Trenton,
born about 1885, is a prominent member of
the New York bar lie was the first AS
sistant Secretary Of State under Hamilton
! Fish. He is now travelling abroad.
! John Cadwalader, of Philadelphia. sou
of Thomas, was born in l7i3, was 4 distin-
! EulS.cG OiilCcr IN tue revolution.
| On the It'll Of July, 1850. he fought his
| famous duel with General Conway. Gen
| eral Dickinson WAS his second, aud General
/ Morgan the second of Conway. Conway
| fired iiIst but without effect. Cadwaladsr
then fired, and the ball passed through Con-
ways mouth, dislocatiag his teeth, and
emerging from the back of his head. When
| the latter recovered his speech, he good
naturally remarked =" General Cadwalader,
| you fire with 4 great deal of elaboration,
and certainly with a great deal of effect
After this Cadwalader was employed by
Washington to organize the militia on the
| Eastern Shore of Maryland, and was in The
! General ASS, mbly Of this State for time.
General Cadwalader married first Eliza
beth, widow of Edward Lloyd, of Wye
House, Talbot county, Md, aud had three
daug hteTs-Anue, wife Of Robert ksmble
! ,their only child, Mary. was the wife of
General Vim. llyslop Sumner. of Massa-
chusettsi; Elizabeth, wife of Archibald
Mccall and mother of Major General Geo.
/ A. Mccall, United States Volunteers, and
Maria, wife of Gen. Samuel RIuggoid, men,
Der of Congress from Maryland, aud mother
of Major Samuel Ringgold. United States
! Army, and oil Rear Admiral Cadwalader
Ringgold, United States Navy.
Gen. Cadwalader married secondly Viii
helmina Bond. of Phladel phia, who sur
vived HIM forty years, dying in Eng land in
! 1896, where she was buried in the church
yard of Crawley, Sussex. They had issue
| Thomas, Frances and John. Frances
married in 1900 David Montague Erksiae,
then Secretary OF the English Legation at
Washington aud Minister successively to
this country and to the courts of Wurtem-
burg and Bavaria. lie succeeded his father.
Chancellor Erksine. as Second Lord Erik
sine in 1922. Their two eldest sons have
been successive peers, Thomas from 1855
to 1876, and John Cadwa lader, the present
peer. Their third son, David Mont que,
was for many years Colonial Secretary at
Natal, and the fourth, Edward Morris, was
Secretary Of Legation at St Petersburg,
and successfully Minister to Greece and
CONTINUED ON YOUTH PAax.