Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-03-09
WILLIAM CALDWELL

SUNDAY morning at q quarter before :
O'CLOCK William Caldwell died in the .even.s
NTH year of his age He was horn in In.~;oh
mass January 18th. 1911, and he died IN
'n's city March 9th, 1885, aged "A wears. !
month and l6 days. He was son Of c.n,
oyivanus Caldwell and belonged to one Of
'ne Old New England Puritan fam;,;s. n
came to Augusta, June goth, 1925, and had
'een resident for nearly sixty years. He
received his business education in tho .,o,a
OF the late Benjamin Davis and wa. for man
years his partner in mercantile bus;ne.. n
december, ls4l, he received an appointment,
40 cierk IN the State Treasurer's Office and he
mas served in that Office from that date nm =,
march LIST, 1885, with the single execution of
portion of the year of 1856. remsin;n,
through every change of administration. In
1908 ne was elected State Treasurer and held
the office during the constitutional l;m;,
'er'ihg as Treasurer and clerk forty-tbree
years He was a director of the Grant,.
Na''onal Bank from its foundation. He
married December 18th, 1886, Abigail Stone,
oaughter of Rev. Daniel Stone. who survive.
MIN. lie leaves one child. Mrs. Lenda,,
Iitcomb. Of the Caldwell family-o,a
oio'her' prominent business man of Alton,
1iiihois' and four sisters, two living in the
west end two In Massachusetts. survive
MIN. His brother Sylvanus, who followed
MIN from Ipswich here in 1927, died a few
years since
NO man, certainly in this community. and
rev, II any in the Stat, will be more missed
than William Caldwell For forty three
years he has been at this post of duty at the
state House as regular as the rising and the
setting OF the sun. He has served as the
trusted deputy of Sanford Kingsbury, James
white, Moses Mcdonald, Samuel Cony,
woodbury. Davis, J. A. Sanborn, Isaac
heed, Benz. Peck, Nathan Dane, N. G
Hitchborn, Silas c. Hatch, E. H. Banks.
Charles A. White, S. A. Hobrook and f.
Y. Burleigh. He has know personally every
man who served in the Executive Council
and IN both branches of the Legislature since
December, lS4l. meeting many thousands.
and has been known by all men, for he has
IN these years bailt up character that has
| added to the dignity of the State and become
part of its history.
William Caldwell was a sturdy New Eng
lander, exact, precise, honest, upright. He
performed every relation of life with faith
fullness rarely equalled, and he won and en-
loyed the esteem of all men. 1t has been
for many years saying that if William
Caldwell should prove unfaithfuI no man
could be trusted. His life was full of sim
plicity, his pleasures many. his unbending
integrity the admiration of all.
| By the practice Of the most frugal habits
he acquired handsome competency to any
case in which he was interested he gave free
ly and literally, and his private charities
were many. He was devoted to his family,
and lived the life which Paul declared to be
the standard of human nxcellence. No man
ever questioned the motive or the act of Will.
liam Caldwell. He was great reader, fond
of history AMI bi"graphv was fond of good
joke or happy ~i,t,cism. He had a genial
SMILE sunny disposition. warm heart.
While he was a man of the most sturdy in
tegrity, of independence of thought, of I'M
finching determination, he had a childlike
frankness and simplicity of character. For
many years he has been in delicate health,
but he has never failed to perform all the du-
ties of life until one week ago. He left his
house for the last time February 28th, and on
Wednesday he took to his bed. His sickness
WAS not painful, and his death was as quiet
ang gentle as the blowing out of candle.
| He was for more than forty years a member
of the south parish Congregationalist church,
and constant and regular attendant
upon the services of the church.
The funeral services will be conducted by
his pastor, Rev. Mr., Skeele, at his late resi-
dence on Hospital ST., at 10 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon.