The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-07-10

entered the store of Abraham Geiger
at CRANKY and remained there in a
place of trust for some months
In 1903 he married Elizabeth
Mee,zo, q daughter Of the Rev. lost
Meetze. ibis was happy blending
of two congenial spirits who climbed
the hill together" and during their
long and happy and self sacrificing
lives, dispensed blessings and bene-
dictions on the people around them,
and when they "went on before" left
a county in mourning. Mr.. Caush-
man was Captain Of the Light Drag
oons from 1917 till 1927. Iu 1925
under orders from Gov. Manning he
with his company became part OF
Lafayett's escort as be made bis tour
through the State.
He was elected Map iu 1927 and
in 1880 became Lieut.. Colonel and
held this position until 1913, having
been a commissioned officer for
twenty-seven years.
He was chosen to the House OF
Representatives in 1918 and held
this position for twenty-five consecu-
tive years. There has been 10 like
term If service in the history Of the
county nor of the State so far as the
writer is informed. He was strongly
opposed to the tariff Legislation Of
Congress and was delegate to the
Notification Convention in 1882.
He was Commissioner of the Poor
for Lexington District for thirty-four
years, from 1926 until 1860. In 1927
he with Maj Jacob Swygert, Harman
Geiger, Benz. Jefcoat aud Absolem
Roberts constructed the Lexington
Poor House for the poor and decrepit.
He was for twelve years a Commis-
sioner Of Free Schools and for four
teen years Justice of the Peace.
He was among the leaders in the
movement to establish The Theologi-
cal Seminary at Lexington and served
for fifteen years as President of the
Board of Trustees. He gave the
lands for the site of the institution
and furnished the lumber for the
buildings from his own mills without
charge. He contributed largely to
the construction of St. Stephens
church at Lexington c H; became
one of it's first elders and remained
in that Office till his death. He was
the first president of the Lexington
Temperance Society in 1885 and held
this position until 1S4S and till the
societies" became merged into the
"SoDs of Temperance" He was
Treasurer of the Lutheran Synod of
South Carolina and adjacent States
for twelve years from 1885 till 1917.
He organized Sabbath school at
Lexington G. H, in 1925 and con-
tinued it's superintendent for thirty
years. Is there another Sabbath
school in the county which has ex-
listed for three quarters Of a century?
He WAS strong Secessionist in 1850,
as he had been a strong Nullifer in
1892 He is credited with having
called together the first convention
in the State which recommended that
the State secede from the American
Union. The people responded with
practical unanimity and he presided
at the meeting. Meeting followed
meeting throughout the State and
the whole country was soon ablaze
with ardour and patriotism. To tell
the sequel would be to write the
history of THE Lost Cause" The
story Of this remarkable mans life
reads like a romance. The pen tires
in enumersting his deeds and achiev-
ments and the places he so faithfully
and efficiently cccupied-notwith-
standing his public labors be was
successful as well in his private
business.
No son of Lexington has ever
welded an influence SO overpowering
and no one has lived among US who
would have welded it moro wisely.
His efisient labors during his long
term of service in the House gave
him power and popularity and ilhu-
ence all over the State, and he came
in for his share of the jasts of his
friends. He was for a long while
chairman of The Committe on Roads,
Bridges and Ferries, and as he was
very tall, Judge Butler laughingly
accused him of being opposed to
building bridges, and of claiming
that o we'll made man could wade
nearly all the streams in the State.
Col. Caughman died February 18th,
.