Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-06-08
OFF THE BENCH
JUDGE CALDWELL RETiRES, II {
DATE OF RETIREMENT
BEING June
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fudge GaldweIz service oa the
United States bench mas covered. a
period of thiTty-nine years. He was
appointed by President Lincoln and IS
one of two Of GineoIu.s appointeos
WHO survives. The other is United
States Judge JACKSON. of West Kir=
ginia
Judge Caldwell came to Arkansas
from Iowa upon his appointment TO
the federal judiciary for this district.
He made his nome in Little Rock.
at the corner Of Eighth and Scott
streets, for many years. in which is
now known as the old Caldwell home /
He was appointed to the United States
circuit court of appeals by President
Harrison in 1890 and after that time
be resided principally in St. =L9ufs.
though he claimed, and still claim.
Arkansas and Little Rock as his home
The Caldwell family is we'll known
here Besides Judge Caldwell. the
family consists Of Mrs Caldwell Miss
Corneiia Caldwell Mrs. George Mar
tin, of Colorado, and Van Caldwell
fhe veteran jurst was born in Mar.
shall county. West Virginia. septem-
Der "A. 1892. His father was Van
Caldwell and was of Scotch descent.
while his maternal grandfather was
native Of ireland, Methodist min
ister and soldier of the war of
lSi2-i4. His parents moved to Iowa
IN 1886. where the now veteran iurist
received common school education,
Judge Caldwell read law and was adj.
mitted to the bar at Kaosauoua, L.
being a member of the firm of Wright
and Knapp at that place before be-
coming Of age. He was admitted to
the bar at the age of twenty years. He
was elected prosecuting or states at.
torney for his district in 1856. at the
age OF tWentyfour years. and TWO
years later was elected a member of
the Iowa legislature. During two ses-
sions he was chairman in the house
j of representatives At the outbreak
of the civil war he was commissioned
major in the Third Iowa cavalry. and
afterWard become The colonel of the
regiment He served in the West
during The war until June, 1864, when
President Lincoln appointed him
United States district Judge for the
district of Arkansas.
When the United States court open
ed here the docket was dHed with
difficult and intricate questions grow
ing out of the war. Judge Caldwel's
court was the first 10 pass upon
these, and his rulings. with single
exception, We're affirmed by the su.
preme court af the United States.
Since his advent into the state
Judge Caldwell hes bo'ue a promi
neat part in the legal and other re-
forms that have brought the Jaws of
The state and court practice to its
! present standard. \ paper before the
Arkansas Bar association on The In
security of Titles 70 Real Property
and on the Anaconda Mort gage, led
TO the amendment Of the statutes. He
was instrumental in securing the in
dependent lights of married women
in Arkansas, and in the establish
ment of the present laws regulating
liquor traffic He was also instru-
mental in substituting code plead
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