page_title: John Caldwell (Michigan representative)
section_title: Genealogy
hierarchical_section_title: John Caldwell (Michigan representative) / Adult / Genealogy
caption_attribution_description: Jane Caldwell, wife of John Caldwell
context_page_description: John Caldwell was a Republican member of the Michigan State House of Representatives from 1897 through 1900. He represented the Wexford district comprising the counties of Wexford, Missaukee and Clare. He was also a respected farmer and knowledgeable timberman of northern Michigan.
context_section_description: Caldwell is of Scotch-Irish descent. Caldwell's grandfather (James Jr) immigrated from Ireland in 1817 from County Antrim, Ulster, with some of his ten children a year after his first wife Caroline (born 1778) died. They traveled on the ship Aeolus which sailed out of Derry and arrived in the port of New York, 18 June 1817. Caldwell's father (John Sr, b. 1805 d. 1872 Big Rapids) was one of those family members. He was an Irish day laborer that worked on the Erie Canal. Other children of the family that immigrated were John Sr's sisters Eliza (born 1807) and Gertrude (born 1809). They first settled in Connecticut. Caldwell's grandfather lived to be 100 years old and sired at least 24 children with three wives. The other wives of Caldwell's grandfather were Deborah and Margaret.
  Caldwell married Martha Babock of Missaukee county on 29 June 1873. She outlived her husband by 32 years and died in 1948 in their Manton home. They had three children that grew to adulthood. They were Florence, Leona, and Frank. Their first child named Ida May died within a year. Florence married an Ed Huested and had one child named Lewis.  Florence divorced Huested and Lewis then lived with his Caldwell grandparents in Manton. She later married a George Whiting. Leona married a Burt Mow and they had five children. Frank, their only son, married a Mary Blue Kennedy and they had one child named George. George ultimately inherited many of Martha's possessions and properties that were once owned by John Caldwell. He married a Lois Crawford of Manton and they had four daughters and one son.
  Caldwell's father died in Big Rapids of Mecosta County, Michigan, on Christmas eve in 1872 at the age of 67, although some biographies on Caldwell say his father died when he was 65 years old and on 26 December 1872.
  Caldwell's mother (Jane Caldwell) died in Jonesville, Michigan of Hillsdale county in 1886 at the age of 67 as is revealed on her tombstone in the Jonesville cemetery (pictured). She was able to get Civil War pension pay due to her eldest son (Caldwell's brother) being killed in the Civil War, as well as her husband (Caldwell's father) being in the Civil War.
caption: His mother's tombstone
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