"PARENTS"
Father: John Tyler Caldwell, b.1798 Rutland Co., VT., d.18-Jan-1861, Rutland Co., VT. (while residing in WI., but during a visit to his elderly mother in VT.) [F.A.G. memorial # 42598857].
Mother: Mary Warner-Caldwell, b.04-Oct-1804 Rutland Co., VT., d.11-Feb-1888 Waupaca Co., WI., m.31-Oct-1826 in Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT. [F.A.G. memorial #90377604].
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"GRAND-PARENTS"
Paternal Grand-Father: Benjamin Caldwell, b.28-Mar-1764 Sutton, Worcester Co., MA., d.29-Feb-1852 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., [F.A.G. memorial #24324083].
Paternal Grand-Mother: Sarah Batchelor-Caldwell, b.27-Nov-27-1766 MA., d.14-Apr-1867 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., Aged 100y 4m 18d., m.13-Aug-1789 Sutton, Worcester, MA., [F.A.G. memorial #42598764].
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Maternal Grand-Father: [Name?] Warner, b.~1780 CT., d.????.
Maternal Grand-Mother: [Name?] [Surname?]-Warner, b.~1782 VT., d.????.
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"MARRIAGES"
m1.22-Nov-1861 in Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI. to Mary L. Taggart b.1838 d.1867. Waupaca Co., WI.
m2.22-May-1868 in Waupaca Co., WI. to Ida Jane Taggart-Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1848 Waupaca Co., Wi. d.06-Nov-1916, Waupaca, Wauapaca Co., WI.
Note: wives, Mary and Ida were sisters.
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CHILDREN (with Mary L Taggart):
i. Minnie L. Caldwell, b.???? d.????.
ii. Ida S. Caldwell, b.1865 d.1953.
CHILDREN (with her sister, Ida Jane Taggart):
iii. George T. Caldwell, b.1869 d.1917.
iv. Warner F. Caldwell, b.1873 d.1959.
v. Otis L. Caldwell, b.1876 d.1934.
vi. Beatrice L. Caldwell, b.1884 d.1951.
vii. Eunice Caldwell, b.1887 d.1899.
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PATERNAL RELATIVES:
- Uncle, Joseph Caldwell, b.07-Jan-1792 d.22-Sep-1861, is specifically mentioned in the memoir, reproduced below. [F.A.G. memorial #69877005].
- Aunt, Orilla Caldwell, b.05-Apr-1809 d.21-Jan-1886 Racine Co., WI. [F.A.G. #36912161], m.Ira Rice, b.17-Sep-1812 d.23-Mar-1887 Racine Co., WI.
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SIBLINGS:
- Sister, Columbia Caldwell, b.11-Jul-1828 d.06-Oct-1881 CA. [F.A.G. # 44882160], m.Stephen P. Thresher, b.09-Nov-1820 d.07-Dec-1872, [F.A.G. #44882159].
- Sister, Mariette "Maryette" Caldwell, b.08-Oct-1833 d.26-Oct-1899, m.07-Dec-1865 Waupaca Co., WI. to Harvy S. Bowers, b.04-May-1812 d.30-Sep-1887, [F.A.G. memorial #90377950].
- Sister, Sophia Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1836 Kenosha Co., WI., d.22-Jan-1860 Butte Co., CA. [F.A.G. #35761248], m.15-Mar-1854 to George Campbell, b.???? d.???? presumably in CA.
- Sister, Emily Caldwell, b.~1837 Kenosha Co., WI. d.???? Iola, Waupaca Co., WI. [F.A.G. #90427188], m.Augustus Chandler, b.~1820 d.15-Jan-1893 Waupaca Co., WI..
- Brother (twin), Harrison Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
- Brother (twin), Tyler Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
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Arrived in Wisconsin as a child (the "Wisconsin Territory, by 1836") with parents and siblings in late 1835, at "Pike River" (Kenosha Co., WI.), having travelled overland by wagon from Vermont. Moved to "Caldwell Prairie", Racine Co., WI. 3 years later, in 1839. Next, Columbus (with his father Tyler, and family) took-up residence in Waupaca Co., Fall 1849. Wisconsin statehood had come in 1848.
SOURCE: "History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin", page 92, 1890, 219 pages - by Josephus Wakefield.
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"TOWN OF LIND - FIRST SETTLERS" - The Town of Lind consists of Township 21, Range 12. It is bounded on the north by Waupaca on the east, by Weyauwega and Fremont on the south, by Waushara County, and on the west by Dayton. The soil is mostly a clayey or gravelly loam, easily worked and producing excellent crops. Wheat, corn, and potatoes do well, but the soil appears to be peculiarly adapted to stock raising and dairying. Sheep do well, and probably no town in the County can show better horses, than may be found among the farmers of Lind. The first settlement was made in the Spring of 1849, when Simon C. Dow and Colonel John W. Chandler moved in. In 1849, Mr. Dow built the first log house. It is still standing on Section 1. In the Fall of that year, came Tyler Caldwell and his son, Captain C. C. Caldwell, George W. Taggart, Jarvis Rice, James S. Potter, A. Rice, Charles Coffin, Hiram and James Sexton, Alonzo Vaughn, Moses Selleck and John Shaw.
SOURCE: "Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin", by John M. Ware, 1917, Chapter, XIII, page 92.
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Biographical sketch about his father & mother: Tyler & Mary, with references to his grandparents...
'THE WAUPACA POST', December 5, 1991.
"WHEN THEN WAS NOW", By Wayne A. Guyant.
"This story has its beginning with Tyler C. Caldwell and Mary Warner {N.B. Warren, per marriage record - which is incorrect}, who both were natives of Vermont. Tyler C. Caldwell was born July 11, 1798, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Caldwell. Tyler was married in Rutland County, VT, to Mary Warner, who was born October 9, 1804, a daughter of Capt. Warner, who was a veteran of the War of 1812. Soon after their marriage, the couple migrated to Chautauqua County, NY.
It was there that they became the parents of seven children: Columbia, who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Columbus, who is the main character of this story; Marette [sic] {Maryette}, who married Harvey S. Bowers, of the Town of Dayton {Waupaca Co., WI.}; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who married Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola {Waupaca Co., WI.}, and Harrison and Tyler, who were twins and died in infancy.
In 1835 Tyler C. Caldwell made a trip from his home in Chautauqua, NY, to Kenosha County, Wisconsin Territory, with the intention of settling in that new frontier. It was at this same period of time that his brother, Joseph Caldwell, also came to Kenosha County, from his home in Rutland County, VT, in search of land. Joseph had already settled at Pike River, where he was met by Tyler. Tyler C. returned to his home in Chautauqua County, NY, in the following spring to bring his family back to Kenosha County. They took a boat from Buffalo, NY, to Kenosha, then only a settlement of three houses. The Caldwell brothers were not satisfied with their location in Kenosha County, so three years later the Caldwells moved up the Fox River to Rochester Township, Racine County, where they took out the first land claim, since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie." Tyler C. Caldwell lived there for the next 10 years, and it was there that he built the first bridge over the Fox River, on the road between Racine and Janesville. On October 28, 1849 this pioneer family again moved northward, this time on a long, perilous journey past the outpost of civilization. By team they traveled through the forests from Racine County - to Section 22, Township of Lind, Waupaca County. Mr. Caldwell worked his land until in January of 1861, when he made a trip to his old home in Vermont to visit his aging mother and the scenes of his childhood. There was no mention about his father, who must by then have passed away. One week after his arrival, he died in the home of his birthplace. His mother lived to be 101 years of age. There seems to be no record of Tyler C. Caldwell's body ever being returned to the Crystal Lake Cemetery for burial. His wife, Mary Warner Caldwell, died in February of 1888, and was buried in the Crystal Lake Cemetery, beside his daughter, Mariette (Maryette) Bowers.
When the Caldwell family was still living at Caldwell's Prairie, young Columbus Caldwell, the only living son of Tyler C. and Mary Caldwell, was only eight years of age when he began driving a yoke of oxen, breaking up the virgin prairie sod. He was paid $10 a month. In February 1852, Columbus Caldwell and his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, started for the gold fields of California, by the new Overland Route, crossing the Missouri River May 11 and reaching California on July 28. He remained engaged in gold mining for the next seven years before returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and resumed farming in the Township of Lind. He was married at Weyauwega on November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a daughter of George W. and Eunice L. (Fulton) Taggart. Eunice L. Fulton was a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first steamboat. On December 6, 1861, less than one month after his marriage, he enlisted in Company M, First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in forming. His regiment was ordered to Missouri and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, MO, on May 15, 1862. His regiment was responsible for ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwackers that overran that part of the country during the early years of the war. While in Missouri Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen. Rosecran's army at Murfreesboro, TN, in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating with the company about Murfreesboro was regiment accompanied the army to Chickamauga, TN. In October of 1863 Lieutenant Caldwell was taken sick, and after spending a week in the hospital at Nashville, was sent home to die. He reached home in November 1863, but by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered enough to return to his regiment. While in charge of 25 men on detached duty, he and 19 of his little squad were captured on the "Duck Town Road," 12 miles east of Cleveland, TN by Gen. Wheeler, then in command of the rebel cavalry. He was first sent to Andersonville Prison. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regimental headquarters, although he had been acting as captain for some time. The story goes that Captain Caldwell received preferred treatment. He was permitted to eat from pieces of broken dishes, because he was an officer. Most people did not get out of the Andersonville Prison alive, but Captain Caldwell was jailed in Macon, GA, thence sent to Savannah, GA, and on to Charleston, SC, where the prisoners were put under the fire, while the Union Army was shelling the city. He remained a prisoner until being exchanged on March 1, 1865. The imprisonment and treat-ment received in his confinement has broken down his health to a point where this fine specimen of a man, six feet, one inch tall and weighing 190 pounds, was weakened to a point of not being able to walk. Captain Caldwell was sent home on a 30-day furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, MD. While still on furlough at his farm in the Town of Lind, Richmond fell, and the war between the states was nearly over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, May 15, 1865, and never was wounded.
The children of Capt. Caldwell and Eunice Fulton [sic] {Mary L Taggart, daughter of Eunice Fulton-Taggart}, his first wife, were: Minnie L. and Ida S. His first wife died January 6, 1886, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida Jane Taggart. The children by this marriage were: George T., Warner F., Otis L., Beatrice L., and Eunice.
After his discharge, and the war was over, he returned to his farm in the Township of Lind. Although physically unable to work, he supervised its operation. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of the Town of Lind, and a member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds in 1867, and while serving in this capacity, he was elected a member of Waupaca's City Council. In 1870 he was elected assessor for the city and the Township of Waupaca. In 1871, he returned to his farm in the Town of Lind, where he partially resumed farming. In 1872 and again in 1873, he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he was one of five men appointed by the Waupaca City Council to serve on a building committee to erect a new courthouse. In 1882 he was elected superintendent of the Waupaca County Poor Farm, near Manawa. He served there for nearly five years, until resigning December 1, 1887, to accept the position as commandant the Wisconsin Veterans Home. He held this position until July 1897. Mrs. Caldwell was a very efficient matron during those years.
Columbus C. Caldwell died at his home in Waupaca on December 18, 1908. His wife, Ida Jane Taggart Caldwell, born November 24, 1848, at Rochester, Racine County, died at her home in Waupaca on November 6, 1916. They are buried on the Caldwell lot along with five other members of the Caldwell family in the Oakwood cemetery in Weyauwega.
There are two grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus C. Caldwell living today in the area. They are Clifford Caldwell, still living on his place in the Town of Belmont, Portage County, and Gilbert (Gibb) Caldwell, formerly of the Town of Farmington, who is presently convalescing in the Manawa Nursing Home. Get well soon, Gibb. There are other living descendents through the Warner F. Caldwell and the Mrs. Walter L. (Beatrice Caldwell) Radley families.
SOURCE: The Waupaca Post, newspaper, Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Captain, Columbus CALDWELL. One of the best known citizens of Waupaca county, and one whose name is familiar throughout the State of Wisconsin, is Capt. C. Caldwell, for over seven years superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home, which is a most creditable State institution, and the pride of the G.A.R. It is situated in Farmington township. Capt. Caldwell has been pioneer, soldier, legislator, county official, and farmer, and in whatever sphere of public or private service his life has been cast, his actions have not only been above reproach, but signally meritorious, highly creditable to himself and pleasing beyond degree both to the public at large and to his own immediate constituents. He has had the happy faculty of retaining a wide popularity, and in the management of the Home has displayed notable efficiency.
Since the age of six years he has been a resident of Wisconsin, and since nineteen, of Waupaca county. He was born in Charlotte township, Chautauqua Co., NY., September 25, 1830, son of Tyler C. and Mary Warner-Caldwell, both natives of Rutland county., Vt., where Tyler was born, July 11. 1798, son of Benjamin Caldwell and Mary his wife, the daughter of Capt. Warner of the war of 1812, born October 9, 1804. Tyler and Mary Caldwell were married in Vermont, and subsequently migrated to Chautauqua county, NY. Their children were as follows: Columbia who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Capt. C. subject of this sketch; Marietta, widow of Harvey S. Bowers, of Dayton township, Waupaca county; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who was the wife of Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola township, Waupaca county; Harrison and Tyler (twins), who died in infancy.
In 1835, Tyler C. Caldwell made a preliminary trip from his home in Chautauqua county, NY., to Wisconsin, with a view of settling in that distant Territory. The same year, his brother Joseph Caldwell, had driven by team from his old home in Vermont to Wisconsin. Tyler met him at Racine, and together the brothers took up the first claims in what has since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie" in county. Returning home, Tyler Caldwell in the following spring moved his west, coming by boat from Buffalo to Kenosha, Wis., near which place the family lived for a time. This flourishing city was a little settlement of three houses. Three years later, the family removed up the river to Rochester township, Racine county. Here they lived for ten years, and here Mr. Caldwell by contract, built the first bridge over the Fox river on the road from to Janesville. In 1850 the family again moved northward, this time a long and perilous journey, past the outposts of civilization. By team they through the forests from Racine county Waupaca county, and settled on what is now Section 22, Lind township. The land had not yet been surveyed by the government, and in building cabins and clearings the pioneers were obliged to trust to Providence, that section lines and would not interfere with the primitive habitations. When Waupaca county was the first organized in 1851, Tyler C. Caldwell was elected chairman of the town board, and in that capacity helped to divide the into eight road districts and to organize various towns. He was a prominent pioneer. Desiring to revisit his aged and the scenes of his childhood, he took a trip to Vermont in January, 1861, and week after his arrival, died in the home which he was born. His mother lived the age of 101 years, and his widow died February, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. Tyler Caldwell was a Whig in politics, later a Republican, voting for John C. Fremont. He was a great admirer of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
Capt. C. Caldwell at the age of years, began driving a yoke of cattle, the primitive prairie, receiving $10 month for his services. For thirteen summers he followed this occupation. He reached Waupaca on his first visit October 28, 1849, coming up the river by skiff from Winneconne. His opportunities for education were meager, and his youth was employed clearing land, making shingles, and occasionally in shooting deer, prairie chickens and other game in which the country abounded. In February 1852, with his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, he started for California by the new overland route, crossing the Missouri river May 11, reaching California July 28. For seven years he remained on the coast, engaged in gold mining and other pursuits. Returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus and New York City, he resumed farming in Lind township. He was married at Weyauwega, November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a native of New York and daughter of George W. Taggart, who in 1837, migrated to Racine county, Wis., and about 1850 settled in Waupaca county.
On December 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company M., First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in raising. The regiment was ordered to Missouri, and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the first active engagement at Chalk Bluffs, Mo., May 15, 1862. It did efficient service in ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwhackers which overran that country during the earlier years of the war. In Missouri, Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen Rosecrans' army at Mufreesboro, Tenn., in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating in the campaign about Murfreesboro, the regiment accompanied the army on to Chickamauga, and after the battle there, it recrossed the river into Tennessee and proceeded toward Knoxville. In October 1863, Capt. Caldwell was taken sick, and after a week spent in the Nashville hospital was sent home "to die", arriving in November. But by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered to return to his regiment, rejoining it at Cleveland, Tenn., March 20: while in charge of twenty-five men on detached duty, he and nineteen of his little squad were captured on the "Ducktown road", twelve miles east of Cleveland, by Gen. Wheeler, now member of Congress from Alabama, and then in command of Rebel cavalry. He was sent to Andersonville, then to jail at Macon, GA., thence to Savannah, one and a half miles, thence to Charleston, SC., where they were put under fire while the Union army was shelling the city; then to Columbia, SC., Raleigh, NC., and Goldsboro, remaining a prisoner until exchanged, March 1, 1865. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regiment headquarters. He had been acting captain for some time, but never served actively under his commission. Imprisonment and the treatment received in confinement so broke down his health that what had been a fine specimen of humanity, six feet one inch in height, 190 pounds in weight, was a weak emaciated being, unable to even walk. Capt. Caldwell was sent home on a thirty-days' furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, Md., and while he was still in Lind township, Richmond fell, and the war was practically over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio., May 15, 1865. Though in many battles, Capt. Caldwell was never wounded, but his health by sickness and subsequent imprisonment, had been completely shattered.
Returning to his farm in Lind township, he superintended its operation, though himself physically unable to work. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of Lind township, and for the same period, member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds of Waupaca county in 1867, and while serving in that capacity, he was also elected a member of Waupaca's city council. In 1870, he was elected assessor of township. Returning to Lind township in 1871, he partially resumed farming, though still not rugged in health, serving two terms as chairman. In 1872, and again in 1873, he was elected to Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he member of a building committee of five appointed by the Waupaca city council erect the court house which was two years later. In the fall of 1882, he was elected superintendent of the county poor by the county board, and removed to County Infirmary. He served here five years, lacking one month, when he resigned, December 1, 1887, to accept his present position as superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home.
The children of Capt. Caldwell by his first wife, are: Minnie L., a school teacher at Baraboo, Wis., and Ida S., a clerk, at home. Mrs. Caldwell died January 6, 1866, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida J. Taggart, the children by this marriage being: George T., an electrician; Warner F., of Saxeville, Waushara county; Otis L., an engineer and electrician; Beatrix L., attending school at New London; and Eunice, at home. Mrs. Caldwell is the very successful matron of the Veterans Home. Capt. Caldwell is a Republican in politics, and from his long career in public life he has made a wide acquaintanceship throughout the county. He is prominent in G.A.R. circles, and to his children he has given exceptional educational advantages. Public spirited, genial, able, he is an honor to the county and to the State which he now officially and humanely represents.
SOURCE: 'Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade, and Shawano", pages 374-376, by: J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1895.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=VElEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA374&
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"WI CENSUS 1905"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Waupaca city, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Age: 75y
Estimated Birth Year: Abt 1830
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Parent 1: Vermont
Place of Birth: Parent 2: Vermont
Family Number: 274
Page Number: 596
Line Number: 77
Film Number: 1020988
Digital Folder Number: 4236871
Image Number: 00750
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 75y
Spouse Ida J Caldwell F 56y
Child Beatrix Caldwell F 20y
SOURCE: Wisconsin State Census, 1905
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMQJ-94H
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"US CENSUS 1880"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Lind, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Birthdate: 1831
Birthplace: New York, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Ida J. Caldwell
Spouse's Birthplace: Wisconsin, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: New York, United States
Mother's Name: Mary W. Caldwell
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 49 years
Occupation: Farmer
NARA Film Number: T9-1451
Page: 114
Page Character: B
Entry Number: 4241
Film number: 1255451
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 49
Spouse Ida J. Caldwell F 31
Child Ida D. Caldwell F 14
Child George F. Caldwell M 11
Child Warner F. Caldwell M 6
Child Otis L. Caldwell M 4
Parent Mary W. Caldwell F 75
Henry L. West M 19
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1880.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNH5-Q2T
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: , Waupacca, Wisconsin
Ward: The Town Of Lind
Age: 28 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1832
Birthplace: New York
Gender: Male
Page: 35
Family Number: 258
Film Number: 805433
DGS Number: 4300459
Image Number: 00077
NARA Number: M653
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW9D-G2Z
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US Civil War: 2nd Lieutenant, Co. M, 1st Regiment, Calvary, WI.
SOURCE: "Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865" by Jeremiah M. Rusk and Chandler P. Chapman. It was published in 1886 by the Democrat Printing Company, State Printers, Madison, Wisconsin.
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N.B. found no official record of having been promoted to 1st Lieutenant, nor to Captain (albeit some sources refer to him as "Captain Caldwell"). -ed. Mustered-out as a 2nd Lieutenant per US Gov sources.
SOURCE: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors.
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Charter Member of the Waupaca Co., WI. G.A.R. Lodge.
Father: John Tyler Caldwell, b.1798 Rutland Co., VT., d.18-Jan-1861, Rutland Co., VT. (while residing in WI., but during a visit to his elderly mother in VT.) [F.A.G. memorial # 42598857].
Mother: Mary Warner-Caldwell, b.04-Oct-1804 Rutland Co., VT., d.11-Feb-1888 Waupaca Co., WI., m.31-Oct-1826 in Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT. [F.A.G. memorial #90377604].
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"GRAND-PARENTS"
Paternal Grand-Father: Benjamin Caldwell, b.28-Mar-1764 Sutton, Worcester Co., MA., d.29-Feb-1852 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., [F.A.G. memorial #24324083].
Paternal Grand-Mother: Sarah Batchelor-Caldwell, b.27-Nov-27-1766 MA., d.14-Apr-1867 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., Aged 100y 4m 18d., m.13-Aug-1789 Sutton, Worcester, MA., [F.A.G. memorial #42598764].
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Maternal Grand-Father: [Name?] Warner, b.~1780 CT., d.????.
Maternal Grand-Mother: [Name?] [Surname?]-Warner, b.~1782 VT., d.????.
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"MARRIAGES"
m1.22-Nov-1861 in Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI. to Mary L. Taggart b.1838 d.1867. Waupaca Co., WI.
m2.22-May-1868 in Waupaca Co., WI. to Ida Jane Taggart-Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1848 Waupaca Co., Wi. d.06-Nov-1916, Waupaca, Wauapaca Co., WI.
Note: wives, Mary and Ida were sisters.
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CHILDREN (with Mary L Taggart):
i. Minnie L. Caldwell, b.???? d.????.
ii. Ida S. Caldwell, b.1865 d.1953.
CHILDREN (with her sister, Ida Jane Taggart):
iii. George T. Caldwell, b.1869 d.1917.
iv. Warner F. Caldwell, b.1873 d.1959.
v. Otis L. Caldwell, b.1876 d.1934.
vi. Beatrice L. Caldwell, b.1884 d.1951.
vii. Eunice Caldwell, b.1887 d.1899.
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PATERNAL RELATIVES:
- Uncle, Joseph Caldwell, b.07-Jan-1792 d.22-Sep-1861, is specifically mentioned in the memoir, reproduced below. [F.A.G. memorial #69877005].
- Aunt, Orilla Caldwell, b.05-Apr-1809 d.21-Jan-1886 Racine Co., WI. [F.A.G. #36912161], m.Ira Rice, b.17-Sep-1812 d.23-Mar-1887 Racine Co., WI.
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SIBLINGS:
- Sister, Columbia Caldwell, b.11-Jul-1828 d.06-Oct-1881 CA. [F.A.G. # 44882160], m.Stephen P. Thresher, b.09-Nov-1820 d.07-Dec-1872, [F.A.G. #44882159].
- Sister, Mariette "Maryette" Caldwell, b.08-Oct-1833 d.26-Oct-1899, m.07-Dec-1865 Waupaca Co., WI. to Harvy S. Bowers, b.04-May-1812 d.30-Sep-1887, [F.A.G. memorial #90377950].
- Sister, Sophia Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1836 Kenosha Co., WI., d.22-Jan-1860 Butte Co., CA. [F.A.G. #35761248], m.15-Mar-1854 to George Campbell, b.???? d.???? presumably in CA.
- Sister, Emily Caldwell, b.~1837 Kenosha Co., WI. d.???? Iola, Waupaca Co., WI. [F.A.G. #90427188], m.Augustus Chandler, b.~1820 d.15-Jan-1893 Waupaca Co., WI..
- Brother (twin), Harrison Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
- Brother (twin), Tyler Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
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Arrived in Wisconsin as a child (the "Wisconsin Territory, by 1836") with parents and siblings in late 1835, at "Pike River" (Kenosha Co., WI.), having travelled overland by wagon from Vermont. Moved to "Caldwell Prairie", Racine Co., WI. 3 years later, in 1839. Next, Columbus (with his father Tyler, and family) took-up residence in Waupaca Co., Fall 1849. Wisconsin statehood had come in 1848.
SOURCE: "History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin", page 92, 1890, 219 pages - by Josephus Wakefield.
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"TOWN OF LIND - FIRST SETTLERS" - The Town of Lind consists of Township 21, Range 12. It is bounded on the north by Waupaca on the east, by Weyauwega and Fremont on the south, by Waushara County, and on the west by Dayton. The soil is mostly a clayey or gravelly loam, easily worked and producing excellent crops. Wheat, corn, and potatoes do well, but the soil appears to be peculiarly adapted to stock raising and dairying. Sheep do well, and probably no town in the County can show better horses, than may be found among the farmers of Lind. The first settlement was made in the Spring of 1849, when Simon C. Dow and Colonel John W. Chandler moved in. In 1849, Mr. Dow built the first log house. It is still standing on Section 1. In the Fall of that year, came Tyler Caldwell and his son, Captain C. C. Caldwell, George W. Taggart, Jarvis Rice, James S. Potter, A. Rice, Charles Coffin, Hiram and James Sexton, Alonzo Vaughn, Moses Selleck and John Shaw.
SOURCE: "Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin", by John M. Ware, 1917, Chapter, XIII, page 92.
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Biographical sketch about his father & mother: Tyler & Mary, with references to his grandparents...
'THE WAUPACA POST', December 5, 1991.
"WHEN THEN WAS NOW", By Wayne A. Guyant.
"This story has its beginning with Tyler C. Caldwell and Mary Warner {N.B. Warren, per marriage record - which is incorrect}, who both were natives of Vermont. Tyler C. Caldwell was born July 11, 1798, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Caldwell. Tyler was married in Rutland County, VT, to Mary Warner, who was born October 9, 1804, a daughter of Capt. Warner, who was a veteran of the War of 1812. Soon after their marriage, the couple migrated to Chautauqua County, NY.
It was there that they became the parents of seven children: Columbia, who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Columbus, who is the main character of this story; Marette [sic] {Maryette}, who married Harvey S. Bowers, of the Town of Dayton {Waupaca Co., WI.}; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who married Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola {Waupaca Co., WI.}, and Harrison and Tyler, who were twins and died in infancy.
In 1835 Tyler C. Caldwell made a trip from his home in Chautauqua, NY, to Kenosha County, Wisconsin Territory, with the intention of settling in that new frontier. It was at this same period of time that his brother, Joseph Caldwell, also came to Kenosha County, from his home in Rutland County, VT, in search of land. Joseph had already settled at Pike River, where he was met by Tyler. Tyler C. returned to his home in Chautauqua County, NY, in the following spring to bring his family back to Kenosha County. They took a boat from Buffalo, NY, to Kenosha, then only a settlement of three houses. The Caldwell brothers were not satisfied with their location in Kenosha County, so three years later the Caldwells moved up the Fox River to Rochester Township, Racine County, where they took out the first land claim, since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie." Tyler C. Caldwell lived there for the next 10 years, and it was there that he built the first bridge over the Fox River, on the road between Racine and Janesville. On October 28, 1849 this pioneer family again moved northward, this time on a long, perilous journey past the outpost of civilization. By team they traveled through the forests from Racine County - to Section 22, Township of Lind, Waupaca County. Mr. Caldwell worked his land until in January of 1861, when he made a trip to his old home in Vermont to visit his aging mother and the scenes of his childhood. There was no mention about his father, who must by then have passed away. One week after his arrival, he died in the home of his birthplace. His mother lived to be 101 years of age. There seems to be no record of Tyler C. Caldwell's body ever being returned to the Crystal Lake Cemetery for burial. His wife, Mary Warner Caldwell, died in February of 1888, and was buried in the Crystal Lake Cemetery, beside his daughter, Mariette (Maryette) Bowers.
When the Caldwell family was still living at Caldwell's Prairie, young Columbus Caldwell, the only living son of Tyler C. and Mary Caldwell, was only eight years of age when he began driving a yoke of oxen, breaking up the virgin prairie sod. He was paid $10 a month. In February 1852, Columbus Caldwell and his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, started for the gold fields of California, by the new Overland Route, crossing the Missouri River May 11 and reaching California on July 28. He remained engaged in gold mining for the next seven years before returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and resumed farming in the Township of Lind. He was married at Weyauwega on November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a daughter of George W. and Eunice L. (Fulton) Taggart. Eunice L. Fulton was a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first steamboat. On December 6, 1861, less than one month after his marriage, he enlisted in Company M, First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in forming. His regiment was ordered to Missouri and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, MO, on May 15, 1862. His regiment was responsible for ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwackers that overran that part of the country during the early years of the war. While in Missouri Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen. Rosecran's army at Murfreesboro, TN, in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating with the company about Murfreesboro was regiment accompanied the army to Chickamauga, TN. In October of 1863 Lieutenant Caldwell was taken sick, and after spending a week in the hospital at Nashville, was sent home to die. He reached home in November 1863, but by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered enough to return to his regiment. While in charge of 25 men on detached duty, he and 19 of his little squad were captured on the "Duck Town Road," 12 miles east of Cleveland, TN by Gen. Wheeler, then in command of the rebel cavalry. He was first sent to Andersonville Prison. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regimental headquarters, although he had been acting as captain for some time. The story goes that Captain Caldwell received preferred treatment. He was permitted to eat from pieces of broken dishes, because he was an officer. Most people did not get out of the Andersonville Prison alive, but Captain Caldwell was jailed in Macon, GA, thence sent to Savannah, GA, and on to Charleston, SC, where the prisoners were put under the fire, while the Union Army was shelling the city. He remained a prisoner until being exchanged on March 1, 1865. The imprisonment and treat-ment received in his confinement has broken down his health to a point where this fine specimen of a man, six feet, one inch tall and weighing 190 pounds, was weakened to a point of not being able to walk. Captain Caldwell was sent home on a 30-day furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, MD. While still on furlough at his farm in the Town of Lind, Richmond fell, and the war between the states was nearly over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, May 15, 1865, and never was wounded.
The children of Capt. Caldwell and Eunice Fulton [sic] {Mary L Taggart, daughter of Eunice Fulton-Taggart}, his first wife, were: Minnie L. and Ida S. His first wife died January 6, 1886, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida Jane Taggart. The children by this marriage were: George T., Warner F., Otis L., Beatrice L., and Eunice.
After his discharge, and the war was over, he returned to his farm in the Township of Lind. Although physically unable to work, he supervised its operation. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of the Town of Lind, and a member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds in 1867, and while serving in this capacity, he was elected a member of Waupaca's City Council. In 1870 he was elected assessor for the city and the Township of Waupaca. In 1871, he returned to his farm in the Town of Lind, where he partially resumed farming. In 1872 and again in 1873, he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he was one of five men appointed by the Waupaca City Council to serve on a building committee to erect a new courthouse. In 1882 he was elected superintendent of the Waupaca County Poor Farm, near Manawa. He served there for nearly five years, until resigning December 1, 1887, to accept the position as commandant the Wisconsin Veterans Home. He held this position until July 1897. Mrs. Caldwell was a very efficient matron during those years.
Columbus C. Caldwell died at his home in Waupaca on December 18, 1908. His wife, Ida Jane Taggart Caldwell, born November 24, 1848, at Rochester, Racine County, died at her home in Waupaca on November 6, 1916. They are buried on the Caldwell lot along with five other members of the Caldwell family in the Oakwood cemetery in Weyauwega.
There are two grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus C. Caldwell living today in the area. They are Clifford Caldwell, still living on his place in the Town of Belmont, Portage County, and Gilbert (Gibb) Caldwell, formerly of the Town of Farmington, who is presently convalescing in the Manawa Nursing Home. Get well soon, Gibb. There are other living descendents through the Warner F. Caldwell and the Mrs. Walter L. (Beatrice Caldwell) Radley families.
SOURCE: The Waupaca Post, newspaper, Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Captain, Columbus CALDWELL. One of the best known citizens of Waupaca county, and one whose name is familiar throughout the State of Wisconsin, is Capt. C. Caldwell, for over seven years superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home, which is a most creditable State institution, and the pride of the G.A.R. It is situated in Farmington township. Capt. Caldwell has been pioneer, soldier, legislator, county official, and farmer, and in whatever sphere of public or private service his life has been cast, his actions have not only been above reproach, but signally meritorious, highly creditable to himself and pleasing beyond degree both to the public at large and to his own immediate constituents. He has had the happy faculty of retaining a wide popularity, and in the management of the Home has displayed notable efficiency.
Since the age of six years he has been a resident of Wisconsin, and since nineteen, of Waupaca county. He was born in Charlotte township, Chautauqua Co., NY., September 25, 1830, son of Tyler C. and Mary Warner-Caldwell, both natives of Rutland county., Vt., where Tyler was born, July 11. 1798, son of Benjamin Caldwell and Mary his wife, the daughter of Capt. Warner of the war of 1812, born October 9, 1804. Tyler and Mary Caldwell were married in Vermont, and subsequently migrated to Chautauqua county, NY. Their children were as follows: Columbia who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Capt. C. subject of this sketch; Marietta, widow of Harvey S. Bowers, of Dayton township, Waupaca county; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who was the wife of Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola township, Waupaca county; Harrison and Tyler (twins), who died in infancy.
In 1835, Tyler C. Caldwell made a preliminary trip from his home in Chautauqua county, NY., to Wisconsin, with a view of settling in that distant Territory. The same year, his brother Joseph Caldwell, had driven by team from his old home in Vermont to Wisconsin. Tyler met him at Racine, and together the brothers took up the first claims in what has since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie" in county. Returning home, Tyler Caldwell in the following spring moved his west, coming by boat from Buffalo to Kenosha, Wis., near which place the family lived for a time. This flourishing city was a little settlement of three houses. Three years later, the family removed up the river to Rochester township, Racine county. Here they lived for ten years, and here Mr. Caldwell by contract, built the first bridge over the Fox river on the road from to Janesville. In 1850 the family again moved northward, this time a long and perilous journey, past the outposts of civilization. By team they through the forests from Racine county Waupaca county, and settled on what is now Section 22, Lind township. The land had not yet been surveyed by the government, and in building cabins and clearings the pioneers were obliged to trust to Providence, that section lines and would not interfere with the primitive habitations. When Waupaca county was the first organized in 1851, Tyler C. Caldwell was elected chairman of the town board, and in that capacity helped to divide the into eight road districts and to organize various towns. He was a prominent pioneer. Desiring to revisit his aged and the scenes of his childhood, he took a trip to Vermont in January, 1861, and week after his arrival, died in the home which he was born. His mother lived the age of 101 years, and his widow died February, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. Tyler Caldwell was a Whig in politics, later a Republican, voting for John C. Fremont. He was a great admirer of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
Capt. C. Caldwell at the age of years, began driving a yoke of cattle, the primitive prairie, receiving $10 month for his services. For thirteen summers he followed this occupation. He reached Waupaca on his first visit October 28, 1849, coming up the river by skiff from Winneconne. His opportunities for education were meager, and his youth was employed clearing land, making shingles, and occasionally in shooting deer, prairie chickens and other game in which the country abounded. In February 1852, with his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, he started for California by the new overland route, crossing the Missouri river May 11, reaching California July 28. For seven years he remained on the coast, engaged in gold mining and other pursuits. Returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus and New York City, he resumed farming in Lind township. He was married at Weyauwega, November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a native of New York and daughter of George W. Taggart, who in 1837, migrated to Racine county, Wis., and about 1850 settled in Waupaca county.
On December 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company M., First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in raising. The regiment was ordered to Missouri, and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the first active engagement at Chalk Bluffs, Mo., May 15, 1862. It did efficient service in ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwhackers which overran that country during the earlier years of the war. In Missouri, Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen Rosecrans' army at Mufreesboro, Tenn., in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating in the campaign about Murfreesboro, the regiment accompanied the army on to Chickamauga, and after the battle there, it recrossed the river into Tennessee and proceeded toward Knoxville. In October 1863, Capt. Caldwell was taken sick, and after a week spent in the Nashville hospital was sent home "to die", arriving in November. But by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered to return to his regiment, rejoining it at Cleveland, Tenn., March 20: while in charge of twenty-five men on detached duty, he and nineteen of his little squad were captured on the "Ducktown road", twelve miles east of Cleveland, by Gen. Wheeler, now member of Congress from Alabama, and then in command of Rebel cavalry. He was sent to Andersonville, then to jail at Macon, GA., thence to Savannah, one and a half miles, thence to Charleston, SC., where they were put under fire while the Union army was shelling the city; then to Columbia, SC., Raleigh, NC., and Goldsboro, remaining a prisoner until exchanged, March 1, 1865. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regiment headquarters. He had been acting captain for some time, but never served actively under his commission. Imprisonment and the treatment received in confinement so broke down his health that what had been a fine specimen of humanity, six feet one inch in height, 190 pounds in weight, was a weak emaciated being, unable to even walk. Capt. Caldwell was sent home on a thirty-days' furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, Md., and while he was still in Lind township, Richmond fell, and the war was practically over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio., May 15, 1865. Though in many battles, Capt. Caldwell was never wounded, but his health by sickness and subsequent imprisonment, had been completely shattered.
Returning to his farm in Lind township, he superintended its operation, though himself physically unable to work. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of Lind township, and for the same period, member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds of Waupaca county in 1867, and while serving in that capacity, he was also elected a member of Waupaca's city council. In 1870, he was elected assessor of township. Returning to Lind township in 1871, he partially resumed farming, though still not rugged in health, serving two terms as chairman. In 1872, and again in 1873, he was elected to Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he member of a building committee of five appointed by the Waupaca city council erect the court house which was two years later. In the fall of 1882, he was elected superintendent of the county poor by the county board, and removed to County Infirmary. He served here five years, lacking one month, when he resigned, December 1, 1887, to accept his present position as superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home.
The children of Capt. Caldwell by his first wife, are: Minnie L., a school teacher at Baraboo, Wis., and Ida S., a clerk, at home. Mrs. Caldwell died January 6, 1866, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida J. Taggart, the children by this marriage being: George T., an electrician; Warner F., of Saxeville, Waushara county; Otis L., an engineer and electrician; Beatrix L., attending school at New London; and Eunice, at home. Mrs. Caldwell is the very successful matron of the Veterans Home. Capt. Caldwell is a Republican in politics, and from his long career in public life he has made a wide acquaintanceship throughout the county. He is prominent in G.A.R. circles, and to his children he has given exceptional educational advantages. Public spirited, genial, able, he is an honor to the county and to the State which he now officially and humanely represents.
SOURCE: 'Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade, and Shawano", pages 374-376, by: J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1895.
Source [link]: https://books.google.com/books?id=VElEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA374&
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"WI CENSUS 1905"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Waupaca city, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Age: 75y
Estimated Birth Year: Abt 1830
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Parent 1: Vermont
Place of Birth: Parent 2: Vermont
Family Number: 274
Page Number: 596
Line Number: 77
Film Number: 1020988
Digital Folder Number: 4236871
Image Number: 00750
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 75y
Spouse Ida J Caldwell F 56y
Child Beatrix Caldwell F 20y
SOURCE: Wisconsin State Census, 1905
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMQJ-94H
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"US CENSUS 1880"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Lind, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Birthdate: 1831
Birthplace: New York, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Ida J. Caldwell
Spouse's Birthplace: Wisconsin, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: New York, United States
Mother's Name: Mary W. Caldwell
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 49 years
Occupation: Farmer
NARA Film Number: T9-1451
Page: 114
Page Character: B
Entry Number: 4241
Film number: 1255451
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 49
Spouse Ida J. Caldwell F 31
Child Ida D. Caldwell F 14
Child George F. Caldwell M 11
Child Warner F. Caldwell M 6
Child Otis L. Caldwell M 4
Parent Mary W. Caldwell F 75
Henry L. West M 19
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1880.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MNH5-Q2T
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: , Waupacca, Wisconsin
Ward: The Town Of Lind
Age: 28 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1832
Birthplace: New York
Gender: Male
Page: 35
Family Number: 258
Film Number: 805433
DGS Number: 4300459
Image Number: 00077
NARA Number: M653
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
Source [link]: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MW9D-G2Z
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US Civil War: 2nd Lieutenant, Co. M, 1st Regiment, Calvary, WI.
SOURCE: "Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865" by Jeremiah M. Rusk and Chandler P. Chapman. It was published in 1886 by the Democrat Printing Company, State Printers, Madison, Wisconsin.
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N.B. found no official record of having been promoted to 1st Lieutenant, nor to Captain (albeit some sources refer to him as "Captain Caldwell"). -ed. Mustered-out as a 2nd Lieutenant per US Gov sources.
SOURCE: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors.
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Charter Member of the Waupaca Co., WI. G.A.R. Lodge.
"PARENTS"
Father: John Tyler Caldwell, b.1798 Rutland Co., VT., d.18-Jan-1861, Rutland Co., VT. (while residing in WI., but during a visit to his elderly mother in VT.) [F.A.G. memorial # 42598857].
Mother: Mary Warner-Caldwell, b.04-Oct-1804 Rutland Co., VT., d.11-Feb-1888 Waupaca Co., WI., m.31-Oct-1826 in Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT. [F.A.G. memorial #90377604].
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"GRAND-PARENTS"
Paternal Grand-Father: Benjamin Caldwell, b.28-Mar-1764 Sutton, Worcester Co., MA., d.29-Feb-1852 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., [F.A.G. memorial #24324083].
Paternal Grand-Mother: Sarah Batchelor-Caldwell, b.27-Nov-27-1766 MA., d.14-Apr-1867 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., Aged 100y 4m 18d., m.13-Aug-1789 Sutton, Worcester, MA., [F.A.G. memorial #42598764].
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Maternal Grand-Father: [Name?] Warner, b.~1780 CT., d.????.
Maternal Grand-Mother: [Name?] [Surname?]-Warner, b.~1782 VT., d.????.
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"MARRIAGES"
m1.22-Nov-1861 in Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI. to Mary L. Taggart b.1838 d.1867. Waupaca Co., WI.
m2.22-May-1868 in Waupaca Co., WI. to Ida Jane Taggart-Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1848 Waupaca Co., Wi. d.06-Nov-1916, Waupaca, Wauapaca Co., WI.
Note: wives, Mary and Ida were sisters.
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CHILDREN (with Mary L Taggart):
i. Minnie L. Caldwell, b.???? d.????.
ii. Ida S. Caldwell, b.1865 d.1953.
CHILDREN (with her sister, Ida Jane Taggart):
iii. George T. Caldwell, b.1869 d.1917.
iv. Warner F. Caldwell, b.1873 d.1959.
v. Otis L. Caldwell, b.1876 d.1934.
vi. Beatrice L. Caldwell, b.1884 d.1951.
vii. Eunice Caldwell, b.1887 d.1899.
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PATERNAL RELATIVES:
- Uncle, Joseph Caldwell, b.07-Jan-1792 d.22-Sep-1861, is specifically mentioned in the memoir, reproduced below. [F.A.G. memorial #69877005].
- Aunt, Orilla Caldwell, b.05-Apr-1809 d.21-Jan-1886 Racine Co., WI. [F.A.G. #36912161], m.Ira Rice, b.17-Sep-1812 d.23-Mar-1887 Racine Co., WI.
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SIBLINGS:
- Sister, Columbia Caldwell, b.11-Jul-1828 d.06-Oct-1881 CA. [F.A.G. # 44882160], m.Stephen P. Thresher, b.09-Nov-1820 d.07-Dec-1872, [F.A.G. #44882159].
- Sister, Mariette "Maryette" Caldwell, b.08-Oct-1833 d.26-Oct-1899, m.07-Dec-1865 Waupaca Co., WI. to Harvy S. Bowers, b.04-May-1812 d.30-Sep-1887, [F.A.G. memorial #90377950].
- Sister, Sophia Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1836 Kenosha Co., WI., d.22-Jan-1860 Butte Co., CA. [F.A.G. #35761248], m.15-Mar-1854 to George Campbell, b.???? d.???? presumably in CA.
- Sister, Emily Caldwell, b.~1837 Kenosha Co., WI. d.???? Iola, Waupaca Co., WI. [F.A.G. #90427188], m.Augustus Chandler, b.~1820 d.15-Jan-1893 Waupaca Co., WI..
- Brother (twin), Harrison Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
- Brother (twin), Tyler Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
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Arrived in Wisconsin as a child (the "Wisconsin Territory, by 1836") with parents and siblings in late 1835, at "Pike River" (Kenosha Co., WI.), having travelled overland by wagon from Vermont. Moved to "Caldwell Prairie", Racine Co., WI. 3 years later, in 1839. Next, Columbus (with his father Tyler, and family) took-up residence in Waupaca Co., Fall 1849. Wisconsin statehood had come in 1848.
SOURCE: "History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin", page 92, 1890, 219 pages - by Josephus Wakefield.
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"TOWN OF LIND - FIRST SETTLERS" - The Town of Lind consists of Township 21, Range 12. It is bounded on the north by Waupaca on the east, by Weyauwega and Fremont on the south, by Waushara County, and on the west by Dayton. The soil is mostly a clayey or gravelly loam, easily worked and producing excellent crops. Wheat, corn, and potatoes do well, but the soil appears to be peculiarly adapted to stock raising and dairying. Sheep do well, and probably no town in the County can show better horses, than may be found among the farmers of Lind. The first settlement was made in the Spring of 1849, when Simon C. Dow and Colonel John W. Chandler moved in. In 1849, Mr. Dow built the first log house. It is still standing on Section 1. In the Fall of that year, came Tyler Caldwell and his son, Captain C. C. Caldwell, George W. Taggart, Jarvis Rice, James S. Potter, A. Rice, Charles Coffin, Hiram and James Sexton, Alonzo Vaughn, Moses Selleck and John Shaw.
SOURCE: "Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin", by John M. Ware, 1917, Chapter, XIII, page 92.
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Biographical sketch about his father & mother: Tyler & Mary, with references to his grandparents...
'THE WAUPACA POST', December 5, 1991.
"WHEN THEN WAS NOW", By Wayne A. Guyant.
"This story has its beginning with Tyler C. Caldwell and Mary Warner {N.B. Warren, per marriage record - which is incorrect}, who both were natives of Vermont. Tyler C. Caldwell was born July 11, 1798, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Caldwell. Tyler was married in Rutland County, VT, to Mary Warner, who was born October 9, 1804, a daughter of Capt. Warner, who was a veteran of the War of 1812. Soon after their marriage, the couple migrated to Chautauqua County, NY.
It was there that they became the parents of seven children: Columbia, who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Columbus, who is the main character of this story; Marette [sic] {Maryette}, who married Harvey S. Bowers, of the Town of Dayton {Waupaca Co., WI.}; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who married Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola {Waupaca Co., WI.}, and Harrison and Tyler, who were twins and died in infancy.
In 1835 Tyler C. Caldwell made a trip from his home in Chautauqua, NY, to Kenosha County, Wisconsin Territory, with the intention of settling in that new frontier. It was at this same period of time that his brother, Joseph Caldwell, also came to Kenosha County, from his home in Rutland County, VT, in search of land. Joseph had already settled at Pike River, where he was met by Tyler. Tyler C. returned to his home in Chautauqua County, NY, in the following spring to bring his family back to Kenosha County. They took a boat from Buffalo, NY, to Kenosha, then only a settlement of three houses. The Caldwell brothers were not satisfied with their location in Kenosha County, so three years later the Caldwells moved up the Fox River to Rochester Township, Racine County, where they took out the first land claim, since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie." Tyler C. Caldwell lived there for the next 10 years, and it was there that he built the first bridge over the Fox River, on the road between Racine and Janesville. On October 28, 1849 this pioneer family again moved northward, this time on a long, perilous journey past the outpost of civilization. By team they traveled through the forests from Racine County - to Section 22, Township of Lind, Waupaca County. Mr. Caldwell worked his land until in January of 1861, when he made a trip to his old home in Vermont to visit his aging mother and the scenes of his childhood. There was no mention about his father, who must by then have passed away. One week after his arrival, he died in the home of his birthplace. His mother lived to be 101 years of age. There seems to be no record of Tyler C. Caldwell's body ever being returned to the Crystal Lake Cemetery for burial. His wife, Mary Warner Caldwell, died in February of 1888, and was buried in the Crystal Lake Cemetery, beside his daughter, Mariette (Maryette) Bowers.
When the Caldwell family was still living at Caldwell's Prairie, young Columbus Caldwell, the only living son of Tyler C. and Mary Caldwell, was only eight years of age when he began driving a yoke of oxen, breaking up the virgin prairie sod. He was paid $10 a month. In February 1852, Columbus Caldwell and his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, started for the gold fields of California, by the new Overland Route, crossing the Missouri River May 11 and reaching California on July 28. He remained engaged in gold mining for the next seven years before returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and resumed farming in the Township of Lind. He was married at Weyauwega on November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a daughter of George W. and Eunice L. (Fulton) Taggart. Eunice L. Fulton was a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first steamboat. On December 6, 1861, less than one month after his marriage, he enlisted in Company M, First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in forming. His regiment was ordered to Missouri and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, MO, on May 15, 1862. His regiment was responsible for ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwackers that overran that part of the country during the early years of the war. While in Missouri Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen. Rosecran's army at Murfreesboro, TN, in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating with the company about Murfreesboro was regiment accompanied the army to Chickamauga, TN. In October of 1863 Lieutenant Caldwell was taken sick, and after spending a week in the hospital at Nashville, was sent home to die. He reached home in November 1863, but by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered enough to return to his regiment. While in charge of 25 men on detached duty, he and 19 of his little squad were captured on the "Duck Town Road," 12 miles east of Cleveland, TN by Gen. Wheeler, then in command of the rebel cavalry. He was first sent to Andersonville Prison. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regimental headquarters, although he had been acting as captain for some time. The story goes that Captain Caldwell received preferred treatment. He was permitted to eat from pieces of broken dishes, because he was an officer. Most people did not get out of the Andersonville Prison alive, but Captain Caldwell was jailed in Macon, GA, thence sent to Savannah, GA, and on to Charleston, SC, where the prisoners were put under the fire, while the Union Army was shelling the city. He remained a prisoner until being exchanged on March 1, 1865. The imprisonment and treat-ment received in his confinement has broken down his health to a point where this fine specimen of a man, six feet, one inch tall and weighing 190 pounds, was weakened to a point of not being able to walk. Captain Caldwell was sent home on a 30-day furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, MD. While still on furlough at his farm in the Town of Lind, Richmond fell, and the war between the states was nearly over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, May 15, 1865, and never was wounded.
The children of Capt. Caldwell and Eunice Fulton [sic] {Mary L Taggart, daughter of Eunice Fulton-Taggart}, his first wife, were: Minnie L. and Ida S. His first wife died January 6, 1886, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida Jane Taggart. The children by this marriage were: George T., Warner F., Otis L., Beatrice L., and Eunice.
After his discharge, and the war was over, he returned to his farm in the Township of Lind. Although physically unable to work, he supervised its operation. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of the Town of Lind, and a member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds in 1867, and while serving in this capacity, he was elected a member of Waupaca's City Council. In 1870 he was elected assessor for the city and the Township of Waupaca. In 1871, he returned to his farm in the Town of Lind, where he partially resumed farming. In 1872 and again in 1873, he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he was one of five men appointed by the Waupaca City Council to serve on a building committee to erect a new courthouse. In 1882 he was elected superintendent of the Waupaca County Poor Farm, near Manawa. He served there for nearly five years, until resigning December 1, 1887, to accept the position as commandant the Wisconsin Veterans Home. He held this position until July 1897. Mrs. Caldwell was a very efficient matron during those years.
Columbus C. Caldwell died at his home in Waupaca on December 18, 1908. His wife, Ida Jane Taggart Caldwell, born November 24, 1848, at Rochester, Racine County, died at her home in Waupaca on November 6, 1916. They are buried on the Caldwell lot along with five other members of the Caldwell family in the Oakwood cemetery in Weyauwega.
There are two grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus C. Caldwell living today in the area. They are Clifford Caldwell, still living on his place in the Town of Belmont, Portage County, and Gilbert (Gibb) Caldwell, formerly of the Town of Farmington, who is presently convalescing in the Manawa Nursing Home. Get well soon, Gibb. There are other living descendents through the Warner F. Caldwell and the Mrs. Walter L. (Beatrice Caldwell) Radley families.
SOURCE: The Waupaca Post, newspaper, Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Captain, Columbus CALDWELL. One of the best known citizens of Waupaca county, and one whose name is familiar throughout the State of Wisconsin, is Capt. C. Caldwell, for over seven years superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home, which is a most creditable State institution, and the pride of the G.A.R. It is situated in Farmington township. Capt. Caldwell has been pioneer, soldier, legislator, county official, and farmer, and in whatever sphere of public or private service his life has been cast, his actions have not only been above reproach, but signally meritorious, highly creditable to himself and pleasing beyond degree both to the public at large and to his own immediate constituents. He has had the happy faculty of retaining a wide popularity, and in the management of the Home has displayed notable efficiency.
Since the age of six years he has been a resident of Wisconsin, and since nineteen, of Waupaca county. He was born in Charlotte township, Chautauqua Co., NY., September 25, 1830, son of Tyler C. and Mary Warner-Caldwell, both natives of Rutland county., Vt., where Tyler was born, July 11. 1798, son of Benjamin Caldwell and Mary his wife, the daughter of Capt. Warner of the war of 1812, born October 9, 1804. Tyler and Mary Caldwell were married in Vermont, and subsequently migrated to Chautauqua county, NY. Their children were as follows: Columbia who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Capt. C. subject of this sketch; Marietta, widow of Harvey S. Bowers, of Dayton township, Waupaca county; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who was the wife of Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola township, Waupaca county; Harrison and Tyler (twins), who died in infancy.
In 1835, Tyler C. Caldwell made a preliminary trip from his home in Chautauqua county, NY., to Wisconsin, with a view of settling in that distant Territory. The same year, his brother Joseph Caldwell, had driven by team from his old home in Vermont to Wisconsin. Tyler met him at Racine, and together the brothers took up the first claims in what has since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie" in county. Returning home, Tyler Caldwell in the following spring moved his west, coming by boat from Buffalo to Kenosha, Wis., near which place the family lived for a time. This flourishing city was a little settlement of three houses. Three years later, the family removed up the river to Rochester township, Racine county. Here they lived for ten years, and here Mr. Caldwell by contract, built the first bridge over the Fox river on the road from to Janesville. In 1850 the family again moved northward, this time a long and perilous journey, past the outposts of civilization. By team they through the forests from Racine county Waupaca county, and settled on what is now Section 22, Lind township. The land had not yet been surveyed by the government, and in building cabins and clearings the pioneers were obliged to trust to Providence, that section lines and would not interfere with the primitive habitations. When Waupaca county was the first organized in 1851, Tyler C. Caldwell was elected chairman of the town board, and in that capacity helped to divide the into eight road districts and to organize various towns. He was a prominent pioneer. Desiring to revisit his aged and the scenes of his childhood, he took a trip to Vermont in January, 1861, and week after his arrival, died in the home which he was born. His mother lived the age of 101 years, and his widow died February, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. Tyler Caldwell was a Whig in politics, later a Republican, voting for John C. Fremont. He was a great admirer of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
Capt. C. Caldwell at the age of years, began driving a yoke of cattle, the primitive prairie, receiving $10 month for his services. For thirteen summers he followed this occupation. He reached Waupaca on his first visit October 28, 1849, coming up the river by skiff from Winneconne. His opportunities for education were meager, and his youth was employed clearing land, making shingles, and occasionally in shooting deer, prairie chickens and other game in which the country abounded. In February 1852, with his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, he started for California by the new overland route, crossing the Missouri river May 11, reaching California July 28. For seven years he remained on the coast, engaged in gold mining and other pursuits. Returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus and New York City, he resumed farming in Lind township. He was married at Weyauwega, November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a native of New York and daughter of George W. Taggart, who in 1837, migrated to Racine county, Wis., and about 1850 settled in Waupaca county.
On December 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company M., First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in raising. The regiment was ordered to Missouri, and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the first active engagement at Chalk Bluffs, Mo., May 15, 1862. It did efficient service in ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwhackers which overran that country during the earlier years of the war. In Missouri, Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen Rosecrans' army at Mufreesboro, Tenn., in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating in the campaign about Murfreesboro, the regiment accompanied the army on to Chickamauga, and after the battle there, it recrossed the river into Tennessee and proceeded toward Knoxville. In October 1863, Capt. Caldwell was taken sick, and after a week spent in the Nashville hospital was sent home "to die", arriving in November. But by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered to return to his regiment, rejoining it at Cleveland, Tenn., March 20: while in charge of twenty-five men on detached duty, he and nineteen of his little squad were captured on the "Ducktown road", twelve miles east of Cleveland, by Gen. Wheeler, now member of Congress from Alabama, and then in command of Rebel cavalry. He was sent to Andersonville, then to jail at Macon, GA., thence to Savannah, one and a half miles, thence to Charleston, SC., where they were put under fire while the Union army was shelling the city; then to Columbia, SC., Raleigh, NC., and Goldsboro, remaining a prisoner until exchanged, March 1, 1865. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regiment headquarters. He had been acting captain for some time, but never served actively under his commission. Imprisonment and the treatment received in confinement so broke down his health that what had been a fine specimen of humanity, six feet one inch in height, 190 pounds in weight, was a weak emaciated being, unable to even walk. Capt. Caldwell was sent home on a thirty-days' furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, Md., and while he was still in Lind township, Richmond fell, and the war was practically over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio., May 15, 1865. Though in many battles, Capt. Caldwell was never wounded, but his health by sickness and subsequent imprisonment, had been completely shattered.
Returning to his farm in Lind township, he superintended its operation, though himself physically unable to work. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of Lind township, and for the same period, member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds of Waupaca county in 1867, and while serving in that capacity, he was also elected a member of Waupaca's city council. In 1870, he was elected assessor of township. Returning to Lind township in 1871, he partially resumed farming, though still not rugged in health, serving two terms as chairman. In 1872, and again in 1873, he was elected to Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he member of a building committee of five appointed by the Waupaca city council erect the court house which was two years later. In the fall of 1882, he was elected superintendent of the county poor by the county board, and removed to County Infirmary. He served here five years, lacking one month, when he resigned, December 1, 1887, to accept his present position as superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home.
The children of Capt. Caldwell by his first wife, are: Minnie L., a school teacher at Baraboo, Wis., and Ida S., a clerk, at home. Mrs. Caldwell died January 6, 1866, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida J. Taggart, the children by this marriage being: George T., an electrician; Warner F., of Saxeville, Waushara county; Otis L., an engineer and electrician; Beatrix L., attending school at New London; and Eunice, at home. Mrs. Caldwell is the very successful matron of the Veterans Home. Capt. Caldwell is a Republican in politics, and from his long career in public life he has made a wide acquaintanceship throughout the county. He is prominent in G.A.R. circles, and to his children he has given exceptional educational advantages. Public spirited, genial, able, he is an honor to the county and to the State which he now officially and humanely represents.
SOURCE: 'Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade, and Shawano", pages 374-376, by: J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1895.
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"WI CENSUS 1905"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Waupaca city, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Age: 75y
Estimated Birth Year: Abt 1830
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Parent 1: Vermont
Place of Birth: Parent 2: Vermont
Family Number: 274
Page Number: 596
Line Number: 77
Film Number: 1020988
Digital Folder Number: 4236871
Image Number: 00750
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 75y
Spouse Ida J Caldwell F 56y
Child Beatrix Caldwell F 20y
SOURCE: Wisconsin State Census, 1905
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"US CENSUS 1880"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Lind, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Birthdate: 1831
Birthplace: New York, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Ida J. Caldwell
Spouse's Birthplace: Wisconsin, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: New York, United States
Mother's Name: Mary W. Caldwell
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 49 years
Occupation: Farmer
NARA Film Number: T9-1451
Page: 114
Page Character: B
Entry Number: 4241
Film number: 1255451
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 49
Spouse Ida J. Caldwell F 31
Child Ida D. Caldwell F 14
Child George F. Caldwell M 11
Child Warner F. Caldwell M 6
Child Otis L. Caldwell M 4
Parent Mary W. Caldwell F 75
Henry L. West M 19
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1880.
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: , Waupacca, Wisconsin
Ward: The Town Of Lind
Age: 28 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1832
Birthplace: New York
Gender: Male
Page: 35
Family Number: 258
Film Number: 805433
DGS Number: 4300459
Image Number: 00077
NARA Number: M653
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
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US Civil War: 2nd Lieutenant, Co. M, 1st Regiment, Calvary, WI.
SOURCE: "Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865" by Jeremiah M. Rusk and Chandler P. Chapman. It was published in 1886 by the Democrat Printing Company, State Printers, Madison, Wisconsin.
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N.B. found no official record of having been promoted to 1st Lieutenant, nor to Captain (albeit some sources refer to him as "Captain Caldwell"). -ed. Mustered-out as a 2nd Lieutenant per US Gov sources.
SOURCE: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors.
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Charter Member of the Waupaca Co., WI. G.A.R. Lodge.
Father: John Tyler Caldwell, b.1798 Rutland Co., VT., d.18-Jan-1861, Rutland Co., VT. (while residing in WI., but during a visit to his elderly mother in VT.) [F.A.G. memorial # 42598857].
Mother: Mary Warner-Caldwell, b.04-Oct-1804 Rutland Co., VT., d.11-Feb-1888 Waupaca Co., WI., m.31-Oct-1826 in Pittsford, Rutland Co., VT. [F.A.G. memorial #90377604].
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"GRAND-PARENTS"
Paternal Grand-Father: Benjamin Caldwell, b.28-Mar-1764 Sutton, Worcester Co., MA., d.29-Feb-1852 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., [F.A.G. memorial #24324083].
Paternal Grand-Mother: Sarah Batchelor-Caldwell, b.27-Nov-27-1766 MA., d.14-Apr-1867 Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT., Aged 100y 4m 18d., m.13-Aug-1789 Sutton, Worcester, MA., [F.A.G. memorial #42598764].
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Maternal Grand-Father: [Name?] Warner, b.~1780 CT., d.????.
Maternal Grand-Mother: [Name?] [Surname?]-Warner, b.~1782 VT., d.????.
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"MARRIAGES"
m1.22-Nov-1861 in Weyauwega, Waupaca Co., WI. to Mary L. Taggart b.1838 d.1867. Waupaca Co., WI.
m2.22-May-1868 in Waupaca Co., WI. to Ida Jane Taggart-Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1848 Waupaca Co., Wi. d.06-Nov-1916, Waupaca, Wauapaca Co., WI.
Note: wives, Mary and Ida were sisters.
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CHILDREN (with Mary L Taggart):
i. Minnie L. Caldwell, b.???? d.????.
ii. Ida S. Caldwell, b.1865 d.1953.
CHILDREN (with her sister, Ida Jane Taggart):
iii. George T. Caldwell, b.1869 d.1917.
iv. Warner F. Caldwell, b.1873 d.1959.
v. Otis L. Caldwell, b.1876 d.1934.
vi. Beatrice L. Caldwell, b.1884 d.1951.
vii. Eunice Caldwell, b.1887 d.1899.
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PATERNAL RELATIVES:
- Uncle, Joseph Caldwell, b.07-Jan-1792 d.22-Sep-1861, is specifically mentioned in the memoir, reproduced below. [F.A.G. memorial #69877005].
- Aunt, Orilla Caldwell, b.05-Apr-1809 d.21-Jan-1886 Racine Co., WI. [F.A.G. #36912161], m.Ira Rice, b.17-Sep-1812 d.23-Mar-1887 Racine Co., WI.
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SIBLINGS:
- Sister, Columbia Caldwell, b.11-Jul-1828 d.06-Oct-1881 CA. [F.A.G. # 44882160], m.Stephen P. Thresher, b.09-Nov-1820 d.07-Dec-1872, [F.A.G. #44882159].
- Sister, Mariette "Maryette" Caldwell, b.08-Oct-1833 d.26-Oct-1899, m.07-Dec-1865 Waupaca Co., WI. to Harvy S. Bowers, b.04-May-1812 d.30-Sep-1887, [F.A.G. memorial #90377950].
- Sister, Sophia Caldwell, b.24-Nov-1836 Kenosha Co., WI., d.22-Jan-1860 Butte Co., CA. [F.A.G. #35761248], m.15-Mar-1854 to George Campbell, b.???? d.???? presumably in CA.
- Sister, Emily Caldwell, b.~1837 Kenosha Co., WI. d.???? Iola, Waupaca Co., WI. [F.A.G. #90427188], m.Augustus Chandler, b.~1820 d.15-Jan-1893 Waupaca Co., WI..
- Brother (twin), Harrison Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
- Brother (twin), Tyler Caldwell, b. & d. in infancy.
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Arrived in Wisconsin as a child (the "Wisconsin Territory, by 1836") with parents and siblings in late 1835, at "Pike River" (Kenosha Co., WI.), having travelled overland by wagon from Vermont. Moved to "Caldwell Prairie", Racine Co., WI. 3 years later, in 1839. Next, Columbus (with his father Tyler, and family) took-up residence in Waupaca Co., Fall 1849. Wisconsin statehood had come in 1848.
SOURCE: "History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin", page 92, 1890, 219 pages - by Josephus Wakefield.
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"TOWN OF LIND - FIRST SETTLERS" - The Town of Lind consists of Township 21, Range 12. It is bounded on the north by Waupaca on the east, by Weyauwega and Fremont on the south, by Waushara County, and on the west by Dayton. The soil is mostly a clayey or gravelly loam, easily worked and producing excellent crops. Wheat, corn, and potatoes do well, but the soil appears to be peculiarly adapted to stock raising and dairying. Sheep do well, and probably no town in the County can show better horses, than may be found among the farmers of Lind. The first settlement was made in the Spring of 1849, when Simon C. Dow and Colonel John W. Chandler moved in. In 1849, Mr. Dow built the first log house. It is still standing on Section 1. In the Fall of that year, came Tyler Caldwell and his son, Captain C. C. Caldwell, George W. Taggart, Jarvis Rice, James S. Potter, A. Rice, Charles Coffin, Hiram and James Sexton, Alonzo Vaughn, Moses Selleck and John Shaw.
SOURCE: "Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin", by John M. Ware, 1917, Chapter, XIII, page 92.
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Biographical sketch about his father & mother: Tyler & Mary, with references to his grandparents...
'THE WAUPACA POST', December 5, 1991.
"WHEN THEN WAS NOW", By Wayne A. Guyant.
"This story has its beginning with Tyler C. Caldwell and Mary Warner {N.B. Warren, per marriage record - which is incorrect}, who both were natives of Vermont. Tyler C. Caldwell was born July 11, 1798, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Caldwell. Tyler was married in Rutland County, VT, to Mary Warner, who was born October 9, 1804, a daughter of Capt. Warner, who was a veteran of the War of 1812. Soon after their marriage, the couple migrated to Chautauqua County, NY.
It was there that they became the parents of seven children: Columbia, who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Columbus, who is the main character of this story; Marette [sic] {Maryette}, who married Harvey S. Bowers, of the Town of Dayton {Waupaca Co., WI.}; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who married Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola {Waupaca Co., WI.}, and Harrison and Tyler, who were twins and died in infancy.
In 1835 Tyler C. Caldwell made a trip from his home in Chautauqua, NY, to Kenosha County, Wisconsin Territory, with the intention of settling in that new frontier. It was at this same period of time that his brother, Joseph Caldwell, also came to Kenosha County, from his home in Rutland County, VT, in search of land. Joseph had already settled at Pike River, where he was met by Tyler. Tyler C. returned to his home in Chautauqua County, NY, in the following spring to bring his family back to Kenosha County. They took a boat from Buffalo, NY, to Kenosha, then only a settlement of three houses. The Caldwell brothers were not satisfied with their location in Kenosha County, so three years later the Caldwells moved up the Fox River to Rochester Township, Racine County, where they took out the first land claim, since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie." Tyler C. Caldwell lived there for the next 10 years, and it was there that he built the first bridge over the Fox River, on the road between Racine and Janesville. On October 28, 1849 this pioneer family again moved northward, this time on a long, perilous journey past the outpost of civilization. By team they traveled through the forests from Racine County - to Section 22, Township of Lind, Waupaca County. Mr. Caldwell worked his land until in January of 1861, when he made a trip to his old home in Vermont to visit his aging mother and the scenes of his childhood. There was no mention about his father, who must by then have passed away. One week after his arrival, he died in the home of his birthplace. His mother lived to be 101 years of age. There seems to be no record of Tyler C. Caldwell's body ever being returned to the Crystal Lake Cemetery for burial. His wife, Mary Warner Caldwell, died in February of 1888, and was buried in the Crystal Lake Cemetery, beside his daughter, Mariette (Maryette) Bowers.
When the Caldwell family was still living at Caldwell's Prairie, young Columbus Caldwell, the only living son of Tyler C. and Mary Caldwell, was only eight years of age when he began driving a yoke of oxen, breaking up the virgin prairie sod. He was paid $10 a month. In February 1852, Columbus Caldwell and his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, started for the gold fields of California, by the new Overland Route, crossing the Missouri River May 11 and reaching California on July 28. He remained engaged in gold mining for the next seven years before returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus of Panama and New York City, and resumed farming in the Township of Lind. He was married at Weyauwega on November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a daughter of George W. and Eunice L. (Fulton) Taggart. Eunice L. Fulton was a cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first steamboat. On December 6, 1861, less than one month after his marriage, he enlisted in Company M, First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in forming. His regiment was ordered to Missouri and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, MO, on May 15, 1862. His regiment was responsible for ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwackers that overran that part of the country during the early years of the war. While in Missouri Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen. Rosecran's army at Murfreesboro, TN, in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating with the company about Murfreesboro was regiment accompanied the army to Chickamauga, TN. In October of 1863 Lieutenant Caldwell was taken sick, and after spending a week in the hospital at Nashville, was sent home to die. He reached home in November 1863, but by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered enough to return to his regiment. While in charge of 25 men on detached duty, he and 19 of his little squad were captured on the "Duck Town Road," 12 miles east of Cleveland, TN by Gen. Wheeler, then in command of the rebel cavalry. He was first sent to Andersonville Prison. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regimental headquarters, although he had been acting as captain for some time. The story goes that Captain Caldwell received preferred treatment. He was permitted to eat from pieces of broken dishes, because he was an officer. Most people did not get out of the Andersonville Prison alive, but Captain Caldwell was jailed in Macon, GA, thence sent to Savannah, GA, and on to Charleston, SC, where the prisoners were put under the fire, while the Union Army was shelling the city. He remained a prisoner until being exchanged on March 1, 1865. The imprisonment and treat-ment received in his confinement has broken down his health to a point where this fine specimen of a man, six feet, one inch tall and weighing 190 pounds, was weakened to a point of not being able to walk. Captain Caldwell was sent home on a 30-day furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, MD. While still on furlough at his farm in the Town of Lind, Richmond fell, and the war between the states was nearly over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, OH, May 15, 1865, and never was wounded.
The children of Capt. Caldwell and Eunice Fulton [sic] {Mary L Taggart, daughter of Eunice Fulton-Taggart}, his first wife, were: Minnie L. and Ida S. His first wife died January 6, 1886, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida Jane Taggart. The children by this marriage were: George T., Warner F., Otis L., Beatrice L., and Eunice.
After his discharge, and the war was over, he returned to his farm in the Township of Lind. Although physically unable to work, he supervised its operation. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of the Town of Lind, and a member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds in 1867, and while serving in this capacity, he was elected a member of Waupaca's City Council. In 1870 he was elected assessor for the city and the Township of Waupaca. In 1871, he returned to his farm in the Town of Lind, where he partially resumed farming. In 1872 and again in 1873, he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he was one of five men appointed by the Waupaca City Council to serve on a building committee to erect a new courthouse. In 1882 he was elected superintendent of the Waupaca County Poor Farm, near Manawa. He served there for nearly five years, until resigning December 1, 1887, to accept the position as commandant the Wisconsin Veterans Home. He held this position until July 1897. Mrs. Caldwell was a very efficient matron during those years.
Columbus C. Caldwell died at his home in Waupaca on December 18, 1908. His wife, Ida Jane Taggart Caldwell, born November 24, 1848, at Rochester, Racine County, died at her home in Waupaca on November 6, 1916. They are buried on the Caldwell lot along with five other members of the Caldwell family in the Oakwood cemetery in Weyauwega.
There are two grandsons of Mr. and Mrs. Columbus C. Caldwell living today in the area. They are Clifford Caldwell, still living on his place in the Town of Belmont, Portage County, and Gilbert (Gibb) Caldwell, formerly of the Town of Farmington, who is presently convalescing in the Manawa Nursing Home. Get well soon, Gibb. There are other living descendents through the Warner F. Caldwell and the Mrs. Walter L. (Beatrice Caldwell) Radley families.
SOURCE: The Waupaca Post, newspaper, Waupaca, Waupaca Co., WI.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Captain, Columbus CALDWELL. One of the best known citizens of Waupaca county, and one whose name is familiar throughout the State of Wisconsin, is Capt. C. Caldwell, for over seven years superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home, which is a most creditable State institution, and the pride of the G.A.R. It is situated in Farmington township. Capt. Caldwell has been pioneer, soldier, legislator, county official, and farmer, and in whatever sphere of public or private service his life has been cast, his actions have not only been above reproach, but signally meritorious, highly creditable to himself and pleasing beyond degree both to the public at large and to his own immediate constituents. He has had the happy faculty of retaining a wide popularity, and in the management of the Home has displayed notable efficiency.
Since the age of six years he has been a resident of Wisconsin, and since nineteen, of Waupaca county. He was born in Charlotte township, Chautauqua Co., NY., September 25, 1830, son of Tyler C. and Mary Warner-Caldwell, both natives of Rutland county., Vt., where Tyler was born, July 11. 1798, son of Benjamin Caldwell and Mary his wife, the daughter of Capt. Warner of the war of 1812, born October 9, 1804. Tyler and Mary Caldwell were married in Vermont, and subsequently migrated to Chautauqua county, NY. Their children were as follows: Columbia who married Stephen P. Thresher, and died in California; Capt. C. subject of this sketch; Marietta, widow of Harvey S. Bowers, of Dayton township, Waupaca county; Sophia, who married George Campbell, and died in California; Emily, who was the wife of Augustus Chandler, and died in Iola township, Waupaca county; Harrison and Tyler (twins), who died in infancy.
In 1835, Tyler C. Caldwell made a preliminary trip from his home in Chautauqua county, NY., to Wisconsin, with a view of settling in that distant Territory. The same year, his brother Joseph Caldwell, had driven by team from his old home in Vermont to Wisconsin. Tyler met him at Racine, and together the brothers took up the first claims in what has since that time known as "Caldwell's Prairie" in county. Returning home, Tyler Caldwell in the following spring moved his west, coming by boat from Buffalo to Kenosha, Wis., near which place the family lived for a time. This flourishing city was a little settlement of three houses. Three years later, the family removed up the river to Rochester township, Racine county. Here they lived for ten years, and here Mr. Caldwell by contract, built the first bridge over the Fox river on the road from to Janesville. In 1850 the family again moved northward, this time a long and perilous journey, past the outposts of civilization. By team they through the forests from Racine county Waupaca county, and settled on what is now Section 22, Lind township. The land had not yet been surveyed by the government, and in building cabins and clearings the pioneers were obliged to trust to Providence, that section lines and would not interfere with the primitive habitations. When Waupaca county was the first organized in 1851, Tyler C. Caldwell was elected chairman of the town board, and in that capacity helped to divide the into eight road districts and to organize various towns. He was a prominent pioneer. Desiring to revisit his aged and the scenes of his childhood, he took a trip to Vermont in January, 1861, and week after his arrival, died in the home which he was born. His mother lived the age of 101 years, and his widow died February, 1888, at the age of eighty-four years. Tyler Caldwell was a Whig in politics, later a Republican, voting for John C. Fremont. He was a great admirer of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
Capt. C. Caldwell at the age of years, began driving a yoke of cattle, the primitive prairie, receiving $10 month for his services. For thirteen summers he followed this occupation. He reached Waupaca on his first visit October 28, 1849, coming up the river by skiff from Winneconne. His opportunities for education were meager, and his youth was employed clearing land, making shingles, and occasionally in shooting deer, prairie chickens and other game in which the country abounded. In February 1852, with his brother-in-law, Stephen P. Thresher, he started for California by the new overland route, crossing the Missouri river May 11, reaching California July 28. For seven years he remained on the coast, engaged in gold mining and other pursuits. Returning to Wisconsin, in 1859, via the Isthmus and New York City, he resumed farming in Lind township. He was married at Weyauwega, November 21, 1861, to Mary L. Taggart, a native of New York and daughter of George W. Taggart, who in 1837, migrated to Racine county, Wis., and about 1850 settled in Waupaca county.
On December 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company M., First Wisconsin Cavalry, a company which he was largely instrumental in raising. The regiment was ordered to Missouri, and first saw active service at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the first active engagement at Chalk Bluffs, Mo., May 15, 1862. It did efficient service in ridding Missouri and Arkansas of the bushwhackers which overran that country during the earlier years of the war. In Missouri, Private Caldwell was commissioned quartermaster of the regiment, and when it was ordered to join Gen Rosecrans' army at Mufreesboro, Tenn., in the fall of 1862, he had received his commission as second lieutenant. Participating in the campaign about Murfreesboro, the regiment accompanied the army on to Chickamauga, and after the battle there, it recrossed the river into Tennessee and proceeded toward Knoxville. In October 1863, Capt. Caldwell was taken sick, and after a week spent in the Nashville hospital was sent home "to die", arriving in November. But by March 1, 1864, he had sufficiently recovered to return to his regiment, rejoining it at Cleveland, Tenn., March 20: while in charge of twenty-five men on detached duty, he and nineteen of his little squad were captured on the "Ducktown road", twelve miles east of Cleveland, by Gen. Wheeler, now member of Congress from Alabama, and then in command of Rebel cavalry. He was sent to Andersonville, then to jail at Macon, GA., thence to Savannah, one and a half miles, thence to Charleston, SC., where they were put under fire while the Union army was shelling the city; then to Columbia, SC., Raleigh, NC., and Goldsboro, remaining a prisoner until exchanged, March 1, 1865. The day after his capture his commission as captain arrived at the regiment headquarters. He had been acting captain for some time, but never served actively under his commission. Imprisonment and the treatment received in confinement so broke down his health that what had been a fine specimen of humanity, six feet one inch in height, 190 pounds in weight, was a weak emaciated being, unable to even walk. Capt. Caldwell was sent home on a thirty-days' furlough, after spending two weeks at Annapolis, Md., and while he was still in Lind township, Richmond fell, and the war was practically over. He was honorably discharged from Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio., May 15, 1865. Though in many battles, Capt. Caldwell was never wounded, but his health by sickness and subsequent imprisonment, had been completely shattered.
Returning to his farm in Lind township, he superintended its operation, though himself physically unable to work. His fellow citizens soon honored him with a number of important offices. For two years he was clerk of Lind township, and for the same period, member of the school board. He was elected register of deeds of Waupaca county in 1867, and while serving in that capacity, he was also elected a member of Waupaca's city council. In 1870, he was elected assessor of township. Returning to Lind township in 1871, he partially resumed farming, though still not rugged in health, serving two terms as chairman. In 1872, and again in 1873, he was elected to Wisconsin Legislature. In 1880 he member of a building committee of five appointed by the Waupaca city council erect the court house which was two years later. In the fall of 1882, he was elected superintendent of the county poor by the county board, and removed to County Infirmary. He served here five years, lacking one month, when he resigned, December 1, 1887, to accept his present position as superintendent of the Wisconsin Veterans Home.
The children of Capt. Caldwell by his first wife, are: Minnie L., a school teacher at Baraboo, Wis., and Ida S., a clerk, at home. Mrs. Caldwell died January 6, 1866, and for his second wife, he married her sister, Ida J. Taggart, the children by this marriage being: George T., an electrician; Warner F., of Saxeville, Waushara county; Otis L., an engineer and electrician; Beatrix L., attending school at New London; and Eunice, at home. Mrs. Caldwell is the very successful matron of the Veterans Home. Capt. Caldwell is a Republican in politics, and from his long career in public life he has made a wide acquaintanceship throughout the county. He is prominent in G.A.R. circles, and to his children he has given exceptional educational advantages. Public spirited, genial, able, he is an honor to the county and to the State which he now officially and humanely represents.
SOURCE: 'Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin Counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade, and Shawano", pages 374-376, by: J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1895.
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"WI CENSUS 1905"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Waupaca city, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Age: 75y
Estimated Birth Year: Abt 1830
Birthplace: New York
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Race: White
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Place of Birth: Parent 1: Vermont
Place of Birth: Parent 2: Vermont
Family Number: 274
Page Number: 596
Line Number: 77
Film Number: 1020988
Digital Folder Number: 4236871
Image Number: 00750
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 75y
Spouse Ida J Caldwell F 56y
Child Beatrix Caldwell F 20y
SOURCE: Wisconsin State Census, 1905
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"US CENSUS 1880"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: Lind, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Birthdate: 1831
Birthplace: New York, United States
Relationship to Head: Self
Spouse's Name: Ida J. Caldwell
Spouse's Birthplace: Wisconsin, United States
Father's Name:
Father's Birthplace: New York, United States
Mother's Name: Mary W. Caldwell
Mother's Birthplace: Vermont, United States
Race or Color (Expanded): White
Ethnicity (Standardized): American
Gender: Male
Martial Status: Married
Age (Expanded): 49 years
Occupation: Farmer
NARA Film Number: T9-1451
Page: 114
Page Character: B
Entry Number: 4241
Film number: 1255451
Household Gender Age
Columbus Caldwell M 49
Spouse Ida J. Caldwell F 31
Child Ida D. Caldwell F 14
Child George F. Caldwell M 11
Child Warner F. Caldwell M 6
Child Otis L. Caldwell M 4
Parent Mary W. Caldwell F 75
Henry L. West M 19
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1880.
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"US CENSUS 1860"
Name: Columbus Caldwell
Residence: , Waupacca, Wisconsin
Ward: The Town Of Lind
Age: 28 years
Estimated Birth Year: 1832
Birthplace: New York
Gender: Male
Page: 35
Family Number: 258
Film Number: 805433
DGS Number: 4300459
Image Number: 00077
NARA Number: M653
SOURCE: US Federal Census, 1860.
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US Civil War: 2nd Lieutenant, Co. M, 1st Regiment, Calvary, WI.
SOURCE: "Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861 - 1865" by Jeremiah M. Rusk and Chandler P. Chapman. It was published in 1886 by the Democrat Printing Company, State Printers, Madison, Wisconsin.
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N.B. found no official record of having been promoted to 1st Lieutenant, nor to Captain (albeit some sources refer to him as "Captain Caldwell"). -ed. Mustered-out as a 2nd Lieutenant per US Gov sources.
SOURCE: Civil War Soldiers and Sailors.
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