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John Caldwell

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John Caldwell

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
22 Oct 1870 (aged 67)
Bastrop, Bastrop County, Texas, USA
Burial
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Section 2, lot 516
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John Caldwell, attorney and legislator. After the War of 1812, the Caldwells moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where John studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He opened a law office in Alabama, and there married Lucinda Whey Haynie. The couple traveled to Texas in 1831 and settled in 1834 in Bastrop County. He represented the county in the House and in the Senate of the Congress. He was a member of the Convention of 1845 and a state senator. In 1850 he was one of the organizers of the Colorado Navigation Company, formed to get cotton to market. He supported the South with a quarter of a million dollars in gold, for which he received Confederate bonds that became worthless at the end of the war. Caldwell built the first two-story house in the area. It came to be called the White House, and his daughter Lucinda put it on canvas. sachome.org
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John Caldwell, attorney and legislator. After the War of 1812, the Caldwells moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where John studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823. He opened a law office in Alabama, and there married Lucinda Whey Haynie. The couple traveled to Texas in 1831 and settled in 1834 in Bastrop County. He represented the county in the House and in the Senate of the Congress. He was a member of the Convention of 1845 and a state senator. In 1850 he was one of the organizers of the Colorado Navigation Company, formed to get cotton to market. He supported the South with a quarter of a million dollars in gold, for which he received Confederate bonds that became worthless at the end of the war. Caldwell built the first two-story house in the area. It came to be called the White House, and his daughter Lucinda put it on canvas. sachome.org
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