Ohio County, West Virginia - Biographies of John Caldwell & Sons.


JOHN CALDWELL & SONS 

JOHN CALDWELL was born in 1787, at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.  At an early
age he came to West Virginia and settled in Richland district, Ohio county,
where he labored with the pioneers in clearing away the forests and
preparing the country for cultivation.  In March, 1817, he was married to
Rebecca Hedges, by whom he has raised a family of eight children.  He became
at an early period  of his life a member of the United Presbyterian Church
of Short creek.  Died in 1871.

JOSEPH CALDWELL, a son of John, was born July 23, 1820; married October 17,
1844, to a Miss Ridgely, and has reared a family of four children.

WM. H. CALDWELL, also a son of John, was born August 16, 1846;  received a
liberal common school education; was married March 14, 1866, to Clarinda
Hupp, of Brooke county, West Virginia; he is the father of four children.
Mr. Caldwell was elected township clerk in 1868; filled the office of county
commissioner from 1874 to 1876, and was called to the county assessorship in
1876, which term of office will expire in 1880.

 
From HISTORY OF THE PAN-HANDLE, West Virginia, 1879, by J. H. Newton, 
G. G. Nichols, and A. G. Sprankle. Page 305.  

Contributed by Linda Cunningham Fluharty.