BIOGRAPHIES - CALDWELL, John, Bourbon County, Kentucky

From:	Bob Francis <darby@nemr.net>
	http://www.shawhan.com

Date:	07 Feb 2000



The biographies are taken primarily from William Perrin's "The History of Bourbon, Scott,
Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky" and E. Polk Johnson's "The History of Kentucky 
and Kentuckians," Vol. III. 

Many Bourbon County, Kentucky, researchers have pointed out mistakes and they are notated.


Name: John CALDWELL
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Birth: March 15, 1817, Cynthiana, Kentucky
Father: Samuel J. CALDWELL (-1831)
Mother: Sophia ROBERSON

JOHN CALDWELL,1 auctioneer and salesman; P. O. Paris; is a grandson of William Caldwell, 
the “pioneer.” He was a native of the North of Ireland, and emigrated to America -prior to 
the Revolutionary Wari in which he participated, and was wounded at the battle of Brandywine. 
He was among the hardy pioneers who came to Kentucky when the buffalo and other wild game 
were plentiful. He located on the Houston, one mile West of the Court House. Some of the 
land he then purchased is now occupied by the Cemetery and Fair Grounds. He was one among 
the first merchants in Paris, and finally he removed to the place above described, and 
engaged in farming and distilling; lands he then purchased for a mere trifle will now 
command hundreds of dollars per acre. He died about the year 1829, aged seventy-five years; 
he had but one son, Samuel J., who was the father of John; his daughters were: Ann E., wife 
of Dr. Joseph Holt, who was well known as a physician and politician; as a stump speaker he 
was also well known; Sallie married Benjamin Warfield; Betsey, Samuel Hall; Lucretia, wife 
of Luther Smith, who was the founder of Houston Seminary. Samuel Caldwell, father of John, 
was raised in Paris and clerked in a store; upon coming to maturity he went to Cynthiana, 
Harrison County, where he married Sophia, daughter of Littleton Roberson, a native of 
Virginia and an early settler in Harrison County, Ky. Samuel Caldwell served two terms 
under Capt. Garrard, in the war of 1812; his death occurred in 1831, at the age of forty. 
He had but two children born to him: William and John; the former went to California, and 
there died in 1850. John was born March 15, 1817, in Cynthiana, and came to Bourbon County 
when a young man, and has since been well known in the county as an auctioneer, being one 
of the oldest auctioneers in the county, having no superior as a salesman.

Sources
1. Perrin, p. 452


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