Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Capt. E. Addison MCCALEB

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.  
Published by Goodspeed, 1889;  Pgs. 825, 826

Capt. E. Addison McCaleb, farmer and stock-raiser of Lockwood Township, 
and son of Samuel and Catherine (Wood) McCaleb, was born in Putnam County, 
Ill., in 1833.  Samuel McCaleb, was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1794,
and his wife in Mason County, Ky., in 1801.  They were married in Kentucky
about 1819, and from there removed to Ohio, thence to Indiana, and in 1832, 
to Putnam County, Ill., where Mr. McCaleb died in 1839.  He was a 
stone-mason and brick-layer by trade, and was justice of the peace for 
many years.  Mrs. McCaleb lived a widow for over forty years, and died 
in Illinois in 1882.  They were the parents of ten children, eight sons 
and two daughters.  Of these children, Capt. E. Addison McCaleb was sixth 
in order of birth.  He was educated in the rustic log school-houses of 
Illinois, until seventeen years of age, and then attended one year at 
Judson College, at Mt. Palatine, Ill., after which he taught two winters.  
He was married in 1853 to Miss Susan Conrad, a native of Schuyler County, 
Ill., and the daughter of Jeff. Conrad.  Mrs. McCaleb died in Illinois, 
in 1868.  To this union was born seven children, four now living.  
November 7, 1872, Mr. McCaleb took for his second wife, Miss Ara E., 
daughter of Townsend G. and Zilla Fife, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, 
respectively.  Mr. Fife died in Illinois, but his wife is still living.  
The second Mrs. McCaleb was born in Illinois.  To this union were born 
five children, two now living.  Mr. McCaleb served seven months in the 
United States Army, Company B, Seventy-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
and operated from Covington, Ky., in 1862, to Vicksburg, Miss.  He was in 
the attack on Haines Bluff, and was at the capture of Fort Hinman, at 
Arkansas Post.  He enlisted as second lieutenant, was afterward made 
captain, but resigned in April, 1863, on account of disability, and 
returned home.  In 1870 he came to Dade County, Mo., and settled on a 
wild piece of prairie land in the southwest part of the county.  He is 
now one of the most extensive farmers of Dade County, being the owner of 
1,003 acres of land, with 800 acres under cultivation.  He deals largely 
in live-stock, and is engaged in rearing short-horned cattle.  Since 
1886 Mr. McCaleb has lived in Lockwood, and was justice of the peace 
for three years.  He has been a Democrat in his political views all his 
life, and his first presidential vote was cast for James Buchanan in 1856.
He has been a member of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons for 
thirty-five years, now belonging to Lockwood Lodge, and to the Greenfield
Chapter and Commandery.  He has been senior warden.  He is a member of 
the Grand Army of the Republic, Lockwood Post, and he and wife are members
in good standing in the Christian Church.  He has been an earnest worker 
for the cause of education, and for the general up building of the country.
His children are named as follows: Lydia, wife of William Forrest, of 
Putnam County, Ill.; Kate, wife of Joseph Miller; Clarence A., and Samuel A.
Capt. McCaleb was reared in the pioneer days of Illinois, by a widowed 
mother, who had a large family to support, and much of his success, 
integrity and uprightness is due to the early training of a true Christian 
mother.  His advantages for an education were very limited, but by earnest
effort on his part he obtained a good practical education, and is one of 
the prominent agriculturists of Dade County.

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