Biographical Sketch of James N. Cardwell, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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James N. Cardwell is a native of Claiborne County, Tenn., and was born
in 1835.  He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools of
his native county.  He began life for himself at the age of fifteen
years, from which time, until her death, he supported his widowed 
mother.  At the age of twenty he removed to Indiana, about one year 
later came to Pacific, Mo., where he remained one winter, then went to
Jefferson County, and later to Washington County, where he remained 
until the fall of 1861, when he enlisted in the Missouri State Militia
for a term of six months, and was mustered out January 8, 1862.  March
8, 1862, he re-enlisted in Company G, Fifth Missouri Cavalry, was
quartermaster sergeant of his company, which operated in Missouri and
Arkansas, and was mustered out at Rolla, Mo., April 13, 1865.  After
the close of the war Mr. Cardwell returned to Franklin County, farmed
one season, and then opened a store at Virginia Mines; four years
later he went to Texas County, Mo., and ran a general store until the
fall of 1874, when he removed to his present farm of 200 acres.  He
was married in 1873 to Miss Susan L. Worsham, a native of Texas County,
Mo., and a daughter of Peter R. and Nancy (Scott) Worsham, natives of
Tennessee.  Mr. and Mrs. Cardwell have four children: Oley S., Affie 
B., Nicholas and Roscoe.  Mrs. Cardwell is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.  Previous to the war Mr. Cardwell was a Democrat, but
since then has been a radical Republican.  He was appointed justice of
the peace, and served about one and one-half years.  He was the tenth
of the eleven children of Rial and Annie (Claypool) Cardwell.  Rial 
Cardwell, a son of John Cardwell, died about 1838; the grandfather was
a soldier in the Revolution.  Mrs. Annie Cardwell was a daughter of
David Claypool, and died in 1856, aged sixty years.

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