Caldwell, David, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, was bom in Lancaster county, Pa., March 22, 1725, graduated at Princeton in 1761, and was licensed to preach by the New Brunswick Presbytery in 1768. Being ordained in 1766, he became pastor of the con- gregations of Buf&lo and Alamance, N. C, in 1768. In 1776 he was a member of the Convention which formed the State Constitution, and some years later he declined the offer of the presidency of the Uni- versity of North Carolina, by which institution he was made D.D. in 1810. He died in 1824, in his 100th year. — Sprague, Annals^ ili, 268.
Caldwell, James, a Presbyterian minister, was bom in Charlotte county, Ya., 1784, graduated at Princeton in 1759, and in 1761 was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church of Elizabethtown, N. J. At the Revolution he entered with spirit into the con- troveriy, and was soon branded as a rebel ; and on the formation of the Jersey brigade, he was at once select- ed as its chaplain. Throughout the war he suffisred severdy ; toward the close of it, his church was burnt and his wife murdered by the enemy. The people re- posed great confidence him, and his labors, counsels, and exhortations were of great assistance to the causa he had espoused. Tliis honored patriot was killed in 1781, at Elizabethport, by a dranken soldier named Morgan, who was tried, convicted, and hung upon the chaige of murder. Caldwell was a man of unwearied activity and of wonderful powers of endurance. As a preacher he was uncommonly eloquent and pathetic —Sprague, Annabj iii, 222.
Caldwell, Joseph, D.D., a Presbyterian minis- ter, the author of a System of Geometry and a DreatisB of Plane Trigonometry, was bom in New Jersey A.D. 1778, graduated at Princeton 1791, and became Pro- fessor of Mathematics at the University of North Car- olina in 1796, in whkh same year he was licensed as a Presbyterian minister. From 1804 till his death, in 1885, with an intermission of five years, he was Presi- dent of the University, and to his exertions it owes the respectable position which it now occupies. — Sprague, Annals, iv, 178. *
Caldwell, Merritt, A.M., Professor of Metaphys- ics, was bora in Hebron, Me., Nov. 29, 1806. His early education, both religious and academical, was very careftdly conducted, and he graduated with hon- or at Bowdohi College in 1828. In the same year he became principal of the Maine Wesleyan Seminaiy, Readfield. In 1884rhe was elected Professor of Mathe- matics and Vice-president of Dickinson College, Pa. In 1887 he was transferred to the chldr of Metaphysics and English Literature, which he occupied during the rest of his life. He soon became known as a strong thinker and excellent writer by his elaborate contribu- tions to the Methodist Quarterly Review, Nor did his devotion to literature prevent him Arom taking an in- terest in the moral questions of the times ; and in the cause of temperance especially hi^ labors were abun- dant and even excessive. In 1846 he visited England as a delegate to the "World's Convention," which formed the " Evangelical Alliance," and took an active part in its proceedings. His health, which had pre- viously been impaired, was apparently improved by his European tour, but in 1847 it failed again, and he died June 6, 1848. Professor Caldwell was a man of nnoommonly firm and masculine character. As a pro-
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fesflor md college officer he had few superiort ; as a writer, he was always clear, logical, and forcible. Many of his contributions to the periodical press were of rare excellence. He also published Mamud of El- oqiMtm, induding Voice and Gesture (Phila. 1846, 12mo, often reprinted), perhaps the best hiud-book of the sub- ject extant :---Pkilo$opt^ of C^ristkm Perfection (Phila. 1847, 18mo), " a model of clear thinking and forcible expression :''-~Chrigtiamty tested bjf emmewt Men (N. T. 1862, ISmo):— 7^ Doctrine of the Englith Verb (1887, 12mo).— JfeOodM^ Quarterly Review, 1852, p. 574.
Cald'well, Zenas, brother of Merritt, was bom in Hebron, Oxford county, Me., on the Slst of March, 1800, graduated at Bowdoin College in 1824, and soon after leaving college took charge of the Academy of Hallowell. In 1825 he was licensed as a local preach- er, and for most of the time of hb connection with the Hallowell Academy he supplied the Methodist con- gregation in Wlnthrop. In the same year he was unanimously elected principal of the new Methodist Seminary at Kent's Hill, Readfield, Me., and proved himself abundantly adequate to any service that de- volved upon him. But his whole work was to be per- formed within six months ; his lungs became seriously affected, and he died triumphantly on Dec. 26, 1826. In 1855 a small duodecimo volume by the Rev. S. M. Vail, D.D., was published, containing a memoir and several of his productions, in prose and poetry. — Sprague, Annals^ vii, 699 sq.
Ca'leb (Heb. KaUb^, sbs, appar. for ^^3, a dog\ the name of two or three men. See also Calbb-eph- batah; Neobb-Calbb.
1. (Sept XaXe/3.) The last-named of the three sons of Hezron, Judah*s grandson (i Chron. ii, 9, where he is called Chelubai). His three sons by his first wife, Azubah or Jerioth (q. v.), are enumerated (ver. 18) ; he had also another son, Hur, by a later wife, Ephrath (ver. 19 ; perhaps only the oldest of several, ver. 50); besides whom another (his " first-bom") is named (ver. 42, by what wife is uncertain), in addition to several by his concubines Ephah and Maachah (ver. 46, 48). B.C. post 1856. The text is possibly coirupt, howev- er, in some of these distinctions.