Thomas Caldwell    

THOMAS CALDWELL, deceased farmer, was born in December, 1806, on the place where he resided till his death, September 3, 1888. His parents, Charles and Isabella (Stitts) Caldwell, removed from Huntingdon County in 1805, and settled in Shenango Township, Mercer Co., Penn., where our subject was born. The grandfather on the paternal side was a native of Ireland, and came to Huntingdon County, Penn., at an early date. The father of Mr. Caldwell died in 1840 and his mother in 1844. They had seven children, all of whom are deceased. He was married in 1830 to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of James Clingan, a native of Ireland. By this marriage they had three children: Robert, who in 1861 enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and died from wounds received at the battle of Bull Run; John, who lives at home, and Irwin, who married Miss Lizzie, daughter of David Anderson, of this township, and has three children: Robert, Nellie and Josiah.  Mr. Caldwell was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, of Deer Creek, having held a continuous membership therein for sixty-one years.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 850.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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