Brief Life History of George Washington
George Washington Caldwell was born on 21 December 1861, in Highland, Virginia, United States. He married Mary Ann Tindell on 25 December 1886, in Little Falls Township, Morrison, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Rural, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1935 and Wallowa Election Precinct 3, Wallowa, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 24 July 1951, in Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Wallowa, Union, Oregon, United States.
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- George Caldwell, "United States Census, 1940"
- George Washington Caldwell, "Find A Grave Index"
- George Caldwell in entry for Carl F Cvarfordt and Catherine I Montgomery, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1873
Historical Boundaries - 1873: Union, Oregon, United States; 1887: Wallowa, Oregon, United States
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English ceald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another. Possibly also from Caldwell (Warwickshire), Caldwall (Worcestershire), Cauldwell (Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire), Caudle Green (Gloucestershire), Caudle Ditch or Cawdle Fen (Cambridgeshire), Chadwell (Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire), Chardwell (Essex), or Chardle Ditch (Cambridgeshire, early recorded as Kadewelle).
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of Ó Fuarghuis or Ó hUarghusa ‘descendant of (F)uarghus’, a personal name whose literal sense ‘cold’ + ‘choice’ was reinterpreted as coming from fuaruisce ‘cold water’.
History: Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), a son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte County, VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to North America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster County, PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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