J. S. CALDWELL

CALDWELL, EDWARDS

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 07:27:41

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

J. S. CALDWELL, proprietor of Moulton Woolen Mills; office and mills, foot of Fifth st.; residence, foot of Fourth street; born in Carroll Co., Ill., in 1850; removed to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1870; thence to Albia, Monroe Co., Iowa, in 1871; thence to Moulton, this county, in 1877; has a complete one-set mill with a capacity of 350 to 400 yards per day, 240 spindles; the best custom roll card in Iowa; makes a specialty of jeans and yarn, with a dye-house all complete and as far as their capacity extends as complete as any Eastern manufacturing company's mill; his mill and residence are valued at $10,000. Married Miss Madeline Edwards in 1875; she was born in Ohio in 1855; they have two children - John W., born in July 1876, and Walter T., born in May 1878. Greenbacker; members of the Presbyterian Church. Enlisted in the 154th Ind. V.I. in 1864, and being but 14 years of age, was installed as Company Clerk, which position he held until mustered out in October 1865. Mr. Caldwell wishes to mention, for the benefit of all whom it may concern, that he is breeding some fine Berkshire and Poland China hogs, as well as buff Cochins and Brahma fowls.