Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Caldwell, John, A.M a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the Glasgow University in 1657; had the living of Roberton presented in 1664, but declined it; was admitted to the parish of Portpatrick in 1666, and died at Edinburgh in June, 1689, aged about fiftyfour years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticance, i, 770. Fuente: Cyclopedia of … Continue reading “Caldwell, John, A.M”

Caldwell, James Douglass a Presbyterian minister, was born Sept. 24, 1847, near Elizabeth, Alleghany Co., Pa. He prepared for college at Beaver Academy; graduated from Princeton College in 1871; also studied’ three years at Jefferson College; spent one year at Princeton Seminary, and two at the Alleghany Seminary, where he graduated. He was. licensed by … Continue reading “Caldwell, James Douglass”

Caldwell, James, D.D a Congregational minister, was born at Kilmarnock, Scotland, in the spring of 1809. He was educated at Glasgow University; ordained in 1837; preached at Biggar, Greenock, and Stockton-on-the-Tees (Eng.); came to America in 1851; was acting pastor successively at Kent, Connecticut, Sheffield, Massachusetts, Beardstown, Illinois, Post Mills, in Thetford, Vermont, and without … Continue reading “Caldwell, James, D.D”

Caldwell, James, A.M a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at the Glasgow University in 1600; was ordained minister at Bothkennar in 1603; transferred to Falkirk in 1616, and died in October of the same year, aged about thirty-six years. He published The Countesse of Marre’s Arcadia or Sanctvarrie (Edinburgh, 1625; partly republished in 1862). See … Continue reading “Caldwell, James, A.M”

Caldwell, James a Presbyterian minister, was born -in Charlotte county, Va., 1734, 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 controversy, and was soon branded as a rebel; and on the formation of the Jersey … Continue reading “Caldwell, James”

Caldwell, Isaac Nelson a Presbyterian minister, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., March 14, 1836., He graduated from Maryville College, Maryville, in’ 1858; and studied theology in the Union Theological Seminary, New York city. In 1861 he was licensed by the Newark Presbytery, and stationed at Fayetteville, Tenn. His health, which was rapidly declining when … Continue reading “Caldwell, Isaac Nelson”

Caldwell, Ebenezer Bowditch a Congregational minister, was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1814; and also took a course in theology in Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1817. He was ordained July 10, 1818; and was pastor of a Congregational church in Indiana, and at Waynesboro’, Ga. He died at Bath, Ga., … Continue reading “Caldwell, Ebenezer Bowditch”

Caldwell, David, D.D. a Presbyterian minister, was born in Lancaster county, Pa., March 22, 1725, graduated at Princeton in 1761, and was licensed to preach by the New Brunswick Presbytery in 1763. Being ordained in 1765, he became pastor of the congregations of Buffalo and Alamance, N. C., in 1768. In 1776 he was a … Continue reading “Caldwell, David, D.D.”

Caldwell, Booth an Irish Presbyterian minister, -was born near Omagh, and in 1797 was ordained minister of Sligo, where he remained till his death, in 1810. He was emphatically a man of prayer, and as such he was held in memory by’ those who knew him.-Reid, Hist. of the Presb. Church in Ireland. Fuente: Cyclopedia … Continue reading “Caldwell, Booth”

Caldwell, Asbury a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Paris, Me., about 1810. He was converted in early life, and in 1832 entered the Maine Conference, in which he labored until his death, Dec. 1, 1842. Mr. Caldwell was friendly in disposition, of great intellectual activity, a fluent speaker, strikingly original, sound in doctrine, and … Continue reading “Caldwell, Asbury”