a Baptist minister, was born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1796, ‘and united with the ‘Church’in Spencer, Tioga Co. Not long after this he -commenced preaching, in which work he continued until nearly the close of his life. He was pastor of church-es in Oswego, Tomrpkins, Herkimer, and Cortland counties, where many souls were converted through his instrumentality. He is represented as having been an -earnest scriptural preacher, with a warm and catholic heart, and a vigorous advocate of temperance and antislavery. Not meeting with the sympathy which he looked for as a moral reformer, he became disheartened, and for a time withdrew from association with his brethren. In January, 1859, he closed his connection with the Calvinist Baptists, and became a member of a Free-will Baptist Church, in Summer Hill, Cayuga Co. He died in Locke, Cavuga Co., June 26,1859. See Free will Baptist Register, 1860, p. 90. (J. C. S.)<\/p>\n
Caldwell, Asa a Baptist minister, was born in Orange County, N. Y., in 1796, ‘and united with the ‘Church’in Spencer, Tioga Co. Not long after this he -commenced preaching, in which work he continued until nearly the close of his life. He was pastor of church-es in Oswego, Tomrpkins, Herkimer, and Cortland counties, where many … Continue reading “Caldwell, Asa”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}