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In June, 1862, he enlisted in the Seventh Squadron of Rhode Island Cavalry, and was a corporal of
Company B. After a four months' campaign in Virginia, he returned to college and
graduated with the class.
He immediately commenced the study of medicine, attending lectures at
Dartmouth Medical College from August until November, 1864. He then received the
appointment of Surgeon's Steward in the Navy and was assigned to the gunboat
Honduras, of the East Gulf Squadron, with headquarters at Key West, Florida. He
remained on this boat until the close of the war. He then went to Manchester, New
Hampshire, and continued his medical studies with the late W. D. Buck, M.D.,
and Professor L. B. How, M.D. In the Fall of 1866, he went to Hanover, New Hampshire,
with Professor How, as Demonstrator of Anatomy. In November, 1866, he went to
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and remained until July, 1867, when he
graduated.
In August, 1867, he commenced the practice of his profession at Exeter, New
Hampshire, where he remained until March, 1868, when he took Greeley's advice and
started West, stopping at Chicago, Illinois, where he remained one year. He next went
to Peru, Illinois, and remained for one year. Leaving there in the Spring of 1870, he went to
Chetopa, Kansas, bordering on the Cherokee Nation. He practised there among the new
settlers, and the men who were employed in grading the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railway, until August, 1871, when he was offered and accepted a position at Fort
Arbuckle, Indian Territory, as physician to the men, four hundred in number, who were
surveying the Chickasaw Nation. He remained there until the completion of the work, in
May, 1872. He continued in practice among the Indians, Whites and Freedmen in
the Territory and Northwestern Texas until October, 1876. From the Spring of 1877 until
July, 1880, he was located in the lead regions, at Joplin, Missouri, and Galena,
Kansas. In September, 1880, he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he is at present engaged in
the practice of his profession.
He has been Town Physician for two years, of the town of Lake, Illinois, a suburb
of Chicago, on the South. He is Attending Physician in the Gynaecological Department
of the South Side Dispensary, Chicago.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married January 1, 1871, to Miss Mary D. Smith, of Peru, Illinois. Mrs.
Caldwell died March 25, 1871.
He was married, second, December 1, 1874, to Miss Amanda C. Painter, of
Mansfield, Ohio. They have had no children.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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