Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1898 — Burial of Dr. Caldwell. [ARTICLE]

Burial of Dr. Caldwell.

The funeral of Dr. S. C. Caldwell, of Mt Ayr, was held Thursday, at Mt Ayr, and the remains were then brought to Rensselaer and interred in Weston cemetery. The funeral was a very large one, and the remains were followed to the cemetery by a very long procession of vehicles. Dr. Samuel Newton Caldwell was born in Piqua, Ohio, in 1825. His father died when he was but 14 years old, and at the age of 15 he went to Cincinnati to learn the printer’s trade, where he remained until he became foreman of the Cincinnati Gazette office, then the largest paper in the west. Then he took up the study of medicine, at Cincinnati where he graduated in the Ecletic medical school; then he went to Rochester, N. Y.. where he graduated from a homeopathic school. Then he went to Piqua where he practiced medicine until 1865 when he moved to Newton Co., Ind., where he has been actively engaged in farming, stockraising and the practice of medicine. In 1851 he married Mary Jane McKihney, to which union five children were born the elder being deceased. Mrs. Caldwell died Feb. 2, 1873 and in July 1875 he married Henrietta Lester and to this union one child was born. He was a loving husband and a kind and affectionate father. He leaves a widow and five children to mourn their loss. He died Aug. 9th, 1898 at the age of 72 years and about 9 months.