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ARTHUR BROOKS CALDWELL:
02 Jan 1849 to 20 Jan 1884
ARTHUR BROOKS CALDWELL (A. B. Caldwell) was the youngest child of SAMUEL BROOKS TOBIE CALDWELL and MARY ELIZABETH HOUGH CALDWELL of Loudoun County, Virginia and nephew of MARIA CALDWELL SWAIN (one of SBT Caldwell’s youngest sisters) and WILLIAM SWAIN (early American portrait artist) of Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Caldwell emigrated to Marysville, Yuba County, California, where he was listed as a surgeon from Virginia in the Marysville Business Directory of 1870. In 1871 he was listed as a voter and is listed in the Great Register of Voters of Yuba County, California in 1876, 1879, and 1880. By 1880, based on Federal Census records, he had married LUCILE G. (listed as Lucy; last name unknown), aged 26. They had a daughter, listed as MAY L. (MARY LUCILE) who was 2 months old at the time of the 1880 census. He is in the List of Persons Subject to Military Duty Yuba County for 1871. He was a member of Marysville Lodge No. 38 formed in June of 1878.
Caldwell died in 1884 at age 35, cause unknown at this time, in Marysville, California and is buried in the Marysville Cemetery. The San Francisco Morning Call dated 26 Jan 1884, p. 4, col. 4 has the following brief obituary notice: “CALDWELL – In Marysville, January 20, Arthur B. Caldwell, aged 35 years and 18 days.”
His wife and daughter then moved to San Francisco, date unknown, to live with her sister and brother-in-law, FRANK C. ZIMMERMAN and MARY L., Lucile's sister. They are listed in the 1900 Federal Census for San Francisco as living with the Zimmermans. Mother and daughter are also listed as widows in the 1920 and 1930 Federal Censuses for San Francisco.
Arthur Brooks and Lucile Caldwell's daughter, Mary Lucile, married PEYTON G. CLARK, 1st Lieutenant listed in the Military and Naval Census for 1900 living in the Philippines; he was the census enumerator. They had one known child, Peyton C. Clark in 1906 in San Francisco before she was widowed. His cause of death remains unknown.
Submitted July 14, 2006 by Carolee Moore, San Antonio, Texas:
( I am related to Arthur B. Caldwell through my great-grandfather, George W. Caldwell, his older brother, who settled in San Antonio, Texas in 1854.)
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Marysville Daily Appeal - 4/14/1880, page 2 - [excerpt from index card] - Born in Marysville, Apr. 4, a daughter, to Dr. A. B. & Mrs. Caldwell.
Marysville Daily Appeal - 1/22/1884, page 3 - Death of Dr. Caldwell - Dr. Arthur B. Caldwell died at his home in this city last Sunday morning, of a chronic affection of the liver. He had for many months been in bad health, but his final illness was of comparatively brief duration. He leaves a wife and one child. Judge E. S. Belcher and W. C. Swain, of this city, and W. C. Belcher of San Francisco, are cousins of the deceased. Dr. Caldwell was born in Virginia, but his boyhood was spent in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He graduated from the Harvard Medical College on March 10, 1870. After his graduation he spent about six months in Baltimore, Md. Thence he came to this city, and soon established himself in active practice. As a physician and surgeon he had many admirers, and he was generally regarded as a man of mark in his profession. He was a member of the Masonic, Knights of Honor and Workingmen's organizations. The funeral will take place this morning at eleven o'clock.
Marysville Daily Appeal - 1/23/1884, page 3 - Funeral of Dr. Caldwell - The funeral of Dr. A. B. Caldwell took place yesterday from his late residence, the Rev. E. M. Mott officiating both at the residence and at the grave. The following citizens performed the duties of pall-bearers: Dr. David Powell, Dr. Thomas Phillips, M. A. Burkhart, A. J. Wightman, A. D. Cutts, and E. H. Hudson.