Edwin Caldwell
When Train and Eliza )Wells) Caldwell came with their family from Fayette County, arriving in grant County November 20, 1856, they had two children, Edwin and Fanny Caldwell, and they had buried two in Fayette County, Amanda and an infant that had not been christened. Another son, John W. Caldwell, was born in Grant County. Fanny Caldwell and the parents are buried in this county. The father died July 27, 1881, and the mother lived several years, passing away April 14, 1897. Only two sons remain of the family.
Edwin Caldwell married Miss Nancy J. Carmichael of Hope, Bartholomew County, August 19, 1877. In the spring of 1878 Mr. Edwin Caldwell and wife moved from the Caldwell family home in Liberty Township to Marion, where they had lived continuously except while he was employed as a clerk in the war department, in Washington City, and also for a short time spent on the Pacific Coast. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have one son, Frank Caldwell, a student in the Marion High School. There were a number of prominent Southern Grant County families, who, like the Caldwells, came form Fayette County in an early day, and all of them are good citizens. Mr. Caldwell went to the district schools near his home in Liberty Township, and later to the Fairmount High School, and to the Summer Normal Schools in Marion. For years he was among the progressive teachers of Grant County, where he both "taught" and "kept" school for fourteen year, spending four years of that time at "College Corner," where the Marion Normal College finally located when the city was extended out South Washington Street.
Mr. Caldwell is of a mathematical turn of mind, and even while teaching he sued to do a great deal of work as a bookkeeper. Now for several years he ahs been recognized as an expert accountant. He is one of the state field examiners, and does accounting all over Indiana as he finds time to leave the city, local manufacturers and business corporations employing him most of the time in auditing accounts for them. He has all the modern appliances, typewriting, tabulating machines, etc., and frequently does his work at home. Mr. Caldwell has reduced the business to system, and in his "Pigeon holes" are kept the previous year's records, sot hat when a call comes to audit a set of books he simply takes down is file, and knows just where he stands -an easy matter.
Mr. Caldwell is frequently called upon to install the books for new firms and corporations, and being an excellent penman, it is always a satisfactory service. Commercial auditing is congenial employment and remunerative, and while he enjoyed teaching eh would not want to teach again. Mr. Caldwell is a licensed embalmer, having worked with the different Marion undertakers, but he work of an accountant is more congenial to him and all his time is taken at present. The Caldwell family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Caldwell has occupied much of her spare time with fancy lace patterns, having many scarfs and table covers as a result, and she dares not place a price on her designs -has done so frequently, and had to make others. Knitting is a profitable pastime.
Centennial History of Grant County Indiana 1812-1912. The Lewis Publishing Co., 1914.