Dr. D. C. Caldwell

    Dr. D. C. Caldwell, a prominent physician of Millgrove, Indiana, is a native of Indiana, born in Jackson Township, Hancock County, December 25, 1852, a son of B. F. and Mary J. (Sample) Caldwell. He was reared to manhood in his native county, where he attended the common schools until 1869. In that year he entered the academy at Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana , from which he graduated in October, 1873. In the winter of 1873 he commenced teaching school, and has taught during the past fifteen years. In 1874 he came to Blackford County. He began the study of medicine in the spring of 1875 with Dr. N. D. Clouser, with whom he remained four years, reading and practicing medicine, and in 1879 located at Millgrove, where he has since been engaged in the practice of medicine. In connection with his medical practice he is also engaged in farming and raising horses. He is the owner of a fine farm of seventy-three acres located on Section 34, Jackson Township, his land being well improved and underlaid with 2,000 rods of tile.

    Dr. Caldwell was married June 7, 1885, to Miss Sarah O. Fleming, a native of Delaware County, Indiana, born December 2, 1859, where she was reared, but married in Huntington County, Indiana.

    B. F. Caldwell, the father of our subject, was born in Campbell County, Kentucky, May 6, 1828, and when eight years old went with his parents to Hancock County, Indiana, where he was reared, and married to Mary J. Sample, who was born in Hancock County, May 11, 1833, and they continued to reside in that county until the spring of 1875. To them were born two children -our subject, who was the eldest, and Adelia E., born February 16, 1861, who is still at home with her parents. A boy named Ila H. Sample is being reared by them. He is a son of Andrew V. B. and Vanila E. (Ross) Sample, and was born July 24, 1872. His mother died when he was two months old, leaving six children. His father is still living at Cleveland, Hancock County,.

    David Caldwell, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Eastern Virginia March 6, 1794, and when a boy went to Kentucky, where he grew to manhood. He was married in Kentucky to Ann S. Anderson, who was born in Campbell County, Kentucky, July 3, 1803, and to this union were born eight children, as follows -Eliza, born march 6, 1824, died March 10, 1887; Nancy, born July 20, 1826, wife of Thomas Fierman, living in Grant County, Indiana; B. F., the father of our subject, born May 6, 1828; Rosa B., born July 4, 1830, died in 1834; Lucinda, born March 22, 1832, is the wife of Elijah A. Barrett; William A., born June 1, 1834, living in Bollinger County, Missouri; John W., born February 22, 1836, living in Henry County, Indiana; Julia A., born June 12, 1838, married Hugh Neallis, and died in Hancock County in 1876. After his marriage David Caldwell left Kentucky for Hancock County, Indiana, where he lived until his death, which occurred at the age of forty-eight years. His widow survived until May 13, 1885, dying in Millgrove, Blackford County.

    The great-grandfather of our subject, Robert Caldwell, was born in New Jersey, and was of German descent. He lived a number of years in Pennsylvania, moving from that State to Virginia, thence to Campbell County, Kentucky, where he died. His widow Elizabeth (Huff) Caldwell, left Kentucky for Indiana about 1830, settling in Hancock County, where she lived until her death, at the age of ninety years.

    The maternal grandparents of Dr. Caldwell were John and Sally (Barrett) Sample, the former born in Pennsylvania, the latter born, reared and married in Greenbrier County, Virginia, remaining there until coming to Hancock County, Indiana, in 1832, the former dying there in the fall of 1875, aged eighty-six years, and the latter dying in 1872, aged seventy-seven years.

    The Barrett and the Sample families are of Irish descent, both the maternal great-grandfather and the great-grandmother of our subject being natives of Ireland.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.