The son of Rev. Asbury and Olive (Merrill) Caldwell, John Merrill Caldwell was born August 29, 1839. He attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1862, after which he spent five months abroad in Egypt and the Holy Land. His D.D. degree was conferred in 1890 by Mt. Union College (OH). He was licensed to preach the Gospel in March 1862 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in 1865. Admitted to the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he served churches in Kennebunk and Hallowell. He transferred to the midwest where he served as president of Mount Morris College from 1867 to 1869. John served a series of appointments in the Rock River Conference which included churches in Joliet, Rockford and Chicago, Illinois. He served as Presiding Elder of the Joliet District and later of the Chicago Western District. After serving the Methodist church forty years John moved to the state of Nebraska where he was received into the Presbytery of Niobrara. In 1907 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Coleridge, Nebraska. In 1910 he was called to the Presbyterian Church in Valentine, Nebraska where he served for one year, after which he accept a call to the Presbyterian Church in Wakefield, Nebraska..
Rev. John M. Caldwell married Emma M. Hill on July 10, 1865 in Kennebunk ME. Together they had 7 children: Susan Olive (b. 1867), Asbury (b. 1869), Mavolta (b. 1871), Anna (b. 1872), Emma (b. 1873), Florence (b. 1876), and Calla Marie (b. 1881). Susan was born in Maine and lived in Illinois and Maine. Anna, Emma, and Florence were born in Illinois, died as very young children, and are buried in Maine. Calla emigrated to Australia. In 1914 Dr. Caldwell found it necessary to move to California because of his wife’s precarious health condition, where she lived for only a short time before dying. They were in San Francisco. While there Dr. Caldwell supplied the Westminster Presbyterian Church until 1920 when he returned to Nebraska rendering supply work one year at Nelson, and two years at Valentine.
John was especially close to his only son Asbury, who also became a minister and served in Illinois, Florida and Australia. This third 'Asbury' recognized in this cemetery plot (John's father, brother, and son) is interred in New South Wales but memorialized here on the backside of the large Caldwell marker.
Corrections and additions to this biography are through the courtesy of Rev. J. Keith Cook of Omaha, Nebraska and are sourced from the History of The Presbyterian Church in Nebraska, by Rev/Dr Julius F. Schwarz, 1924, pages 122-123.
Rev. John M. Caldwell married Emma M. Hill on July 10, 1865 in Kennebunk ME. Together they had 7 children: Susan Olive (b. 1867), Asbury (b. 1869), Mavolta (b. 1871), Anna (b. 1872), Emma (b. 1873), Florence (b. 1876), and Calla Marie (b. 1881). Susan was born in Maine and lived in Illinois and Maine. Anna, Emma, and Florence were born in Illinois, died as very young children, and are buried in Maine. Calla emigrated to Australia. In 1914 Dr. Caldwell found it necessary to move to California because of his wife’s precarious health condition, where she lived for only a short time before dying. They were in San Francisco. While there Dr. Caldwell supplied the Westminster Presbyterian Church until 1920 when he returned to Nebraska rendering supply work one year at Nelson, and two years at Valentine.
John was especially close to his only son Asbury, who also became a minister and served in Illinois, Florida and Australia. This third 'Asbury' recognized in this cemetery plot (John's father, brother, and son) is interred in New South Wales but memorialized here on the backside of the large Caldwell marker.
Corrections and additions to this biography are through the courtesy of Rev. J. Keith Cook of Omaha, Nebraska and are sourced from the History of The Presbyterian Church in Nebraska, by Rev/Dr Julius F. Schwarz, 1924, pages 122-123.
The son of Rev. Asbury and Olive (Merrill) Caldwell, John Merrill Caldwell was born August 29, 1839. He attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1862, after which he spent five months abroad in Egypt and the Holy Land. His D.D. degree was conferred in 1890 by Mt. Union College (OH). He was licensed to preach the Gospel in March 1862 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in 1865. Admitted to the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he served churches in Kennebunk and Hallowell. He transferred to the midwest where he served as president of Mount Morris College from 1867 to 1869. John served a series of appointments in the Rock River Conference which included churches in Joliet, Rockford and Chicago, Illinois. He served as Presiding Elder of the Joliet District and later of the Chicago Western District. After serving the Methodist church forty years John moved to the state of Nebraska where he was received into the Presbytery of Niobrara. In 1907 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church in Coleridge, Nebraska. In 1910 he was called to the Presbyterian Church in Valentine, Nebraska where he served for one year, after which he accept a call to the Presbyterian Church in Wakefield, Nebraska..
Rev. John M. Caldwell married Emma M. Hill on July 10, 1865 in Kennebunk ME. Together they had 7 children: Susan Olive (b. 1867), Asbury (b. 1869), Mavolta (b. 1871), Anna (b. 1872), Emma (b. 1873), Florence (b. 1876), and Calla Marie (b. 1881). Susan was born in Maine and lived in Illinois and Maine. Anna, Emma, and Florence were born in Illinois, died as very young children, and are buried in Maine. Calla emigrated to Australia. In 1914 Dr. Caldwell found it necessary to move to California because of his wife’s precarious health condition, where she lived for only a short time before dying. They were in San Francisco. While there Dr. Caldwell supplied the Westminster Presbyterian Church until 1920 when he returned to Nebraska rendering supply work one year at Nelson, and two years at Valentine.
John was especially close to his only son Asbury, who also became a minister and served in Illinois, Florida and Australia. This third 'Asbury' recognized in this cemetery plot (John's father, brother, and son) is interred in New South Wales but memorialized here on the backside of the large Caldwell marker.
Corrections and additions to this biography are through the courtesy of Rev. J. Keith Cook of Omaha, Nebraska and are sourced from the History of The Presbyterian Church in Nebraska, by Rev/Dr Julius F. Schwarz, 1924, pages 122-123.
Rev. John M. Caldwell married Emma M. Hill on July 10, 1865 in Kennebunk ME. Together they had 7 children: Susan Olive (b. 1867), Asbury (b. 1869), Mavolta (b. 1871), Anna (b. 1872), Emma (b. 1873), Florence (b. 1876), and Calla Marie (b. 1881). Susan was born in Maine and lived in Illinois and Maine. Anna, Emma, and Florence were born in Illinois, died as very young children, and are buried in Maine. Calla emigrated to Australia. In 1914 Dr. Caldwell found it necessary to move to California because of his wife’s precarious health condition, where she lived for only a short time before dying. They were in San Francisco. While there Dr. Caldwell supplied the Westminster Presbyterian Church until 1920 when he returned to Nebraska rendering supply work one year at Nelson, and two years at Valentine.
John was especially close to his only son Asbury, who also became a minister and served in Illinois, Florida and Australia. This third 'Asbury' recognized in this cemetery plot (John's father, brother, and son) is interred in New South Wales but memorialized here on the backside of the large Caldwell marker.
Corrections and additions to this biography are through the courtesy of Rev. J. Keith Cook of Omaha, Nebraska and are sourced from the History of The Presbyterian Church in Nebraska, by Rev/Dr Julius F. Schwarz, 1924, pages 122-123.
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