NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11209 HARRISON CO – HON. DAVID CALDWELL – Caldwell, Brice, McMurtry, Campbell, Bryan, Allison, Byer, Baxter, Carroll, Griffiths, Henry, Scott, Shy, Stark, Templeton, Ashland, Garnett 11209 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, pp. 781-2. Hon. David Caldwell, grandfather of David L. Caldwell, was born September 10, 1768, and moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, where he married Sarah Brice, February 16, 1791, and located in Harrison county near Licking River, and raised a large family. Joseph Caldwell, their son, was born February 1, 1806, and married Mary Bryan McMurtry, daughter of James McMurtry, December 6, 1831. James McMurtry was born in Virginia, January 14, 1773, and his parents, Joseph and Rosannah Campbell McMurtry, settled near Lexington, Kentucky, when James was a small boy. James McMurtry married Nancy, daughter of Samuel and Mary Bryan, who emigrated from North Carolina at an early date. Soon after their marriage James and Nancy McMurtry located near Twin Creek, in Harrison county, where he lived more than fifty years, raising a large family. He was a man of great force of character. Reverencing God and dealing justly, he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his neighbors, and died at the advanced age of eighty years. His daughter, Mary Bryan, who married Joseph Caldwell, was born September 21, 1806. In 1832 Joseph and Mary B. Caldwell moved to Pike county, Missouri. He was a man of integrity, fair intelligence, and great energy, and she was a pure, noble, Christian woman. They were members of the Baptist Church at Noix Creek, and taught their children to love God and obey the commandments. The California gold excitement attracted enterprising men from the states, and many good men left Pike county for the gold fields never to return. Joseph Caldwell crossed the plains in 1849 and exerted all his energies in gold hunting. He met many disappointments and died a poor man at Kernville, California, December 30, 1871. His wife, daughter, and a son, Joseph S., went to California. Joseph S. died November 12, 1868. Mary B. Caldwell died July 24, 1870, about seventeen months prior to her husband’s death. Mary E. Caldwell married John S. Butler, and they now reside in Kernville, California. David L. Caldwell, son of Joseph and Mary B. Caldwell, was born on Grassy Creek, Pike county, Missouri, April 23, 1838, and received a common education. At an early age he taught district school, and in 1856 he was employed to teach in the Caldwell district, on Buffalo, and continued there for several years, forming friendships among the Allisons, Byers, Baxters, Carrolls, Griffiths, Henrys, Scotts, Shys, Starks, Templetons, and others, to which he always refers with pleasure. In August, 1859, he was elected clerk of the Pine county court and moved to Bowling Green and took charge of the office January 1, 1860, In 1863 he was clerk of probate, resigning at the close of the year. During the civil war he was a firm unionist, but disapproving the proscriptive features of the new constitution, he as retired from the county clerk’s office, May 1, 1865, and having been previously admitted to the bar, he began practice in Bowling Green. In November, 1866, after an exciting canvas, he was elected a member of the House of Representatives and was re-elected in November, 1868. In the Twenty-fourth General Assembly he favored a convention of delegates from all the states for the purpose of revising the United States Constitution and reconstructing the government on a just and permanent basis, but the proposition did not meet with support, the assembly ratifying the fourteenth amendment. The Twenty-fifth General Assembly ratified the fourteenth amendment, his vote being recorded in the negative, in deference to the will of his constituents, maintaining that a representative of the people should faithfully express the known will of the majority or resign. He advised the people to accept the amendment in good faith, as a logical result of the war. In June, 1868, he married Eliza, eldest daughter of Andrew and Martha Ashland Garnett, of Harrison county, Kentucky, who is an intelligent, faithful wife. In 1871 he bought the press and material to establish the Pike County Post, a newspaper devoted to the interests of the county seat and general interests of the county. In February, 1873, he was elected to fill a vacancy in the office of judge of probate, and was re-elected in 1874 and again in 1878, without opposition. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the Christian Church, and has a simple trust, “Acquired beside a mother’s knee; All is of God that is, and is to be; And God is good.” He has been identified with the public-spirited men of the county for the last twenty-three years, earnestly advocating public education, encouraging the construction of gravel roads and railroads, and aiding other enterprises looking for the material, intellectual, and moral advancement of the people of Pike county. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH Archives:http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kyresearch