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ISAAC CALDWELL, of Louisville, was born near Columbia, Adair
county, Kentucky, January 30, 1824, and died at his country home
near Louisville, in the sixty-third year of his age. He rose
from a humble station and carved his name indelibly on this
history of jurisprudence in Kentucky. The successful men of
America have usually been those who have planned their own
advancement had have accomplished it, in spite of many
obstacles, through their own efforts. On this class Mr. Caldwell
was a worthy representative. Not every practitioner of the law
grasps the spirit of our institutions. Numbers who bear the name
of lawyer are content to become expert in the technicalities of
legal lore, to have concern for the financial returns which it
brings them and forget the weightier matters of the law, its
essential principles. Those larger minds which pierce through
the statutory mazes and grasp, in the midst of bewildering
details, the great outlines and comprehend them through the
spirit of law--that spirit which is the life principles of our
organic instruments--are the minds of great jurists; and a
fitting illustration of such a mental phase was found in Mr.
Caldwell, who for many years practiced before the courts of
Louisville, the state and the nation.
The blood of Scotch-Irish and French Huguenot ancestors mingled
in his veins. His
parents, William and Ann (Trabue) Caldwell, were children of
Revolutionary fathers, and were pioneers of Kentucky. William
Caldwell was appointed clerk of the county and circuit courts of
Adair county and continued his connection with these offices for
over forty years, holding the esteem and confidence of the
people as a trusted and worthy public servant.
Isaac Caldwell acquired his elementary education in the schools
of his native place and in the clerk's office under his father's
immediate supervision. He matriculated in Georgetown College and
was a student in that institution until 1844, when he returned
to Columbia, Kentucky, and studied law under the direction of
Judge Zachariah Wheat, afterward a member of the court of
appeals; in 1846 he was admitted to the bar, became a partner of
his former preceptor and continued to practice law with him
until 1851, when he entered into partnership with Colonel George
Alfred Caldwell, an elder brother, also a native of Adair
county, a man of brilliant intellect and strong character. He
had at the age of twenty-four represented his county in the
state legislature. In 1843-5, he was representative in congress;
took part in the discussion leading up to the war with Mexico,
and on the expiration of his term he entered the army, rendering
efficient service as the colonel of a regiment. Returning to
Columbia, he was again elected to congress, serving for the term
1849-51. In partnership with his brother, he removed to
Louisville, where he remained until his death, September 17,
1866. He was a most able and successful practitioner, eloquent
in the defense of his client's interests, and was a participant
in the most of the important litigations in the Louisville
courts from 1851 to 1866, attaining the first place in the bar
of the state as its acknowledge head.
In the life-time of his brother, the great ability and
acknowledge leadership of George Alfred; and the modesty and
brotherly love, almost reverence, which Isaac, the younger, ever
evinced toward him, was such that Isaac his own merit and
belittled his own qualifications in comparison with those of his
idol; and never, at any time throughout his life, would Isaac
Caldwell consent to a comparison of himself with his beloved and
adored elder except to his own disparagement.
The two brothers met with an abundant success in the metropolis
of their state, and on the sudden death of George Alfred
Caldwell, Isaac found himself in possession of a large and
varied business, embracing cases in all of the courts, state and
federal. Isaac Caldwell was an untiring and indefatigable
worker, conducting cases involving large interests and intricate
complications, and at the same time engaging in criminal
practice where the life or liberty of clients was at stake. In
the latter class of cases few attorneys were more effective or
labored more assiduously in defense of their clients. He threw
himself, with all the earnestness and enthusiasm of his nature,
into the case at hand, and for the time knew nothing except his
duty to his client whose cause he made his own. Impassioned
eloquence, in dignant invective, cogent reasoning, together with
searching analysis of all the springs which control the human
mind in its judgment of the motives of a fellow man, were all
brought to bear upon the jury and rarely without effect. He was
a great lawyer, not only the qualities of intellect, but also by
that more practical test,--the success which attended his
efforts. His ability was not confined to one line of judicial
practice; he seemed equally successful in all departments of law
and won an enviable reputation in practice before the Kentucky
court of appeals and the United States supreme court.
In 1870 he took a prominent part in the contest before the
legislature in the matter involving the Cincinnati & Southern
Railroad. In the same year he engaged as attorney for the state
in the discussion of the civil rights bill and conducted some of
the most important cases involving the enforcement and
interpretation of the same before the supreme court of the
United States. Without the desire for fame and with no ambition
for office, he achieved the one and had the other frequently
tendered to him. In 1875 he was urged to become a candidate
before the legislature for United States senator, but declined
to permit his friends to urge his election. In 1876 he was
elector at large for Kentucky in the interest of Samuel J.
Tilden for president and took an active interest in the contest,
as he always did in all matters that enlisted his sympathy and
support. He was for years president of the University of
Louisville and gave much of his time to further the interest of
that institution.
His memory is cherished by the bar of Louisville, with which he
was connected for a period of over thirty-six years, and of
which, at his death in 1887, he was the acknowledged leader. His
amiability, generosity and courtesy were equal to his legal
attainments, and his death, at sixty-three years of age, came
all too soon.
He was married on the 20th of January, 1857, to Miss Catherine
Smith, daughter of Daniel and Hettie (Palmer) Smith. She was a
most accomplished lady and the home life of Mr. and Mrs.
Caldwell was an ideal one. Mrs. Caldwell died several years
previous to her husband's demise.
Few members of the bar of Louisville have left a more enduring
impression, both for legal ability of high order and the
individuality of personal character which impresses itself upon
the community, then Isaac Caldwell. His legal acumen was
masterful, his
integrity unassailable, his honor irreproachable.
_David CALDWELL _________+ | (1720 - ....) _John CALDWELL ______| | (1750 - ....) | | |_________________________ | _William CALDWELL ___| | (1777 - 1854) m 1808| | | _________________________ | | | | |_Dicey MANN _________| | (1750 - ....) | | |_________________________ | | |--Isaac CALDWELL | (1824 - 1887) | _John James TRABUE ______+ | | (1714 - 1775) m 1744 | _William TRABUE _____| | | (1756 - 1786) m 1783| | | |_Olympe (Olympia) DUPUY _+ | | (1729 - 1822) m 1744 |_Nancy Anne TRABUE __| (1783 - 1846) m 1808| | _Robert HASKINS _________+ | | (1732 - 1804) |_Elizabeth HASKINS __| (1759 - 1825) m 1783| |_Elizabeth HILL _________ (1733 - 1817)
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Father: Adam Stephen DANDRIDGE II Mother: Serena Catherine PENDLETON |
_Alexander Spotswood DANDRIDGE _+ | (1753 - 1785) m 1780 _Adam Stephen DANDRIDGE I__| | (1782 - 1821) m 1805 | | |_Ann STEPHEN ___________________+ | (1755 - ....) m 1780 _Adam Stephen DANDRIDGE II___| | (1814 - 1894) m 1837 | | | _Philip PENDLETON ______________+ | | | (1752 - 1802) m 1774 | |_Sarah PENDLETON __________| | (1785 - 1855) m 1805 | | |_Agnes PATTERSON _______________+ | (1752 - ....) m 1774 | |--Edmund Pendleton DANDRIDGE Sr. | (1841 - 1884) | _Philip PENDLETON ______________+ | | (1752 - 1802) m 1774 | _Edmund PENDLETON _________| | | (1790 - 1823) m 1811 | | | |_Agnes PATTERSON _______________+ | | (1752 - ....) m 1774 |_Serena Catherine PENDLETON _| (1816 - 1889) m 1837 | | ________________________________ | | |_Serena Catherine PURNELL _| (1795 - ....) m 1811 | |________________________________
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Mother: Mildred MARSHALL |
_Frederick FORTSON ____ | (1690 - ....) _Thomas FORTSON Sr._________________________| | (1715 - 1742) m 1739 | | |_______________________ | _William FORTSON ____| | (1740 - 1812) m 1764| | | _Michael GUINNEY WINN _ | | | (1680 - 1742) | |_Elizabeth WINN ____________________________| | (1717 - 1800) m 1739 | | |_______________________ | | |--Lucy FORTSON | (1770 - ....) | _______________________ | | | _(RESEARCH QUERY) MARSHALL of Virginia & MD_| | | | | | |_______________________ | | |_Mildred MARSHALL ___| (1740 - 1822) m 1764| | _______________________ | | |____________________________________________| | |_______________________
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William was the son of Nicholas Hamner, Jr. who signed the
Albemarle Declaration of Independence at the beginning of the
Revolutionary War. Nicholas was born 1703, in Middlesex or James
County Virginia. His father Nicholas Sr. was from Wales, and
came to Virginia prior to 1680.
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or b. 1710
_Nicholas HAMNER I___+ | (1640 - 1703) _Robert HAMNER ______| | (1683 - 1750) | | |_Joan TURNER ________ | (1635 - 1692) _Nicholas HAMNER III_| | (1703 - 1794) | | | _____________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_____________________ | | |--William HAMNER | (1730 - 1788) | _____________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_____________________| | | _____________________ | | |_____________________| | |_____________________
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Mother: Judith ANDERSON |
_Gabriel HOLLAND "The Immigrant"_ | (1596 - 1665) m 1625 _John HOLLAND _______| | (1628 - 1712) | | |_Mary PINKE _____________________ | (1595 - 1636) m 1625 _Michael HOLLAND ____| | (1666 - 1746) | | | _________________________________ | | | | |_Mary PINKE _________| | (1630 - ....) | | |_________________________________ | | |--John HOLLAND | (1725 - ....) | _________________________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |_________________________________ | | |_Judith ANDERSON ____| (1700 - 1751) | | _________________________________ | | |_____________________| | |_________________________________
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Mother: Sarah Best TAYLOR |
_James HUDNALL Sr.___+ | (1755 - 1770) m 1770 _James HUDNALL Jr._____| | (1771 - 1851) m 1796 | | |_Mary Ann WARNER ____ | (1750 - 1806) m 1770 _Rene Chastain HUDNALL _| | (1799 - 1871) m 1821 | | | _Rene CHASTAIN ______+ | | | (1745 - 1818) | |_Rhonda CHASTAIN ______| | (1775 - 1846) m 1796 | | |_Rhonda PERRAULT ____ | (1745 - 1802) | |--William C. HUDNALL | (1830 - ....) | _Joseph TAYLOR ______+ | | (1728 - 1806) m 1750 | _Joseph H. TAYLOR II___| | | (1751 - 1818) m 1780 | | | |_Nancy WALKER _______ | | (1729 - ....) m 1750 |_Sarah Best TAYLOR _____| (1800 - 1838) m 1821 | | _____________________ | | |_Sarah Elizabeth BEST _| (1760 - 1834) m 1780 | |_____________________
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Mother: Sarah "Sally" MARTIN |
_John IV "Councillor" LEWIS __+ | (1669 - 1725) m 1685 _David LEWIS I_______| | (1695 - 1779) m 1717| | |_Elizabeth (Isabelle) WARNER _+ | (1672 - 1719) m 1685 _William Terrell LEWIS Sr._| | (1718 - 1802) m 1739 | | | _William A. TERRELL Sr._______+ | | | (1660 - 1743) m 1685 | |_Anne TERRELL _______| | (1695 - 1734) m 1717| | |_Susanna WATERS ______________+ | (1667 - 1734) m 1685 | |--James Martin LEWIS | (1749 - 1757) | _Henry MARTIN ________________ | | (1672 - 1755) | _James MARTIN _______| | | (1699 - 1775) | | | |______________________________ | | |_Sarah "Sally" MARTIN _____| (1722 - 1793) m 1739 | | _David CRAWFORD II____________+ | | (1662 - 1762) m 1695 |_Elizabeth CRAWFORD _| (1700 - ....) | |_Elizabeth SMITH _____________+ (1673 - 1771) m 1695
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