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=Caldwell, George Chapman.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. A professor of
agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. Agricultural Qualitative
and Quantitative Analysis; Manual of Introductory Chemical Practice
(with A. Breneman); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (with S. M.
Babcock).
=Caldwell, Joseph.= _N. J._, 1773-1835. A once noted educator who was
president of the University of North Carolina. A Compendious System of
Elementary Geometry; Letters of Carleton.
=Caldwell, Linus Boues.= _N. Y._, 1834- ----. A Methodist clergyman
and educator, of Tennessee. Wines of Palestine, or The Bible Defended;
Beyond the Grave.
=Caldwell, Merritt.= _Me._, 1806-1848. A professor of metaphysics
at Dickinson College. The Doctrine of the English Verb; Manual of
Elocution; Philosophy of Christian Perfection; Christianity Tested by
Eminent Men. _See Memoir by S. M. Vail._ _Meth._
=Caldwell, Samuel Lunt.= _Ms._, 1820-1889. A Baptist clergyman whose
later life was passed in Providence. Cities of Our Faith and Other
Addresses and Discourses. _Hou._
=Caldwell, William Warner.= _Ms._, 1823- ----. A resident of
Newburyport who has published Poems, Original and Translated, and has
translated many lyrics from the German.
=Calef, Robert.= _Ms._, _c._ 1648-1719. A Boston merchant who published
in 1700 More Wonders of the Invisible World, a satirical reply to
Cotton Mather’s Wonders of the Invisible World. Its line of argument
was in direct opposition to the witchcraft persecutions, and the
book was publicly burnt by Increase Mather in the grounds of Harvard
College. _See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Calhoun= [kăl-hoon´], =John Caldwell.= _S. C._, 1782-1850. A South
Carolina statesman who was secretary of state under Monroe, and again
under Tyler, vice-president under John Quincy Adams, and United States
senator from 1845 till his death. He was one of the ablest of political
leaders, a great orator, and a political thinker of the first rank. His
literary style is both vigourous and concise, and displays at times
a remarkable intensity of expression. A Disquisition on Government;
The Constitution and Government of the United States. _See Works in 6
volumes; Parton’s Famous Americans; Lives by Jenkins; Von Holst._ _Ap._
=Calkins, Norman Allison.= _N. Y._, 1822-1895. The first assistant
superintendent of primary schools in New York city for thirty-three
years. Primary Object Lessons; How to Teach; Manual of Object Teaching;
Aids for Object Teaching; Trades and Occupations; Natural History
Series for Children.
=Callender, James Thomas.= _E._, 17-- -1803. A writer who was exiled
from England on account of his pamphlet, The Political Progress
of Great Britain. He was at first the friend and soon the violent
political opponent of Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of the History of
America; The Prospect before Us.
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