Charles Caldwell (1772–1853)
In 1814 Caldwell wrote Bushrod Washington for help in gathering information for biographies of John Randolph and Captain Lewis Warrington.
Charles Caldwell was born on 14 May 1772 in Caswell County, North Carolina. After teaching school for several years, he studied medicine under Benjamin Rush and others at the University of Pennsylvania and opened a practice in Philadelphia. Caldwell also taught natural history at Penn and edited the Port Folio.
"Charles Caldwell." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310016594/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=8240a50a. Accessed 28 Aug. 2023.
Dorothy Long, "Caldwell, Charles," in William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979–1996) (NCpedia).
"Charles Caldwell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1814," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0230. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 7, 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, pp. 317–319.]
"To James Madison from Charles Caldwell, 16 June 1825," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/04-03-02-0556. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Retirement Series, vol. 3, 1 March 1823 – 24 February 1826, ed. David B. Mattern, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Katherine E. Harbury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, pp. 540–541.]
Charles Caldwell lectures (ca. 1825), Manuscripts Division, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Charles Caldwell to Bushrod Washington, 13 May 1814, Bushrod Washington Family Papers, Special Collections at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia.
Charles T. Ambrose, "Plagiarism of Ideas: Benjamin Rush and Charles Caldwell – A Student-Mentor Dispute," The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society, Volume 77, Number 1 (Winter 2014), 14–23.
Charles Caldwell at The Online Books Page.
Charles Caldwell at Find a Grave.