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Alexander Caldwell

CALDWELL, Alexander, senator, born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, 1 March, 1830. He received a common-school education, and in 1847 enlisted for the Mexican war in a company commanded by his father, who was killed at, one of the gates of the City of Mexico. He returned in 1848, became teller of a bank in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and afterward entered business. He went to Kansas in 1861, engaged in transporting military supplies, and afterward became interested in the building of railways and bridges. He was elected United States senator as a republican in 1871, and served till 1873, when he resigned. Since that time he has been engaged in manufacturing.

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