"C" Surnames

Caldwell, John Brice

John Brice Caldwell was born in Cabarrus county, 12 miles from Concord, October 20, 1852, and moved into that town in 1862.  His father was Charles A. Caldwell, a merchant and contractor of Concord.  His mother was Miss Jennette Cochran, a daughter of Colonel W. B. Cochran, a farmer, who was a colonel in the ante bellum militia of Mecklenburg county.  He was educated in the Concord public schools.  His first commercial experience was as a salesman with Odell Curtis & Co., in general merchandise, and was later with Fetzer & Company, for ten years.  He then became agent at Concord for the Southern Express Company and remained with them four years and then became an agent for the Standard Oil Company and continued that connection seven years.  He was elected mayor of Concord in 1903 and is now serving his second term in that office.  

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is a K. of P. and Woodman of the World and a member of the Knights of Honor.  On December 28, 1872, he married Colonel John O. Wallace's youngest daughter, Ester, who died suddenly October 7, 1905, leaving six children: three daughters and three sons.

Source:  Prominent People of North Carolina: Brief Biographies of Leading People for Ready Reference Purposes (Asheville, North Carolina: Evening News Publishing Company, 1906), 61-62.

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