Dr. Caldwell was married in 1906 to Araminta Beck, a native of Wamegoa county, Kansas, and to this union have been born children, as follows: Georgia, born in 1909; Elizabeth, born in 1911; Elnora, born in 1908. The mother of these children was born in Kansas City August 20, 1880, a daughter of Leonardo Beck, a stone cutter by trade. Her mother, Mrs. Georgia Beck, was one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, who sang in public recitals in many cities of the United States and in England. They sang in the cause of education, the money earned by the recitals going to defray the expenses of erecting the $100,000 Jubilee Hall at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. An uncle of Mrs. Caldwell, Col. James L. Beck, commanded the Twenty-third regiment of colored Kansas volunteers which served in Cuba during the Spanish-American war. Mrs. Caldwell is a well educated lady and is a graduate of the Wamego, Kansas, high school, and graduated from Kansas University before she attained the age of twenty years. She is a member of the Eastern Star lodge of Topeka, in which city she taught school for seven years, later teaching one year in Springfield, Mo.
Dr. Caldwell is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Topeka, and is a physician for the Knights of Tabor lodge of Atchison. He is a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church, and is a Republican in politics. In 1912 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the State Normal at Emporia, Kan. On July 30, 1915, Governor Capper appointed the Doctor a delegate to the National Negro Educational Congress, held at Chicago, from August 16 to August 21, inclusive. In 1914 he was presented with a walnut gavel by the Inter-State Literary Association.
CHAPTER XXIV.
OFFICIALS.
COUNTY—TOWNSHIP AND SCHOOL OFFICERS.
County Clerk—C. M. Voelker.
County Treasurer—U. B. Sharpless.
Sheriff—Roy C. Trimble.
Register of Deeds—L. M. Baker.
County Attorney—Charles J. Conlon.
County Surveyor—Charles Woodworth.