Thomas McCall Cadwalader

Thomas McCall Cadwalader
Susan Macdowell Eakins, General Thomas McCall Cadwalader Seated at a Table, 1882
Personal details
Born	(1795-09-11)September 11, 1795 Trenton, New Jersey, US
Died	October 22, 1873(1873-10-22) (aged 78)
Resting place	Friends Burying Ground Trenton, New Jersey
Spouse	Maria Charlotte Gouverneur ​ ​ (m. 1831; died 1867)​
Relations	Gouverneur Cadwalader (grandson)
Children	5, including John
Parent(s)	Lambert Cadwalader Mary McCall
Alma mater	Princeton University
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Years of service	1830–1858
Rank	Major general

Thomas McCall Cadwalader (September 11, 1795 – October 22, 1873) was an American who trained to be a lawyer but made his career in the military, retiring as a major general.

Early life

Thomas McCall Cadwalader was born on the family estate called Greenwood in Trenton, New Jersey on September 11, 1795. His father was Lambert Cadwalader and mother was Mary McCall.^[1]

Through his mother, he was a descendant of the Schuyler and the Van Cortlandt families through her ancestors Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler.^[2] He was their only child, a brother having died in childhood.^[3] His cousin Elizabeth Cadwalader (1774–1824) married his uncle Archibald McCall (1767–1843). Many of his cousins once-removed became military leaders, following the footsteps of his father and grandfather.^[1]

He graduated from Princeton University and read law, but chose a career in the military instead.

Career

He was appointed deputy adjutant-general of the New Jersey militia on June 2, 1830. On April 10, 1833, he became Aide-de-camp to Elias P. Seeley with rank of lieutenant colonel. On July 30, 1842, he was promoted to brigadier general. In 1856, he toured Europe to report on how the US military could be modernized.

He retired from the military on January 26, 1858. After his retirement he was given an honorary brevet promotion to major general.^[4]

Personal life

Coat of Arms of Thomas McCall Cadwalader

On December 27, 1831, Cadwalader married Maria Charlotte Gouverneur, a daughter of Nicholas Gouverneur. Her aunt Elizabeth Kortright had married U.S. President James Monroe, and brother Samuel Laurence Gouverneur had married Monroe's daughter.^[3] Together, they were the parents of:

• Emily Cadwalader (1834–1892), married William Henry Rawle on October 17, 1869, after the death of his first wife.^[1][a]
• Mary Cadwalader (1835–1914), who married physician Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) on June 23, 1875.^[5]
• John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914),^[6] who joined a prominent Wall Street law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, that now bears his name.^[6]
• Richard McCall Cadwalader (1839–1918), who graduated from Princeton in 1860 and Harvard Law School in 1863 and who married Christine Biddle (1847–1900) on November 26, 1873.^[4]
• Maria Cadwalader (c. 1841–1921), who married John Hone (1844–1915) on April 29, 1880.^[7] Hone's grandfather was Commodore Matthew Perry and his great-granduncle was New York City Mayor Philip Hone.^[8]

Cadwalader died October 22, 1873, and was buried in the Friends Burying Ground at Trenton, New Jersey.

Descendants

Through his son Richard, he was the grandfather of Richard McCall Cadwalader, who married Emily Margaretta Roebling (1879–1941),^[9][b] and Gouverneur Cadwalader.^[10] Through his daughter Maria, he was the grandfather of Hester Gouverneur Hone-Bartol.^[8]

v t e Monroe family tree
Lawrence Kortright (1728–1794) Hannah Aspinwall (1738–1777) James Monroe (1758–1831) Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (1768–1830) Hester Kortright (1770–1842) Nicholas Gouverneur (1753–1802) George Hay (1765–1830) Eliza Monroe Hay (1786–1835) Maria Hester Monroe (1802–1850) Samuel L. Gouverneur (1799–1865) Maria Charlotte Gouverneur (1801–1867) Thomas McCall Cadwalader (1795–1873) John Lambert Cadwalader (1836–1914)
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References

Notes

1. William Henry Rawle's first wife was Emily's cousin Mary Binney Cadwalader.^[5] Emily's step-daughter, Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923) who was also her cousin twice removed, married the brother of Edith Wharton.^[1]
2. Emily Margaretta Roebling (1879–1941) was the daughter of Charles Gustavus Roebling (1849–1918), whose father John A. Roebling designed the Brooklyn Bridge.^[9]

Sources

1. John W. Jordan (1978). Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 156. ISBN 978-0-8063-0811-1.
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1882, pages 208-213.
3. John Woolf Jordan; Thomas Lynch Montgomery; Ernest Spofford; Frederic Antes Godcharies (1914). Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography: illustrated. Vol. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 894–897.
4. John Howard Brown, ed. (1900). Lamb's biographical dictionary of the United States. James H. Lamb Company. pp. 539–540.
5. Charles Penrose Keith (1883). The provincial councillors of Pennsylvania, who held office between 1733-1776: and those earlier councillors who were some time chief magistrates of the province, and their descendants. W.S. Sharp Printing Company. pp. 260, 389–390. ISBN 9780788417658.
6. "J. L. Cadwalader, Lawyer, Dies at 77:President of New York City Bar Association and Public Library Was Long Ill" (PDF). New York Times. March 12, 1914.
7. "Obituary 2" (PDF). The New York Times. June 24, 1921. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
8. "John Hone is Dead; Long an Invalid; Grandson of Commodore Perry Retired from Brokerage Business in 1907; Always Voted in Jersey; Was of Fourth Generation of Distinguished New York Family, with Home at 5 Gramercy Park" (PDF). The New York Times. March 22, 1915. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
9. Edwin Charles Hill (1922). "Charles Gustavus Roebling". The Historical register: A Record of People Places and Events in American History. Vol. 3. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 64.
10. TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (15 October 1935). "MAJ. CADWALADER, ENGINEER, IS DEAD; Pennsylvania Sportsman, 55, Served in Ordnance Corps During World War". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

External links

• Thomas McCall Cadwalader at Find a Grave