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 Joseph
Caldwell
(1773
– 1835), was a U.S. educator, Presbyterian minister,
and mathematician. He was the first president of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holding the office from
1804 until 1812, and from 1816 until his death in 1835.
He was born in Lamington, New Jersey, the youngest of three
children of Joseph and Rachel Harker Caldwell.
Caldwell
County, North Carolina is named for him.
(Editor's
Note: This is the same Joseph Caldwell whose public records
include conversations with his grandmother, Rachel Harket,
nee Lovel who states her ancestors were Huguenots. This
does not suggest or support Caldwells as Huguenots.)
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 Wilson
Swain Caldwell
(1841-1898)
was a distinguished Civil War era black American. Born into
slavery on February 27, 1841, his mother was Rosa Burgess,
a slave of the University of North Carolina President David
Swain. His father was November 'Doctor' Caldwell, a slave
of Joseph Caldwell (1773-1835). He was appointed a Justice
of the Peace and held that office for a year.
After
leaving the University in 1869, Caldwell opened a free school
for colored children in Chapel Hill and was its schoolmaster
for $17.50 a month.
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