History of Lamington, (Somerset County) New Jersey United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of Joseph Caldwell

Joseph Caldwell, educator, was born at Lammington, N. J., April 21, 1773; son of Joseph and Rachel (Harker) Caldwell. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1791; in 1795 was tutor at Princeton, and in 1796 was elected professor of mathematics in the University of North Carolina, of which institution he became president in 1804. In 1812 he resigned the office and returned to the chair of mathematics, but on the resignation of his successor in 1816 he again became president. In 1824 he was sent to Europe by the trustees of the university for the purpose of purchasing books and apparatus. In 1827 he built an astronomical observatory at the university, the first in the United States. In 1816 the college of New Jersey and the University of North Carolina conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He is the author of a Compendious System of Elementary Geometry (1822). He died at Chapel Hill, N. C., Jan. 27, 1835.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor