Notes for ANDREW JAMES CALDWELL:

Son of Samuel Brewster and Susan Elizabeth (Roe) Caldwell.
Born: May 1, 1858 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
Died: May 10, 1909 in Unknown.
Occupation: Engineer.
Married: Rosanna Amelia McCarthy 1890 in Unknown.

Proceedings for 1909, Volume 13 by Brooklyn Engineers Club; published January 1910
MEMOIR OF ANDREW J. CALDWELL.*

Died May 10th, 1909.

Andrew J. Caldwell, first President of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club, passed away May 10th, 1909. He has gone to take his place among the distinguished dead in his profession. Possessing a will and spirit far beyond his physical strength, a man of rare ability and talent as an hydraulic engineer, devoted to his profession, an unremitting worker, untiring in his efforts to reach results, he acquired a knowledge by close application to business which distinguished him in his profession far above the ordinary. With this he was a man of kind and lovable nature, generous to a fault. Mr. Caldwell was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 1st, 1858, and was graduated from the University of Maine in 1878 with a degree of B. M. E., after which he took a graduate course at Cornell University.

After leaving college he entered the employ of the Delamater Iron Works, and later entered the service of the New York & New Orleans Steamship Company as operating engineer. In 1880 he connected himself with the firm of Henry R. Worthington as draftsman in the designing department of that company. This field being congenial to his taste and talent he contributed much to the development of the Worthington high-duty pumping engine. He was soon made chief of the erecting department, which dealt with water-works pumping engines. Later he became assistant to the president, Mr. Charles C. Worthington; and finally general manager of the Hydraulic Works.

After the organization of the International Steam Pump Company he resigned to take a similar position with the R. D. Crane Company, Chicago. Later he took the management of the Eaton, Cole & Burnham Plant at Bridgeport, Conn., controlled by the Crane Company. After a successful management there he resigned in 1902, accepting a position with the National Foundry Association. Later he entered the service of the National Transit Company as constructing engineer, with which he was identified at the time of his death. Mr. Caldwell was one of the principal organizers of the Brooklyn Engineers' Club and was a member of the New York Engineers' Club, and manager of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers at the time of his death.
* Memoir prepared by Mr. John A. Drew.