| Name |
CADWALLADER, Albert |
| Born |
11 Oct 1841 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census (desc) |
1850 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Education |
1858 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| the Milton Classical Institute |
| Census |
1860 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Biography |
- BIOGRAPHY: ALBERT CADWALLADER was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1841, was reared and educated in his native town, and was engaged in the grocery and provision business until 1879. October 20 1868, he married Annie L., daughter of Andrew Supplee, of Philadelphia, and by this union they have seven children; Gertrude H.; Austin S.; Seth Iredell; Mary Louisa; Kate E.; Bertha May, and Albert. During the Rebellion he volunteered in Company A, Third Pennsylvania Militia, and later in Company E, Twenty-eighth Emergency Men, and was afterwards appointed agent for the United States sanitary commission to distribute supplies to the sick and wounded soldiers at the front. In politics he is a Republican, and was elected county treasurer in 1871, the first Republican ever elected to that office in this county. He served five terms as chief burgess of Milton, and has also been a member of the town council. He is secretary and treasurer in the Milton Knitting Factory, and has been a director of the Milton National Bank for several years. Mr. Cadwallader is a member of Henry Wilson Post. G. A. R., and served as quartermaster of the same four years. He and family attend the Presbyterian church.
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| Biography |
- Albert Cadwallader was born in Milton, Pennsylvania on October 11, 1841. He was the son of Seth Cadwallader and Elizabeth Hammond, who married on February 3, 1824.
During the Civil War, Albert enlisted in Company A of the Third Pennsylvania Militia. He later was appointed agent for the United States Sanitary Commission to distribute supplies to sick and wounded soldiers at the front.
Albert's father, Seth Cadwallader, was engaged in the mercantile business in Milton from 1812 to 1854, when he retired. He was a prosperous merchant. Albert may have succeeded to the family business because he was engaged in the grocery and provision business in Milton until 1879. After the great Milton fire, he conducted a grocery business in the Cadwallader block on Broadway for some years.
Albert Cadwallader married Annie Louisa Supplee on October 20, 1868 in Germantown, PA. Albert and Annie had eight children.
In 1905 he sold the family home at 250 Center Street. In May of that year, his youngest daughter Bertha, who was visiting in Philadelphia, received a letter from her mother which indicated that Albert, Annie, and their son James Albert were living in the Broadway House Hotel. Annie had been in poor health and perhaps they had decided it would be better for her not to try to keep up their big house.
In June, 1905, Bertha received a letter from her mother saying that she and Albert were leaving for a visit to their son Iredell. It turned out that Albert had planned to take Annie to California to spend the rest of the year with their son Austin in Los Angeles. Their first stop was to be a visit with Iredell and his family in Kinzua, Pennsylvania.
Unfortunately, before they started, Annie fell on the stairs and injured her side. After she got to Kinzua, she developed an abcess, which got progressively worse. Iredell was a medical doctor so she got the best of care. But nothing helped and Annie died in Kinzua on September 15, 1905.
Family tradition says that after her mother died, Bertha, who was still unmarried, lived with her father and kept house for him.
Albert Cadwallader remarried in May of 1909 to Louisa A. Crawford, who was a good bit younger than he was. His children were strongly opposed to this marriage. In response to this, Louisa signed an ante-nuptial agreement in which she waived any claim to Albert Cadwallader's estate but was guaranteed an annuity after his death for the rest of her life. Louisa survived Albert by many years and died in 1949.
Probably also in response to his children's feelings, Albert wrote a will and signed it on August 20, 1909. This was a ten-page will and went into great detail. Basically it stipulated three things:
(1) After Albert's death, all of his lands and real estate, with the exception of real estate located at the corner of Broadway and Front Street in Milton, and all of his personal estate were to be liquidated. After his debts and funeral expenses had been paid, the remainder of the proceeds was to be divided share and share alike among his six surviving children. His daughter Gertrude H. Spindell was specifically not to receive a share of this money.
If any of his children died before the will became effective, their share was to be divided share and share alike among any children they might have. If there were no children, the share was to be divided share and share alike among their brothers and sisters.
He further directed that "in no event shall either the present or any future husband of either or any of my daughters take any share or interest or benefit from my estate." He apparently did not trust his daughters' husbands.
Finally, he said that several of his children were indebted to him for monies that he had advanced to them and that the amounts of their indebtedness, without interest, were to be deducted from their shares in the estate.
(2) The lands and real estate at Broadway and Front Street in Milton were to be held in trust for his children. His executors were to distribute the net proceeds from this trust each year share and share alike among his seven children. [In this case, Gertrude was to receive her share.]
The property held in this trust was not to be sold until the last of his seven children had died.
If any of his children died, their share was to be divided equally among their children. If they did not have children, their share was to be divided share and share alike among their brothers and sisters.
(3) Albert's second wife, Louisa A. Cadwallader was to receive out of the income of this trust, before any payments to his children, the sum of sixty dollars each month for the rest of her life, if she did not remarry.
Albert Cadwallader lived only three years after he remarried. His obituary said that he had been in ill health for years and that the cause of his death was hardening of the arteries. He and Louisa were living in the Hotel Milton at the time of his death. It would seem that this remarriage was largely one of convenience and that Louisa probably earned her annuity.
Albert Cadwallader died on May 2, 1912 and was buried next to his first wife, Annie Louisa, in the Milton Cemetery. He left an estate that was estimated at $100,000.
Two notes about Albert Cadwallader's will are interesting:
(1) Albert's daughter Gertrude died in 1909 about the same time that Albert wrote his will. She therefore did not miss receiving her share in the first part of her father's estate. Her two children, Hammond and Catherine, started receiving their shares from the trust in 1912.
(2) Albert's daughter Bertha lived to be almost ninety and outlived all of her brothers and sisters. The trust was therefore not liquidated until 1972, almost sixty-three years after Albert established it in his will. Albert's grandson, James Albert Cadwallader, Jr., took over from the original trustees, Seth Iredell and Austin Supplee, who died in 1957 and 1960.
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| Biography |
- ALBERT CADWALLADER was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1841, was reared and educated in his native town, and was engaged in the grocery and provision business until 1879. October 20 1868, he married Annie L., daughter of Andrew Supplee, of Philadelphia, and by this union they have seven children; Gertrude H.; Austin S.; Seth Iredell; Mary Louisa; Kate E.; Bertha May, and Albert.
During the Rebellion he volunteered in Company A, Third Pennsylvania Militia, and later in Company E, Twenty-eighth Emergency Men, and was afterwards appointed agent for the United States sanitary commission to distribute supplies to the sick and wounded soldiers at the front.
In politics he is a Republican, and was elected county treasurer in 1871, the first Republican ever elected to that office in this county. He served five terms as chief burgess of Milton, and has also been a member of the town council. He is secretary and treasurer in the Milton Knitting Factory, and has been a director of the Milton National Bank for several years. Mr. Cadwallader is a member of Henry Wilson Post. G. A. R., and served as quartermaster of the same four years. He and family attend the Presbyterian church.
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| Census (desc) |
1860 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| living with his parents |
| Military |
11 Nov 1862 |
- He was on the first Civil War draft list, and was recruited Nov 11-13, 1862, into Company A of the Third Regiment.
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| Military |
1 Sep 1864 |
- He was on the first Civil War draft list, and was enlisted Sep. 1, 1864, into the Third Regiment, Company A. He was discharged Jan. 29, 1866.
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| Biography |
27 Jul 1867 |
- Sunbury American, July 27, 1867 (Saturday)
On Wednesday a man, who assumed the name of Edward Spencer, and who said his home was in Harrisburg, was taken to jail by the constable of Milton. He was charged, on oath of Albert Cadwallader, with committing a burglary in Cadwallader’s house, in Milton, early on Wednesday morning. He was caught in the act of robbing the house by Mr. Cadwallader’s mother, an old lady, (64) who seized him and cried for help, and had the prisoner secured. His person was searched, and a pair of gold spectacles belonging to the plaintiff were found. He confessed his guilt.
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| Census (desc) |
1870 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| living with his wife and mother and working as a grocer |
| Occupation |
UNTIL 1879 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| was in the grocery and provision business |
| Census (desc) |
1880 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| listed as a retired grocer at age 38 |
| Residence |
From 1885 to 1905 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| at 250 Center St. |
| Property(purch) |
28 Mar 1885 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [3] |
| the property at 250 Center St. |
- The home of Albert Cadwallader was built in 1885. Albert purchased the land, including the meadow across the alley in back, from Edward Watson Chapin on March 28, 1885 for $1300. William C. Lawson owned the land beyond the meadow to the south.
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| Census (desc) |
1900 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| living at 250 Center St. and working as a capitalist |
| Sold |
2 Apr 1909 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States [4] |
| the family home at 250 Center St. to George N. Krause |
| Will |
20 Aug 1909 |
| Census (desc) |
1910 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States [5] |
| living at 6012 Chestnut St. |
| Illness |
epilepsy as a child [6] |
- This was told to Elizabeth Rife by Austin Supplee Cadwallader. The family generally tried to keep such things quiet, and they were seldom discussed.
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| Religion |
Episcopalian |
| Residence |
May 1912 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| at the Hotel Milton (formerly the Hotel Haag) |
| _UID |
62F750887C7BBA45A477CC893DECD4730754 |
| Died |
2 May 1912 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
- He died of hardening of the arteries.
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| Buried |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
Address:
Milton Cemetery |
| Person ID |
I1175 |
Milton Families |
| Last Modified |
29 Jun 2015 |
| Family 1 |
SUPPLEE, Annie Louisa, b. 12 Apr 1849, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 15 Sep 1905, Kinzua (historical), Warren, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 56 years) |
| Married |
20 Oct 1868 |
Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
- They were married at the Advent Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, PA by Reverend Enoch Hooven Supplee.
We do not know for sure how they met, but can speculate. Albert Cadwallader, then twenty-seven years old, was engaged in the grocery and provision business in Milton, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War he had served as an agent responsible for getting supplies to soldiers at the front. Two of Annie's uncles were businessmen in Philadelphia and J. Wesley Supplee was head of his own commission merchant firm and a bank president. Philadelphia was the logical supply source for a firm in Milton, and Albert Cadwallader probably had business connections with the Supplees. Opportunities must have occurred for him to meet their attractive young niece.
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| Residence |
May 1905 |
Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| at the Broadway House Hotel |
- They had sold the family home at 250 Center Street in early 1905.
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| Children |
| | 1. CADWALLADER, Gertrude Hammond, b. 7 Feb 1870, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 18 Nov 1909, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 39 years) |
| | 2. CADWALLADER, Austin Supplee, b. 8 Oct 1871, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 8 Aug 1960, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California (Age 88 years) |
| | 3. CADWALLADER, Seth Iredell M.D., b. 5 Dec 1874, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 8 Dec 1957, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 83 years) |
| | 4. CADWALLADER, Andrew Hooven, b. 27 Jun 1876, d. 25 Apr 1877 (Age 0 years) |
| + | 5. CADWALLADER, Mary Louisa, b. 21 Feb 1878, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 21 Dec 1962, Bloomsburg, Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 84 years) |
| | 6. CADWALLADER, Katherine Elizabeth, b. 16 Jan 1880, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 10 Dec 1961 (Age 81 years) |
| | 7. CADWALLADER, Bertha May, b. 10 May 1882, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 1 Feb 1972, Drexel Hill, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 89 years) |
| + | 8. CADWALLADER, James Albert, b. 9 Oct 1889, Milton, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 20 Dec 1948, Mount Lebanon, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 59 years) |
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| Last Modified |
25 Jul 2023 |
| Family ID |
F357 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1841 - 1912 (70 years)