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KANAWHA COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CALDERWOOD, William B.
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 21, 1999
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History of Charleston and Kanawha County, West Virginia and Representative
Citizens
W.S. Laidley
Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, ILL.
1911
p. 363-364
WILLIAM B. CALDERWOOD, postmaster at Cedar Grove, Kanawba County, W. Va.,
and a member of the general mercantile firm of Calderwood Brothers, was born
May 6, 1878, at Dana, Kanawha County, and is a son of William B. and Anna
(Wilkinson) Calderwood.
William B. Calderwood, Sr., who was born in Scotland and was brought to
America by his parents, who located at Middleport, Ohio, where he grew to
manhood and engaged in coal mining. Shortly after his marriage he came to
Kanawha County, W. Va., as foreman for the Campbell Creek Coal Company and
resided at Dana, continuing with that company many years and resigning but a
short time prior to his death, May 24, 1906, at the age of sixty-two years.
He was married in Ohio to Anna Wil-kinson, who was born in England and is at
present a resident of Malden, W. Va. The fol-lowing children were born to
them: Elizabeth, who is the wife of John F. White, of Mont-gomery, W. Va.;
Henry, who lives at Leon, W. Va.; Agnes, who lives in West Charleston; Anna,
who is in partnership with her brother William B., in the store enterprise at
Cedar Grove; William B.; Andrew, who lives at Putney; W. Va.; Robert and
Edward, both of whom are residents of Charleston.
William B. Calderwood attended the public schools of Dana through boyhood and
then became his father's assistant for two years at the Campbell Creek mines,
after which he came to Cedar Grove as a clerk for his brother, Henry
Calderwood, who, in partnership with I. F. and C. F. White, started the
present mercantile business. On February 1, 1906, Mr. Calderwood with his
sister Anna, and his brother Andrew, bought Henry Calderwood's interest, who
had succeeded the original firm of White & Calderwood. A good general stock
is carried and the firm is prospering. Mr. Calderwood is a Republican and in
April, 1906, was appointed postmaster at Cedar Grove.
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