CALDWELL, Adelbert F. - Putnam

Funeral service for Prof. AF Caldwell of DePauw University who died suddenly Saturday afternoon in the Putnam County Hospital of a heart attack will be Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock in his home on Elm Street.  Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, former president of DePauw.  Rev. Albert E. Monger, pastor of the Methodist Church and Dr. Salem B. Towne will conduct the services.  The final resting place for the body of Prof. Caldwell has not been decided pending the arrive of his sisters husband who will come to Greencastle tonight.  Rev. WC Callahan of New Albany, a nephew, arrived here Saturday shortly after the death of his uncle.  The body will probably be taken to Oxford Maine, his birthplace.  Prof. Caldwell has been an instructor in DePauw for 277 years and was outranked in years of service by only three members of the faculty: Dr. Edwin Post; Dean emeritus; Dr. Henry B. Longden, VP and Dr. WM Blanchard, dean of Liberal Arts College.  He was James Whitcomb Riley Professor of English Literature and head of that department.  Prof. Caldwell had been ill for the past two years but following an operation it was believed he was rapidly recovering and he was occasionally teaching a class in his department.  A relapse came two weeks ago when he suffered an attack of heart disease and was removed from his home to the hospital.  His condition was critical.  Death came suddenly Saturday afternoon about 2:15 o’clock and word reached the DePauw campus while hundreds of alumni were seated at the tables in the Bowman gymnasium for the annual alumni banquet. The news of his death cast a pall over the remainder of the commencement activities.  --- transcribed by  kbz

Funeral services for Prof. Adelbert F. Caldwell who died in the Putnam County Hospital Saturday afternoon were held this morning at 10 o’clock from his residence in Elm Street, Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes was in charge of the service assisted by Dr. Salem B. Town and Rev. AE Monger. Prof. Caldwell was a member of the DePauw faculty for 27 years and taught English literature.  The University will hold a memorial service for him next September when school is in session.  Many faculty members and students attended the services today.  Interment was made in the new mausoleum at Forest Hill cemetery.  Bishop Hughes in his remarks stated that Prof. Caldwell had served DePauw University through five presidencies.  It was Bishop Hughes who had brought Prof. Caldwell to the DePauw faculty when the former was president of DePauw.  He spoke upon the loyalty and sincerity and scholarship that Prof. Caldwell brought to DePauw, he characterized him as being a man whom he had never known to do an unworthy thing or speak a mean word.  Pall bearers for the occasion were: Dr. Henry B. Longden, Dr. Walter E. Bundy, Dr. LR Eckardt, Prof. Jerome Hixson, Prof. Jarvis Davis and That Jones.  Prof. Caldwell was an alumnus of Colby College, Maine and was to have been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at his commencement exercises next week.  After the service the body of Prof. Caldwell was taken to Forest Hill Cemetery where it was place in the mausoleum.  --- transcribed by  kbz