Life

Thomas McCall Cadwalader was born on the family estate called Greenwood in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

 on September 11, 1795. His father was Lambert Cadwalader

Lambert Cadwalader

Lambert Cadwalader was an American merchant and leader in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He fought in the Revolutionary War, then represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Congress.-Early life:...

 (1742–1823) and mother was Mary McCall (1764–1848); he was their only child, except for a brother who died in childhood.
His cousin Elizabeth Cadwalader (1774–1824) married his uncle Archibald McCall (1767–1843). Many of his cousins once-removed became military leaders, following the footsteps of his father and grandfather.

On December 27, 1831, Cadwalader married Maria Charlotte Gouverneur (1801–1867). Her aunt brother Elizabeth Kortright (1768–1830) had married US President James Monroe

James Monroe

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, and brother Samuel L. Gouverneur

Samuel L. Gouverneur

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 (1799–1865) had married Monroe's daughter.
He graduated from Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and read law, but his career was in military service instead of as a practicing lawyer. He was appointed deputy adjutant-general of the New Jersey militia on June 2, 1830. On April 10, 1833, he became Aide-de-camp

Aide-de-camp

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 to Elias P. Seeley

Elias P. Seeley

Elias Petty Seeley was an American Whig Party politician who served as the 11th Governor of New Jersey in 1833. Seeley was named to serve as governor after Samuel L. Southard stepped down from office to take a seat in the United States Senate...

 with rank of lieutenant colonel

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. On July 30, 1842, he was promoted to brigadier general.
In 1856 he troured Europe to report on how the US military could be modernized.
He retired from the military on January 26, 1858. After his retirement he was given an honorary brevet

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 promotion to major general.

Cadwalader died October 22, 1873, and was buried in the Friends Burying Ground

Friends Burying Ground, Trenton

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 at Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County. As of the 2010 United States Census, Trenton had a population of 84,913...

. Children were:

1. Emily Cadwalader was born February 14, 1834, married William Henry Rawle after the death of his first wife, who was her cousin Mary Binney Cadwalader on October 17, 1869. Her step-daughter Mary Cadwalader Rawle (1850–1923), who was also her cousin second removed, married the brother of Edith Wharton
   Edith Wharton
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   .
2. Mary Cadwalader married physician Silas Weir Mitchell
   Silas Weir Mitchell
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    (1829–1914) on June 23, 1875.
3. John Lambert Cadwalader
   John Lambert Cadwalader
   -Life:John Lambert Cadwalader was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on November 17, 1836. His father was General Thomas McCall Cadwalader .On his paternal side, his grandfather was Lambert Cadwalader and his great-grandfather was Thomas Cadwalader .His mother was Maria Charlotte Gouverneur , who was...
   
     (1836–1914) founded a Wall Street
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    law firm that still bears his name.
4. Richard McCall Cadwalader was born September 17, 1839. He graduated from Princeton in 1860 and Harvard Law School
   Harvard Law School
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    in 1863. He married Christine Biddle (1847–1900) on November 26, 1873 and died December 9, 1918. Their son also named Richard McCall Cadwalader (1877–1960), married Emily Margaretta Roebling (1879–1941), daughter of Charles Gustavus Roebling (1849–1918), whose father John A. Roebling
   John A. Roebling
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    designed the Brooklyn Bridge
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   .
5. Maria Cadwalader was born circa 1841, married John Hone (1844–1915) on April 29, 1880 and died in June 1921. Hone's maternal grandfather was Commodore Matthew C. Perry and his great granduncle was New York mayor Philip Hone
   Philip Hone
   Philip Hone was Mayor of New York from 1826 to 1827. He was most notable for a detailed diary he kept from 1828 until the time of his death in 1851. His recorded diary is said to be the most extensive and detailed of his time in 19th century America.Son of a German immigrant carpenter, Hone became...
   
   . They had a daughter Hester Gouverneur Hone-Bartol.

The Greenwood estate, which had originally been purchased by his grandfather in 1776, was developed into the neighborhood called Cadwalader Heights in Trenton by Edmund C. Hill and Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...

. Another nearby residential area developed from the estate is also known as Berkeley Square.

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