Atlantic Christian College - Pine Knot Yearbook (Wilson, NC)

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JESSE COBB CALDWELL XJ JESSE COBB CALDWELL was born in Clay County, Missouri, in 1873, and has just reached the prime meridian of life. He came from a family, illustrious as politicians, teachers and preachers, and who ever have been champions of higher education. Tracing their ancestry from the great Protector of English liberty, Oliver Cromwell, the Caldwell family early emigrated to America, settled in Virginia and Forth Carolina, and their descendants are scattered throughout the Union. Mr. Caldwell graduated from the High School of Excelsior Springs, Mo., in 1892: he entered Kentucky University and took his A. B. degree in 1896; he then pursued the Biblical and Classical courses in the College of the Bible, at Lexington, Ivv., and graduated in 1897. He was immediately called to O f iJ J O c the pastorate of the Christian Church at Owenton, Ky., where he remained six years. During the last two years of this pastorate, the teaching instinct, woven in the tissues of the family, asserted itself so strongly that Mr. Caldwell was induced to revivify the dying work in a college at Owenton, and he achieved c t O O such a decided success that a strong impetus was given to educational work in that section. So great was this impetus that the city of Owenton purchased the property of Caldwell College at a large increase in price. It was during this ministry also that Mr. Caldwell married, in 189S, Miss Marv Settle, the eldest daughter of Congressman E. E. Settle, who « O O represented the famous Ashland District of Kentucky in Congress, and was at that time the leading politician in the State. During the vears 1902-’03 Mr. Caldwell attended the Divinity School at O v «-■ Yale University, graduating with the degree of B. D. Lie was then pastor of the First Christian Church at Selma, Ala., for four years, during which time he had such signal success that it was with great reluctance his congre- o o o gation released him to accept the pastorate of the Christian Church at Wilson, K. C. By special arrangement with the Board of Trustees and the Church Board of the Christian Church he also became Dean of Atlantic Christian College, which position he filled until elected president of the college, in January, 1908. 14

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DR. J. C. CALDWELL.

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Mr. Caldwell is a man of wonderful tact, of boundless energy, of untiring zeal, of deep sympathy, of fine judgment, of rare executive ability, and the college has gone forward very rapidly under his management. Year by year the faculty has been strengthened, the course of study made more thorough and comprehensive, and the college has more and more demonstrated its claim to a distinctive place in the educational realm of North Carolina. Under the management of Mr. Caldwell the college has just entered upon a broader plane of usefulness, and it is to be hoped that the bright prospects of to-day may be eclipsed by the full realization of even more than seems apparent to-day. 15