Background
Caldwell, Josiah Samuel was born on August 2, 1862 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Dice and Martha (Howie) Caldwell.
Caldwell, Josiah Samuel was born on August 2, 1862 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Dice and Martha (Howie) Caldwell.
Bachelor of Arts, Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina.
Entered African Methodist Episcopal Zion ministry, 1890. Pastor Elizabeth City, North Carolina, St. Petersburg, Virginia, New York, and Philadelphia, to 1904. Financial secretary African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 1900-1904.
Elected bishop, 1904.
Chairman of the Board of bishops since February 1911. Delaware Ecumenical Conference, London, 1901, Toronto, 1911, London, 1921.
Trustee Livingstone College, Atkinson College, Madisonville, Kentucky, Douglass Hospital, Philadelphia Author: Book of Sermons, 1908. Home: 1420 Christian Saint Office: 1501 Christian Saint, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Married Ella Melchor, of Concord, North Carolina, January 1881.
