Edwin Church Catherwood
Edwin Church Catherwood was born in November 1835 in New York to Robert and Ellen Catherwood. His parents were Irish immigrants. His father worked as a merchant and wholesale liquor dealer, and he owned $10,000 of real estate by 1860. The family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, sometime before 1850, and Catherwood attended school there. By 1860, he was also working as a liquor dealer.
He remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, and in March 1862, he received a commission as lieutenant colonel of the 6th Missouri Militia Cavalry. He was promoted to colonel on April 30, 1862. He became colonel of the 13th Missouri Cavalry on November 25, 1864. He resigned on June 20, 1865, citing his desire to “return to private life.”
Catherwood married Clara Hastings sometime after the war, and they had at least three children: Louise, born around 1869; Jennie, born around 1872; and Clinton, born around 1874. Clara’s father was a prominent lawyer who owned $700,000 of real estate and $200,000 of personal property in 1870. The family was living in New York City in 1870, and they settled in San Francisco, California, sometime in the 1870s. He died in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on November 7, 1897.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (360) | Catherwood, Edwin Church | 1835-11 | 1897-11-07 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Lieutenant Colonel
- Rank out: Colonel
- Rank highest: Colonel
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (4375) [writer] ~ George W. Yates Commission, 17 September 1864
Places - Records: 4
Regiments - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, and 1870 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Roger D. Hunt, “Edwin Church Catherwood,” Colonels in Blue—Missouri and the Western States and Territories (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2019).
