Gouverneur Cadwalader
Maj. Gouverneur Cadwalader was an American sportsman and soldier.
Early life
Cadwalader was born on February 3, 1880, in Springfield Township, Pennsylvania. He was a son of Richard McCall Cadwalader and Christine W. Cadwalader. Among his brothers were Thomas Cadwalader, Dr. William Biddle Cadwalader, Richard McCall Cadwalader Jr., Charles Meigs Biddle Cadwalader, and Alexander Cadwalader,His maternal grandparents were Jonathan Williams Biddle and Emily Skinner Biddle. His paternal grandparents were Thomas McCall Cadwalader and Maria Charlotte Cadwalader. His uncle, John Lambert Cadwalader, was a prominent lawyer who served as the 10th U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. He was also a great-grandson of Col. Lambert Cadwalader, an officer in the American Revolution who represented New Jersey at the Continental Congress.
Cadwalader graduated from St. Paul's School before attending the University of Pennsylvania.
Career
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Cadwalader became associated with the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad and was stationed in Western Pennsylvania. Later, he joined the Cresson-Morris Company, a firm of engineers, machinists and founders. When the War broke out, he was serving as secretary-treasurer of the company, but did not return to business after the war ended.Following the beginning of World War I, Cadwalader and his brothers joined the service and was attached to the Watertown Arsenal as a Major in the Ordnance Corps.
Personal life
In 1921, Cadwalader was married to Mae Drexel Henry. The widow of Capt. Howard Houston Henry, Mae was a daughter of John Ruckman Fell and Sarah Rozet Van Rensselaer. After Mae's father died, her mother Sarah married Alexander Van Rensselaer. Together, they were the parents of:- Mae Gouverneur, who married Rufus Lenoir Patterson III, a son of Morehead Patterson and grandson of Rufus L. Patterson Jr. and U.S. Representative Herbert Parsons, in 1942. After his death in 1944, she married Joseph Harrison Worrall in 1945. After his death in 1979, she married William Marshall Hollenback, son of Bill Hollenback, in 1987.
- Gouverneur Cadwalader Jr., who married Catherine Schuyler Chambers, a daughter of Francis Taylor Chambers, in 1948. He later married Joan Hayden.
- Amanda "Minnie" Cassatt Gouverneur, who married William Hepburn Dixon, a son of Morris Hacker Dixon, in 1949. David Crawford Burton.
Cadwalader died of heart disease at Hawkswell, his home at Camp Hill near Fort Washington, on October 14, 1935. His widow died on August 31, 1948, at her summer home at Dark Harbor, Maine.