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Chicago Board of Trade. Four years later, in 1924, Caldwell's mother died. By 1930, Caldwell married Marguerite Friedley, a public school teacher, has his own house in Proviso Township, Cook County and continued to work as a broker at the Chicago Board of Trade. By 1940, the US census records list Caldwell as a freelance artist and his wife as a public school teacher. The Caldwells had no children and remained in Cook County until Orval died on February 18, 1972, and Marguerite on April 13, 1976. The couple are buried in Naperville, Illinois, cemetery.
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