[1] As his brother died young, Caleb adopted his nephew, Nathaniel Norris Halsted Jr. (later a Civil War General),[2] and raised him.
Winds, aide-de-camp to Gen. Philemon Dickinson, and quartermaster in the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
In 1853, the Manhattan Company became one of the original 52 members of the New York Clearing House Association and Halsted became its first president.
Later that year, the board of directors promoted James M. Morrison as president of the bank to succeed Halsted.
[21] Through his daughter Lucy, he was a grandfather of nine, including Caroline Morris Kean (1849–1887) (wife of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State George L. Rives), U.S. Representative and U.S.