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Rh Answer to Jones" (1812); and many sermons. He left a manuscript history of the western country.

CAMPBELL, John Wilson, jurist, b. in Augus- ta county, Va., 2'd Feb., 1782 ; d. in Delaware, Ohio, 24 Sept., 1833. His parents removed to Kentucky, and afterward to Ohio. Young Campbell received a common-school education, was admitted to the bar in 1808, and began practice in West Union, Ohio. He held several local offices, was prosecut- ing attorney for Adams and Highland cos., and a member of the Ohio legislature. He was chosen to congress as a democrat, served from 1 Dec, 1817, till 3 March, 1827, and was U. S. judge for the district of Ohio from 1829 till his death. See " Biographical Sketch and Literary Remains," by his widow (Columbus, Ohio, 1838).

CAMPBELL, Lewis Davis, diplomatist, b. in Franklin, Ohio, 9 Aug., 1811; d. 2G Nov., 1882. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a printer in 1828, and was afterward assistant editor of the Cincinnati " Gazette." He published a whig news- paper at Hamilton, Ohio, from 1831 till 1836, sup- porting Henry Clay, and was then admitted to the bar and began to practise at Hamilton. He was elected to congress as a whig, and served from 3 Dec, 1849, till 25 May, 1858, being chairman of the ways and means committee during his last term. He claimed to have been elected again in 1858, but the house gave the seat to C. L. Vallan- digham. He served as colonel of an Ohio regiment of volunteer infantry from 1861 till 1862, when he resigned on account of failing health. President Johnson appointed him minister to Mexico in De- cember, 1865 ; but, before leaving for his post, he was a delegate to the Philadelphia union conven- tion and the Cleveland soldiers' convention of 1866. He sailed for Mexico, in company with Gen. Sher- man, 11 Nov., 1866, authorized to tender to Presi- dent Juarez the moral support of the United States, and to offer him the use of our military force to aid in the restoration of law. Mr. Campbell remained in Mexico until 1868, and from 1871 till 1873 was again a member of congress.

CAMPBELL, Richard, soldier, b. in the val- ley of Virginia ; d. in Eutaw Springs, S. C, 8 Sept., 1781. He was commissioned captain in 1776, and subsequently major, served in Gibson's regiment at Pittsburgh, and on Mcljilosh's expedition against the Ohio Indians in 1778. In Jtme, 1779, he led a relief party to Fort Laurens, and commanded that garrison for a time. He was promoted lieutenant- colonel, and commanded a Virginia regiment at Guilford, Hobkirk's Hill, Ninety-Six, and Eutaw Springs, where he was mortally wounded while leading the charge that drove the British from the field. Some hours after, hearing that the enemy were in full retreat, he died, exclaiming, "I die contented." Many writers have confounded him with Gen. William Campbell, one of the leaders at King's Mountain. See Draper's " King's Mountain and its Heroes."

CAMPBELL, Rohert, soldier, b. in Virginia in 1755; d. near Knoxville, Tenn., in February, 1832. I le displayed great bravery in many conflicts with the Cherokees, and commanded a regiment at the battle of King's Mountain, 7 Oct., 1780. He was nearly forty years a magistrate of Washington county, Va., and in 1825 emigrated to Tennessee.

CAMPBELL, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Ire- land, 1 Feb., 1763 ; d. in Bethany, W. Va., 4 Jan., 1854. He was trained in scholarship at Glasgow university, and for the ministry under the Scottish establishment. He was descended from the Campbells of Argyle. Entering the ministry in 1798, he soon became identified with the " seceders," as they were called, and emigrated to the United States in 1807, joined the associate synod of North America at Philadelphia, and ministered to desti- tute congregations in western Pennsylvania. In 1809 he was joined by his son, Alexander, and thenceforward the histories of father and son were closely identified. On 12 June, 1812, in company with his son and their joint congregation, they were immersed by Elder Luse, of the Baptists, but with a stipulation in writing that no term of union or communion should be required other than the holy Scriptures. The son soon assumed the leader- ship, which finally resulted in the formation of the sect that is inseparably connected with the family name. Thomas Campbell labored zealously until age, and at last total blindness, compelled him to desist. — His son, Alexander, theologian, b. at Shaw's Castle, county Antrim, Ireland, in June, 1786 ; d. in Bethany, W. Va., 4 March, 1866. He was educated at the University of Glasgow, came to the United States in 1809, and made his home in Washington co.. Pa., where he became pastor of a Presbyterian church, within which denomina- tion he had been reared. He soon became dissatis- fied with the tenets of the sect, holding that the Bible should be the sole creed. His father joined him in his belief, and in 1810 they founded a new society at Brush Run, Pa. Accepting the doctrine of immersion, they joined in a temporary union with the Baptists, but, persisting in their refusal to accept any human creed, Mr. Campbell and his con- gregation were disfellowshiped in 1827, and began at once to form a sect of their own. They called themselves " The Disciples of Christ," but are widely known as " Campbellites," or simply as " Disciples." They soon began to gain recruits, and by 1864 numbered 350.000 members, increased in 1880 to 500,000. In 1823 Mr. Campbell began to publish " The Christian Baptist," which was shortly afterward merged in the " Millennial Har- binger." In 1840-'l he founded Bethany college and was its first president. Mr. Campbell held that slavery was permissible to Christians under his creed, the Bible. He was a prolific writer for the denominational papers. His published works number fifty-two, all of them bearing directly upon his views of Christian belief. He was a man of remarkable intellectual and moral pow- ers, and a cultivated scholar.

CAMPBELL, Thompson, congressman, b. in Pennsylvania; d. in California, 7 Dec, 1868. He received a public-school education, and studied law. He then removed to Galena, 111., and became interested in mining. He was elected secretary of state of Illinois by the democratic party in 1843, and served until 1846. In 1850 he was elected a representative in congress from the Galena district, and served from 1851 till 1853 ; subsequently he was appointed by President Pierce land commis- sioner in California, for the purpose of adjusting titles under the treaty with Mexico, in accordance with grants made by the Mexican government. He served in the California legislature, and was a supporter of the government during the civil war.

CAMPBELL, Lord William, governor of South Carolina, d. 5 Sept., 1778. He was the youngest son of the fourth duke of Argyll, became a captain in the British navy on 20 Aug., 1762, member of parliament in 1764, and was governor of Nova Scotia from 1766 till 1773. He had married, in 1763, Sarah Izard, a wealthy lady of South Carolina, sister of Ralph Izard, a well-known patriot, and in 1774 was appointed royal governor of that province. He entered on his duties in June, 1775, and was cordially welcomed by the people.