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Rh CAMPBELL, William W., jurist, b. in Cherry Valley, Otsego co., N. Y., 10 June, 1806 ; d. there, 7 Sept., 1881. He was graduated at Union in 1827, studied law with Judge Kent, and began practice in New York city in 1831. He was elected to congress by the national American party, and served from 1 Dec, 1845, till 3 March, 1847. After spending a year in Europe he was appointed, in 1849, a justice of the superior court of New York city, served till 1855, and from 1857 till 18G5 was a judge of the state supreme court for the sixth district. He published " Annals of Tryon County, N. Y." (New York, 1831; revised ed., entitled " Border Warfare," 1849 ; 3d ed.. Cherry Valley, N. Y., 1880) ; " Memoirs of Mrs. Grant, Missionary to Persia " (1840) ; " Life and Writings of Be Witt Clinton " (1849) ; and '• Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd " (1853).

CAMPECHE, José (cam-pay'-che), Porto Rican painter, b. in St. John, Porto Rico, 6 Jan., 1752; d. 7 Nov., 1809. He belonged to an humble family, and received no artistic education, but from early childhood showed extraordinary fondness for drawing, and soon became noted for his compositions and portraits, drawn with charcoal or chalk on the walls and curbstones. Without means of any kind, he learned how to prepare canvas and paints, and how to make brushes, varnishes, and everything else necessary to the use of colors. Only in the second period of his artistic career did he receive some few lessons from the Spanish painter Luis Paredes. Campeche gained great reputation, and King Charles IV., of Spain, appointed him painter to the royal household ; but lie never left Porto Rico. His paintings numbered over 400, many of them being very large. Their chief qualities are good composition, correctness of drawing, and beaxity of color. The most remarkable are " St. Michel fighting Satan," " Our Lady of Mercy," " The Siege of St. John of Porto Rico by the English in 1797," " St. Stephen," " Our Lady of Sorrows," and the " Nativity of the Saviour." Campeche also showed artistic power in sculpture, architecture, and music.

CAMPUZANO, Baltasar, Peruvian monk, b. in Lima, Peru, or in Guadalajara, about the end of the 16th century ; d. in Rome, Italy, in 1666. He was prefect of the province of his order, the Au- gustinian, in Peru. He wrote " El sumo Sacerdote " (Rome, 1655) ; " Antigiiedad de Guadalajara " (Mad- rid, 1661); "Conversion de la Reina de Suecia"; and " Alma y Cuerpo de las Cualidades de un Nepote de Papa " (Rome, 1666).

CANALES, Servando (cah-nah'-les), Mexican soldier, b. in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, 28 June, 1830; d. 7 Oct., 1883. When the American army passed the Mexican frontier in 1847 he joined the national troops and took part in the battle of Padi- erna, but left the regular army and became a gue- rilla. At the end of the war he had reputation and influence in the state of Tamaulipas, where after- ward he was a rival of his old friend. Gen. Cortina, in smuggling and similar pursuits. From 1852 till 1857 he served under Gen. Vidaurri as a colonel, and then retired to his ranch of Las Piedras, but in 1861 again organized a guerilla band, joined Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, and accompanied him at the siege of Puel)la in May, 1862. Canales escaped from that city, went to the frontier, and assumed command of a volunteer corps of cavalry, contin- ued the warfare against the French, and in 1867 incorporated his troops with those of Gen. Esco- bedo. He took part in the siege of Queretaro, and was present at the execution of Maximilian and Gens. Miramon and j\Iejia. Having rebelled with 300 horsemen in favor of Porfirio Diaz in February, 1874, he sustained his operations in the states of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila until 1876, when the revolutionists completed their triumph. In the fol- lowing year the new government gave him the military command of that section of Mexico, and in 1879 he was elected governor of Tamaulipas. He visited the forts in Texas, and often prevented serious difficulties on the frontier.

CANBY, Edward Richard Sprigg, soldier, b. in Kentucky in 1819 ; killed in Siskiyou co., Cal., 11 April, 1873. His parents removed to Indiana, where he went to school, and whence he was ap- pointed cadet at the U. S. military academy in 183-5. He was graduated in 1839 in the same class with Gens. Halleck, Isaac Stevens, Ord, Paine, of Illinois, and other distinguished officers. After graduation he was at once commissioned second lieutenant, assigned to the 2d infantry, and served in the Florida war as quartermaster and commis- sary of subsistence from October, 1839 till 1842, and after the close of that war was en- gaged in the removal of the Chero- kees, Creeks, and Choctaws to the present Indian terri- tory. He was on garrison dutv from 1842 till 1845, and on re- cruiting ser- vice during 1845 and a part of 1846. In March, 1846, he was appointed adjutant of his regiment, and three months later was promoted to a first lieutenancy. The outbreak of the Mexican war called his regiment into active service. Serving under Gen. Riley, he was present at the siege of Vera Cruz, at Cerro Gordo, Contreras, and Churubusco, as well as at the attack upon the Belen gate, city of Mexico. He received the brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel for his services in this campaign, and was promoted to the full rank of captain in June, 1851 ; but, having been transferred to the adjutant-general's department as assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, he relinquished his rank in the line. In March, 1855, he was appointed major of the 10th U. S. infantry, a new regiment, with which he was engaged on frontier duty in western Wisconsin and Minnesota for the next three years, and in 1858 was ordered to Fort Bridger, Utah, where his command included portions of the 2d dragoons and 7th and 10th U. S. infantry. He held this post until 1860, when he was appointed commander of the expedition against the Navajo Indians, and was in command of Fort Defiance, New Mexico, at the beginning of the civil war. At that critical period, when officers from the border states were daily sending in their resignations, Maj. Canby did not leave his loyalty in doubt for a moment, and throughout the war was one of the most active and conspicuous defenders of the union. In May, 1861, he was made colonel of the 19th regiment, U. S. infantry, and was acting brigadier-general of the forces in New Mexico. In 1862 he repelled the Confederate Gen. Sibley in his daring attempt to