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titles to western and southern lands, Judge Citron was a Democrat, but strongly op- posed secession in 1861, and used his in- fluence with members of congress and others to prevent the civil war. When it came, he was virtually banished from his state for his opinions, but returned and reopened c<.»urt in 1862. He died in Xashville, Ten- nessee, May 30, 1865.

Campbell, John Poage, born in Augusta county, \'irginia, in 1767, removed to Ken- tucky with his father in 1781. Receiving a good education, when nineteen years old he became preceptor of an academy at Wil- liamsburg, North Carolina. Here he adopted atheistic views, but was converted by read- ing Jenyns*s "Treatise on the Internal Evi- dence of Christianity," and, giving up the study of medicine, in which he had been en- gaged, resolved to become a clergyman. He was graduated at Hampdcn-Sidney in 1790, was licensed to preach in May, 1792, and settled in Kentucky in 1795, preaching in various places. In 181 1 he was chaplain to the legislature. As his salary was insuffi- cient for the support of his family, he was obliged to practice medicine. Dr. Camp- bell was a graceful preacher and an accom- plished scholar. He published "The Pas- senger" (1804); ''Strictures on Stone's Let- ters on the Atonement" (1805); "Vindex" (1806); "Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craig- head" (1810); "The Pelagian Detected" (i8ii) ; "An Answer to Jones" (181 2) ; and many sermons. He left a manuscript his- tory of the western country. He died from exposure while preaching on November 4, 1814, near Chillicothe, Ohio.

Campbell, John Wilson, born in Augusta county, Virginia, February 23, 1782; his

parents removed to Kentucky, and after- ward to Ohio. He received a common- school education : studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808, and began practice in West Union, Ohio. He held several local offices, was prosecuting attorney for Adams and Highland counties, and a member of the Ohio legislature. He was elected to con- gress as a Republican, served from Decem- ber 1, 1817, till March 3, 1827, and was L'nited States judge for the district of Ohio from 1829 until his death. He died Septem- ber 24, 1833, at Delaware, Ohio.

Carleton, Henry, (originally named Henry Larleton Coxe), born in Virginia, in 1785. He graduated at Yale in 1806, removed to Mississippi, and finally to New Orleans, in 1814. He was a lieutenant of infantry under Gen. Jackson in the campaign that termi- nated January 8, 1815. He engaged in the profession of law, and soon afterward, with Mr. L. Moreau, began the translation of those portions of "Las Siete Partidas," a Spanish code of laws, that were observed in Louisiana. He became United States attor- ney for the eastern district of Louisiana, in 1832, and was. subsequently appointed a judge of the supreme court of the state, but resigned in 1839 on account of ill health. After extended travel in Europe and this country, he settled in Phila- delphia, where he devoted much attention to Biblical, theological and metaphysical studies. Notwithstanding his early life in the south and the exposure of his property to confiscation by the Confederates, he ad- hered steadfastly to the Union during the civil war. He published "Liberty and Ne- cessity" (Philadelphia, 1857), and read an
 * Essay on the Will," before the American

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