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of the chamber of commerce since formation; and has attended all the important state and national republican conventions for over thirty years. He is now president of the Coal Creek coal company of Knoxville, Tenn.; and president and director of other corporations. Camp, John H., lawyer, congressman, was born April 14, 1840, in Ithaca, N.Y, He was district attorney of Wayne county in 186770. In 1877-83 he was a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. Camp, John Spencer, organist, composer, was born Jan. 30, 1858, in Middletown, Conn. He is organist in the first church of Christ at Hartford, Conn.; is conductor of the Hartford Philharmonic orchestra; and is one of the founders of the national guild of organists. He is the composer of the Song of the Winds; The Prince of Peace; and many other songs and instrumental pieces. Camp, Walter, author, manufacturer, athletic expert, was born April 7, 1859, in New Britain, Conn. He graduated from Hopkins

grammar

and

school

from Yale university took graduate course I

n medicine and luads; n the

rail-

and was active management of

lale's athletics.

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is

the president, treasurer

nd general manager the New Haven lock company; and Peek director of jrothers company. He 'became a trustee of the Hopkins grammar school, the oldest of endowed schools and later its secretary and treasurer. He is treasurer of the Yale financial union; a member of the university council; and treasurer of the Yale Field. He is editor-in-chief of Library for Young Peoif

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is the author of American Football; of College Sport; The Substitute; and

other works.

Camp, William Augustus, financier, was born Sept. 33, 1822, in Durham, Conn. In 1864 he became manager of the clearing house of New York City; and for over a quarter of a century was presiding genius of the house. Bied Dec. 10, 1895, in N.Y. City.

Campau, Daniel J., lawyer, business man, statesman, was born Aug. 20, 1852, in Detroit, Mich. He was educated in the parochial school; at Washington A. Bacon's private school; at Assumption college and at St. John's college of Fordham, N.Y. He studied law; and has the management of the Campau estate, a large inheritance left by his father. In 1886-90 he was collector of customs for the port of New York. He is a member of the democratic national committee; and a leader of the Michigan democracy. He is a successful lawyer and dealer

and controlowner of the Chicago Horseman. Campbell, Albert James, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Dee. 12, 1857. In 1896 he was elected to the Montana state legislature. In 1899-1901 he was a representative from Montana to the fifty-sixth congress as a democrat. Butte, Mont.

He

died in 1907 in

Campbell, Alexander, physician, surgeon,

United States senator, was born in 1779 in Virginia. He began the practice of medicine in Kentucky; and in 1800 was a representa-

Kentucky state legislature. In 1803 he moved to Ripley, Ohio; and in 1806 was a representative in the Ohio state legislature. In 1810-13 he was a member of the United States senate from Ohio; and in 1813-23 was a member of the Ohio state senate. He died Nov. 5, 1857, in Ripley, Ohio. tive in the

Campbell, Alexander, theologian, author,

was born Sept.

12, 1788, in Ireland.

He was

a baptist clergyman of West Virginia; and founder of the sect of Campbellites, or Disciples of Christ. He established Bethany college of Virginia in 1841; and was its first president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly sixty in number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses; Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; and Six Letters to a Sceptic. He died March 4, 1866, in Bethany, W.Va.

Campbell, Alexander, manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1814, in Concord, Pa. He was twice mayor of La Salle, 111.; and served two terms in the Illinois state legislature. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1863. In 187577 he was a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress. He was noted as the father of the greenback. He died Aug. 9, 1898, in

La

Salle,

111.

Campbell, Alexander Augustus, physician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 30, 1789, in Amherst county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman and physician of Tennessee. He was the author of Scripture Baptism. He died May 27, 1846, in Jackson, Tenn.

Campbell, Alexander James, author. He is the author of The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical Cyclopsedia ; and True Friend.

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Campbell, Alexander James, broker, gov-

ernment official, was born Oct. 2, 1856, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He received a thorough education in the public and private sohools of his native city; and in 1879 graduated from the university of California. He is a successful stock broker of Honolulu; and prominent in the business and public affairs of Hawaji. In 1903-07 he was treasurer of the territory of Hawaii; and ed for the term of 1907-11.

was reappoint-