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Campbell,

Douglas

Houghton,

educator,

botanist, author, was born in 1859 in Michigan. He is a professor of botany in Stanford university. He is the author of Elements of Structural and Systeinatic Botany, and Structure and Development of the Mosses and Ferns.

Campbell, Duncan E., clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 14, 1814, in Scotland. He was professor of Hebrew and biblical literature in the theological seminary at Covington; and in 1852-65 was president of Georgetown college. He died Aug. 16, 1865, in Covington, Ky.

the United States district court. In 1811-19 he was United States senator; and in 1814 he was secretary of the treasurj'. He resumed his seat in the United States senate the following year and served until 1818; then was minister to Eussia in 1818-21. In 1831 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the claims against France. He died Feb. 17, 1848, in Nashville, Tenn.

Campbell, George, lawyer,

lic

congresses as a democrat. 1902, in Brooklyn, N.Y.

first 8,

He

died Nov.

and school and

Campbell, Francis Joseph, educator, foundwas born Oct. 9, 1832, in Franklin county, Tenn. He became blind in early childhood. He taught music in the Perkin's institute of South Boston, Mass.; and in 1872 he established a school for the blind in London, England, known as the royal normal er,

college for the blind.

Campbell, Gabriel, educator, soldier, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1838, in Ayrshire, Scotland. He served in the civil war as captain in the seventeenth regiment of Michigan infantry; and in 1868 was ordained to the ministry.

He became a

pro-

philosophy and has taught in the university of Minnesota, Bowdoin and at fessor

of

Dartmouth since 1883. He was offered the but declined.

man

He

is

presidency of the university of Minnesota the author of New Ger-

Course.

Campbell, George Washington, jurist, diplomat. United States senator, was born in 1768 in Tennessee. In 1803-09 he was a representative from Tennessee to the eighth, ninth and tenth congresses; was judge of

author,



in Ionia, in the high in Starkey

seminary Eddyof town, N.Y. He is in the practice of law at Coffey ville, Kan.; and has been judge of the county court and state senator. thor of

He

is

the au-

The Life and the Death of Worlds; America, Past, Present and Future ; and Island

A Revolution in the Science of Cosmology; and The Greater United States of America.

Home;

Campbell, Mrs.

Helen Stuart, reformer,

was born July

4, 1839, in Lockport, deeply concerned in philanthropic and social reforms. She is the author of In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in Housekeeping, books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty; Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and Daylight in New York; Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley's Probation; Miss Melinda's Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon's

author,

Campbell, Floy, litterateur, author, was born in 1873 in Missouri. She is the author of Camp Arcady, a story for girls.

schools;

Mich.

Campbell, Edward Livingston, soldier, was born in New Jersey. In 1861 he was captain in the third regiment New Jersey infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Campbell, Felix, congressman, philanthropist, was born Feb. 28, 1829, in Brooklyn, N. Y. For thirteen years he was president of the board of trustees of the widows' and orphans' fund of the fire department; for twelve years was president of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn fire department; and for twelve years was a member of the Brooklyn board of education. In 1883-91 he was a representative from New York to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-

jurist,

was born April 29, 1848, in Yates county, N. Y. He was educated in the Yates county pub-

N.Y. She

is

Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green Apple-Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson's Boy; Girls' Handbook of Work and Play A Sylvan City,

a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories; Anne Bradstreet and Her Time; Household Economics; Ballantyne; and The Linborough Sanitarium.

Campbell, Henry Colin, journalist, author, was born April 3, 1862, in Wild Rose, Wis. In 1883-92 he was reporter and then city editor of the Evening Wisconsin of Milwaukee. In 1894-98 he was city editor; and since 1898 is managing editor of the Milwaukee Joiirnal. In 1901-05 he was a member of the Milwaukee school board. He is the author of Wisconsin in Three Centuries, in four vol-

umes. Campbell, Hugh George, naval officer, was born in 1760 in South Carolina. In 1812 he commanded some gun-boats in St. Mary's river during an insurrection against the Spanish rule in Florida. He died Nov. 11, 1820, in Washington, D.G.