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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. assembly; and was elected state senator. In 1835-89 and 1891-95 he was a representative from New York to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-second

a democrat.

and

He

fifty-third

died April

7,

congresses as 1904, in New

York City. Campbell, William, colonial governor. He entered on his duties as royal governor in 1775. He died Sept. 5, 1778. Campbell, William, soldier, legislator, was born in 1745 in Augusta county, Va. In 1781 he was appointed brigadier-general in the revolutionary war; and in 1780 was elected a member of the Virginia state legislature. He died Aug. 33, 1781, in Rocky Mills, Va. Campbell, William Bowen, soldier, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 1, 1807, in Sujnner county, Tenn. He was chosen attorney-general for the fourth district; and was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1835. He raised a company and served as captain in the Creek and Florida wars of 1836. In 1837-43 and 1865-67 he was a representative from Tennessee to the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and thirty-ninth congresses. In 1844 he was elected major-general of militia; and was colonel of the first regiment of Tennessee volunteers in the Mexican ^ar. In 1851-53 he was the thirteenth governor of Tennessee and in 1857 became judge of the circuit court of Tennessee. In 1862 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the union army. He died Aug. 19, 1867, in Lebanon, Tenn. Campbell, William Henry, clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 14, 1808, in Baltimore, Md. He was a clergyman of the Dutch reformed church; and president of Rutgers coUege in 1863-82. He was the author of Subjects and Modes of Baptism; Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty; and System of Catechetical Instruction. He died Dec. 7, 1890, in New

Brunswick, N..J. Campbell, William Shaw, traveler, diplomat, was bom July 26, 1818, in New York City. In 1840-42 he traveled throughout eastem Europe; and an account of his travels were published with the title of Letters From the Heart of Europe. In 1843 he was appointed United States consul at Rotterdam, Holland; and for nearly forty years was in the United States consular service in Holland, Germany and England, retiring in

He now lives in Washington, D.C. Campbell, William W., jurist, congressman,

1897.

author, was bom June 10, 1806, in Cherry Valley, N.Y. In 1845-47 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-ninth congress; for seven years he was a justice of fhe superior court of New York City. He was subsequently elected a judge of the supreme court of the state. He was the author of Annals of Tryon County, reissued as Border Warfare; Memoirs of Mrs. Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton; and Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd. He died Sept. 7, 1881, in

Cherry Valley, N.Y.

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Campbell, William Wallace, astronomer, author, was born April 11, 1863, in Hancock county, Ohio. Since 1891 he has been astronomer and director of Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton, Cal. He is the author of The Elements of Practical Astronomy. Campbell, William Wildman, lawyer, congressman, was born April 3, 1853, in Rochester, Vt. In 1878 he began the practice of law; and in 1894-97 was prosecuting attorney of Henry county, Ohio. He is president of the Northern traction company of Ohio. In 1905-07 he was a representative from Ohio to the fifty-ninth congress as a republican. Camplin, Meredeth B., lawyer, jurist, was born March 3, 1859, in Davies county. Mo. For three years he was city attorney of Douglas, Wyo.; for six years was city attorney of New Castle; and for' two years was prosecuting attorney of Weston county, Wyo. For two terms he served his city as mayor; and in 1894 was the republican candidate for district judge. Canby, Edward Richard Sptiggs, soldier, was born in 1819 in Kentucky. He served in the Mexican war; and during the civil war was promoted to brigadier-general. He was killed April 11, 1873, in Siskiyou county, Cal.

Canby, Richard

S.,

congressman, was bora

in Ohio. In 1847-49 he was a representative from Ohio to the thirtieth congress. He died in Ohio. Candage, Rufus George Frederick, marine inspector, legislator, genealogist, author, was born July 38, 1826, in Blue Hill, Maine. As master of a ship in the foreign trade he visit-

ed the East and West South America, Europe, Cliina, Australia and the principal countries and seaports of the world. In 1867 he retired from the sea; and in 1869-1908 Indies,

was marine inspector at Boston, Mass.

1883-83

he

was

In a

member of the Massachusetts state legislature. He is president of the farmer's national congress; a trustee of the Brookline library; and a member of a number of genealogical and historical societies. He is the author of a genealogy of the Cavendish, Candish, or Candage Family. Candee, Helen Churchill, journalist, author, was born in 1861 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is now editorial writer for New York Mail and Express. She is the author of Susan Truslaw; Not on the Flag; and How Women May Earn a Living. Candidus, William, opera-singer, was born July 33, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861 he sang first bass in several musical societies in his native city. In the civil war he served three years in the national artillery, being advanced to the grade of major. During his