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As major in the Continental army he was uis- tmguisned for uavmg, at Charleston, S. C, ^-i.y 6, 1780, cut Ills way with six others through ii.e ranks of the British cavalry and escaped un- harmed. He commanded a body of riflemen in the action at Spencer's Ordinary, and served under Lafayette at Jamestown, Va. In 1784 he was elected surveyor -general of Georgia. He died in 1792.

CALL, Richard Keith, governor of Florida, was born near Petersburg, Va., 1791; a nephew of Richard Keith Call. He entered the United States army in 1814 as 1st heutenant of the 44th infantry, was appointed aid to General Jackson in April, 1818, was promoted captain in July, and subsequently became major-general of Florida militia. He served a term in the Florida assem- bly in 1822-'23 as delegate to the 18th Congress, and in 1835 became governor of the territory of Florida, retaining the office luitil 1840. "While governor he led the troops against the Seminole Indians, 183.5-"36, after which a conti'ovei'sy with the secretary of war relative to his conduct of the Seminole campaign led to his removal. He w^as re-appointed governor of Florida in 1841 by President Harrison, holding the office until 1844. In 1845, upon the admission of Florida to the Union as a state, he stood for an election to the governorship, but was defeated, owing to popular prejudice against him for his action in turning Whig in 1840. He died at Tallahassee, Fla., Sept. 14, 1862

CALL, Wilkinson, senator, was born at Rus- sellville, Logan county, Ky., Jan. 9, 1834; a nephew of Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida. He went to Florida at an early age, and became a lawyer in Jacksonville. Dviring the civil war he served as adjutant -general in the Confederate army, and in 1865 he was elected U. S. senator from Florida, but owing to the subsequent pas- sage of the reconstruction act he was not al- lowed to take his seat. In 1872 and 1876 he was presidential elector for the state at large, and in 1876 he was a member of the national Demo- cratic executive committee, and a delegate to the national convention at St. Louis, Mo. In 1879 he was elected U. S. senator to succeed Simon B. Conover, and was re-elected in 1885 and in 1891, his term of service expiring March 3, 1897.

CALLENDER, Frank'in D., .soldier, Avas born in Xe\^ York about the year 1817. He was gradu- ated at West Point in 1839, and spent the fol- lowing year at Watervliet arsenal as assistant ordnance officer. From 1840 to 1842 he was engaged in the Florida Indian war, receiving a brevet lieutenantcy for ' ' highly meritorious services." In the Mexican war of 1846-"47 he commanded a howitzer and rocket battery.

which he had organized, and received a brevet captaincy for .^idriLorious conduct. The years from 1861 to 1866 were spent in ordnance duty at various arsenals, and in April, 1866, he was- promoted lieutenant-colonel of ordnance, having^ received the intervening grades and several brevets. He was promoted colonel of ordnance in June, 1874. and was retired in May, 1879. He died in Daysville, 111., Dec. 13, 1882.

CALLENDER, John, historian, was born in Boston, Ma.ss., in 1706; son of John Callender and a grandson of Rev. ElUs Callender. He was graduated at Harvard college in 1723, and was liciused to preach by the Baptist church in 1727. From 1728 to 1730 he had pastoral charge of the Baptist cliurch at Swansea, ISIass., and from 1831 over the First Baptist church in Newport, R. I. In addition to his pa.storal duties, ilr. Cal- lender aided in the conduct of town and colonial affairs of Newport, his name frequently appear- ing in the colonial records. In 1739 he pub- lished An Historical Discourse on the Civil and Reiigioiis Affairs of the Colony of Rhode Island from the Fi.xt Settlement to the end of the First Century, for over a centurj' the only history of the colony iu existence. It was reprinted by the Rhode Island historical .society in 1838, with notes and a memoir of the author, by Rev. Romeo Eitoi], D.D. Mr. Callender also published several of his sermons and addresses, and collected a number of valuable papers referring to the his- tory of tiie Baptist church in America, wliich were used bj- Di-. Backus in his History of Neia England, with Sj)eci(il Reference to the Baptists (3 vols., 1777-"9(ij. He died iu Newport, R. I., Jan. 26, 1748.

CALLENDER, John HilL physician, was born near Nashville. Tenn., Nov. 28, 1831; grandson of James Thompson Callender, a native of Scotland, who came to America as a political exile in 1792. He attended a classical school at NashviUe until his seventeenth year, when he entered the Uni- versity of Nashville and remained there until its suspension in October, 1850. He studied law in Louisville, Ky., engaged with a mercantile house in St. Louis, Mo. , and was graduated in the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1855. He was joint proj^rietor ani editor of the Nashville Daily Patriot, 1855-' 58. In 1858 he was made professor of materia medica and therapeutics m the Shelby medical college, Nashville. In 1861 he was appointed surgeon to the 11th Tennessee regiment, which position he resigned in 1862. From 1865 to 1869 he was a political writer on the Nashville Uiiion and American. He was a delegate from the state at large to the Union national convention in 1860 which nominated Bell and Everett, and again in 1868 to the Democratic convention which nom-