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 CALVIN.

CAMERON.

Professor Dewey's academy, Rochester; Professor Fowler's law school, Cherry Valley; and the law school at Ballston Spa, N. Y.. where he was graduated in July, 1849, and admitted to the bar. He was district attorney of his native county, 18o2-"55. In 1866 he removed to New York city, and not long after was associated with Eichard O'Gorman, the corporation counsel, and Henry H. Anderson in the celebrated dock litiga- tion, which successfully established the right of the city to prevent the obstruction of the docks of New York city by the erection of structures for the convenience of private traffic. On the death of Surrogate Van Schaick in April, 1876, Mr. Calvin was chosen to fill that ofiice, and in the following autumn was elected to serve the unex- pired term which closed with December, 1881. His published opinions occupj' the greater part of the 2d, 3d and 4th and a part of the 5th volumes of Redfield's Sin-rogate's Reports which in- cluded the decisions concerning the wills of A. T. Stewart, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Frank LesUe. After the termination of his official term as surrogate, Mr. Calvin engaged in the active practice of his profession. In June, 1881, Hobart college conferred ujwn him the honorary degree of LL.D.

CALVIN, Samuel, geologist, was born in AVigtonshire, Scotland, Feb. 2, 1840. He emigra- ted to America in 1851 and settled in Iowa. He was educated at Lenox college, Hopkinton, Iowa. In 1863 he joined the Union army, and served as a private until the close of the war. In 1873 he was acting professor of natural science, and curator of the university cabinet in Iowa state university, and the following year was made full professor. He was state geologist from 1892 ; an editor of the American Geologist from 1888, and author of reports, including : On Some Dark- Shale recently Discovered below the Devonian Limestones, at hulependence, Iowa ; tvith a Notice of Neic Species (1878).

CAMBRELENG, Churchill Caldom, repre sentative, was born in "Washington, N. C, in 1786. He received an academical education, removed to New Y'ork city in 1802, and, after acquiring a varied experience in business, became associated with John Jacob Astor in the man- agement of his large interests. In 1820 he Avas electsd a representative from New York to the 17th Congress and served continuously in nine congresses. He was chairman of the committees on foreign affairs, ways and means, and com- merce and navigation. In 1840 he was appointed minister to Russia by President Van Buren, and served until Juh', 1841. His report on Com- merce and Navigation (1830) passed tlirough several editions in Anierica and one in London. He died at West Neck. N. Y., April 30, 1862.

CAMDEN, Johnson Newton, .senator, was born in Lewis county, Va., March 0, 1828; son of John S. and Nancy (Newton) Camden. He entered "West Point in 1846, but resigned in 1848, and after studying law was admitted to the bar in 1851. He was appointed prosecuting attornej' for Braxton '"ounty in the same year, and prosecuting attorney for Nicholas county in the following year. In 1854 he became engaged in the banking bu.siness, and subsequently en- tered largely into business enterprises at Parkers- burg. He was a delegate to every Democratic national convention from 1868 to 1892, was nomi- nated for governor in 1872, and was a United States senator from "West Virginia from 1881 to 1887, and again from Jan. 28, 1893, to March 3, 1895, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Kenna.

CAMERON, Angus, senator, was born in Caledonia, Livingston county, N. Y'., July 4, 1826. He was graduated at the national law school at Ballston Spa, N. Y'., and in 1857 re- moved to La Crosse, "Wis., where he engaged in the practice of his profession. He was a mem- ber of the "Wisconsin senate in 1863-*64, and a member of the legislative assembly in 1866-"67, officiating in the latter j-ear as speaker. In 1871 lie was returned to the state senate, and in 1875 was elected to the United States senate, receiv- ing a re-election in 1881, as successor to M. H. Carpenter, deceased, for the unexpired term ending March 3, 1885. He was regent of the University of Wisconsin from 1866 to 1875, and died in Milwaukee. Wis., March 30, 1897.

CAMERON, Henry Clay, educator, was born in Shepherdstown, Va., Sept. 1, 1827. He was graduated at Princeton in 1847, subsequently tak- ing a course in theology, which he finished in 1855. During 1851 he was principal of the Edge- hill school. From 1852 to 1855 was an instructor at the college of New Jersey; 1855-'60 he was adjunct professor of Greek; was associate professor during 1860; in 1861 was given the full chair ; and in 1877 he was made professor of the Greek language and literature. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1863. He was made Ph.D. by the College of New Jersey in 1866, and in 1875 Rutgers college and the University of Wooster conferred upon him the degree of D.D. Besides editing the cata- logue of the college of New Jersey, he pub- lished Princeton Roll of Honor (1865). and The History of the American Whig Society (1871).

CAMERON, James, soldier, was born in May- town, Pa., March 1. 1801 ; brother of Simon Cameron. In 1820 he removed to Harrisburg, Pa., to learn the printing business in the office of his brother, wjio was editor of a Democratic