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became auditor of the national council of the Congregational churches of the United States, auditor and chairman of the finance committee of the Connecticut missionary society, president or vice-president of several corporations in New Britain. Yale college confen-ed on him the de- gree of A. M. in 1853. He revised Mitchell's Out- line Maps, and the Government Instructor; com- piled and edited The American Year Book, a series of geographies and school maps, and a Globe Manual. He is the author of the Hist or )j of Xew Britain, and contributed to other histor- ies and to periodicals.

CAMP, Hiram, inventor, was born at Ply- mouth, Conn., April 9, 1811; son of .Samuel and Jennette (Jerome) Camp. He was educated at the common school, and at the age of eighteen entered the employ of his uncle, Chauncey Jerome, in the manufacture of clocks in Bristol, Conn. In 1845 the shop was destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt in New Haven. He made numerous impi'ovements and designed an ingen- ious clock intended for the use of schools, for cal- isthenics or military exercises. In 1851 he began -fche manufacture of clock movements. Two years later he organized the New Haven clock company, of which he was made president. He served in the city council, as selectman of the town, as a member of the state legislature, and in numerous local offices. His philanthropic work included: supjiorting two missionaries in Nebraska, a city missionary in another state, founding the Mount Hermon boj's' school at Gill, Mass., under the auspices of D. L. Moody the evangelist, and co-operating with Mr. Moody in establishing the Northfield seminary for yoimg ladies. His donations to the Moody institution amounted to nearly one hundred thousand dol- lars, and in his will he left a like sum to various •charitable organizations. He died at New Haven, Conn.. July ><, isici

CAiVlP, William Augustus, financier, was born at Durham, Conn., Sept. 23, 1822. He was ■educated in the private schools of his native place, and when eighteen years old entered the store of his father at Middletown, being admitted as a partner in the business on arriving at the age of twenty-one. Two years later he engaged in the hosiery business in New York city, but on the organization of the Importers and traders bank he accepted the appointment of discount clerk in that institution, which, however, he soon relinquished for that of fir.st teller in the Arti- sans bank. In 1857 he was given the responsible appointment of assistant manager of the New York clearing-house, which he lield until Aug. 20, 1864, when lie succeeded George D. Lyman as manager of that association, and resigned July 11, 1892. He was a member of the New York

chamber of commerce, the New England society, and the Union League club. He died Dec. 10, 1895.

CAMPBELL, Alexander, senator, was born in Virginia in 1779. His father removed to Ken- tucky in 1785, where the son was educated as a physician, and was a representative in the Ken- tucky legislature, 1800. He removed to Oliio in 1803, settled in Adams count}-, was a representa- tive in the Ohio legislature from Adams county, lSOT-09, from Clermont county, 1819-'20, and from Brown county, 1832-'33; a U.S. senator elected as successor to Edward Tiffin, resigned, 1S09-"13; a presidential elector voting for James Monroe in 1820; and state senator, 1822-24. He died in Rijiley. Ohio. Nov. 5, 1857.

CAMPBELL, Alexander, theologian, was born in the county Antrim, Ireland, Sept. 12, 1788; son of Thomas and Jane (Corneigle) Campbell. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. In 1809 he came to America and settled in west- ern Pennsylvania, where he joined the Baptist denomination, refusing, however, to subscribe to any creed or articles of faith other than the Bible. A few years later he and his father withdrew from the Baptists, because of ecclesiastical oijpo- sition, and with their adherents formed the sect known as " Campbellites. " In 1823 Alexander Campbell began to publish TJie Christian Bap- tist, a monthly religious magazine, which, in 1830, changed its name to The Millennial Har- binger. In 1829 he was elected to the Virginia constitutional convention, his only political office. In 1840 he fovmded Bethany college, Vir- ginia, and was president of that institution until his death. He died at Bethany, W. Va., March 4, 1860.

CAMPBELL, Alexander Augustus, clergy- man, was born in Amherst county, Va., Dec. 30, 1789. He received a common-school education, and was graduated at the Philadelphia medical school in 1811. He pi'actised medicine in North Carolina, Alabama and Virginia. He was an infidel during his younger days, but became con- vinced of the truths of Christianity during an attack of yellow fever. He studied theology, was licensed b}-^ the North Alabama presbytery in 1822, and ordained in 1823. He was stationed over churches at Tuscumbia, Russellville and Florence, Ala., and engaged in missionary labors in West Tennessee. In October, 1833, he became pastor of a church at Jackson, Tenn., his pastor- ate continuing during the remaining years of his life. He was a lecturer, practised medicine, especially among the Indian missions, and was the editor of the Jackson Protestant. He was the author of a treatise on Scripture Baptism, whicii was published in 1844. He died at Jack- son, Tenn., May 27, 1846.