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CAMPBELL, Charles Thoiras, soldier, was born in Franklin county, Pa.. Aug. 10, 1823. He received his education at Marshall college. At the outbreak of the Mexican war, in 18-47, he en- tered the army as 2d lieutenant in the 8th U. S. infantry, and was promoted to the rank of cap- tain in August, 1847, and was mustered out of the service in 18-48. He was elected a member of the lower house of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1852. In the civil war he was commissioned colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania artillery, May, 1861, and transferred to the 57th infantry in De- cember of the same year. At Fair Oaks he had his horse shot under him and received two severe wounds. He was taken prisoner with hig whole regiment, but turned upon his captors and suc- ceeded in carrying two hundred of them into the Federal lines as prisoners. His wounds prevented any further active service, and he was promoted a brigadier-general on March 13, 1863, and re- moved to Dakota.

CAMPBELL, Cleveland J., soldier, was born in New York city in July, 1836. After his gradu- ation from Union college he went abroad and took a course of studj' at the University of Got- tingen, returning at the beginning of the civil war. He joined the Union army, and fought bravely, rising from a private through the ranks of lieutenant, captain and lieutenant -colonel to that of colonel. He rendered distinguished ser- vices at the mine explosion at Petersburg, where he led his regiment into the fight, and was seri- ously wounded by a shell, four hundred of his men being killed or wounded by the explosion of the mine. He received the brevet rank of briga- dier-general in March, 1865, and died in Castleton, N. Y., June 13, 1865.

CAMPBELL, David A., librarian, was born at Miller's Station, Harrison county, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1857. He was educated in the public schools of his native state and at Hopedale college, removed to Kansas in 1877, and in 1878 went to Platts- mouth, Cass county, Nebraska. In 1885 he was elected treasurer of Cass county, and was re- elected in 1887. In 1890 he was appointed state librarian for a term of four years, and was reap- pointed in 1895.

CAMPBELL, Douglas, lawyer, was born in Cherry Valley, Otsego county, N. Y., in 1839: son of Judge William M. Campbell of New York. At the age of twenty -one he was graduated from Union college, and the following year, when the civil war broke out, he enlisted in the Union army as a private, reaching by promotion the rank of major. In 1866, after taking a course in the law school of Harvard college, he obtained admission to the New York bar, and began to practice in that city. He was deeply interested in historical research, and finally retired from

active professional labors to give his undivided attention to study and writing. In 1892 he is- sued two volumes, entitled, " The Puritan in Hol- land, England and America, an Introduction to American History," an attempt to investigate and expound the origin of American history upon entirely new lines and from a new point of view. The book is a remarkable production and of great value to liistorians. He also published. Histori- cal Fallacies Regarding Colonial Netv York (1879), and The Origin of American Institutions as Illustrated in the History of the Written Bal- lot (1891). He died in Schenectady, N. Y^, March 7. 1893.

CAMPBELL, Duncan R., clergyman, was born in Perthshire, Scotland, Aug. 14, 1814. He pre- sided over a parish in Nottingham, England, for a time, and was later a Presbyterian missionary in London. In May, 1842, he came to the United States, and joined the Baptist church in Rich- mond, Va. In the fall of the same jear he became pastor of the Leigh street church in Richmond, where he remained tliree years. He then preached for four years in Georgetown, 'Kv., and in 1850 became professor of Hebrew and biblical literature in the Covington (Ky.) theological seminary. From 1852 until the time of his death he was president of Georgetown college. He was given the degree of LL.D. He died at Coving- ton. Ky., Aug. 16, 1865.

CAMPBELL, George Washington, states- man, was born in Tennessee in 1768. He was graduated at Princeton in 1794, and after study- ing law entered into practice at the Knoxville bar. He was a representative from Tennessee, in the 8tli. 9th, and 10th congresses, from 1803 to 1809, serving during the last two jears as chair- man of the committee on ways and means; was a judge of the United States district court for a term, and a United States senator from 1811 to 1814, when he resigned to accept the position of secretary of the treasury in President Madison's cabinet. He was returned to the senate in 1815, and retained his seat until 1818, when he again resigned, this time to accept from President Mon- roe an appointment as minister to the court of St. Petersburg. Upon his return to the United States in 1821, he resumed the practice of his profession, and in 1831 was one of the board of commissioners appointed to settle the French spoliation claims. He died at Nashville, Tenn.. Feb. 17, 1848.

CAMPBELL, Helen (Stuart), author was born in Lockport, N. Y., July 4, 1839, daughter of Homer H. Stuart. The family removed to New York city in her infancy, where she after- wards chiefly lived. She received a seminary education. At an early age slie commenced writing children's stories. She was deeply inter- ested in the problem of reducing the labor of