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housekeeping and cooking, and of alleviating the miseries of the poor and ignorant. In 1877 she wrote The Problem of the Poor, and later Mrs. Herndons Income (1885), in which she embodied her conclusions on these subjects. In 1886, she was appointed by the New York Tribune to investigate the condition of wage-earning women in New York, the results appearing in the Tribune, in a series of papers entitled. Prison- ers of Poverty, which led to legislative enact- ments for the amelioration of the condition of w^omen wage-earners in the metropolis. Mrs. Campbell's Prisoners of Poverty Abroad was written after some eighteen mouths' study of the condition of wage-earners in England, France, Italy, and Germanj^. She was literary editor of Tlie Continent, from 1881 to 1884. Besides sev- eral volumes published between 1864 and 1880 her books include: The Easiest IVay in House- keeping and Cooking (1881); The Problem of the Poor (1882); The American Girl's Home- Book of Work and Play (1883); Under Green Apple Boughs (1883); The What-to-do Club (1884); Miss Melinda's Opportunity (1886); Pris- oners of Poverty Abroad (1889); Roger Brook- ley's Probation (1890); In Foreign Kitchens (1892); Darkness and Daylight (1892); Some Passages in the Practice of Dr. Martha Scar- borough (1893); John Ballantyne, American (1893); Women Wage-Earners (1893); House- hold Economics (1896); Work; an Anthology (1897); Ballantyne (1901).

CAMPBELL, Jabez Pitt, African M. E. bishop, was born at Slaughter's Neck, Delaware, Feb. 6, 1815, of free-born African parentage. His two grandfathers fought in the revolutionary war. His father, a Methodist preacher, mortgaged the boy in part payment for a fishing boat, and the mortgagee being about to foreclose, Jabez fled to Philadelphia, where he acquired an education. In 1837 he was licensed to preach and in 1856 became editor and publisher of the Christian Recorder, the official organ of the African M. E. church. In 1864 he was made a bishop and assigned to the special work of organization in Louisiana and California. In 1876 he attended the "Wesleyan conference in England. He was appointed bishop of North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland in 1887, and travelled extensively in the interest of the church in Great Britain, France, Central America, Mexico, and California. In 1884 he was president of the ceiatennial con- ference of the A. M. E. church, and was president of the educational department of that denom- ination as a member of the evangelical alliance. He was a trustee of Wilberforce university from 1863, and received from that institution the de- greesof D.D. andLL.D. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 9, 1891.

CAMPBELL, James, statesman, was born in Piiiladelphia, Pa., Sept. 1. 1812. His father was born in Ireland and emigrated therefrom to America in the early years of the nineteenth century. James was admitted to the Philadel- phia bar in 1834, after receiving a thorough edu- cation, and in 1841 was elected judge of the court of common pleas, retaining the office until 1851. In 1852 he became attorney-general of the state, and on March 7. 1853. entered the cabi- net of President Pierce as postmaster-general, serving through the entire administration and resuming the practice of his profession upon Iris retirement from public life. He was a trustee of the Girard estate, and in 1863 opposed C. R. Buck- alew before the state legislature for United States senator. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 27, 1893.

CAMPBELL, James Edwin, governor of Ohio, was born at Middletown, Ohio, July 7, 1843; son of Dr. Andrew and Laura (Reynolds) Campbell, and grandson of Samuel and Mary (Small) Camp- bell. He received an academical education and served in the United States navy, enlisting in 1863 and taking part in the Mis- sissippi and Red river expedition in the civil war, after which he taught school to raise money for the prosecution of his legal stud- ies and was ad- mitted to the bar, after which he es- tablished himself in his profession in H a m i 1 1 (

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ecuting attorney of Butler county, Ohio, and held the office four years, when he was defeated as state senator by twelve votes. In 1882 he was elected on the Democratic ticket as a representa- tive to the 48th Congress, and was re-elected to the 49tli and 50th congresses. His seat in the 48th congress was imsuccessfully contested by Henry L. Morey. In 1889 he was elected gov- ernor of Ohio, defeating Joseph B. Foraker after an exciting gubernatorial canvass. As governor he called an exti^aordinary session of the 69th general assembly, Oct. 14, 1890, to consider the affairs of the city of Cincinnati, and the act that was passed reorganizing the municipal gov- ernment was subsequently declared unconstitu- tional by the suj-reme court. In 1891 he was defeated in the gubernatorial canvass by William

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