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Greene. He was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1826, and in 1829 was admitted to the bar. He began to practise law at Montgomery, Ala., whence he was several times elected to the state legislature. In 1853 he was appointed asso- ciate justice of the U. S. supreme court, and remained on the bench until the secession of his state in 1861. He was made assistant secretary of war of the Confederate states, and in this capa- city conferred with President Lincoln and Sec- retary Seward at Fort Monroe in 1865. Judge Campbell was taken prisoner at the close of the war and was for a short time confined in Fort Pulaski. He was released on parole and removing to New Orleans, La., he resumed his law prac- tice. He died at Baltimore, Md., March 12, 1889.

CAMPBELL, John B., soldier, was born in Kentucky; a nepliew of General William Camp- bell. On March 12, 1812, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 19th infantry, and on Dec. 18, 1812, was brevetted colonel for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Mississine- way Indians. In 1814 he was promoted colonel and transferred to the 11th infantry. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Chippewa, Canada, July 5, 1814, and died Aug. 28, 1814.

CAMPBELL, John Lyie, chemist, was born in Rockbridge county, Va., Dec. 7, 1818; brother of Alexander Paxton Campbell. His grandfather, Alexander Campbell, was one of the trustees of Liberty hall academy, from 1782 to 1807. John Lyle was graduated from Washington college in 1843, and taught school first in Staunton, Va., and later in Richmond, Ky. From 1851 to 1886 he was professor of chemistry and geology in Wash- ington and Lee university, which institution conferred on him the degree of LL.D. He made exhaustive researches in geology, especially of the Appalachian mountain region. From 1870 to 1882 he was superintendent of schools for Rockbridge county. He was a frequent contrib- utor to various scientific journals, and published among other works, A Manual of Scientific and Pi\ictical Agriculture for the School and Farm (1859) ; Geology and Mineral Resources of the James Biver Valley, Virginia (1882) : and with Dr. W. H. Ruffner, ^4 Physical Survey in Geor- gia, Alabama, and Mississijij^i along the Line of the Georgia Pacific Railway (1883). He died at Lexington, Va., Feb. 2, 1886.

CAMPBELL, John Nicholson, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 4, 1798. His maternal grandfather, Robert Aitkin, was the publisher of the first English edition of the Bible printed and bound in America. After studying under James Ross, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, but did not complete his collegiate course. Under the direction of Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely, he pursued his theological studies, and sub-

sequently continued them in Virginia, becoming temporarily connected with Hampden-Sidney col- lege as tutor, and on May 10, 1817, he was licensed to preach by the Hanover (Va.) presbytery. He was chosen chaplain to the U. S. house of repre- sentatives in 1820, and afterwards returned to Virginia. He preached in Petersburg, and in Newbern, N. C, establishing in the latter place the First Presbyterian church. During 1823 and 1824 he was assistant pastor to Dr. Balcli of Georgetown, D. C, and in 1825 took charge of the New York avenue church in Washington. In January, 1825, he was elected a manager of the American colonization society, holding the office six years. He was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1831, where he remained until the year of his death. In 1836 he was made a member of the Princeton theological seminary board of directors, and for many years was a regent of the Univer- sity of the state of New York. Many of his sermons and addresses were published in pamphlet form. He died in Albany, N. Y., March 27, 1864.

CAMPBELL, John Poage, clergyman, was born in Augusta county, Va., in 1767. He was taken by his parents to Kentucky at the age of fourteen, and became a teacher at nineteen. In 1790 he was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, and in 1792 was licensed to preach. He filled pulpits in several Kentucky towns, and in 1811 was chaplain to the state legislature. His published writings include : The Passenger (1804) ; Strictures on Stoiie's Letters on the Atonement (1805) ; Vindex, in Anstver to Stotie's Reply (1806) ; Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craig- head (1810) ; The Pelagian Detected (1811) ; An Answer to Jones, in Answer to Stone's Reply (1812) ; and Doctrine of Justification Considered. He died near Chillicothe, Ohio, Nov. 4, 1814.

CAMPBELL, John Wilson, jurist, was bora near Miller's iron works, Augusta county, Va., Feb. 23, 1782. In 1791 he was taken by his par- ents to Bourbon county, Kentucky, and he after- wards went to Ohio, and in 1808 was admitted to the bar and practised at West Union, Ohio. He was appointed prosecuting attorney for Adams and Highland counties, and was several times elected to the state legislature. In 1816 he was elected a representative to the 15th Congress, and was re-elected to the five succeeding congresses, declining after that to stand as candidate. In March, 1829, he was appointed United States dis- trict judge for the state of Ohio, and held the office until his death. In 1831 Augusta college conferred upon him the honorary degreeof D.C.L. See Biographical Sketches, with Other Liter- ary Remains of the Late John ^V. Campbell ( 1838) . He died in Delaware, Ohio, Sept. 34, 1833.