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Campbell, Alexander (Manufacturer congressman)

manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1814, in Concord, Pa. He was twice mayor of La Salle, Ill.; and served two terms in the Illinois legislature. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1862; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER AUGUS- TUS, physician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 30, 1789, in Amherst county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee, whose only book was a work on Scripture Baptism. He died May 27, 1846, in Jackson, Tenn.

CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER JAMES, author. He is the author of The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical Cyclopædia; and A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and Conduct.

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