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Campbell, George Truman

physician, was born Oct. 13, 1826, in Camillus, N. Y. He was president of the Onondaga county medical society; for several terms supervisor of the town of Skaneateles, and for many years a member and president of the board of education. He died Feb.. 11, 1889, in Skaneateles, N. Y.

CAMPBELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON, jurist, diplomat, United States senator, was born in 1768 in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress, from Tennessee, from 1803 to 1809; was judge of the United States district court; was elected senator of the United States in 1811, and resigned on being appointed secretary of the treasury in 1814. He resumed his seat. in the senate the following year, and served until 1818, when he was appointed minister to Russia, where he remained until 1821. In 1831 he was appointed one of the commissioners to settle the claims: against France. He died Feb. 17, 1848, in Nashville, Tenn.

CAMPBELL, MRS. HELEN STUART, author, was born July 4, 1839, in Lockport, N. Y. She is a writer who is deeply concerned in philanthropic and social reforms, and whose work covers a wide range of topics. She is the author of In Foreign Kitchens; The Easiest Way in Housekeeping, books for the housekeeper. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad; Some Passages in the Life of Dr. Martha Scarborough; Women Wage-Earners; Problem of the Poor; Darkness and Daylight in New York, relate to the social problems of the time. Six Sinners; His Grandmothers; Roger Berkeley's Probation; Miss Melinda's Opportunity; Mrs. Herndon's Income; The What-to-Do-Club; Under Green Apple- Boughs; Unto the Third and Fourth Generation; Patty Pearson's Boy, are fiction. Other works are Girls' Handbook of Work and Play; A Sylvan City, a description of Philadelphia; The Ainslee Stories, for juvenile readers, and Anne Bradstreet and her Time.