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Campbell, John

journalist, was born in 1653 in Scotland. He was a Boston bookseller, and on April 24, 1704, issued the Boston News-Letter, the first permanent newspaper published in North America. He was postmaster of Boston for many years, ending with 1718, and was for several years justice of the peace for Suffolk county. He died March, 1728, in Boston, Mass.

Campbell, John

surgeon, was born about 1822 in New York. He was promoted surgeon in 1861, acting through the civil war in that grade, and at its close received brevets of lieutenant-colonel and colonel, U. S. A., for faithful and meritorious services. He was advanced to the full rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1877; colonel in 1885, and placed on the retired list in 1885.

Campbell, John Archibald

lawyer, jurist, was born June 24, 1811, in Washington, Ga. He was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, which office he resigned in 1861, after the commencement of the rebellion. He was opposed to the secession of Alabama, and in 1864 did all in his power to bring the war to a close.

He died March 12, 1889, in Baltimore, Md.

Campbell, John G

statesman, was born June 25, 1827, at Glasgow, Scotland.

In 1863 he settled in the territory of Arizona; filled various county offices; was a member of the territorial council in 1868 and 1874; and was elected a delegate from the territory of Arizona to the forty-sixth congress.

Campbell, John H

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from 1845 to 1847, declining the renomination. He died Jan. 19, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Campbell, John Lyle

educator, author, was born Dec. 7, 1818, in Rockbridge county, Va. He was a professor of chemistry at Washington and Lee college, 1851-86, and was the author of Manual of Scientific and Practical Agriculture; Idaho, Six Months in the New Gold Diggings; Guide to the Agricultural and Mineral West; and Geology and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley, Virginia. He died Feb. 2, 1886, in Lexington, Va.

Campbell, John P

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a member of the state house of representatives from Christian county, in 1826; and a representative in congress from Kentucky to the thirty-fourth congress.

Campbell, John Poage

clergyman, author, was born in 1767 in Virginia. He was a popular clergyman on the Ohio border, and the author of The Passenger; Strictures on Stone's Letters on the Atonement; Vindex; Letters to the Rev.

Mr. Craighead; The Pelagian Defeated; and An Answer to Jones. He died Nov. 4, 1814, in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Campbell, Lewis D

was born Aug. 9, 1811, in Franklin, Ohio. He was elected a member of congress from Ohio in 1848, and was re-elected to each successive congress, down to the thirty-fifth, when his seat was contested, and the house of representatives decided against his claim. In 1865 he was appointed minister to Mexico. He was subsequently elected to the forty-second congress. He died Nov. 26, 1882.

Campbell, Remer Cain

lawyer, was born Nov. 8, 1860, in Marlinsville, N.

J. He attended the grammar school of Somerville, N. J.; and received an academical course of education. He was admitted to the bar in 1885, and began the practice of law in Hamburg, Iowa; where he has served as city attorney, and attorney of his county. He is a member of the board of education; and takes a prominent part in the public affairs of his county and state.