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Campbell, William W

jurist, congressman, author, was born June 10, 1806, in Cherry Valley, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1845 to 1847; was later appointed a justice of the superior court of New York city, and served seven years; and was subsequently elected a judge of the supreme court of the state. He was the author of Annals of Tryon County, reissued. as Border Warfare: Memoirs of Mrs.

Grant, Missionary to Persia; Life and Writings of De Witt Clinton; and Sketches of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd. He died Sept. 7, 1881, in Cherry Valley, N. Y.