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that of D. D. from both Rutgers and Wooster in 1875. For more than twenty years he edited the " General Catalogue of the College of Xew Jersey," and, in addition to CTclopiedia articles and essays, including one on "Jonathan Dickinson and the Rise of Colleges in America," he has published •' Princeton Roll of Honor." a list of the graduates of that college that fought in the war for the Union (Princeton, 1865): "The History of the American V'hig Society" (lS71):and with Prof. Arnold (iuvot a series of classical maps.

CAMERON, Sir Roderick William, merchant, b. in Glengarry county. Canaila, 25 .July, 1825. He was educated in a district school of Kingston, and in 1852 chartered a vessel in New York, in which he sailed, with a |)arty of voung Canadians, for Australia. He established himself as a shipping merchant in New York, and now has branches in London and Sydney. He wiis a volunteer in the civil war. but remai'ns a British suhject. He was a commissioner from Australia to the Centennial exposition of 1876, from Canaila to the Melbourne exposition of 1880, and was knighted in 1883.

CAMPBELL. Alexander William, soldier, b. in Nashville, Tenn.. 4 June, 1828: d. in Jacks<^in, Tenn.. 13 June. 189.'f. He w»s graduated at the West Tennessee college in 1H47, and from the I.ielmnon law-school in 1851. He waf^ a lawyer of ability and among the most prominent members of the profession in his native state, and was for a period the partner of Howell K. Jackson, recently one of the justices of the V. S. supreme court. At the beginning of the war he volunteereil as a pri- vate, wag soon on staff duty with Gen. Cheatham, and in October, 1861, Ufame colonel of the H-llh Tennessee infantry, leailing his regiment at .ShiUili, where he waslwice wounde<l. In Septemlicr, 18(54, be was a.ssigne<l to the command of abriga<le under Gen. Forrest, having previously Iteen ni8<Ie a briga- dier-general, and serving with that succes<«ful cav- alry leader until the surremler at Gainesville, Ga,, 5 slay, 1N05. (>en. CampU'll wa-s an active mem- ber of the Protestant KpiscDpal church.

CAMPBELL. Archibald, soldier, b. in Al- bany, N. Y., 26 July, 1813; d. in Wnvliinglon, D.C., 27 July, 1887. 'His father, of thesjime name, came from Glenlyon, Scotland, to the Cnited States in 1704, and wa.« for fortv years ileputy sec- retary of .stale of New York. The son wa-s gnulu- ate<l from West I'oint and commissione<l brevet 2d lieutenant in the 6lh infantry in 1h:<5, and in A ugust, IKIW, IwH-ame aide-<li'-camp to Gen. Gaines, then in command of I'. S. forces on the Texas frontier. Resigning from the armv in 1836, he was engageil in various surveys and works of in- ternal improvement until appointed in .April, 1845, private secretary to William L. .Marcy, sei'retarr of war. A year later he was maile chief clerk of the war diMiartmeiit. He was ap|>oinle<l com- mis.«ioner of the nortliwesteni lioundary survey in 1857, and claimed for the Cnited States the canal I)e Haro as the water boundary, and by his flrm- iiess prevent<Kl (during the civil war) Great Britain from making giK>d her claim to Rosario straits, thus saving to the Cnited States the valuable isl- anil of San Juan. His position was fully sus- tained by the German em[)eror when as arbi'trator he n-ndered his ilecisinn in favor of the Cnited Slates. Mr. Cam|>lM-ll was apiHiint<'il commission- er of the northern boundary survey in 1S72, and completed the boundary line across the continent by uniting the northwestern and ea.slcm lioundary lines at the Lake of the Woods: his report on which, together with roam, was published under the act of congress of 8 March, 1877.

CAMPBELL. Hugh Jones, lawyer, b. in Penn- sylvania in 1831 ; d.in Yankton, So. Dak.. 19 Apr., 1898. He removed when quite young to Muscatine, Iowa, where he was studying law at the outbreak of the civil war. Under a commission from Gov. Kirkwoo<l he raised a regiment of volunteers : he was appointed major, 2 Aug., 1862. lieutenant- colonel, 17 July, 1863. colonel. 1 Dec. 1864. and was mustereil out as lieutenant-colonel with his regi- ment at Little Rock. Ark.. 20 July, 1865. He re- ceived the brevet of brigadier-general. At the close of the war he fini.she<l his Taw-studies, and, after securing admi.ssion to the bar, began practis- ing law in Louisiana, where he was appomted a l^ S. court judge. During the contest of rival presidential electors after the election of 1876, as a member of the returning boartl he gave the de- cision in favor of the Republican electors, thus giving the vote of the state to Hayes and securing his election. Campbell remove<l to what was then Dakota territory in 1877, and held the office of U. S. district attorney for some time. He took an active interest in polities, served as delegate to many conventions, and was at the head of the movements for division of the territory into North and South Dakota and for a<lmission into the Union. Throughout Dakota Gen. Campbell was known as the " father of statehood."

CAMPBELL, James Baxter. lawyer, b. in Ox- ford. Mass.. 27 Oit., 1808; d. in Wa.shington, D.C., 8 Nov.. 1883. He was educated at Brown, but left without (wing graduated, and studied law in the office of Hugh S. Ix'gar^, in Charleston, S. C. After his admission to the Imr he attained note in his pro- fession in South Carolina, especially as an equity lawyer. Under the leadership of Joel R. Poinsett he took an active part in the nullincation contest. He l)ecame the confidential agent of the Union committee of South Carolina in Washington, where he met Andrew Jack.son, Daniel Webster. Kdward Livingston, Ijewis Ca.ss. and other political leaders. For many years he serve<l in the legislature as a conservative DemixTat. When the civil war began, in 1H61, although lj«'lieving in the right of secession, he op[iosed the tiring on Fort .Sumter and other acts that tended toward sepanition. In 1866 he was elected to the U. S. senate by the provisional legislature, but was excluded with other Southern members. During the recon.st ruct ion era he held aloof from politics, with the exception of s|ieaking at the meetmg in Charle.ston to ratify the nomina- ti<m of .S'ymourand Blair in 1H68. Mr. Canifiliell was electe<l to the state senate in 1877, but his op- |<osition to the voting-precinct law caused his en- tire st'jnaration from tlie party there.

CAMPOS SALLES, Manuel Kerras de (cam- pos sal-yeas), presiilent, Brazil: li. in .Silo Paulo, 13 Feb., I84I. He took up the study of law. and was graduated in 1864. While yei a student he had entered into politics in his native state in 1862 as a newspa|K'r writer. He wa.« elected to the state legislature of SiJo Paulo in 1867, and was thereafter re-elcclcil several times, until he was sent to the chamber of deputies of the em- pire in 1884. With Prudentc ae Moraes, he was the first republican member to the chamlier dur- ing the time of the empire. When the republic was proclaimed he held the [Mjsition of minister of justice. His first act was toalwlish the centralized law organization of the late empire, and this he followed by organizing new legal measures, ba.sed upon sound principles of federal law. His efforts in thisdirectionweresosuccessfulthat the constitu- ent assembly followed closely, in ilrawing up the new constitution, the lines he had laid down. He