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JOHN A. CAMPBELL.

buildings erected, and Fort Gaines faced older Fort Morgan at the mouth of the bay. Society had long outgrown the crudeness of earlier days, and Mobile hospitality and refinement were famous. At her Bar were John A. Campbell (whose sister, Mrs. Chandler, was the grandmother of the Mrs. Maybrick, now so famous), Daniel Chandler, George N. Stewart, Robert H. Smith, Peter Hamilton, D. C. Anderson, Philip Phillips, E. S. Dargan and other splendid lawyers. In literature there was ample atonement for the neglect of early days. Among Mobile's books appeared in 1854 Dr. Nott's Types of Mankind, and in 1859 came Madame LeVert's Souvenirs of Travel, and Augusta Evans's Beulah. John