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=Callender, John.= _Ms._, 1706-1748. A Baptist clergyman of Newport,
Rhode Island, whose Historical Discourse, 1739, is a careful monograph
of Rhode Island history for the first century of the colony’s
existence. _See edition of 1838, with notes and memoir._
=Calthrop, Samuel Robert.= _E._, 1829- ----. A Unitarian clergyman of
Syracuse. Essay on Religion and Science; The Rights of the Body.
=Calvert, George Henry.= _Md._, 1803-1889. A littérateur of Newport,
Rhode Island, who published a great number of volumes of verse that
never was mistaken for poetry by any reader, and almost as many prose
works. Among his writings are Goethe: his Life and Works; Dante and his
Latest Translators; St. Beuve, the Critic; Count Julian, a tragedy;
Three Score, and Other Poems; a translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos.
=Cameron, Henry Clay.= _W. Va._, 1827- ----. A professor at Princeton
College since 1877. Princeton Roll of Honour; History of American Whig
Society.
=Camp, Walter.= _Ct._, 1859- ----. A writer of prominence on athletic
matters. Book of College Sports; American Football; Football Facts and
Figures; Football (with L. F. Deland). _Har. Hou._
=Campbell, Alexander.= _I._, 1788-1866. A Baptist clergyman of West
Virginia, who was the founder of the sect of Campbellites, or Disciples
of Christ. He established Bethany College in 1841, and was its first
president. His writings, mainly controversial, are nearly sixty in
number, among them being Christian Baptism; Infidelity Refuted by
Infidels; Essay on Life and Death; Popular Lectures and Addresses;
Christianity as it Was; Familiar Lectures on the Pentateuch; Six
Letters to a Sceptic. _See Hart’s American Literature; Memoir by
Richardson, 1868._
=Campbell, Alexander Augustus.= _Va._, 1789-1846. A Presbyterian
clergyman and physician, once prominent in Tennessee, whose only book
was a work on Scripture Baptism.
=Campbell, Alexander James.= 18-- - ----. Son of A. Campbell, _supra_.
The Power of Christ to Save to the Uttermost; American Practical
Cyclopædia; A True Friend, reflections on Life, Character, and Conduct.
=Campbell, Bartley.= _Pa._, 1843-1888. A journalist of Pittsburg, who
turned his attention to the stage and became a popular playwright. My
Partner; The Galley Slave; Matrimony; Siberia; The Big Bonanza; The
White Slave; and Peril, comprising his most successful plays.
=Campbell, Charles.= _Va._, 1807-1876. An educator of Petersburg,
Virginia, whose father, John Wilson Campbell, a bookseller there
for many years, wrote a History of Virginia to 1781. The writings of
Charles Campbell include History of the Colony of Virginia; Genealogy
of the Spotswood Family; The Bland Papers; Memoir of John Daly Burk,
_supra_. _Lip._
=Campbell, Douglas.= _N. Y._, 1840-1893. Son of W. W. Campbell,
_infra_. A lawyer of New York city, whose notable historical work, The
Puritan in Holland, England, and America, has attracted much attention.
_Har._
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