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titles to western and southern lands, Judge Citron was a Democrat, but strongly opposed secession in 1861, and used his influence with members of congress and others to prevent the civil war. When it came, he was virtually banished from his state for his opinions, but returned and reopened court in 1862. He died in Nashville, Tennessee, May 30, 1865.

Campbell, John Poage, born in Augusta county, Virginia, in 1767, removed to Kentucky with his father in 1781. Receiving a good education, when nineteen years old he became preceptor of an academy at Williamsburg, North Carolina. Here he adopted atheistic views, but was converted by reading Jenyns's "Treatise on the Internal Evidence of Christianity," and, giving up the study of medicine, in which he had been engaged, resolved to become a clergyman. He was graduated at Hampden-Sidney in 1790, was licensed to preach in May, 1792, and settled in Kentucky in 1795, preaching in various places. In 181 1 he was chaplain to the legislature. As his salary was insufficient for the support of his family, he was obliged to practice medicine. Dr. Campbell was a graceful preacher and an accomplished scholar. He published "The Passenger" (1804); "Strictures on Stone's Letters on the Atonement" (1805); "Vindex" (1806); "Letters to the Rev. Mr. Craighead" (1810); "The Pelagian Detected" (i8ii) ; "An Answer to Jones" (181 2) ; and many sermons. He left a manuscript history of the western country. He died from exposure while preaching on November 4, 1814, near Chillicothe, Ohio.

Campbell, John Wilson, born in Augusta county, Virginia, February 23, 1782; his parents removed to Kentucky, and afterward to Ohio. He received a common-school education : studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1808, and began practice in West Union, Ohio. He held several local offices, was prosecuting attorney for Adams and Highland counties, and a member of the Ohio legislature. He was elected to congress as a Republican, served from December 1, 1817, till March 3, 1827, and was United States judge for the district of Ohio from 1829 until his death. He died September 24, 1833, at Delaware, Ohio.

Carleton, Henry, (originally named Henry Carleton Coxe), born in Virginia, in 1785. He graduated at Yale in 1806, removed to Mississippi, and finally to New Orleans, in 1814. He was a lieutenant of infantry under Gen. Jackson in the campaign that terminated January 8, 1815. He engaged in the profession of law, and soon afterward, with Mr. L. Moreau, began the translation of those portions of "Las Siete Partidas," a Spanish code of laws, that were observed in Louisiana. He became United States attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana, in 1832, and was. subsequently appointed a judge of the supreme court of the state, but resigned in 1839 on account of ill health. After extended travel in Europe and this country, he settled in Philadelphia, where he devoted much attention to Biblical, theological and metaphysical studies. Notwithstanding his early life in the south and the exposure of his property to confiscation by the Confederates, he adhered steadfastly to the Union during the civil war. He published "Liberty and Necessity" (Philadelphia, 1857), and read an "Essay on the Will," before the American