OBITUARIES, AMERICAN". 



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General Jackson, he was at the siege of Pen- 

 sacola, and in 1815 at the battle of New Or- 

 leans, and was brevetted major for gallantry. 

 After the close of the war he left the army and 

 received from President Madison the appoint- 

 ment of Surveyor and Inspector of the Port 

 of New Orleans. He resigned this post in a 

 short time and returned to his home in Ken- 

 tucky. From 1819 to 1825 he was Sheriff of 

 Gallatin County. In 1826 he represented that 

 county in the Legislature. The old and new 

 court question was the prominent issue of that 

 day. He was a member of the Old Court par- 

 ty, according to whose principles the State 

 reached a satisfactory decision. In 1847 he 

 again represented Carroll and Gallatin in the 

 Legislature. He died in Louisville, Kentucky, 

 on the 21st of October. 



CAMPBELL, JOHN A., died in Washington, on 

 July 14th. He was at one time Governor of 

 Wyoming. Afterward, he was Third Assist- 

 ant Secretary of State. He fought through 

 the war of the rebellion, and received the grade 

 of lieutenant-colonel. He was brevetted colo- 

 nel and brigadier-general on the recommenda- 

 tions of General G. H. Thomas and of General 

 Schofield, on whose staff he held the position of 

 adjutant-general. After the war he moved to 

 Ohio, and was one of the editors of the Cleve- 

 land " Leader." He received a commission in 

 the army and accompanied General Schofield to 

 Washington, when that General was appointed 

 Secretary of War. General Campbell was on 

 duty there at the time of his death. 



CANADA, CLEM, died in London County ; Vir- 

 ginia, November 3d, at the great age of one 

 hundred and twenty-one. He was a negro 

 slave of the /family of Lee, of London. By 

 the will of his master he was manumitted sixty 

 years ago. He removed to Pennsylvania, but, 

 rather than live out of Virginia, he preferred 

 to remain the slave of the Lees. He enjoyed 

 and deserved their confidence. According to 

 a record preserved in that family, he was bora 

 in January, 1759, when George II was still 

 reigning over Great Britain and America. 



CHAMBERS, Dr. MONTGOMERY, died in Phila- 

 delphia, October 10th, aged eighty-five. He 

 wrote many valuable medical treatises, and 

 practiced his profession during more than six- 

 ty years. 



CHANDLER, JOSEPH R., born in 1792 ; died 

 in Philadelphia. From 1849 to 1855 he was 

 a member of Congress from Pennsylvania, 

 and long the editor of the "United States 

 Gazette." 



CLINCH, CHARLES POWELL, was born in New 

 York, in 1797. His father was a ship-chandler, 

 who acquired wealth. His sister married A. 

 T. Stewart. In the early part of his life Mr. 

 Clinch belonged to the same literary circle as 

 Drake, Halleck, and Paulding. He wrote for 

 the press ; and one of his dramas, " The First 

 of May," was produced at the Broadway The- 

 atre. " In 1835 Mr. Clinch was elected to the 

 State Assembly. In that year occurred the 



great fire, which melted away his property, 

 which had been invested in insurance stocks. 

 In 1838 he obtained an appointment in the 

 Custom-House. He showed such aptitude for 

 his work that he was promoted to be deputy, 

 and then assistant collector, which position ho 

 held through all changes until 1876, when old 

 age led him to resign after forty years of ser- 

 vice. He died on December 1 6th, in the eighty- 

 fourth year of his age. 



CORWINE, AMOS BREOKINRIDGE, was born in 

 1815, at Maysville, Kentucky. His early years 

 were spent on his father's plantation in Mis- 

 sissippi. He published the Yazoo " Banner " 

 from 1840 to 1864. He served during the 

 Mexican War, being a lieutenant in the Missis- 

 sippi regiment commanded by Jefferson Davis. 

 He was severely wounded at Buena Vista. 

 After that war, in partnership with his broth- 

 er Samuel, he edited the Cincinnati "Daily 

 Chronicle." During the Administrations of Ty- 

 ler and Fillmore he was United States Consul 

 at Panama. In 1856 he was sent by President 

 Pierce to investigate the Panama massacres. 

 His report was the basis of the treaty and ad- 

 justment of damages between the United States 

 and Granada. He was reappointed consul, and 

 remained in Panama until 1861, when he was 

 removed by President Lincoln. The command 

 of an Ohio regiment was offered to him, but he 

 declined it. In 1862 he settled in New Ro- 

 chelle, where he died, on June 22d. 



Cox, Dr. SAMUEL H., theologian, was born 

 at Rahway, New Jersey, in 1792. He served 

 as a volunteer during the War of 1812 ; after 

 the war he studied theology, and was ordained 

 by the New Jersey Presbytery. He received his 

 degree of D. D. from Williams College and that 

 of A. M. from Princeton. He was for a long 

 time pastor of the Laight Street Church, New 

 York. In 1833 he visited Europe, and made a 

 remarkable speech before the English and For- 

 eign Bible Society. He was an abolitionist, 

 and frequently preached on that subject. He 

 was one of the founders of the University of 

 New York. He was pastor of the first Pres- 

 byterian Church in Brooklyn. He was also 

 professor at the Auburn, and later in the Union 

 Theological Seminary. He died at Bronx ville, 

 October 2d. 



CRITTENDEN, General GEORGE B., Confeder- 

 ate States Army, was born in Kentucky, in 

 1811, and graduated at West Point with the 

 class of 1832. He did duty in the Black Hawk 

 War, was stationed at Augusta, Georgia, and in 

 Alabama, and resigned the following year. 

 Having volunteered in the Texan cause, he was 

 captured, and with difficulty released through 

 the intervention of Daniel Webster. He prac- 

 ticed law until the Mexican War, when he was 

 reappointed to the army. He again resigned 

 from the army in June, 1861, and joined the 

 Confederate cause. He was commissioned ma- 

 jor-general and sent to Kentucky, where he 

 was defeated by General Thomas at Mill Spring. 

 This important battle, resulting in the death of 



