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that printed, inserted, pasted, folded, and cut in a 

 continuous operation. He received altogether about 

 fifty patents for improvements on the printing press. 



Campbell, James V., lawyer, born in Buffalo, N. Y., 

 Feb. 25, 1823 ; died in Detroit, Mich., March 26, 1890. 

 When three years old he accompanied his parents to 

 Detroit. He was graduated at St. Paul's College in 

 1841, and admitted to the bar in 1844. He practiced 

 with success till 1857, and was then elected a jud^e of 

 the Supreme Court of Michigan, an office to which he 

 was re-elected at every succeeding election, and was 

 chosen Chief Justice for nine terms in succession. He 

 was Professor of Law in the University of Michigan 

 from the organization of that department, a member 

 of the standing committee of the Protestant Episco- 

 pal diocese of Michigan, and author of u The Political 

 History of Michigan." Judge Campbell was a Whig 

 till 1854, and afterward a Eepublican. 



Campbell, William Henry, educator, born in Balti- 

 more, Md., Sept. 14, 1808; died in New Brunswick, 

 N. J., Dec. 7, 1890. He was graduated at Dickinson 

 College in 1823, took the course in Princeton Theo,- 

 logical Seminary, and was licensed to preach by the 

 Second Presbytery of New York in 1831. In 1831-'32 

 he was pastor of the Eeformed Church in Chitte- 

 nango, N. Y. ; in 1833-'39 was principal of Erasmus 

 Hall in Flatbush, L. I. ; in 1839-'41 held a pastorate 

 in East New York ; in 1841-' 48 was pastor of the 

 Third Reformed Church in Albany, N. Y. ; and in 

 1848-'51 was principal of the Albany Academy. In 

 the latter year he was appointed Professor of Oriental 

 Literature in the Theological Seminary in New Bruns- 

 wick, N. J., and while occupying that chair was also 

 Professor of Belles-Lettres in Rutgers College till 1863, 

 when he was elected president of the college. He 

 held the presidency till 1882, when failing health in- 

 duced him to resign, but for several years thereafter 

 he remained with the institution as Professor of the 

 Evidences of Christianity. In 1885 he organized the 

 Fourth Reformed Church in New Brunswick, and 

 served it as pastor and pastor emeritus till his death. 

 He received the degree of D. D. from Union College. 



Chapman, Orlow W.,. lawyer, born in Ellington, Conn., 

 inl83i>; died in Washington, B.C., Jan. 19, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Union College in 1854; spent 

 two years as Professor of Languages in Fergusonville 

 Academy, Delaware County, N. Y. : studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in'l858. In 1862 he was ap- 

 pointed district attorney in Binghamton, to fill a va- 

 cancy, and in the ensuing autumn he was elected to the 

 office, which he held by re-election till 1868. In 1870 

 and 1871 he was a member of the New York State 

 Senate, and at the close of his term he was appointed 

 superintendent of the State insurance department, re- 

 taining the office till 1S76. On March 29, 1889 he 

 was appointed United States solicitor-general, and he 

 occupied that office at the time of his death. 



Chase, Nelson, litigant, born in Otse<;o County, N. Y., 

 about 1800; died in Ridgewood, N. J., March 18. 

 1890. He began studying law at an early age, and 

 while a student became acquainted with Madam Ju- 

 mel, the wealthy friend of Aaron Burr, and with her 

 niece Mary Jumel Bownes, or Bowen. On Madam 

 Jumel's return to New York, she induced Mr. Chase 

 to accompany her, and soon afterward sent him on a 

 legal errand to Aaron Burr, who admitted him to his 

 office as a law student. He finished reading with 

 Burr, and began practice. Two years after his admis- 

 sion to the bar he married Mary Bowcn, and made his 

 home in the famous Jumel mansion on Washington 

 Heights, New York. His wife died in 1843, and 

 Madam Jumel in 1865 ; but between these events he 

 had begun in the courts the memorable contest for 

 the Jumel property in behalf of his children. The 

 first contest and the subsequent litigation were based 

 on the act of Madam Jumel in 1827, when she con- 

 veyed all of her property to her niece Mary, at the 

 same time requiring of her a deed authorizing Madam 

 Jumel to use, rent, lease, or sell the property as she 

 might desire. The conveyance was never revoked, 

 and when Mr. Chase began suit to perfect his title, 



he was met with counter-suits brought by the heirs of 

 Stephen Jumel and by George Washington Bowen, 

 who declared himself a natural son of Madam Jumel. 

 In 1857 Madam Jumel sold a part of the Washinton 

 Heights property, apparently without the knowledge 

 of Mr. Chase, wiio had continued to live in the man- 

 sion after the death of his wife. The death of Madam 

 Jumel left two kinds of property that which she re- 

 ceived from her husband, and that which she had 

 personally acquired in seeming hopeless entangle- 

 ment ; and it brought the whole estate, by a variety 

 of suits, into the courts. After about tw'elve vears 

 of litigation, Judge Blatchford, in the United States 

 Supreme Court, decided in favor of Mr. Chase in his 

 suit against Mr. Bowen, holding that the Chase chil- 

 dren had been defrauded by Madam Jumel in her sale 

 of a part of the property, valued at $305,000, and that 

 they were entitled to an- injunction to prevent Mr. 

 Bowen from prosecuting his suit for the property that 

 Madam Jumel had personally acquired. From this 

 decision Mr. Bowen appealed to the United States 

 Supreme Court, and there secured a reversal, which 

 legalized Madam Jumel's transfers and made the 

 Chase children heirs only to such of the property as 

 she owned in 1827 and had not afterward sold. After 

 this, Chase and Bowen carried on their counter-suits 

 under various pretexts till within three years, when 

 they agreed to the sale of the property and the dis- 

 position of the proceeds according to the decision of 

 the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Chase, who 

 in the meap time had married a second time, then 

 bought the Isaac W. Lngland property at Ridgewood, 

 N. J., and lived there quietly till his death, He ac- 

 knowledged that he was seventy-five years old ; but 

 those familiar with the events of his life believe he 

 was at least ninety. 



Cheever, George ' Barrell, clergyman, born in Hallo- 

 well, Me., April 17, 1807 ; died in Englewood. N. J., 

 Oct. 1, 1890. He was graduated at Bowdoin College, 

 in the class with Henry W. Longfellow, Nathaniel 

 Hawthorne, and Jonathan Cilley, in 1825, and at An- 

 dover Theological Seminary in 1830 ; and was or- 

 dained pastor of the Howard Street Congregational 

 Church, in Salem, Mass., in 1833. He held that 

 charge three years, then spent two years in Eu- 

 rope; was pastor of the Allen Street Presbyterian 

 Church, in New York city, in 1839-' 44 ; editor of the 

 New York Evangelist in 1845 ; and pastor of the 

 Church of the Puritans in New York city from 1846 

 till 1870, when he retired from active pastoral labor, 

 and gave his New York residence to the American 

 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and the 

 American Missionary Society, for their joint use. He 

 was a stanch advocate of total abstinence and of the 

 abolition of slavery, contributed many letters to the 

 religious and daily press on public questions, and 

 composed numerous hymns. He received the degree 

 of D. D. from the University of the City of New 

 York, in 1844. Among his numerous publications 

 were : " Inquire at Amos Giles's Distillery " (Salem, 

 1835), for \vnieh he was tried and imprisoned thirty 

 days for libel; "God's Hand in America" New 

 York, 1841); " Lectures on Hierarchical Despotism " 

 (1842) ; " Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress" (1843) ; 

 "Journal and Diary of the Pilgrims of Plymouth" 

 (1848); "The Hill* Difficulty, with other Miscella- 

 nies" (1849) ; " Punishment by Death ; its Authority 

 and Expediency " (1849) ; " Windings of the River of 

 the Water of Life" (1849) ; "Wanderings of a Pil- 

 grim in the Alps" (1850) ; "A Reel in a Bottle, for 

 Jack in the Doldrums " (1850, revised 1855) ; " Voices 

 of Nature to her Foster-Child, the Soul of Man " 

 (1852); " Powers of the World to Come" (1853); 

 "Discipline of Time for Life and Immortality" 

 (1854); "Life, Genius, and Insanity of Cowpcr" 

 (1856) ; " God against Slavery " (1857) ; " Right of 

 the Bible in our^Public Schools" (1858); "Guilt of 

 Slavery demonstrated from the Hebrew and Greek 

 Scriptures" (I860); " Faith, Doubt, and Evidence" 

 (1881) ; and "God's Timepiece for Man's Eternity" 

 (1883). In his will he bequeathed $14,000 to the 



