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** RETURN TO BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX ** ** RETURN TO HISTORY CONTENTS **   ROBERT CALDWELL - Page 581, Union Twp.   JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL, lawyer, of this city, is a native of Middletown, where he was born on the 7th of July, 1843. He is the son of Dr. Andrew Campbell, of whom a full account will be found elsewhere in this work, and Laura P. Reynolds, daughter of John P. Reynolds, once a publisher in New York State, and afterwards a leading and influential citizen of Middletown. Mr. Campbell's father was of Scotch extraction, and his mother of English. The family of Mr. Reynolds was originally settled in Devonshire, Jonathan Reynolds emi­grating from Plympton Earl, in that county, in 1645, and on his arrival in America, taking up his dwelling near Plympton, in the Plymouth colony, now a part of Massachusetts. Mr. Campbell is sixth in descent from Jonathan Reynolds. The family, after settling in Massachusetts, extended to Rhode Island and New York, and are now numerous in these two latter States, having many members who have filled important positions in the State and national councils. By another branch of his maternal family, he is descended from John Parker, who commanded the American troops at the heroic struggle at Lexington, which began the Revolutionary War. His paternal great-grandfather, Andrew Small, at the age of eighteen, went with Montgomery on the fatal expedition to Quebec, suffering untold miseries on his return through Canada. Both of his grandfathers were soldiers in the War of 1812.      James E. Campbell was educated in the free schools of his native town, and in later years received instruction from the Rev. John B. Morton, an early and successful teacher of that place, and for many years the pastor of the Presbyterian Church. When approaching maturity he began the reading of law, and taught school for a short time.      In the Summer of 1863, after the navy had become thoroughly organized in all its departments, and had won some of its most glorious victories, he became a master's mate on the gunboats Elk and Naiad, serving on the Mississippi and Red River flotillas, and taking part in several engagements. But the unhealthiness of the climate soon affected him, and after a year, being surveyed by a board of surgeons, he was discharged, returning home a mere skeleton. As soon as he had sufficiently recovered his health he resumed the study of law, and during the Winter of 1864 and 1865 he became a student in the office of Doty & Gunckel, Middletown, being admitted to the bar in 1865.      In the Spring of 1867 he began the practice of his profession in this city. During the interval he was bookkeeper of the First National Bank at Middletown, and was also a deputy collector in the Internal Revenue service of the Third District for about eight months in Hamilton, under General Ferdinand Van Derveer, Collector. He was elected prosecuting attorney of the county in 1875. and 1877, holding that position for four years and filling the duties of his office most acceptably. From 1867 to 1869 he was United States commissioner. In 1879 he made a very close race for the Ohio State Senate, being defeated by only twelve votes. During the war he was a Republican, and remained so until the Greeley campaign, when, in common with thousands of others, he cast off the party yoke, and voted for Greeley and Brown. Since that time he has acted with the Democrats.      In addition to his business as a lawyer, he has paid much attention to insurance, and has gradually gained a large and valuable business in this line, and has been charged with many important receiverships and other trusts. Mr. Campbell is a Knight Templar, a member of the Knights of Pythias, and the Grand Army of the Republic. He was married to Miss Libbie Owens, daughter of Job E. Owens and Mary A. Price, on the 4th of January, 1870. Her father was a native of Wales, and her mother of Welsh descent. They have three children. Mr. Campbell is a hard worker, and can accomplish more in one day in his business than the most of men. He attends the Presbyterian Church, and contributes liberally to the support of all benevolent and charitable enterprises.      He is systematic in all his efforts, and his offices are models of neatness. Socially no man stands higher. He is courteous in manner, thorough in his acquisition of detail, and of the highest integrity of character. As a lawyer he has few superiors at his age, possessing great skill in ascertaining the true points of a case. He is a good, clear, logical speaker, and well informed on all questions of law. No young man in Hamilton has a better or more honorable record, and no one is deserving of greater credit than he.      At the Democratic Convention held at Lebanon, August 16, 1882, he was nominated unanimously for the position of Congressman, and is now making a most gallant campaign in behalf of his party.   FREEMAN CARY - Page 479, Fairfield Twp.   ENOCH CHAMBERS - Page 480, Fairfield Twp.   JOHN EDWARD CHATTEN - Page 531, Union Twp.   ABIJAH CHEESEMAN - Page 493, Liberty Twp.   MARTIN CLARK - Page 603, Madison Twp.   ANDREW CLAWSON - Page 494, Liberty Twp.   JAMES CLAWSON - Page 480, Fairfield Twp.   JOSEPH CLAWSON was born in Butler County, Ohio, March7, 1803, and married for his first wife Cynthia Parkhurst, February 26, 1824, who was born June 14, 1806, and died December 28, 1834.  For his second wife he married Belinda Parkhurst (born in Trumbull County, Ohio, November 21, 1809), April 14, 1836. Andrew and Mary Clawson, his father and mother, came to this county in 1802; his wife's father and mother, David and Mary Parkhurst, came to Butler County in 1814.  Joseph Clawson is the father of Belinda, born December 30, 1824; G. W., born July 23, 1832; Cynthia, born December 25, 1836; Maria Sulser, born November 21, 1841, a resident of Kansas; Amos P., born June 14, 1844; Ellen Smith, born October 10, 1846; Malon M., born March 17, 1849; Andrew P., born January 5, 1853; G. W. and A. P.  were soldiers in the late war.  He is a man of good habits, and has accumulated, by careful industry and economy, a large share of this world's goods.   THE REV. WILLIAM WIRT COLMERY, D. D. - Page 532,Oxford Twp.   JOSEPH COX - Page 588, Union Twp.THE REV. WILLIAM WIRT COLMERY, D. D.  - Page 532, Oxford Twp.   CHRISTOPHER W. COOK - Page 465, Ross Twp.   THOMAS COOPER - Page 480, Fairfield Twp. .             MAJOR JOHN CRANE was born in the State of New Jersey in 1796, and died on the 16th of March, 1864. He came with his family to this county in the first quarter of the century, and first settled in Jacksonburg, where in 1818 a post-office was established, he becoming the first postmaster. In 1825 he was elected a county commissioner, serving in this capacity for three years. In 1828 he was a member of the Ohio Legislature, having as a fellow member Fergus Anderson, of this county. From. 1841 to 1845 he was coroner. Major Crane removed to Hamilton in 1825, keeping for several years a hotel in the frame building on the corner fronting the public square. During his residence in this town he was engaged for several years in the grocery and liquor business, in com­pany with William B. Van Hook, and was at the same time city inspector. About 1855 he prepared with great labor and expense a useful map of this county, being a loser by it to the amount of five hundred dollars. He was for several years the commandant of a splendid battalion of uniformed light infantry. One of the companies, known as the Miami Guards, was composed of the finest young men in Hamilton. Major Crane had taken the lodge, chapter, and encampment degrees of Masonry. He was a Knight Templar, becoming such in the year 1827, in Lebanon. For a few years before his death he resided in Covington, Kentucky, but his remains were brought here, and he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.   JOHN A. CRAWFORD - Page 465, Ross Twp.   ALLISON B. CRIST was born in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1826, and was married, in 1848, to Mary Davis, who was born in the same county and State in 1824.  By her he had four children.  Elbert  is married and lives in Illinois; Arbell is single, and lives in Preble County; Perry is married, and lives in Wayne Township; and Mary  is the wife of James Merrill, who lives in Huntington County, Indiana.  Mrs. Crist died in 1852, and Mr. Crist was married, in 1855, to Annie Smart, born in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1835, by whom he had one child, Marion, who is married, and lives in Middletown.  His wife died in 1858, and he was married, in 1838, to phoebe Maddock, who was born in Butler County in 1837.  By her he has had nine children.  They are John, Luella, Francis, Ellwood, Retta, Mattie, Emma, Allison,and Eva.      Mr. Cirst has held the various township offices - township supervisor, school director, and clerk of the schools.  He emigrated from Indiana to Ohio in 1855, settling in Wayne Township on his present farm.  He was in the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Ohio, the hundred - days' service, and was first corporal of Company D.  They were stationed in the Kanawha Valley, West Virginia.  He owns and farms six hundred and seventy acres in Wayne Township.  He and has wife are Orthodox Quakers.  He has always followed farming and stock dealing, and is one of the most prominent farmers in the township. He had but about a thousand dollars when he commenced, and lost all that when he began farming in Ohio in 1855.  He was then worse off than nothing, being in debt about three thousand dollars. - Page 616, Wayne Twp.   THE REV. DENNIS VINCENT CROWLEY - Page 530, Oxford Twp.   WILLIAM CURRYER - Page 493, Liberty Twp.     NOTES: