CAMPBELL. CANDAGE. Boston in the lower branch of the Legis- lature, i882-'83, serving as chairman of the committee on water supply and drainage. He was elected to the Senate in 1888, holding the chairmanship of the important committee on education; he was president of the Garfield Republican Club in 1S80, and president of Republican Club of ward 1 in 1888. At present he is a prominent Mason, comrade of Joe Hooker Post No. 23, East Boston, and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society Dr. Campbell can be usually found identified with all movements which tend to the elevation of his fellow-men. His voice and pen have uniformly been at the service of moral, temperance and social reform. But it is in the more quiet walks of private life that his success has been most conspicuous. Gifted with an envi- able skill in his chosen profession, quick of intuition, and generous and sympathetic in his work, he has won the respect and esteem of the citizens of the island ward where he resides. CAMPBELL, Charles Abner, son of Jeremiah and Nancy (Hawes) Campbell, was born in Boston, November 6, 1837. He was educated in the public schools of Chelsea, where he first began business life in 1859. He has been for many years ex- tensively engaged in the coal business in Chelsea and Boston ; has been identified with the growth and prosperity of Chelsea in many ways, and has never lacked an exhibition of public spirit and a hearty co-operation in any movement tending to its welfare. July 2, 1862, Mr. Campbell enlisted in company G, 40th regiment Massachusetts volunteers. He served as regimental quarter-master sergeant nine months ; was commissioned lieutenant by Governor An- drew, and captain, March 21, 1865. He has been a member of Chelsea com- mon council four years ; member of board of aldermen two years, and served as water commissioner and trustee of public library. He was a member of the state Senate from the 1st Suffolk district in 1884. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., and has been since its organiza- tion. In politics he is an ardent and active Republican, his counsel being continually sought by the managers of the party, and his co-operation solicited by those more or less interested in the selection of proper candidates for office. Mr. Campbell was married in Boston, January 1, 1861, to Lavinia, daughter of Henry and Lavinia (Stevens) Hutchinson. Of this union are two children : Alice L. and Jeremiah Campbell. CAMPBELL, SAMUEL S., son of Ben- jamin G. and Charity J. (Lunt) Campbell, was born in Bangor, Penobscot county, Maine, July 23, 1832. He obtained his early education in the public schools of his native city. He be- gan business with M. Schwartz, saw manu- facturer, hardware and mill supplies, etc., in Bangor. In 1856 he went to Montreal and engaged in the same business, where he remained until 1S76, when he returned to the States and settled in Boston. He is now president of the Suffolk Trust Com- pany. Mr. Campbell was married in Bangor, Me., July 3, 1854, to Lucy Jane, daughter of Moses and Phimelia (Saunders) Stevens. They have one child : Charles M. Camp- bell. Mr. Campbell is connected with several corporations. He assisted in organizing the Harvard, now Boston Clock Company, and was elected its first president. His church connections are with the Park Street society, Boston. In politics he is a Republican. CANDAGE, RUFUS GEORGE FRED- ERICK, son of Samuel Roundy and Phebe Ware (Parker) Candage, was bom in Blue Hill, Hancock county, Maine, July 28, 1826. James Candage, his great grand- father, went to Blue Hill from Massachu- setts in 1766, and was one of the early settlers of the town. His grandfather, James Candage, Jr., born in Massachusetts, May 9, 1753, went to Blue Hill with his father's family, and there, in 1775, he mar- ried Hannah Roundy, one of the two who first settled in the place ; she died March 12, 185 1, at the age of nearly ninety-eight years. The family name is an old and honored one in England, and has been variously spelled Cavendish, Candish, and Candage, custom finally settling upon the latter. Mr. Candage passed his early childhood upon his father's farm and in the saw-mill near at hand. Attendance upon the town school, with two terms at the Blue Hill Academy, completed his early education. At the age of eighteen, after some little experience in a coaster and fisherman, lie gained the consent of his parents to take up with a sea-faring life. Beginning his sea life by sailing between ports in Maine and Boston, he extended his voyages to the Southern ports anil to
