American dictionary of printing and bookmaking

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tion of the nobility and gentry of England, and to make
the press of Harvard College as noted as the presses of
the universities at Oxford and Cambridge, England.
The total cost was more than £1,200 sterling. Green
continued printing for many years, dying in 1702, being
then eighty-seven. No printing was done in Cambridge
immediately after Green's death, and soon after his de¬
cease the materials were removed and probably sold.
In 1718 Thomas Hollis, of London, a great benefactor
to the college, presented it with a font of Hebrew long
primer and Greek long primer. They were put into use
but once, which was when the college published met¬
rical addresses congratulating George III. upon his ac¬
cession to the throne, the poems being in Latin and
Greek. The types were never again used, the college
building in which they were deposited having shortly
after been burned. Other printers in Cambridge during
Green's time were Marmaduke Johnson and Bartholo¬
mew Green. Printing was not again done there for
many years after Samuel Green's death, but since the
beginning of the present century has been a very large
industry in that town. Of late years the Riverside Press
and the University Press have given Cambridge a repu¬
tation of the very highest. No better work is done any¬
where.

Cameron, Simon, an American statesman, was born
at Lancaster, Pa., on March 8, 1799. He entered the
printing business at nine years of age, working as a
journeyman in Washington and several other places be¬
fore he was of age. In 1820 he edited a paper at Doytes¬
te wn. Pa., and in 1822 one at Harrisburg, in the same
State, both being successful. He early acquired a great
influence over other men, and was very skillful as a
politician. He invested in banking and mercantile en¬
terprises as soon as he obtained sufficient capital, and
made money by them. He was appointed adjutant-
general of the State in 1845, and a few years after was
elected to the United States Senate from the State of
Pennsylvania, holding that position at the outbreak of
the Civil War. He was a candidate for the Presidency
before the Republican nominating convention at Chi¬
cago in 1860, but was defeated by Lincoln, who offered
him the post of Secretary of War when he assumed of¬
fice. The first months of the conflict were unsuccessful
on the Union side, and a cry was raised against Mr,
Cameron and the older generals on that account; and it
was also charged that he was too favorable to the con¬
tractors, who were likely to cast discredit upon the na¬
tion. Yielding to these assaults upon the Secretary of
War, Mr. Lincoln nominated him to an honorable posi¬
tion abroad, that of Minister to Russia, and Stanton
took his place at the head of the War Department.
After the war Mr, Cameron was again elected to the
Senate, where he wielded a most powerful influence,
but finally resigned, and was succeeded by his son
J. Donald Cameron. For the whole of his later life he
was regarded as the impersonation of the successful
country printer, who had attained fame and power in
consequence of the training he had received at press and
case. For many years the editors who had been in¬
structed as printers exercised a vast influence in the
politics of the State and nation. Cameron in Pennsyl¬
vania, Weed in New York, Hill in New Hampshire and
Ritchie in Virginia were only a few of these. After
leaving the Senate Mr. Cameron led a life of retirement,
visiting Europe, however, when he was nearly ninety
years of age.    He died on June 26, 1889.

Campanelle (Ital.).—A letter or letters which slip
by at the ends of lines.

Campbell, Andrew, the inventor of the presses
known by his name, and a mechanical genius of great
ability, was born in Trenton, N. J., in 1821. He was
reared in poverty, and before he was fifteen went West,
partly on foot, and apprenticed himself to a coach-
builder in Illinois,    At the expiration of his time he

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went to St. Louis, where he aided in the construction
of the first omnibus ever used in that city. Within the
next few vears he engaged as a dealer in machinery, a
builder oi bridges and an inventor of a machine for
turning match-boxes, and was also a farmer. He went
to New York in 1853, the time of the Crystal Palace,
and was much interested in the machines he saw there.
It was believed by those who met him that his brains
would be of advantage to them, and he was engaged by
A, B. Taylor & Co. as the foreman of their printing-
press manufactory. Before filling this position he was
employed for some time in building a machine for feed¬
ing presses. He remained with Mr. Taylor till 1858,
extending his business and introducing several novel
features. While there he designed and built, by special
contract, a press peculiarly adapted to the printing of
illustrated papers, such as Frank Leslie's and Harper's
Weekly. The press-building of the United States was
then substantially in the hands of Hoe and Taylor, the
former having by far

the larger share, and                      ^   —^-^

Mr. Campbell felt
that another manu¬
factory, paying par¬
ticular attention to
presses for country
newspapers, must be
successful. For sev¬
eral years he experi¬
mented on this line,
but it was not until
1861 that he felt he
had gone sufficiently
far to warrant him in
beginning business
for himself. The
new machine proved
to be a great success,
and continues to be
popular to this day,
although many com¬
petitors have arisen.

In 1866 he erected a manufactory in Brooklyn, costing
$80,000. He continued there for a number of years,
bringing out a great number of new designs, each wor¬
thy of attention. To obtain increased capital a joint-
stock company was formed, and the works enlarged, but
in time disagreements began to exist between him and
the other stockholders, and several years ago he retired.
After this he designed a press for the Bagley & Sewall
Press Company, of Watertown, N. Y., and was engaged
in the construction of other machinery. His death, which
was on April 13,1890, deprived the printing-press manu¬
facturers of America of one of the brightest minds which
had ever graced their calling.

Campbell, John, the first publisher of a newspaper
in America. The paper was the Boston News Letter.
It appeared Monday, April 24, 1704, and was published
by him and others for nearly seventy-two years.

Campbell Press.—A very well-known press, run¬
ning very easily, and embracing many desirable feat¬
ures, invented by Andrew Campbell, and since improved
upon. These machines embrace the entire line required
for typographic and lithographic work. They comprise
a Country press, which has been much used ; a two-revo¬
lution press, of several sizes and forms; an Oscillating
series; a Complete press, upon the same plan as the
Country, but stronger, heavier and more perfect. There
are several styles of Hthographic presses.

Campbell, Samuel, a Scotchman who learned the
occupation of a bookseller and came to the United States
shortly after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War,
beginning business in New York with capital loaned
him by his former employer. He was very successful,
following printing, binding, bookselling and publishing.
 

ANDREW CAMPBELL.
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