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Chamberlain, Jeremiah
Chamberlain, Jeremiah, educator, college president, was born Jan. 5, 1794, near Great Conewago, Pa. In 1825 he accepted the presidency of Louisiana college at Jackson, La.; and in 1828 established an academy of his own in the same town; also organizing a presbyterian church there. In 1830 he became president of the newly founded Oakland college of Mississippi. He labored with great success for twenty years. He was stabbed to the heart by a student for some fancied grievance. He died Sept. 5, 1850, in Claiborne county, Miss.
[Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 Transcribed by Therman Kellar]
McCaleb, Theodore Howard
McCALEB, Theodore Howard, lawyer: b. Pendleton district, S. C., Feb. 10, 1810; d. at the Hermitage Plantation, Miss., April 29, 1864. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Yale. In 1832 he removed to New Orleans, La., and was admitted to the Louisiana bar. In 1846 he was appointed by President Polk United States district judge of Louisiana, which position he held until the state seceded from the Union. He was president of the University of Louisiana for three years, and professor of international law and admiralty law in the same institution for seventeen years.
[Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
Russell, Irwin
RUSSELL, Irwin, poet: b. Port Gibson, Miss., June 3, 1853; d. New Orleans, Dec. 23, 1879; buried in Bellefontaine cemetery, St. Louis. His father, a physician, moved to St. Louis shortly after his three-months-old son Irwin had suffered an attack of yellow fever. The boy was for a time put in school in St. Louis, but at the outbreak of the war Dr. Russell returned to Mississippi to cast in his lot with the South. Later Irwin took a commercial course in the University of St. Louis, graduating in 1869. He returned to Mississippi to study law, and by special legislative enactment was admitted to the bar two years before his majority. His fondness for music and literature turned him from the legal profession, however, and he began his literary career by writing for the magazines. In 1876 he became a contributor to Scribner's Monthly, and most of his work appeared in this magazine. On the death of his father he went to New York to continue his literary work. He won the friendship of many notable men, but he soon became ill and discouraged. He made his way to New Orleans as a stoker on a steamer, and succeeded in getting work on the New Orleans Times. He did not live long, however, for his frail constitution soon gave way under his excesses. His poems were collected and published by the Century Company in 1888. He was the pioneer writer in the exploitation of Negro character and life for purely artistic purposes, and later writers who have followed his lead, such as Harris, Page, etc., have acknowledged their debt to him.
[Source: THE SOUTH in the Building of the Nation Volume XI; Edited by James Curtis Ballagh, Walter Lynwood Fleming & Southern Historical Publication Society; Publ. 1909; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack]
McCaleb Family History
Excerpts from a Genealogy compiled by Dr. James Foulhouza McCaleb
"William McCaleb, or McKillop, as the name was originally spelled, was born in Invernesshire, Scotland, 1715 son of the highland Chieftain, William McCaleb and his wife, Mary McDonnel of the McDonnell. His father fought at the battle of Preston-Moor. He fought with his major clan McDonald at the battle of Culloden 1746, Being pursued by the army of William Duke of Cumberland, he fled to Ireland with his consort, Sarah McAlpin, daughter of Chief McAlpin and immigrated from Dublin, landing in Charleston, province of South Carolina in the same year.
"William McCaleb and his family settled with the exiled followers of Bonnie Prince Charlie in the south of Saluda in Pendleton District, South Carolina. He died in 1775. His son, William McCaleb, pioneer, soldier and legislator, was born in Pendleton District, South Carolina 1747. He fought under General Marion and Pickens in the American Revolutionary War, commanding a company of Hussars or Horses of the 91st Militia, South Carolina Line. He participated in the battle of Camden, Eutaw Springs, 96 and the siege of Charleston. After the war he represented the South of Saluda with his colleague, General Wade Hampton, in the South Carolina convention that ratified the Federal Constitution. Captain McCaleb married Ann McKey, a South Carolina heroine of the Revolutionary War, whose clan colors are Blue and Green, like those of the Marquis of Lorne. They migrated in 1798 to the Spanish Province of Florida, Natchez District, settling on the Big Bayou Pierre, Claiborne County, Mississippi where they established the Hermitage Plantation. He died in 1813 and is buried on that plantation."
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