====== Campbell, John Lorne ====== 
 (14 Jan. 1845 or 14 Jan.1849-6 Dec. 1928), clergyman and author. (J.L. Campbell, John L. Campbell) Born Dominionville, GC. Parents: Peter Campbell and his wife Flora McLean. John Lorne Campbell was converted in the Great Revival. He is said to have been a member of the Rev. Daniel Gordon’s (Presbyterian) congregation at what is now St. Elmo. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 10 Oct. 1918) He attended Woodstock College and University of Toronto, and received a D.D. degree from Central University (Iowa) and McMaster University. He was ordained as Baptist minister, 1868, and was a Baptist pastor in Ontario and Quebec, pastor of Lexington Avenue Baptist Church in New York, 1889-1904., and pastor of First Baptist Church in Cambridge, Mass., 1904-[1916?]. In Cambridge he also taught a large Bible class of Harvard students. Afterwards, he was a pastor in Vancouver, and taught the subject of the English Bible at Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, Tennessee, from 1921 till probably near the end of his life. The student ministers’ organization at Carson-Newman College was named after him, the J.L. Campbell Ministerial Association (the name was still used in 1987). A vigorous author with a distinguished literary style, he was the author of //Heavenly Recognition and Other Sermons// (1895), //The Patmos Letters Applied to Modern Christendom// (1908, 1921) and //The Bible under Fire// (1928), and also wrote for the periodical press. //The Bible under Fire// was said to be “Harper’s largest seller” in July 1928. (//Glengarry News// 14 Dec. 1928) Books on Barra in Scotland and //Highland Songs of the ‘45// sometimes attributed to him in library catalogues are probably by another author of the same name. Morgan’s biographical dictionary of 1912 notes that he “has lectured on “Glengarry in History.’” Theologically, he took a strongly conservative position. He died in New York City. (three children) He was the brother of Peter E. Campbell and a cousin of Prof. P.S. Campbell. He was married in 1868 to Maggie C. McIntyre, also of Dominionville, who is described (//Cornwall Freeholder// 10 Oct. 1918) as “a writer of literary distinction.” The present researcher, after what he admits is only limited inquiry, has not succeeded in tracing any of her writings. As the next line of enquiry, possibly an examination of Sunday School publications would turn up her name. She was the daughter of Archibald McIntyre (“Big Archey”), weaver, farmer, and teacher, and Baptist convert, who is warmly praised in the journal of the Rev. John King, with many interesting notes on his life.


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<fs small>//Cornwall Freeholder// 12 Dec. 1928, //Glengarry News// 14 Dec. 1928 * //Campbell (1983)//, 279 * Sinclair 15 * Morgan (1898, 1912) * //National Cyclopaedia of American Biography//, Vol. XI (1909) p. 111 * private information from Carson-Newman College with copies of tribute from //Orange & Blue// 23 April 1923 and obituary tribute from Dr Oscar Sams, //Baptist and Reflector// 20 Dec. 1928 * //Who Was Who in America//, Vol. IV: 1961-1968 p. 151; no date of death given; apparently (from preface) he was included here with others on the argument that after so many years he must be dead * MS journal of Rev. John King, [7-9, 31 my pagination], Canadian Baptist Archives, McMaster University * 50th anniversary of ordination of Rev. J.L. Campbell, of Vancouver, //Cornwall Freeholder// 10 Oct. 1918 *speaks in Cornwall on Far East mission fields, //CF //23 June 1921 * death of wife, //CF //8 Jan. 1925
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