Campbell, Alexander

the founder of the religious sect called Campbell i tes or Disciples of Christ, в. 1788. He withdrew from the Presbyterian Church in 1812, received baptism by immersion the same year, and formed several congregations, which united with the Baptist a ociation; but at the same time protesting against all human creeds as a bond of union, accepting the Bible alone as the rule of faith and practice. In 1827, he was excluded from the fellowship of the Baptist churches, and his followers began to form into a separate body. At the time of his death, in 1866, they numbered about 500,000. Bethany College, in Bethany, Va., was founded by C. in 1841. D. 1866.