A follower of Alexander Campbell: a “Disciple.” President Garfield was a “Disciple.”
1830. Elder Rigdon, one of the early Mormons, is described as having been “a Campbelite leader of some notoriety” by the Painesville (Ohio) Gazette: Mass. Spy, Dec. 22.
1841. The Campbelites are practising the most barefaced imposition upon the people of America and England that ever was introduced among men.—Millennial Star, p. 6 (May).
1845. A Campbellite preacher, named Foster, was reading a hymn, preparatory to religious worship.—Joel Palmer, ‘Journal,’ p. 23 (Cincinnati).
1855. I recollect a Campbellite preacher who came to Joseph Smith, I think his name was Hayden.—George A. Smith at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, June 24: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 326.
1881. Abram Garfield … united with a comparatively new sect, called Disciples, though Campbellites was a name by which they were sometimes known, in honor of the founder of the sect, Alexander Campbell.—W. M. Thayer, ‘Log-Cabin to White House,’ ii. (N.E.D.)
1908. Alexander Campbell was jest as good a man as Wesley and a sight better’n Calvin, but you can’t make a Campbellite madder than to call him a Campbellite.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 162.
