Bios: PROF. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, A.B. 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
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PROF. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL, A.B.,
[p. 436] director of music at Westminster College,
New Wilmington, occupies a prominent position in the country as an
educator and also is recognized as an authority on music. Professor
Campbell was born October 25, 1869, in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania,
and is a son of Rev. William and Mary A. (Turner) Campbell.
Rev. William Campbell is a retired minister of the United Presbyterian
Church. For a period of sixteen years he was connected with the faculty
of Westminster College. His father, Ross Alexander Campbell, came to
Lawrence County from Scotland.
William W. Campbell was mainly educated at Westminster College, where he
took both an A. B. degree and his first degree in music. After leaving
college Professor Campbell accepted the chair of Latin and history in
the Pawnee Academy. In the fall of 1892 he received from the governing
board of the Nebraska Institute for the Blind an appointment as director
of music there, a position he filled for two years and then resigned in
order to accept a similar one in Baird College, at Clinton, Mo., where
he remained for four years. He then took charge of the music at Trinity
University, in Waxahachie, Tex. Prior to Professor Campbell's coming to
Westminster College, the department of music had by no means occupied
its proper position in an institution of the high standing of this one.
Professor Campbell soon had the whole department reorganized and from a
student roll of thirty in two years he increased it to 119. It now is
one of the leading departments of study.
On August 30, 1899, Professor Campbell was married to Edna Pauline
Fillmore who is a daughter of Lorain A. Fillmore and a lineal descendant
of former President Millard Fillmore, a distinguished statesman of the
United States, who succeeded to the office on the death of President
Taylor in 1850. Professor and Mrs. Campbell have one son, William
Fillmore, an engaging, intelligent child of six years. The family belong
to the United Presbyterian Church.
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20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and
Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing
Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
Updated: 22 Oct 2001