Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Campbell, George W. May 18, 1853 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 536
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Hon George W Campbell.  In our Republic, where offices 
of trust, responsibility and honor are not hereditary, men 
generally attain to eminence and distinction through their 
own efforts; among those, who are thus carving out for 
themselves honorable careers, is George W Campbell of 
Springfield township.  He is a son of James Campbell and 
Rebecca Kilpatrick Campbell, and was born in Springfield 
township, Fayette county, Penna, May 18, 1853.  
    His father, James Campbell, was of Scotch-Irish descent 
and was born at Connellsville, December 25, 1811.  He 
learned the trade of carpenter and removed to the pleasant 
little village of Springfield in 1849.  He married on 
November 2, 1840, Rebecca Kilpatrick, daughter of Squire 
Thomas Kilpatrick, a prominent citizen of Connellsville.  To 
their union were born eleven children, namely: John Fletcher 
Campbell, September 12, 1841; William Thomas Campbell 
(dead), October 12, 1842; Mary Elizabeth Campbell (dead), 
March 23, 1844; James Robison Campbell, January 22, 1846; 
Sarah Jane Campbell, November 3, 1848; Samuel Kilpatrick 
Campbell (dead), January 22, 1850; Austin Livingston 
Campbell (dead), March 10, 1851; George Washington Campbell, 
May 18, 1853; Phebe Ann Campbell, March 24, 1855; Joseph 
Rogers Campbell, March 14, 1856; Ellen Ethelda Campbell, 
January 3, 1859.
    John F Campbell and James R Campbell enlisted in Company 
K, Eighty fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers.  
William T Campbell re-enlisted, and was killed at the head 
of his company at Deep Bottom, Virginia, August 14, 1864.  
    George W Campbell was reared in the village of 
Springfield, and received his early education in the common 
schools of Springfield township.  When fourteen years of 
age, he became a clerk in the general merchandise store of 
his brother, John F Campbell at Springfield.  In 1876 he was 
admitted as a partner by his brother, and remained as such 
until 1880, when he bought out his brother's interest, and 
has continued successfully in the mercantile business ever 
since.  He carries a large stock of first class goods, and 
has built up a large and substantial patronage.  January 1, 
1882, he established "The Mountaineer," an eight page 
monthly newspaper which has a circulation of one thousand 
copies.  It is a bright, newsy and interesting sheet, 
welcomed and appreciated wherever it goes.
    On August 11, 1880, he was married by the Rev Samuel 
Wakefield, to Miss Ida M Sparks, daughter of H L and Helena 
Sparks of Indian Head, Fayette county, Penna.  Their union 
has been blessed with the following children: Grace 
Campbell, born June 14, 1881; Clyde Campbell, born November 
9, 1883; Kate Campbell, born September 6, 1885; and Benjamin 
Harrison Campbell, born November 10, 1889.  
    George W Campbell, an ardent and enthusiastic 
republican, is well posted on the living political issues of 
the day, and is an aggressive worker in his party.  He has 
served frequently as committeeman and delegate to county 
conventions; was delegate to the republican state convention 
of 1883; and a member of the twenty fourth district 
congressional conference of 1887-88.  In the November 
election, 1888, he was elected a member to the lower house 
Pennsylvania legislature from Fayette county.  In the 
session of 1888-89 he served as a member of the committee on 
public buildings, mines and mining, accounts and 
manufacturing.  During this session, he introduced a "bill 
regulating the employment of foreign born, unnaturalized 
male persons, and providing a tax of fifteen cents per day 
on the employers of such persons.  He introduced this bill 
in the interests of home labor, and it was the theme of much 
speculation and discussion in the press of the State.

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