Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Campbell, Edward July 24, 1838 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 149
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

Judge Edward Campbell, a leading lawyer of Western 
Pennsylvania, is a son of Dr Hugh Campbell.  
    Dr Hugh Campbell was born at Uniontown, May 1, 1795, and 
was educated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Penna, 
afterwards read medicine and was graduated from the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818.  From 
1815 to 1840 he was located at Uniontown in the practice of 
medicine and was one of the leading physicians of Fayette 
county.  He was a fine scholar, a good linguist; ordained 
elder of the Presbyterian church at Uniontown, and was until 
his death regarded as one of the pillars of that church.
    Dr Campbell, Rev A G Fairchild, Jesse Evans and Judge 
Nathaniel Ewing were the pioneers of the temperance movement 
of sixty years ago in Fayette county which banished whiskey 
from the merchant's counter, the side board and the harvest 
field.  
    In 1860 he retired from the active practice of medicine 
and from 1865 to 1868 was Warden of the Western Penitentiary 
at Allegheny City.  His father, Benjamin Campbell, was from 
the famed highlands of Scotland, a silversmith by trade, who 
came to Uniontown in 1780.  A clock made by himself over a 
hundred years ago is now in his grandson's law office.  
    The maiden name of Dr Campbell's wife was Rachel Lyon, a 
native of Baltimore, a daughter of Samuel Lyon, born at 
Carlisle, Penna, and the latter's father came to this 
country from Ireland.
    Judge Edward Campbell, born at Uniontown July 24, 1838, 
was a law student of Judge Nathaniel Ewing, and admitted to 
the Fayette county bar September 5, 1859.  He received his 
education at John Lyon's Academy and Madison College at 
Uniontown.
    When Beauregard's circling batteries opened fire upon 
Fort Sumter in 1861 and the country realizing the fact that 
a terrible war was at hand, among the first who responded to 
the call of the federal government for troops was Judge 
Campbell.  He volunteered as a private in April, 1861, and 
served in camp only during that summer.
    At the expiration of this time he enlisted as a private 
in the 85th Pennsylvania, was promoted October 21, 1861, to 
second lieutenant, to captain May 15, 1862, major, September 
6, 1862, became lieutenant colonel of his regiment, October 
16, 1863, and was honorably discharged from the service 
November 22, 1864.  He served three and a half years in the 
war and won an enviable war record that reflected no 
discredit on the firmness and bravery of that wonderful 
Scotch Irish race of which he is descended.  At the close of 
the war, he returned to Uniontown, opened an office for the 
practice of law, where he has acquired a large and lucrative 
practice and is recognized as an able lawyer.
    On the death of Judge Gilmore in May, 1873, Governor 
Hartranft appointed him President Judge of the District for 
the short period of less than one year.  He left the Bench 
carrying with him the good will and respect of all for his 
kindness and courtesy in discharge of his high duties as 
judge.  His speeches made in important cases are of the 
characteristic force and ability and as a constitutional 
lawyer he stands in the front rank of leading lawyers of 
Pennsylvania.  Courtly, suave in manner, pure in 
conversation, and firm in his convictions of right, he is 
regarded deservedly highly as a Christian gentleman and 
scholar.  

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