[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.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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