WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL son of HUGH and AGNES (JOHNS) CAMPBELL
Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1
Madison, Wis. : Northwestern Historical Association, 1904
Pg. 130
WILLIAM WASHINGTON CAMPBELL (PICTURE of WILLIAM WASHINGTON CAMPBELL)
WILLIAM WASHINGTON CAMPBELL, of Pittsburgh, Pa., a prominent attorney, with offices at No. 413 Grant St., was born at Paisley, Scotland, May 26, 1842, May 26, 1842, son of HUGH and AGNES (JOHNS) CAMPBELL.His family is of Scotch ancestry, and his father, HUGH CAMPBELL, was a son of WILLIAM and JANE CAMPBELL, and a shawl manufacturer in his native land.He came to America in 1847 with a company which intended to manufacture shawls in California, but owning to the constant harassing of the Indians, this project was abandoned, and HUGH CAMPBELL became a trooper in the Mexican War, and was so severely wounded at Pueblo that he died from the effects of his wounds.(pg. 131) He had three children: WILLIAM W.; HUGH, who died in Aberdeen, Miss., in May, 1901; and JOHN P., who resides at Marietta, Ohio.MRS. CAMPBELL, mother of the subject, died in Fairmont, W. Va.WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL accompanied his parents to America when only five years of age, and after a short stay in St. Louis, moved to West Va...He has been twice married - first, to ELMINA, daughter of JACOB and JANE STRAIGHT, of Fairmont, W. Va., and they had ten children: JANE AGNES, who died at the age of six years and six months; MARY MARTHA, wife of ROBERT T. WALSH, of McKeesport; WILLIAM H., who married JESSIE GRIFFITH and resides in Pittsburgh; GUY EDGAR, who married EDITH PHILLIPS and is a broker in Pittsburgh; BETSEY BLANCH, wife of HARRY T. FOLEY, of Philadelphia; CLYDE S., a resident of Texas; MAUD ELLA, wife of ELMER SCHROCK, of McKeesport; LULU MARGARET, wife of W. R. WORTHINGTON, of Greensburg; OTTO C., resident of Pittsburgh, and RUHAMIE BELVA, wife of MALCOLM B. BRADY, of Philadelphia.MRS. CAMPBELL died in Crafton, Pa., Oct. 19, 1897, and is buried in the PHILLIPS burial ground near Crafton.MR. CAMPBELL was married the second time, on Feb. 28, 1899, to CATHERINE, daughter of MATTHEW and JESSIE HOWARD, of Allegheny City, and they have one daughter, AURELIA ALTA, and one son, ROBERT BURNS, born Sept. 19, 1903.He is a member and past noble grand of Henry Lambert lodge, (pg. 132) No. 475, I. O. O. F., of Pittsburgh, and is past grand of Electric lodge of Farmington, W. Va., of which he is a charter member, and also of CAMPBELL lodge of Spencer, W. Va.He is a past chief patriarch and representative to the ground encampment.MR. CAMPBELL is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Crafton, and resides at Wilkinsburg, Pa.