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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Campbell, W. C. (William Creighton), 1850-1936
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Description area
Dates of existence
1850-1936
History
William Creighton Campbell was born on December 6, 1850, in Gerrardstown, Berkeley County, West Virginia.
He was a Presbyterian pastor and one of the pioneer residents of Roanoke, Virginia. In 1876, he graduated from Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia and in 1879, from the Union Theological Seminary, N.Y.C. In 1881, he arrived in Roanoke (then the town of Big Lick) where he spent the next 41 years as a pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
In 1881, he married Anna Gale Child (1857–1907). He died on February 27, 1936, in Roanoke County, Virginia.