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Letter, 10 January 1883
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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.
Letter from W.C. Campbell to John William Dawson, written from Roanoke, Va..