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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  WILLIAM P. CAMPBELL, Banker, was born in the County Donegal. Ireland, December
2, 1842, and came with his parents, four brothers and two sisters to America in
1851. The family located upon a farm near Franklin, Tenn., and there the two old
people spent the rest of their lives. The oldest son, Joseph L., color-bearer of
the First Tennessee Infantry, was killed at Chickamauga, and a portrait of him
forms the frontispiece in a recently published history of Tennessee.

  Wm. P. Campbell was educated at Franklin, Tenn., became a clerk in a dry goods
house at Nashville when sixteen years of age, and came to Florence at the age of
eighteen. September 1, 1862, he entered the Confederate service as a private in
Company F, Fourth Alabama Cavalry, and served to the close of the war,
participating in all the engagements for which the Fourth Regiment is somewhat
famous in history. He was captured at Selma in April, 1865, by Wilson's Cavalry;
escaped, rejoined his command, and surrendered finally at Wheeler's Station.
Upon his return to Florence he arrived at the south side of the Tennessee River,
the possessor of but one dollar in the world, and this he gave to the ferryman
to carry him over. To his best friend, Mr. I. W. McAlester, he was indebted for
clothes and money furnished while in the army. So if the road to ultimate
prosperity appeared to young Campbell as one of great length, it is not to be
wondered at. He went at once into the store of McAlester & Ervine and clerked
for them six years, applying his net earnings to the liquidation of his wartime
indebtedness. In 1872, he engaged in the dry goods business for himself, and, in
1880, organized the banking house of W. P. Campbell & Co., in the management of
which he has made money and reputation as a financier. He is largely interested
in agriculture and manufacturing; is treasurer of the Florence Land Company,
president of the Florence Compress Company, a member of the Legion of Honor, and
an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

  Notwithstanding the fact that the Campbells started in life minus the
advantages of wealth, it appears that they have all succeeded reasonably well.
One of the brothers, John, is connected with the Nashville Cotton-Seed Oil
Company, at Nashville; Andrew is cashier of the First National Bank of Natchez,
Miss., and Patrick is a prosperous merchant in the capital city of Tennessee.

  William P. Campbell was first married in Florence to Miss Sarah Andrews, in
1871. She died in January, 1877, leaving one child, Sarah.

  January 20, 1886, Mr. Campbell led to the altar the beautiful and accomplished
daughter of Capt. Alexander D. Coffee and the granddaughter of the famous Gen.
John Coffee.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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