Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Campbell, Walter Scott 1869 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

WALTER SCOTT CAMPBELL is prominently and actively associated with the business
interests of Brawley, California, and is a partner in one of the finest and most
profitable grocery stores in Southern California, since its organization in
1916. He was born in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, May 1, 1869, a son of
Lindsay H. and Jennett M. (Thompson) Campbell, both deceased. Mr. Campbell's
father is buried at Tower City, Pennsylvania, while his mother was buried at
Ratoon, New Mexico. The family came from Scotland to America previous to the
Revolutionary war. Mr. Campbell received a limited education. Early in life he
worked in the mines of Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he started to learn
the grocery business. This vocation he followed all his life, clerking in
various stores throughout the country. Coming to Brawley he followed the grocery
business, and in 1916 he formed a co-partnership with Mr. E. C. Schelling.
Progressive and far-sighted, Mr. Campbell was one of those who saw the future of
Brawley, and he purchased six acres of land which is in the city limits.
Politically he is a Democrat, but has never aspired for office. Fraternally he
is affiliated with the K. of P. of Brawley. Mr. Campbell was married at Gallup,
New Mexico, April 14, 1896, to Miss Lennie Bolton, and to this union have been
born two children: George L., born January 25, 1897, assistant timekeeper at the
Old Dominion Copper Company at Globe, Arizona, and Naomi Madeline, born October
22, 1899. Mr. Campbell is in every sense of the word a self-made man. Starting
out in life as a poor boy without financial assistance, or the aid of
influential friends, he has, by his own efforts, risen to be one of the
representative business men of Imperial County.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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