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Author: B. F. Johnson

Pattillo Campbell

    Pattillo Campbell, lawyer, was born January 15, 1875, at Eucheeanna, the
then county seat of Walton county, Fla., and famous since the early twenties of
the nineteenth century as a community composed almost exclusively of a colony of
cultured, refined Scotch families who emigrated there, chiefly from North
Carolina and Virginia, and several of them direct from the Scottish highlands,
during the first and second decades of the century. His forbears, both paternal
and maternal were of this sturdy race, and both emigrated from North Carolina to
what is known throughout the western section of Florida, as the Euchee valley of
the Choctawhatchee river. This was during the period of 1820— 1823.

    His paternal grandfather, D. D. Campbell, was born at sea during the passage
of the old-time sailing ship on board of which his parents emigrated from
Scotland to the old North State during the latter years of the eighteenth century.

    His father, Dr. D. L. Campbell, who still survives, though he has retired
from the active practice of his profession to spend the evening of a well-spent
and busy life in comfort and ease, is a physician of the old school with a
remarkable record of success during more than half a century of practice. He,
too, was born in the Euchee valley of Walton county.

    His mother, now deceased, was Miss Annie Curry McKinnon, a daughter of J. L.
McKinnon, who served with distinction as colonel of a regiment of volunteers
composed chiefly of Walton county Scotchmen, in the Seminole Indian Wars; as a
member of his adopted State's first constitutional convention in 1838; and as a
State Legislator.

    His father, in the mid eighties, moved his residence from Eucheeanna to
DeFuniak Springs in order to secure better school advantages for his children
than obtained in the old home neighborhood, and also to rear them in the
Chautauqua atmosphere of that now famous winter resort and educational center.
There he passed through the grammar grades of the public school and attended
numerous special Chautauqua classes and lectures. He then entered the State
Normal College, at that time located at DeFuniak Springs, and also qualified
himself as an expert stenographer and entered that field of labor.

    In 1899 he moved from DeFuniak Springs to Pensacola and entered the law
office of William Fisher as a stenographer and general office man. Early in life
he had decided upon the law as his life work, and with an extensive library at
his disposal in the office of his employer he plunged with avidity into the
mastery of the intricacies of his chosen profession. Temperamentally studious
and industrious, and with habits of application, he permitted himself no
distractions until he had qualified himself to pass, with a very high average, a
rigid examination for admission to the bar.

    He then entered upon the practice of his profession, adopting commercial law
as a specialty, in which he has attained a high degree of success.

    He was married in March, 1908, to Miss Mary Gillis Morrison of Pensacola,
also a member of one of the old Scotch families of Eucheeanna.

    In religious affiliation he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Pensacola. He is also a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and the
Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the State (Florida) and Escambia County
Bar Associations; also the Osceola and Concordia Clubs, both leading social
organizations of Pensacola.


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FLORIDA EDITION
MAKERS OF AMERICA
AN HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORK BY AN ABLE CORPS OF WRITERS
VOL. III.
Published under the patronage of 
The Florida Historical Society, Jacksonville, Florida

ADVISORY BOARD:
HON. W. D.  BLOXHAM
COL. FRANK HARRIS
HON. R. W. DAVIS
SEN. H. H. McCREARY
HON. F. P. FLEMING
W. F. STOVALL
C. A. CHOATE, SECRETARY

1909
A. B. CALDWELL
ATLANTA, GA.

COPYRIGHT 1909
B. F. JOHNSON

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