MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA - BIOS  N. C. Campbell

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Biographies of Meriwether County, Ga. citizens
from Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga.,
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895


N. C. Campbell
page 502-503

N. C. Campbell, M.D., is a man distinguished among the
citizens of Meriwether county, not only as a successful
physician, but as a man of influence in political and
general affairs. His grandfather, John Campbell, a
Virginian, served in the war of the revolution and in
1800 moved to Georgia. His son, Catlett, born in
Virginia in 1797, having spent his early years in
Morgan county, Ga., settled on a farm in Meriwether
county just after it was formed, and was one of the
most prosperous planters in that county during his day.
Mr. Campbell died in 1862; he had married Miss Susan
Harris, whose parents, John and Agnes Harris, were also
Virginians who early made Georgia their home. Mr.
Harris had also been a soldier in the war of the
revolution. The son of Catlett and Susan (Harris)
Campbell, N.C. Campbell, was born in Meriwether county
in 1838, and after receiving an elementary education in
the country schools near his home he completed his
general course of study at Collinsworth institute. He
then took up the study of medicine, reading at first
under the tutelage of Dr. F.O. Danially; this was
followed by a course in medicine at the university of
New York, from which he graduated in 1860. He also
enjoyed the advantages of hospital practice at Bellevue
hospital, which was very helpful to him. In 1861 the
young physician went into the army, enlisting in
Company B, Second Georgia regiment, under Capt. William
Harris. He passed through many battles: Mason’s and
Munson’s hills, Yorktown, Seven Pines, serving
throughout the war, to return at its close to establish
himself in practice. In this Dr. Campbell has been very
successful, having a large and lucrative practice, and
is widely known and respected. He represented his
county in the legislature of 1890 and 1891. He is a
well-known member of the order of Masons. In 1863 Dr.
Campbell married Miss Mary E. Howard, born in Talbot
county in 1842, a daughter of John and Martha (Birch)
Howard, the former a son of Nicholas and Judith
(Campbell) Howard, Virginians who settled in Columbus
when their son John was quite young. The mother of Mrs.
Campbell was born in Danville, Va., in 1818. She was
the daughter of John Neville Birch and Ann (Dilworth)
Birch, Virginians who moved to Georgia in 1820. Dr.
N.C. Campbell and Mary (Howard) Campbell are the
parents of three children: Eloise, Susie Howard and
Mary Eugenia. The parents are efficient members of the
Methodist Episcopal church south.