Bio of CAMPBELL, Coler (b.1878), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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COLER CAMPBELL - Vol II, pg 298-301
Coler Campbell is the vice president of the William Eastman Company, handling
investment securities in Minneapolis, and has been active in the upbuilding of
the business to one of extensive proportions. He came to the Mississippi valley
from New York, his birth having occurred in the city of Brooklyn, June 24, 1878,
his parents being James William and Alice (Coler) Campbell, who were natives of
Springfield, Illinois, and of New York, respectively. The father was a banker of
South Dakota for many years and is now living retired in Huron, that state.
Coler Campbell was educated in St. Paul's school at Concord, New Hampshire, and
at Yale University, pursuing a scientific course to his graduation as a member
of the class of 1900. He then went to South Dakota, where he was connected with
public utilities, and into this field of labor in Minnesota he also extended his
interests, building in the two states several electric plants and promoting
several properties of this character. In 1917, however, he disposed of all of
his property in order to give his entire attention to government interest.
It was in 1914 that Mr. Campbell became a resident of Minneapolis, and in May,
1917, he entered the Red Cross work. He was made a director of Military Relief
and of the Bureau of Personnel for the northern division of the Red Cross and
served throughout the period of the World war, or until the 1st of March, 1919,
devoting his entire attention to this work as one of the "dollar-a-year" men.
When the country no longer needed his active cooperation in this, Mr. Campbell,
in May, 1919, became associated as vice president with the William W. Eastman
Company, one of the leading investment security houses in the Northwest, whose
business has been developed to extensive proportions. It handles only the safest
and most reliable investments and its clients have the utmost confidence in its
opinions as to the value of commercial paper. The business has steadily grown
and developed and in the past three years Mr. Campbell's activities and sound
Judgment have been a large contributing element to the substantial results
secured.
In June, 1910, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Donna Wells, a daughter of Mrs.
Frances Wells of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have one son, Coler, Jr., who
was born November 22, 1919. Mr. Campbell and his family reside at No. 2722 Park
avenue. Mr. Campbell is a Knights Templar Mason and member of Zuhrah Temple of
the Mystic Shrine. In club circles his position is also one of prominence, for
his name is on the membership rolls of the Minneapolis, the Minneapolis
Athletic, the Minikahda, Lake Minnetonka, Lafayette and the Woodhill Country
clubs. He likewise belongs to the University Club of Chicago and to the Yale
Club of New York city. The universality of his friendship interprets for us his
intellectual hospitality and the breadth of his sympathy, for nothing is foreign
to him that concerns his fellowmen.