Robert F. Campbell, M. D. Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	ROBERT F. CAMPBELL, M. D., engaged in the practince of medicine 
and surgery in the city of Watertown, Codington county, is a man of high 
professional attainments, and has been eminently successful in the 
exacting work of his vocation. Dr. Campbell was born in Aylmer, province 
of Ontario, Canada, March 23, 1857, and is the son of William and Jane 
Van Wagoner Campbell. His father was born near Toronto, Canada, and his 
mother in New York, going to Canada with her parents when young. His 
father enjoys the best of health at seventy-eight years of age and 
resides in Watertown. His mother died about a year ago. Dr. Campbe]l 
lived in Aylmer until he attained manhood. He attended McGill Medical 
College at Montreal for two years, then graduated as a member of the 
class of 1882 from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. He went 
to London, England, and Berlin, Germany, spending some months in the 
hospitals, attending clinics. He came to Watertown twenty-two years ago 
and was married in 1884 to Miss Kate A. Williams, daughter of the late 
Charles G. Williams, for many years a member of congress from the 
Janesville, Wisconsin, district, and at the time of his death register 
of the United States land office at Watertown. Dr. Campbell has gained 
prestige as one of the representative members of his profession in the 
state, controlling a large practice. He is devoted to the work of his 
calling and keeps in touch with the advances made in the science of 
medicine and surgery, his genial temperament and humanitarian sympathy 
contributing as much to his success as his technical knowledge. In 1900 
Dr. Campbell, in company with Dr. Tarbell and Dr. Finnerud, established 
the Watertown city hospital and is president of the institution, which 
exercises most beneficent functions and is a credit to the city and an 
honor to its projectors. He is also division surgeon for the Chicago & 
Northwestern Railway, the Great Northern, the Minneapolis & St. Louis 
and the Rock Island; while he is also identified with the State Medical 
Society, and fraternally affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He gives his allegiance to the 
Republican party, but has never sought official preferment holding his 
profession as entitled to his undivided attention. He is popular in 
business and social circles and his home is a center of gracious 
hospitality.