Brooke County WV Archives Biographies.....Campbell, Alexander 
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Source: History Of West Virginia In Two Parts
Author: Virgil A. Lewis

Alexander Campbell.—This noted man was born in Ireland, September 12, 1786. His
maternal ancestors were French Huguenots, and fled from their native country
upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV. in 1685. He completed
his studies at Glasgow University, and in 1808, came to America and joined his
father, who was laboring as a Minister of the Gospel in Washington county,
Pennsylvania. In 1811, he married Margaret Brown. Shortly after his marriage he
removed to what is now Bethany, Brooke county. Here in his own house he opened a
school which was designed to prepare young men for the ministry. It was called
Buffalo Academy, and resulted in the founding of Bethany College. He died in
1866. Samuel M. Schmucker says of him : "Alexander Campbell, the chief founder
of this denomination—the Disciples of Christ—was, without question, one of the
ablest polemics and theologians in this country. He spent a long and active life
in preaching the doctrines he believed and establishing churches and
institutions which are intended to diffuse education and theological knowledge."
Two thousand churches, with one hundred thousand members in our own country and
many followers in other lands, attest his success.


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