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Submitted by Suzie Crump , April 2000 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, Pgs. 257-258 HAROLD WILLIAM CAMPBELL, cashier of the Fulton Bank & Trust Company in the City of Wheeling, is making a most excellent record in connection with financial affairs in the metropolitan district in which he was born and reared, his birth having occurred at Wheeling on the 23d of July, 1883. His father, Alexander R. Campbell, of stanch Scotch lineage, was born at Des Moines, Iowa, but was but two years of age at the time when the family home was established at Wheeling, West Virginia, where he was reared to manhood and where as a mere lad he assumed much responsibility in connection with the support of the family. As a young man he was a drug salesman and eventually he became general state agent in West Virginia for the Northwestern Life Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His prominence and influence in connection with the local activities of the republican party made him a potent force in bringing the Wheeling District into line for republican success on various occasions when conditions were critical. The subject of this review is the youngest in a family of four sons; Clinton R. is a representative member of the Wheeling bar and in 1921 is serving as assistant prosecuting attorney of Ohio County; Alexander R., Jr., is engaged in mercantile pursuits at Wheeling; and Chandler is a lieutenant-colonel in the United States Marine Corps, in the service of which he enlisted at the age of eighteen years and upon competitive examination won the rank of second lieutenant. Colonel Campbell was in command of the Tenth Regiment during the period of the nation’s participation in the World war, and trained the marines for work in the heavy artillery arm of the service. The one daughter of the family, "Julia" McClure, is the wife of Daniel Denney, a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. Harold W. Campbell gained his early education in the public schools of Wheeling and thereafter continued his studies in the University of West Virginia. He read law and was preparing to enter the legal profession, but found it expedient to deflect his course and take a position in the National Exchange Bank. Later he became assistant cashier of the South Side Bank, and after thus serving seven years he became one of the organizers of the Fulton Bank and Trust Company, the original corporate title of which in 1909, was the Bank of Fulton, the present title having been adopted at the time of its reorganization in 1919. In the promotion of the enterprise Mr. Campbell, was associated with Otto Schenk and Henry L. Roth, the latter of whom became the first president of the institution and who was succeeded by W. H. Nicholas, the latter continuing to hold this office until his death, August 22, 1920, when Otto Schenk was elected to the presidency. Mr. Nicholas became vice president at the time of organization and held this position until elected president. Mr. Campbell has been cashier of the bank from the beginning, and his forceful and conservative policies have contributed much to the success of the enterprise. The original capital stock of $25,000 was increased to $100,000 in 1919, and the surplus is now $20,000. The stock of the institution is all locally owned and the resources now aggregate $700,000. Lafayette Graner is trust officer of the bank. The building occupied is owned by the institution and was erected in 1910. Mr. Campbell is liberal and progressive in his civic attitude, and he maintains his home at Echo Point, in which attractive suburban district he has recently erected a modern apartment building, besides being also the owner of his home place. He is a member of the Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church, is past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias and is affiliated with the York and Scottish Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Campbell wedded Miss Maude Evans Dille, who was born and reared at Morgantown, this state, and who is a graduate of the University of West Virginia. Her father, Oliver Evans Dille, was a leading member of the Morgantown bar. The Evans family, represented in the ancestral line of Mrs. Campbell, early became the holder of a large tract of land in what is now West Virginia, the same having been granted to one of the family in recognition of his service as a soldier in the Revolution, and the Evans home having been the headquarters of Gen. George Washington when he was engaged in making surveys in the western prt of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have three sons, Alexander Oliver, Harold William, Jr., and Thomas Ray.