Genealogy of a Campbell Family from Virginia,
Some Descendants of Whitaker Campbell (1727-1814) through Nine Generations
Fourth Generation
75. Martha Anne Campbell (William , William , Whitaker ) was born about 1823 in Virginia. She died on 8 Jun 1861 in Lowry's, Essex, Virginia.
She was a member of the Ephesus Baptist Church. "She was a woman of fine moral courage, industrious, and good." She had six children, the first two of which died in infancy.
Martha married Robert Payne Waring IV son of William Lowry Waring and Mary Banks on 9 Nov 1847 in Forest Hill, King and Queen, Virginia. Robert was born in 1815 in Virginia. He died on 18 Feb 1896.
He was a widower and had one son named Willie. He was a farmer, and they lived at Lowrys on the Rappahannock River in Essex County, Virginia [1850 Census for Essex County, Virginia, page 067; 1860 Census for Lloyds, P.O., Essex County, Virginia, page 731]. He was a founder of the Ephesus Baptist Church.
Robert and Martha had the following children:
76. Harriet Newell Campbell (William , William , Whitaker ) was born about 1826 in Virginia.
Harriet married William Dew Greshham son of Thomas Greshham and Mary Ellen Dew. William was born about 1822 in Virginia.
He was a farmer. They lived at Forest Hill on the Mattapony River in King and Queen County, Virginia.
William and Harriet had the following children:
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78. Columbia Campbell (William , William , Whitaker ) was born about 1835 in Virginia.
They lived at "Mantua" on the Mattapony River.
Columbia married Dr. Charles Gresham son of Thomas Greshham and Mary Ellen Dew. Charles was born about 1831 in Virginia.
They had the following child:
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79. William Campbell III [scrapbook] (William , William , Whitaker ) was born on 21 Oct 1837 in Stevensville, King and Queen, Virginia. He died on 21 Jun 1925. He was buried in Jun 1925 in Ephesus Baptist Church Cemetery, Dunnsville, Virginia.
William's parents died when he was a small child. He inherited a small sum of money and "several negroes" (Charles, Rowe, and Julia among others) who were hired out. His sister Harriet and her husband became his guardian for about a year. Then his sister Martha and her husband took charge.
He walked three miles every morning to a boy's school taught by Thomas P. Fox located below Dunnsville, Essex County, Virginia. He attended Rumford Academy located six miles below Ayletts in King William County, then transferred to a school at Stevensville. In 1855 he attended Richmond College at Richmond, Virginia, for one year.
In 1857 he was engaged as a clerk in the general merchandise store of B.D. Pitts and Company at Loyds in Essex County. In the spring of 1858 he left Virginia to visit his uncles at Galena. Soon he was hired as a clerk by Henry Scott of McGregor, Iowa. In the spring of 1860 he left McGregor and struck out for Colorado by stagecoach "to make a great fortune digging gold."
At this time, Colorado was not yet a territory. He went to Central City where, for about a little more than a year, he dug for gold. Although he produced enough gold to make a watch and some rings, the work was tedious. He joined James L. Clark from St. Louis who set up a store on Clear Creek near Blackhawk. While in Colorado, he took a trip to Salt Lake City "to see the country." He travelled there and back by Pony Express and by coincidence was in the company of Horace Greeley. In the early summer of 1861, he went on a three month hunting expedition with the Arapahoe Indians.
He was with a party of frontiersmen at Fort Laramie on the North Fork of the North Platte River in the late summer of 1861 when he learned that the war between the states had started. Having a strong loyalty to Virginia, he naturally sided with the South. With a group of 72 sympathizers, he travelled south on foot from Denver to the Arkansas River and thence east to southwest Missouri near the town of Springfield. There they met the command of General Sterling Price. He fought in one battle then returned to Virginia travelling via McGregor and Galena to settle his affairs.
After many difficulties, he finally arrived at Richmond on January 18, 1862. There he joined the Essex Light Dragoons which was soon united with the 9th Virginia Regiment. He fought in many battles and was wounded at Gettysburg.
After the war he once again travelled west to visit his uncles, this time at Chicago. But he soon returned to Virginia where he opened a country store in an old schoolhouse at Dunnsville, Essex County. Rev. Peter Ainslie and Richard Saunders came into the firm which was later called "Saunders and Campbell."
William Campbell married in 1867, JANNETTE LATANE, daughter of Dr. James H. Latane . They boarded with Dr. Williams Jefferies at Dunnsville and afterwards bought a home in the village. He was fond of entertaining, and they had many friends at "Campbelton" as he called his home. In 1891 and 1892 he was elected to the Virginia State Legislature from the counties of Essex and King and Queen. He served two terms.
He described the characteristics of his Campbell ancestors as "sober conscientious men of strong religious tendencies" with "the traits of typical Scotchmen: earnest, accurate, dogmatic, with high standards of life and a great fondness for learning and literature." All in his family of Campbells had black hair and blue or grey eyes. Their hair turned white very early and almost all the older men had snow white hair. He never saw a bald headed Campbell. The Campbells are buried at Ephesus Baptist Church Cemetery near Dunnsville, Essex County, Virginia. His very interesting autobiography was published in the William and Mary Quarterly in 1929.
William married Jannette Roane Ritchie Latane [scrapbook] daughter of Dr. James Henry Latane and Juliet Janet Rouzie on 3 Dec 1867. Jannette was born on 5 May 1843 in Mahockney, Essex, Virginia. She died on 3 Jan 1880 in Campbellton, Essex, Virginia. She was buried in Jan 1880 in Ephesus Baptist Church Cemetery, Dunnsville, Virginia.
They had the following children:
80. Mary E. Campbell (Achilles , William , Whitaker ) was born on 22 Nov 1832 in Virginia. She died on 19 Jul 1919.
Mary married Nathan Corwith Sr. son of Gurdon Corwith and Susan White in 1850 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. Nathan was born on 3 Aug 1819 in Bridgehampton, Suffolk, New York. He died on 29 May 1889 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
Nathan was a brother of Henry Corwith, the capitalist, and John E. Corwith, both of Galena, Illinois.
During his boyhood, Nathan learned of the lead mining at Galena, 165 miles west of Chicago, which was then the commercial and cultural capital of the Old Northwest. In 1841, at the age of 25, Nathan and his brother Henry moved to Galena and started a general store where they accumulated a considerable fortune. It permitted them to open the only bank in the city at the time. The bank became a financial depository for the mines and smelters as they purchased and sold lead until their enterprise became one of the largest metal buyers in the country. The Corwith home in Galena stood on the bluff overlooking the town.
There is a story told even today by descendants of the Virginia branch of the Campbell family about how Nathan Corwith of Galena, who was a close friend of General Grant, arranged for two wagonloads of provisions to pass through enemy lines during the Civil War in order to help his wife's family back in Virginia. He also got her a pass to go through the lines when her brother was dying. However, she was very much a southern lady and had to withdraw from the room when Grant was present.
In 1864, after the prosperous 1840's and 1850's, Nathan moved to Chicago. Corwith and others felt that due to riots in the city, an army post should be established. With a group of Chicago businessmen, he purchased land nearby and gave it to the government, asking that it be named Fort Sheridan in honor of his friend General Phillip Sheridan.
Nathan Corwith invested in large tracts of land at Brighton Park in Cicero. He served as president of the Northwestern Horse Nail Company. The plant, built in 1882 on 37th Street between Rockwell and Talman, had 75 forging machines and 50 finishing machines. It produced six tons of finishing nails per day, and it was the largest nail factory in the world at the time. He was one of the first tenants at the Rookery Building at 209 S. LaSalle, Chicago's first skyscraper, where he maintained his office. He resided at 1261 S. Michigan Avenue.
Nathan and Mary had the following children:
84. Robert Camm Campbell [scrapbook] (Achilles , William , Whitaker ) was born on 2 Sep 1841 in Claybank Plantation, King William, Virginia. He died on 4 Dec 1914 in Virginia.
Robert married Alice Aylett Hawes daughter of Dr. Aylett Hawes and Mary Hawes in 1870. Alice was born on 28 Jul 1842. She died on 29 Dec 1914 in Virginia.
They had the following children:
87. Verginias Rowzie Campbell (Achilles , William , Whitaker ) was born about Jul 1850.
Verginias married Elizabeth Dabney daughter of Seth Mason Dabney and Rosa Campbell.
They had the following children:
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Bushrod Campbell was born on 27 Oct 1879. He died in Apr 1967 in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia. |
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92. Wallace Campbell [scrapbook] (George Whitaker , William , Whitaker ) was born on 26 Jan 1839 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois.
Wallace was commissioned April 27, 1861 as a 1st Lieutenant of Company F, 12th Infantry Regiment, Illinois Volunteers for three months service. When the 12th Regiment was continued, he was commissioned Captain of Company F on August 1, 1861. He was promoted Colonel, Second Alabama, A.D. on December 26, 1863.
Wallace married Josephine M. Lorrain on 5 Feb 1878 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Josephine was born on 19 Feb 1854 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. She died on 25 Mar 1928 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. She was buried in Mar 1928 in Chicago Graceland Cemetery, Cook, Illinois.
They had the following children:
93. Harriet Brady Campbell [scrapbook] (George Whitaker , William , Whitaker ) was born on 19 Nov 1840 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. She died on 2 Apr 1926 in Coronado, San Diego, California. She was buried in Apr 1926 in Chicago Graceland Cemetery, Cook, Illinois.
HARRIET B. CAMPBELL was called "Hattie." She attended the local schools at Galena where she grew up as a child. She was a member of the "big five" of the Galena social scene. At age 24, she moved to Chicago when her father was appointed to an army post there 1864. The Campbell family lived at 142 Ashland Avenue. Following her marriage in 1867, the Rew family lived at 926 Monroe Street (1890) and at 4536 Lake Avenue, Chicago (1896). After her husband died in 1896, she continued to live at Chicago. In 1918, she moved to Coronado, California, and lived in a new home built especially for her by her son and designed by Los Angeles architect Elmer Grey. The house, located on Ocean Boulevard, was placed to secure the best views and protection from the stormy ocean winds, the patio being only open on the garden side. Built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with profuse ornament concentrated over the doorways and windows in contrast to plain blank walls, the mansion was considered one of the show places of the peninsula at the time. Her botanical garden was renowned, and flowers and plants from it were a part of the Coronado Flower Show in the early days. A cistern held reserve water for the garden. The grounds were planted with Spanish cork oaks, an Australian ti tree, huge sago palms, giant bird of paradise in the back garden, dragon trees by the front wall, and large Norfolk pine in the front yard. Hattie died there in April 1926, age 85.
Harriet married Francis Edward Rew [scrapbook] 1, 2 son of Henry Alexander Rew and Matilda Alling on 24 Dec 1867 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Francis was born on 14 Apr 1841 in Rochester, Monroe, New York. He died on 8 Nov 1896 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. He was buried in Nov 1896 in Chicago Graceland Cemetery, Cook, Illinois.
FRANCIS E. REW grew up at Rochester, New York. While preparing for college at Meridian, New Hampshire, he responded to President Lincoln's first call for troops in April 1861, by leaving school and going to Montpelier, Vermont, and enlisting as a private in the Third Regiment of the First (Vermont) Brigade, 2nd Division, VI Corps, Army of the Potomac. He served three years, rising to the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and passed through many of the hardest campaigns of the war. His letters to his mother and father during the war have been saved and tell a personal story of the life of a soldier. He was Vice President of the Calumet Baking Powder Company that had offices at 40 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The Rew family lived at 926 Monroe Street (1890) and at 4536 Lake Avenue, Chicago (1896). He died of typhoid pneumonia at Chicago, Illinois.
They had the following children:
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George Campbell Rew [scrapbook] 1, 2 was born on 31 Jul 1869 in Chicago,
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Frances Rew was born on 12 Sep 1871 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. She died on 18 Nov 1943 in Coronado, San Diego, California. |
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98. Mary Eliza Campbell (George Whitaker , William , Whitaker ) was born on 28 Oct 1858 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois.
They lived at the "House of the Four Winds" at Lake Forest, Illinois.
Mary married Hugh Johnston McBirney.
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100. Ann Eliza Campbell (Benjamin Herdon , William , Whitaker ) was born on 24 Nov 1839 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. She died on 13 Feb 1928 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois.
She was called "Annie." Annie Campbell, Julia Estey, and Katherine Felt were invited by Mrs. Grant to spend a winter in the White House.
Ann married General Orville Elias Babcock on 8 Nov 1866 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. Orville was born on 25 Dec 1838 in Franklin, Vermont. He died on 2 Jun 1884 in Florida.
He was General Grant's private secretary during the Civil War. He drowned in Misquito Inlet, Florida, age 48.
Orville and Ann had the following children:
101. Augustus Scott Campbell [scrapbook] (Benjamin Herdon , William , Whitaker ) was born on 13 Nov 1842 in Galena, Jo Daviess, Illinois. He died on 9 Sep 1898 in Highland Park, Lake, Illinois.
He attended preparatory school at Exeter Academy and graduated from Hamilton College. He was for several years United States Marshal of the Northern District of Illinois. He became director of the Bank of Illinois just one year prior to its failure, which occurred in the spring of 1895. He was a large stock holder and one of the principal losers by its collapse. In 1894 he bought a large Victorian house at Highland Park, Illinois, from W. W. Flynn. The house, called "Fancy Hill," was located at the end of Belle Avenue on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan.
Augustus married Abbie Joseph Hamilton on 14 Oct 1878 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Abbie was born on 17 Jul 1851 in Virginia. She died on 15 Jan 1879 in Highland Park, Lake, Illinois.
They had the following children:
