Ohio County, West Virginia    Biography of Harold William CAMPBELL

**************************************************************************
USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, 
as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is 
obtained from the contributor of the file.

These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation 
by other organizations.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this 
material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of 
the contributor.

Submitted by Suzie Crump <suzie@goodnet.com> , 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.