CAMPBELL, William, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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WILLIAM CAMPBELL, LAFAYETTE.--William Campbell, attorney at law, is a native
of Lafayette parish, born October, 1855.  He is the son of William and Alida
(Guidry) Campbell.  Wm. Campbell, Sr., was a native of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, but removed with his parents to Lafayette when a boy.  His
father, John Campbell, was a surveyor and school teacher, and for a number of
years served as deputy government surveyor of Southwest Louisiana.  Perhaps no
man was better acquainted with this section of the State than he.  It was
chiefly under his tutorage that William, our subject's father, received his
education.  William Campbell, Sr., was a merchant of Lafayette during the
whole of his life.  He was a member of the Senate immediately after the war. 
He died in 1884.  The mother of our subject died when he was an infant.

The subject of this sketch received his primary education in the schools of
Lafayette; later he attended St. Charles College, at Grand Coteau, where he
remained for five years.  Immediately after leaving school he became deputy
sheriff of the parish, and afterward served for one term as sheriff.  He
studied law in the office of Hon. M. E. Girard, of the Lafayette bar, and in
1889 he graduated from the law school of the Tulane University.  He was
admitted to the practice in New Orleans and immediately afterward located in
Lafayette, where he has since practised [sic] his profession.  Mr. Campbell
does a good practice and is a rising attorney.  He is a married man.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 212. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.