BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO "History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890. Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater. Pages 737-738. WILLIAM M. CAMPBELL is a very prominent general merchant of Belmont county, Ohio. He is one of eleven children born to James and Margaret (Smith) Campbell. The father was one of the earliest settlers in Belmont county. When he came here from Washington county, Penn., where were but three settlements in all the region, the one where he lived, where the Henderson family live, and the one where the Sharp family reside. His father, when they moved to Ohio, took up a section of land, and as fast as his sons became of age he settled 160 acres of this land on them. The sons are: John, William, James and David. The mother was a Pennsylvanian and married their father in that state. William received a good common school education, helping his father on the farm and in the grist-mill during his vacations. This mill was one of the first to be erected in the county, having been established by his father about the year 1818. William rebuilt it in 1842, operating it in connection with his farm until he went into the general mercantile business at Uniontown, Belmont county, Ohio. Mr. Campbell married for his first wife, Miss Mary Kerr, who died in 1875, about thirty- nine years after her marriage. His second wife was Miss Lucinda Dixon, she passed away in 1889. Mr. Campbell has long been a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church; he has served his county as one of its commissioners; has also been town treasurer for fourteen years, and at one time received the nomination on the democratic ticket as representative of his district in the state legislature. He is a man of much foresight and business ability, a consistent member of society, and of undisputed probity.