For other persons with a similar name see William Campbell (disambiguation)

William Campbell (ca. 1767 - October 27, 1844 Cherry Valley

Cherry Valley, New York

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, Otsego County, New York

Otsego County, New York

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) was an American physician, merchant, surveyor and politician from New York

New York

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Life

He was the oldest son of American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

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 Colonel Samuel Campbell (1738–1824) and Jane Cannon Campbell (1743–1836).

He ran a drug and hardware store in Cherry Valley.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly

New York State Assembly

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 (Otsego Co.) in 1816

39th New York State Legislature

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 and 1817

40th New York State Legislature

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 as a Federalist, and in 1827

50th New York State Legislature

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He was New York State Surveyor General

New York State Engineer and Surveyor

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 from 1835 to 1838.

U.S. Representative William W. Campbell was his nephew.

Sources

• Obit of his nephew John C. Campbell in NYT on March 27, 1890
• Campbell genealogy at GeoCities
• Campbell genealogy at RootsWeb
• http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html Political Graveyard
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 37f and 263; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/PA/adam1850.htm Dr. Campbell mentioned in Note 2
• http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/saga2/OtsegoCo.htm History of Cherry Valley (page 59)
• The American Biographical Dictionary by William Allen (page 189; John P. Jewett & Co, Boston, 1857)
• The American Almanac for 1845 (page 314)