Edward P. Campbell

Birth Date

1832-10-21

Death Date

1896-06-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Campbell and Lucy Wilcox Campbell. Married to Caroline E. Taylor Campbell in 1858. Father of Richard T. Campbell, Edward Thurlo Campbell, Walter Campbell, Charles Campbell, Hugh Campbell, and Flavius Campbell. Graduate of Cumberland College in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1854. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1856. Attorney in Caldwell County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1860. Commonwealth's attorney for the Second Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1868. Resident of Christian County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 116.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 389A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994029, Caldwell County Births.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 360.
Memorial Records of Western Kentucky, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), 321-23.

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