Campbell, William (5)
Campbell, William (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Wick, in the north of Scotland, in 1803. He was a precocious youth, and, at the age of fourteen, had made such progress in learning that he became tutor in a wealthy family in Sutherlandshire. Subsequently he .entered Edinburgh University, and took his degree of M.A. before hne reached manhood. Having joined the Church, he resolved on’ quitting the university to enter the ministry, and, accordingly, after taking. a theological course at Highbury College, he was ordained at Cheltenham. .Subsequently he labored at Newcastle-on- Tyne, Stockton-on-Tees, London, Sydenham, Monmouth, and finally, resided at Penge Park, London, and died July 8,1876. See (Lond.) Cong. Year. book, 1877, p. 349.
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Campbell, William (4)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Warren. County, O., Aug. 21,1810. He removed to Fountain County, Ind., in 1826; embraced religion in 1832; began, preaching that same year; and in 1838 united with the Northwestern Indiana, Conference, wherein he labored until the fall of 1859, when feeble health obliged him to retire from his favorite work. He died June 4,1860. Mr. Campbell, as a citizen, neighbor, and friend, was highly esteemed; as a minister, he was thoughtful, unique, prudent, useful. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1860, p. 355.
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Campbell, William (5)
a young English Methodist preacher of great promise and deep piety, born at Alnwick, Northumberland, in 1816, was converted in his youth, and began to preach. He became an itinerant in the New Connection in 1842, and travelled only at Staley Bridge and Stanley. He died at Alnwick, Aug. 19, 1842. See Minutes of’ the British Conference, 1850, p. 462. a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Ireland in 1816, and, at the age of three, emigrated with his parents to Quebec, Canada. He was converted when about nineteen; entered Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1837, where he remained three years, receiving while there license to exhort and to preach. Between 1840 and 1843 he labored under the presiding elder, and then united with the’ Philadelphia Conference. He continued his work in the effective ranks until his death, at Salisbury, Md., Aug. 13,1849. Mr. Campbell was an excellent preacher, thoughtful, fluent; a good pastor, solicitous, diligent, sympathetic, punctual. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1850, p. 426.