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WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL, M.D.
Vol. 5, p. 1804, 1805

For the greater part of twenty years Doctor Campbell has practiced
his profession in old Indian Territory and Oklahoma. He is now in the
enjoyment of a substantial business at Hickory and has a high
standing among Oklahoma medical men.

He was born in Randolph County, Arkansas, November 22, 1872. His
great-grandfather was a Scotch-Irishman who came to this country and
settled in Tennessee as a pioneer. Doctor Campbell's grandfather was
Judge Campbell, a native of Tennessee, a farmer by occupation, and a
Confederate soldier who lost his life during the struggle between the
states. He was shot by an enemy who was hiding in the bushes and was
at home when his death occurred. John Stone Campbell, father of
Doctor Campbell, was born in Illinois, and died from drowning in
Eleven Point River near Pocahontas, Randolph County, Arkansas,
September 16, 1915, aged sixty-eight years, six months, twenty-five
days. He spent practically all his life in Randolph County, Arkansas,
as a farmer and stockman, and during the last two years of the Civil
war served in the Confederate ranks and in one battle received a
bullet through the thigh. For a number of years he was regarded as a
power in local democratic politics and was active both in his town
and county affairs. His church was the Christian. John S. Campbell
married Mrs. Alcy (HUFSTEDLER) MCCLAIN. She was born in Tennessee in
1836 and died in Randolph County, Arkansas, on the old homestead in
January 1901. The children of this marriage were: J. W. Campbell, who
is a teacher by profession living at Shreveport, Louisiana; Dr.
William H.; T.W. Campbell, an attorney at Pocahontas, Arkansas; and
J. N. Campbell, a railroad man at Shreveport.

Doctor Campbell acquired a high school education in Randolph County
and grew up on his father's farm there until seventeen. He then came
with his parents to Erath County, Texas, in 1889, but in 1891 the
family returned to Randolph County, Arkansas. While in Erath County,
Doctor Campbell did some independent farming for himself until 1893,
and then re-entered the public schools and remained for a year.

He began his medical studies in the Fort Worth Medical College, now
the Fort Worth University, and applied himself industriously to the
courses for one year. As an undergraduate he began the practice of
medicine in Indian Territory, being located four years at Comanche,
at Rush Springs a year and at Healdton for one year. The years 1903
and 1904 he spent in the J. Marion Sims Medical School of St. Louis,
where he was graduated M. D. in 1904. Returning to Indian Territory,
he practiced at Lone Grove until the beginning of 1907. He then went
to New Mexico and practiced in the vicinity of Roosevelt until
January 1910, at which date he came to Oklahoma and located at
Pontotoc. There he carried on a drug business in connection with his
private practice for three years. After another year at Mill Creek,
in February 1915, he located at Hickory, where he already has a
satisfying practice. His offices are in the H. C. Bowen drug store.

While at Lone Grove he served as health officer, and is a member of
the Murray County and the Oklahoma State Medical societies and the
American Medical Association. At Mill Creek he was a member of the
city council. He is a democrat, a member of the Christian Church and
affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

While living in Erath County, Texas, in 1892, Doctor Campbell
married Mrs. Cordelia (KENNEDY) CRAIG, widow of Frank Craig and
daughter of Sabert Kennedy, a Texas farmer, who accidentally shot
himself while his daughter Cordelia was an infant. Doctor Campbell
and wife have five children: Hallie May, wife of Charles MOSMAN, who
is an oil tank builder and lives at Wilson, Oklahoma; Darrel, wife of
W. B. NORMAN, a farmer near Pontotoc, and they have two children;
Delilah and Camilla; Oran, Farris and Jirl D., all of whom are in the
public schools at Hickory. Mrs. Campbell had three children by her
first husband, Barto, Bertha and Bert Craig. Barto Craig married Miss
Anna HOLEMBERG, of Fort Worth, Texas and they have one child, Jack
Craig, Jr.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Donald E. Conley, 26 July 1999.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916)