James Archibald Campbell
James Archibald Campbell | |
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1st President of Campbell University | |
In office 1887โ1934 | |
Succeeded by | Leslie Hartwell Campbell |
Personal details | |
Born | near Angier, North Carolina | January 13, 1862
Died | March 18, 1934 Buies Creek, North Carolina | (aged 72)
James Archibald Campbell (January 13, 1862 โ March 18, 1934) founded Campbell University (originally Buies Creek Academy) in Buies Creek, North Carolina in 1887.
Biography
Campbell was the father of Dr. Leslie Campbell, who would succeed him as president of Campbell College and Arthur Carlyle Campbell, who would become president of Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although he first attended in 1886, J.A. Campbell received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest College in 1911 on the same day as did his two sons. One of his grandchildren, Catherine Campbell King, resides across from the university he founded. He is buried at the Buies Creek Cemetery in Buies Creek.
His great-great grandson, John Leslie Campbell, also went to Wake Forest University, and then went on to be a professor at the University of Georgia.
Legacy
The James Archibald Campbell House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.[1]
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