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Historical Highway MarkersCol. Arthur CampbellK-328
Arthur Campbell, a military and political leader, was born in Augusta County in 1743. In 1758 during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Campbell was captured by the Wyandot Indians who were aligned with the French and held captive for two years before escaping in the present day region of Michigan. In 1773 he married Margaret Campbell and they lived at Royal Oak (present day Marion). Campbell served on the Fincastle County committee that wrote the Fincastle Resolves in 1775, and was a county lieutenant, justice of the peace, postmaster, and member of the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1809, Campbell moved to Yellow Creek (now Middlesboro), Kentucky, where he died in 1811.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (2 vols.; Richmond, Va., The Library of Virginia, 1998- ), 2:554-556; Cynthia Miller Leonard, compiler, The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1978); Hartwell L. Quinn, Arthur Campbell: Pioneer and Patriot of the "Old Southwest," (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1990; Elizabeth Sayers, Pathfinders and Patriots: Prehistory to 1832 (Marion, Va.: Smyth County Historical Museum, 1983), 106-113. |