. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. Sabbathschool. He wias secretary cf the build-jng committee when the new church>\ erected, is a member of the board?of trade and has always been activein efforts to improve and build upthe town. DR. W. J. CAMPBELL Dr. William J. Campbell, MountLnions oldest resident practicingphysician today, was born in Shirleytownship, this county, May 18, 1862,•the ison of R., and Annie(Smith) Campbell. On his fathers•side he is of Scotch and on his moth-ers he is of Irish e-xtraction. Hisfather was a native of Glasgow and?his mother
. History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township. Sabbathschool. He wias secretary cf the build-jng committee when the new church>\ erected, is a member of the board?of trade and has always been activein efforts to improve and build upthe town. DR. W. J. CAMPBELL Dr. William J. Campbell, MountLnions oldest resident practicingphysician today, was born in Shirleytownship, this county, May 18, 1862,•the ison of R., and Annie(Smith) Campbell. On his fathers•side he is of Scotch and on his moth-ers he is of Irish e-xtraction. Hisfather was a native of Glasgow and?his mother ,a: native of Tyrone coun-ty, Ireland. Possessing the Scotch-Irish characteristics, peculiar to thisclass of persevering and determinedsect. Dr. Campbell, when young, haddetermined to make something ofTiimself. He attended the publicschools, where he gained the rudi-iitients of knowledge. At foui-teen, he•entered a. private school at Orbisoniawliere he spent three terms. He hadstimulated his ambition for educa-tion and to gratify this insatiable. Dr. William J. Campbell 521 ;ire he taught for several terms:nd. re-entered the private school. Af-ter teaching three additional wintershe entered the Iron Citj- BusinessCollege at Pittsburg, where hemade good. Tl:e Doctor succeedingthis, attended College for aterm. In 1887 he entered the CivilService, and was a mail clerk for twoyears. After teaching a winter in the Doctor entered in 1890the Medico-Chirurgical Col!ege ofPhiladelphia, where he pursued acourse in medicine and surgery, grad-uating on May 4 1893. It was in 1893That the Doctor hung out his shinglein Mapleton, where he practiced for4 years, and during which time £hed himself as one Of theleading physicians of this county. In1897 he came to Mount Union andsettled, and sinct th£t time has beenone of our hurtling physicians. Thedoctor has enjoyed a splendid prac-tice during thes^- years of residencesnd duty has called him in,to the ru
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