When Harvey Campbell was born on 10 August 1843, in Washington Township, Columbiana, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel Campbell, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Hunter, was 27. He married Mary Ann Brown on 22 August 1864, in Industry, Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1870 and Jefferson Township, Ross, Ohio, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1861. He died on 14 July 1894, in Bergholz, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, at the age of 50.
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Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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