Robert Lang Campbell

Brief Life History of Robert Lang

When Robert Lang Campbell was born on 21 January 1825, in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Alexander Campbell, was 30 and his mother, Agnes Lang, was 36. He married Joan Scobie on 20 November 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 11 April 1874, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Lang Campbell
1825–1874
Mary Ann Stewart
1828–1912
Marriage: 14 November 1853
Robert Stewart Campbell
1855–1931
Mary Stewart Campbell
1856–1940
Elizabeth Stewart Campbell
1858–1923
Agnes Stewart Campbell
1860–1942
Annie Stewart Campbell
1860–1949
Isabella Stewart Campbell
1862–1945
Adolphus Miller Campbell
1862–1862
Sarah Stewart Campbell
1864–1918
Joseph Stewart Campbell
1866–1944
George Albert Smith Campbell
1868–1932
Archibald Alexander Stewart Campbell
1870–1871
Joseph Campbell
1871–
Alexander Stewart Campbell
1872–1918

Sources (164)

  • Robert Campbell, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Robert Campbell, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Robert Campbell, "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910"

World Events (8)

1830

Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).

1832 · The Scottish Reform Act

The Scottish Reform Act was introduced by Parliament that introduced changes to the election laws in Scotland. The Act didn’t change the method of how the counties elected members but adopted a different solution for each pair of counties. Ultimately, it brought about boundary changes so that some burghs would have more say for the country than others.

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

Name Meaning

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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ROB CAMPBELL’S JOURNAL

Introduction This typescript of a journal of Robert Lang Campbell is a verbatim transcription. The spelling of the original has not been corrected or modernized. The original of this journal is in …

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