John Hamilton Campbell

Brief Life History of John Hamilton

When John Hamilton Campbell was born on 17 April 1918, in Mount Vernon, Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States, his father, Murray Archibald Campbell, was 36 and his mother, Agnes Jean Cox, was 27. He married Marthella Virginia Davis on 11 January 1941, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 1 January 1946, at the age of 27.

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John Hamilton Campbell
1918–1946
Marthella Virginia Davis
1918–2006
Marriage: 11 January 1941

Sources (5)

  • John H C Cambell, "United States Census, 1920"
  • John Hamilton Campbell, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • John H Campbell, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"

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World Events (8)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

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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