Series 13 - Hugh Campbell voyage journal

37pp

Transcript from a published source: Brooks, G. (1967), 'The Journal of Hugh Campbell', Bulletin of the Missouri Historical Society 23, no. 3, pp. 241-268.

Journal article by George R. Brooks, Director of the Missouri Historical Society, containing a transcript of the 1818 emigration voyage journal of Hugh Campbell (1797-1879) of Aughalane, County Tyrone.
Per Brooks: 'That he is visible at all today is due only to the light of recognition reflected from his younger brother Robert, the fur trader and merchant who figured so prominently first as a mountain man in the West and later in the commercial development of mid-nineteenth-century St. Louis. Born January 1, 1797, at the family's home in Aughalane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Hugh studied for a medical career in Edinburgh, although he never practiced in this country, and it is not known whether he pursued that profession before he left his homeland. In America he confined himself to the mercantile trade, first at Milton, North Carolina, and later at Richmond, Virginia, before settling in Philadelphia in 1843. There, as a dry goods merchant, he frequently acted as Robert's eastern agent in procuring trade goods, until he finally moved to St. Louis in 1859 to become associated with his brother in the firm of R. Campbell & Company. In 1873 he built a residence at 2728 Pine Street, where he died on December 4, 1879, just a few weeks after Robert's death. Always overshadowed by Robert, Hugh never achieved the prominence his brother enjoyed in the St. Louis community; his public and civic activities were few, although he did receive an appointment from President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to a commission to adjust claims brought against the Military Department of the West.'