Career
He served a term as president of Piedmont College from 1904-1907. Campbell was born to Gavin and Anna Barbara Campbell, and grew up in Steven"s Point, Wisconsin. He graduated from Williams College in 1892 and received a bachelor of divinity degree from Andover Theological Seminary in 1895.
Campbell studied education and theology in New England before traveling to the Southern United States.
There he outfitted a wagon to serve as a mobile house as he interviewed working people, particularly farmers. Campbell married first wife Grace H. Buckingham, who died in 1905.