Campbell family.

The marriage of Jennie Wortman and George Campbell marked the beginning of two generations of Baptist missionary effort, first in the United States and later in China. The products of deeply religious families, both had decided independently to become missionaries prior to meeting. In turn, four of the couple's eight children continued the missionary efforts. As detailed biographical information regarding each member of this large family was prepared by Dorothy Campbell and is available in Series IV, folders 3-12, only brief sketches will be given here. (In addition, autobiographical information regarding Jennie W. Campbell and Dorothy M. Campbell is located in Series III, folders 4, 8, 15, 16, and 17.)

Born in less at St. Charles, Illinois, George Campbell spent most of his boyhood and early youth in Delavan, Illinois where his father was a Baptist minister from 1872 to 1885. St. Charles, Illinois is located thirty miles west of Chicago. Delavan, Illinois is thirty miles south of Peoria. Both parents, Thomas Philpot Campbell and Marian Packer Campbell, were educated, transplanted Easterners.(It is interesting to note that Thomas Philpot Campbell offered himself for missionary service, ultimately to be rejected on the grounds of his wife's poor health. She outlived him by twenty years.) George, their only son, graduated from Colgate University, (though some sources indicate Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., where others state Hamilton College), his father's alma mater, and Morgan Park Baptist Theological Seminary. He married Jennie Wortman in 1882, as previously noted.

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