Dr. Horace Campbell was born in Douglas, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine in 1922. In 1925 he married Mary King. The couple moved to China in 1926, where Dr. Campbell served as a surgeon sponsored by the American Board of Foreign Missions of the Congregational Church until 1939. They moved to Denver in 1941, where Dr. Campbell worked as a Denver Police surgeon. He quickly turned his interests to automotive safety, and held the post of Chairman of the Automotive Safety Committee of the Colorado Medical Society for many years. Dr. Campbell also was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a diplomat for the American Board of Surgery, a member of the National Safety Council’s Committee on Alcohol and Drugs, and a Vice-Chairman for the American Medical Association’s Commission on Automobile Crash Deaths and Injuries. Aside from auto safety, Dr. Campbell researched Schistosomiasis, Sparganosis, Splenomegaly, and wound healing. Dr. Campbell received several awards for his contributions to automotive safety. These include the Sertoma International Service to Mankind Award in 1964, the Florence R. Sabin Award in 1968, and the American Association for Automotive Medicine Award in 1965 and 1971. Dr. Campbell died in 1985. He was 86. He and his wife had one daughter, Carolyn Cohen, of Chevy Chase, MD, and five grandchildren. (1)
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(1)Denver Post (November 28, 1985) C-11-3-P. Other information in this biography is taken from short biographies of Dr. Campbell in conference programs within the collection.
From the guide to the Horace E. Campbell Collection, 1951-1974, (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Archives Dept.)
