Biography

05/18/1853 - 08/03/1929

CAMPBELL, George Washington, a Representative from Fayette County; born, May 18, 1853 in Normalville, Fayette County, Pa.; merchant; publisher and editor, The Springfield Mountaineer (1881); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Normalville (1881-1915); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889 and 1897 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1890, 1898); director and president, Etna-Connellsville Coke Company; director, Citizen National Bank of Connellsville; director, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company; director, United States Drug and Chemical Company; president, Campbell and Sons Coal Company; died, August 3, 1929 in Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Interred, Millgrove Cemetery, Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.