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William Wilfred Campbell (1861-1918)


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William Wifred Campbell (1861-1918) was born in Kitchener (then Berlin) Ontario, Canada and studied at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He married Mary Dribble in 1884, and worked as rector of the congregations of West Claremont, New Hampshire and of St, Stephen, New Brunswick, until giving up the ministry in 1892 following starting to doubt his religious faith. His first two volumes of verse were Sunshine and Snowflakes (1888) and Lake Lyrics (1889). He published volumes of verse regularly, and late in life took a keen interest in Canada's involvement in World War I. His son Basil serving as a Major in the second Canadian Pioneer Battalion in September 1914. Wilfred Campbell died in Ottawa on January 1st 1918 and is buried in Beechwood County.


 
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