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This carte de visite photograph of Mr William Patrick Campbell was taken by Frank R Huff at the American Photographic Rooms on Victoria Avenue, Whanganui. The sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait is of a man with short cropped hair and a long beard. The image is mounted behind an oval mat and glued to a backing card. The photographer's mark is printed on the reverse.
William Patrick Campbell was born in Petone in 1841, the son of Moses and Jessie Campbell, shortly after the family's arrival in New Zealand. The Campbells arrived in Whanganui aboard the Clydesdale in 1841 and settled as farmers in Wiritoa. William farmed, working in the Whanganui and Hunterville areas.
He married Annie Edith Powell in 1881 and they had 10 children:
Helen Marion, born 1883, married Percy Earle 1910
Jessie Isabel, born 1885
Colin Wilmot, born 1886, died 1918
Mary Alice, born 1888
Margaret Edith, born 1891, married Clarence Edgar Middleton 1913
Louisa Florence, born 1894
Sheila, born 1899, married Herbert Lindsay Craven 1929
Barbara Agnes, born 1900, married Robert Sydney Taylor 1921
Jean Cameron, born 1902
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