Lemuel R. Campbell papers, 1890-1927.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Condition note: Approximately ten pages have been sliced and removed from the front of the scrapbook. Noted at time of processing.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Many items in this collection are quite fragile and must be handled with extreme care.

Scope and content: A variety of materials created or collected by Lemuel R. Campbell and his wife, Johnnie, documenting expenses and operations of their dairy farm; property and development in Nashville, Tenn. by Murphy Land Company, including a map; an almanac; several issues of a literary and current events journal published in Nashville, entitled "The Round Table"; and a compilation of recipes and household hints in the form of a scrapbook.

Box 1 contents: The Round Table periodical, 7 issues (1890); Abstract to Murphy Land Company (1902) - see map in Box 2; almanac issued by Nashville Bank and Trust; scrapbook containing recipes for food and household items (floor polish, insecticide, first aid, etc.) and also including a list of nearly 200 names, possibly a list of attendees to the Campbell's wedding reception.

Box 2 contents: Account book containing farm and auto expenses for Dun Ailie farm (1906-1925); Account book (1910-1913) containing pedigrees of some cattle and various accounts for the dairy. Map of Murphy Land Company, Division B, vicinity of Murphy Avenue and Elliston Avenue - see booklet in Box 1.

Cite as: Lemuel R. Campbell Papers, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

Nashville Public Library does not have intellectual property rights to these materials.

No photocopies from bound volumes due to their fragile condition.

Metro Archives;,Transfer to Special Collections Division;,2001,Special Collections Acc. RT-380.

Russell C. Campbell;,Gift;,1998[?],Metro Archives Acc. 154.

Lemuel Russell Campbell was born in Lebanon, Tenn. on Apr. 20, 1859, the son of former Tennessee governor William Bowen Campbell and his wife, Francis Owen Campbell. Lemuel attended Cumberland University and Vanderbilt University, where he graduated in 1881 and obtained his master's in 1882. He then entered law school at Columbia University in New York where he graduated in 1883, and returned to Nashville. In 1893, he married Johnnie Marshall, daughter of John Marshall, a Nashville attorney. Together Lemuel and Johnnie had three sons: William Bowen, Matthew McClung, and Francis Russell. A long-time attorney in Nashville, Lemuel was a deacon at First Presbyterian Church and a founder of the Erskine Club and Old Oak Club. He also served on the board of the Tennessee School for the Blind. He and his family lived for many years at the home and dairy farm known as Dun Ailie, located near Murfreesboro Road. A prior owner of the property was Johnnie's mother, Ellen C. Marshall, and it was said that the name was Scottish for "Ellen's Hill." Johnnie died in December 1923. Lemuel died on Nov. 3, 1942 and was buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

In English

Donated in 1998[?] to Metro Archives of Nashville and Davidson County by Russell C. Campbell, son of Lemuel R. Campbell. Transferred from Metro Archives to the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library Aug. 2001.

Process;,2015;,Linda Barnickel.

No further accruals are expected.