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Robert Campbell (February 12, 1804 – October 16, 1879) was an Irish immigrant who became an American frontiersman, fur trader and businessman. His St. Louis home is now preserved as a museum: the Campbell House Museum.
Nov 13, 2023 · Robert Campbell was an Irish-born Frontiersman, fur trader, and businessman. He is most famous for the years he spent trapping and exploring the American West and for various successful business ventures.
- Randal Rust
CAMPBELL, ROBERT, farmer, fur trader, and explorer; b. 21 Feb. 1808 in Glen Lyon, Scotland; m. 5 Aug. 1859 Elleonora C. Stirling at Norway House (Man.), and they had three children; d. 9 May 1894 at Merchiston Ranch, near Riding Mountain, Man.
- Kenneth Stephen Coates
- CAMPBELL, ROBERT (1808-94)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12
More than twenty-six years ago, the writer remembers as one of the first men he met in Red River Chief Factor Robert Campbell, the discoverer of the Upper Yukon River, which is the goal of so many gold seekers to-day. Robert Campbell was a natural leader of men.
Robert became one of the wealthiest men in Missouri, extending his real estate empire as far as El Paso, Texas, and Kansas City, Missouri while serving as president of two banks and managing the finest hotel in the city, the Southern Hotel.
Robert Campbell dearly sought the fame he felt would ac- company geographic discoveries in the far North, but he lacked the flair and originality of other northern explorers. Campbell advanced northward in a tentative fashion, stopping short of the bold exploratory thrust that would have solidified
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic agriculture in the trans-Mississippi expanses stretching westward from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains.
