BRAXTON W. CAMPBELL, one of Cincinnati‘s most successful manufacturers, was born in Covington, Kentucky, November 22, 1851, the seventh son of Morgan A. and Sallie L. (Love) Campbell. His father was born in Kentucky; his grandfather, William Campbell, having removed from near Danville, Virginia, about 1796, and settled in the town of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, where he conducted the business of saddle making.

Mr. Braxton W. Campbell received his education at the public school of Burlington, Boone County, Kentucky. At the age of six he was left a double orphan by the death of his father and mother; and after spending his boyhood in Kentucky, went to Cincinnati. Ohio, and began work as an office boy at five dollars a week. At the end of a year he was put on the road as a travelling salesman and was very successful. At the age of twenty-three he went into the saddlery business as an employee and travelling salesman, and at twenty-six established the firm of Perkins-Campbell Company. Cincinnati, of which he is President.

Mr. Campbells firm is the largest manufacturer of harness and saddlery in the world. It has extensive branches in Chicago. Milwaukee and New York City, and during the European war, 1914-1917, did an immense business in army supplies for the Allies, furnishing saddles and harness to the value of more than $8,000,000.

Mr. Campbell is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is much respected by his fellow citizens and employees. He is an active member of many societies, clubs and fraternal orders-—the Caledonian Society of Cincinnati, the Masonic fraternity, and social, business, political and religious organizations too numerous to mention.