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| − | |name=George Barnes Campbell
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| − | (Hammond, Louisiana journalist)
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| − | |birth_place=[[Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]], USA
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| − | |death_date=February 27, 1967
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| − | |death_place=Hammond<br>Tangipahoa Parish<br>[[Louisiana]]
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| − | |religion=[[Methodist]]
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| − | |spouse=(1) Laurice Brasseaux Campbell<br> (two daughters)<br>
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| − | (2) Stella Bickham Warner Campbell<br>
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| − | '''George Barnes Campbell''' (June 10, 1879<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Campbell&GSfn=George&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScnty=1161&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=93824345&df=all&|title=George B. Campbell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> – February 27, 1967), was a [[journalist]] who in 1919 launched the former ''The Hammond Vindicator'' [[newspaper]] in Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish in southeastern [[Louisiana]], published every Thursday.
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| − | A native of the capital city of [[Raleigh]], [[North Carolina]], he was the son of John M. and Mary Moore Campbell. He attended public schools in Newburn in Dyer County in northwestern [[Tennessee]], and attendended [[Vanderbilt University]] in the capital city of [[Nashville]], Tennessee. From 1902 to 1905, he was a reporter for ''The Nashville American.'' He then became the compositor for the former ''New Orleans States'' in [[New Orleans]] but moved to Hammond in 1907 to be editor of the former ''Louisiana Sun,'' a position he held for a decade. From 1917 to 1919, he was assistant city editor of the ''San Antonio Express-News'' in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], but soon returned to Hammond to establish ''The Hammond Vindicator,'' a revised weekly paper from the former ''The Southern Vindicator,'' previously ''The Hammond Graphic.''<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site20.php|title=Campbell, George Barnes in ''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography|publisher=Louisiana Historical Association|date=1988|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>
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| − | Under Campbell, ''The Vindicator'' posted two mottoes on its front-page banner: "Land of Sunshine, Moonshine and Flowers" and, to show that Campbell was willing to step on toes, "Let the Fur Fly."<ref name=dailystar>{{cite web|url=http://www.hammondstar.com/daily-star-acquires-vindicator/article_fa7d3f39-64d8-527f-bc39-dbd48eedaaf4.html|title=Daily Star acqiuires Vindicator|publisher=''Hammond Star''|date=September 8, 2003|author=David J. Mitchell|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref>
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| − | He was best known for his folklore column called "The Stroller", which chronicled life in Hammond over four decades, often informing readers of such mundane topics as who had purchased a new automobile or had a child or did not cut the grass. He wrote about potholes, locomotive noise and new dishes at local eateries. C. Howard Nichols, a retired [[professor]] of Louisiana history at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, said of ''The Vindicator'': "Well it really was, in its hey-day, a wonderful window on life in Hammond." Campbell sold ''The Vindicator'' in 1966, but it was not obtained by ''The Hammond Daily Star'', the current newspaper in Hammond, until 2003.<ref name=dailystar/>
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| − | In 1907, Campbell married the former Laurice Brasseaux of St. Francisville in West Feliciana Parish, by whom he had two daughters, Mary C. Zulma and Mildred C. Furbos (1908-1997),<ref name=mfurbos>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Furbos&GSfn=Mildred&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=93839319&df=all&|title=Mildred Furbos|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 24, 2017}}</ref> who subsequently worked with her father on ''The Vindicator'' and inherited his concern for the community.<ref name=dailystar/> From the second marriage to Stella Bickham of Warnerton in neighboring Washington Parish, he acquired a stepson, James W. Warner. A [[Methodist]], Campbell died at the age of eighty-six in Hammond and is interred there at Greenlawn Cemetery,<ref name=bio/><ref>''New Orleans Times-Picayune,'' February 28, 1967.</ref> as is his daughter Mildred.<ref name=mfurbos/>
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