Campbell Wallace

Campbell Wallace was a merchant, a bank president, and a railroad man. He was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, on December 7, 1806. In 1834 he became a partner in a mercantile firm in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was president of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad beginning in 1853 and continuing into the Civil War. After the war he intended to become a farmer but was appointed by Georgia Governor Charles J. Jenkins as superintendent of the Western and Alabama Railroad which post he held from 1866 to 1868. The next year he contracted with Col. Sam Tate to build the South and North Alabama Railroad from Montgomery to Decatur. He was president of the Atlanta State National Bank (later the Merchants' Bank). In 1879 he was appointed to the Georgia Railroad Commission and was made chairman in 1883. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church for many years. He was married in 1831 to Susan E. Lyon. He died on May 3, 1895 in Atlanta, Georgia.