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Jan 01, 1822 Raleigh, North Carolina, United States Died on 30 Jan 1882 (aged 60)
American socialite
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About Virginia Kyle Campbell
- Virginia Kyle Campbell (January 25, 1822 – January 30, 1882) was an American socialite who played host to members of high society in St.
- Louis into her home.
- These notable St.
- Louis citizens included President Ulysses S.
- Grant, James Eads, General William T.
- Sherman, and botanist Henry Shaw.
- She was highly educated at a women's finishing school, taught her sons through preparatory school, traveled with her children unaccompanied by a man, and ran the household in absence of her husband. Virginia was married to Robert Campbell, an Irish immigrant known as a frontiersman, fur trapper, banker, and businessman.
- Robert even wrote to Virginia before their marriage stating that she "will soon be [his] counselor and adviser and it may be-manager." Their St.
- Louis home is now preserved as the Campbell House Museum which has been open to the public since 1943.
