Dr. Fred Glover Campbell

Fred G. Campbell was born in Rockland on Feb. 25, 1884. He graduated from Rockland High School in 1902 and received his M.D from Baltimore Medical College in 1911. He interned in Worcester, Massachusetts, and came to Warren in 1913. George and Belle Walker deeded the home to their daughter Grace when she married Dr. Campbell in 1914, ; the Walker house became the Campbell family home. Dorothy Orff soon joined the family as caretaker for the Campbell’s handicapped daughter Jean, as well as housekeeper for the family.

Dr. Campbell was the family doctor to the citizens of Warren. He delivered many Warren babies. (If you are one of those babies, or know someone who is, please contact the society. We have a scrapbook on the Dr. Campbell babies). Dr. Campbell also served as the physician at the state prison in Thomaston for twenty years. In the early days, office visits to his home were 50 cents, house calls were $1 and calls out of town were $1.50. Today’s visitors to the house can see his office, still furnished with his medical instruments and equipment. Dr. Campbell closed his practice in 1965.

Edwin Boggs, Sr. was a close friend to Dr. Campbell, sometimes accompanying the doctor on his rounds. Mr. Boggs was a charter member of the Warren Historical Society and stored many society artifacts in his barn. At the urging of Mr. Boggs, Dr. Campbell left his large residence at 255 Main Street to the society in his will. When society members at their annual meeting learned that Dr. Campbell would donate his home, the meeting room erupted in applause. Thanks to Dr. Campbell’s generosity, today the society has a lovely home in which to display its collection of Warren artifacts.