These notable St. Louis citizens included President Ulysses S. Grant, James Eads, General William T. Sherman, and botanist Henry Shaw.

Virginia was married to Robert Campbell, an Irish immigrant known as a frontiersman, fur trapper, banker, and businessman.

Virginia and Eleanor, her older sister, attended the Freeman's Finishing School for young women in Philadelphia.

During his visit he suffered a relapse of fever that had plagued him for most of his life and was confined to his brother Hugh's home under the care of a doctor.

[2] Robert and Virginia's friendship flourished after he returned to St. Louis and they began courting, which would prove to be long and drawn out.

Lucy gave Robert her consent only under the condition that they would wait to be wed until Virginia reached the age of 18.

In one of Robert's letters to Virginia written in anticipation of their marriage, he said: "Recollect you will soon be my counselor and adviser and it may be - manager - that of course I will not acknowledge and I feel confident you will make, 'my yoke easy' and my life happy.

They spent their honeymoon at Robert's brother Hugh's home in Philadelphia before moving permanently to St. Louis.

The Campbells took a suite of rooms in the fashionable new Planters House Hotel, just south of the Old Courthouse.

At a dinner she gave 1874 Virginia Campbell held a formal reception for President Grant, his wife and their close friends.