Tunis Campbell

Tunis Gulic Campbell was born on the thirtieth of April 1812 at the village of Middlebrook, in Somerset County, New Jersey, the son of John Campbell — a Middlebrook free Black blacksmith — and the principal Middlebrook free Black-and-Episcopalian-Church community. He was raised in the principal free Black-Middlebrook Episcopalian-Church-and-blacksmithing community.

He was placed at five at the principal Babylon, Long Island Episcopal Church boys-and-Black-and-Native-American-and-mainstream-American boys-academy from 1817 to 1827 — and completed the principal Babylon Episcopal-Church boys-academy in 1827.

He was hired in 1832 by the principal Howard Hotel at the principal Maiden Lane at New York as principal junior hotel-steward — and was promoted to head steward in 1840. He held the principal Howard Hotel head-steward position from 1840 to 1844.

He was hired in 1844 by the principal Adams House Hotel at Boston as principal head steward — and held the principal Adams House head-steward position from 1844 to 1848 at the principal Adams-House Boston commercial-aristocratic-and-political-and-business hotel-restaurant community.

He published the principal Hotel Keeper's, Headwaiter's and Housekeeper's Guide at the principal Coolidge and Wiley Press at Boston in 1848 — at the principal post-1848 American hotel-and-restaurant management commercial-publishing community.

The principal 1848 Tunis Campbell Hotel Keeper's, Headwaiter's and Housekeeper's Guide is at this day the principal first American hotel-and-restaurant-and-servant-management manual — and the principal foundational document of the principal post-1848 American hotel-and-restaurant commercial-management training-and-publication community.

He relocated to the Sea Islands of Georgia in March 1865 — at the principal post-1865 Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15 Sea-Island Reconstruction Black-and-emancipated-freedmen community-resettlement period — and was named in 1865 the principal Reconstruction Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands superintendent of the principal Saint Catherines, Sapelo, Ossabaw, and Colonel's Island Sea-Islands.

He was elected to the principal Georgia State Senate from the principal McIntosh County, Georgia in 1868 — at the principal post-1868 Georgia Reconstruction State Senate community. He held the principal Georgia State Senate position from 1868 to 1872.

He was elected to the principal McIntosh County, Georgia Justice of the Peace and Magistrate position in 1869 — and held the principal McIntosh County Justice of the Peace position from 1869 to 1875.

He was prosecuted in 1875 by the principal post-1875 Georgia post-Reconstruction Redeemer state-government — at the principal post-1875 Georgia post-Reconstruction Redeemer political-prosecution of the principal Reconstruction-era Black-state-elected-and-county-elected officials. He was sentenced to twelve months of hard labour at the principal Georgia state-convict-lease-and-chain-gang system at Atlanta from 1876 to 1877.

He died at Boston, Massachusetts on the fourth of December 1891 of natural causes, at seventy-nine.

He is honored here as the author of the first American hotel-and-restaurant management manual.