The Campbell Families of Henry County, Iowa

JAMES S. CAMPBELL.

James S. Campbell well deserves mention among the representative citizens of Henry county because of an active business life, untiring devotion to the general good and also by reason of the possession of those sterling traits of character which in every land and clime command respect and confidence. He those as a life work the occupation of farming, following it successfully for a long period and is now living retired in the enjoyment of a well earned ease.

Mr. Campbell was born in Ashland county, Ohio, June 4, 1828, a son of Robert and Margaret (Archibald) Campbell. The father was born January 26, 1800, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the mother's birth occurred in the same county on the 16th of June, 1806. Following the occupation of farming as a life work Robert Campbell devoted his attention to that pursuit first in Pennsylvania and afterward in Ashland county, Ohio, subsequently in Henry county, Iowa, becoming a resident here on the 15th of May, 1865. He purchased a farm and his attention was devoted to its further development and cultivation up to the time of his demise, which occurred June 17, 1877. He had for about five years survived his wife, who did November 30, 1872, their remains being interred in Pleasant Hill cemetery. Both were devoted members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Campbell gave his political allegiance to the democracy. He held several township offices but his energies were more largely concentrated upon his business affairs although in no duty of citizenship was he ever remiss. He was watchful of opportunities for his business advancement and for the general progress as well, and his devotion to his community made hint a representative resident of this part of Iowa. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were born ten children, of whom six are yet living: Sarah Jane, living in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, is the widow of Thompson Chambers, who died three years ago; Mary is the wife of James Patton, a resident of Heniy county, Iowa; William resides in Mount Pleasant; Milton N. is living in Denver, Colorado; Daniel resides in New London, Iowa.

The second member of the family is J. S. Campbell, whose name introduces this review. In the country schools of his native state he received his education. His privileges in that direction, however, were very limited but by experience, reading and observation he has greatly broadened his knowledge and has learned many valuable lessons that have been of practical use to him in his later business life. After putting aside his text-books he remained with his parents on the home farm not only until he had attained his majority but for some fifteen years after his marriage and practically had the management of his home place. He was married on the 27th of December. 1849, in Polk. Ashland county, Ohio, to Miss Ruth Cole, a daughter of Thomas and Etheliah (Cole) Cole, and a native of the Buckeye state, born August 21, 1 83 1. Her father was born in the early years of the nineteenth century, followed the occupation of farming and was also a local minister of the Methodist church in Ashland county, Ohio. Both he and his wife died during the early part of the '70s. and were buried in Ashland county. In their family were ten children but only two are living: Elizabeth, now the widow of Chester Matthews, and a resident of Ohio; and Rachel who is the widow of Isaac Gordon and also lives in Ashland county, Ohio. Mr. Cole was a republican in his political views.

Mr. and Mrs. Campbell began their domestic life in the Buckeye state and remained residents of Ashland county until 1865. Several years before he had purchased a farm in Ohio which he cultivated and improved until his removal to Iowa and here he purchased a farm of one hundred and five acres om improved land in Henry county. He began farm work and continued to cultivate that place until 1880, when he sold out and bought a farm of eighty acres near Mount Pleasant. He was a general agriculturist and stock-raiser, continuing in the business until 1896, when he retired and purchased his beautiful home at No. 501 South Walnut street.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were born ten children: W. E., born in Ohio, November 24. 1850. resides in Woodson county, Kansas. He wedded Miss Mary Chandler who has had six children, of whom five are living: Clark, Herman, Ethel, Ruth and Lee. Irene, the second member of the father's family, was born in Ohio November 7, 1852, and is the wife of E. McPeek, of Burlington, by whom she has three children, Mamie, Roy and Dallas. Of this family Mamie is the wife of Robert Willis, who is a conductor on the railroad and resides in Burlington, and they have one child. Wanda. Roy McPeek married Miss Ida Feasman and is living in Arizona. Dallas is in the depot at Burlington. Margaret J. Campl)ell. the third member of the family, was born in Ohio, August 24, 1855, and died when eight years of age. Anna D., born in Ohio, February 25, 1857, died in early girlhood. Mary L., born in Ohio May 1, at home. Milton E., born in Ohio June 30, 1862, married Miss Jessie Courtney, by whom he has three daughters, Marie, Clela May and Roma. He is now serving as sheriff of Henry county. Lydia, lorn June 2y, 1863, died in childhood. Lillian A., born in Henry county, Iowa, November 15, 1867. is the wife of John Deal, residing in St. Francis. Kansas, and they have six children, Blanche, Earl, Marie (deceased). Floyd. Mina. Pearl and Merle. Thomas C. born in Henry county, February 8, 1871, is deceased. Robert Clyde, born in this county September 6, 1873, is now deputy sheriff under his brother. He was only six weeks old at the time of his mother's death, for she passed a.way on the 27th of October, 1873, her remains being interred in Pleasant Hill cemetery. She was a devoted and lovinowife and mother and an earnest Christian woman, and her many excellent traits of character endeared her to those \t\\ whom she was associated. She held membership in the Methodist church, of which Mr. Campbell is also a member and in the work of the church he has taken a very active and helpful part, serving as steward, class leader and also as Sunday-school superintendent.

In his political affiliation Mr. Campbell is a stalwart democrat who has served as supervisor and school director and he was also constable of Henry county in 1876. He became agent of the Campbell cheese, manufactured by his brothers, and for twenty-eight years sold that product in eastern and northwestern Iowa, conducting the business in connection with his farming interests but now he has put aside business cares to spend his remaining days in the enjoyment of a well earned rest and is now in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His has been a useful, active and honorable life and he can look back over the past without regret.

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William Campbell, who has been a promoter of farming and stock-raising interests in Henry county and is now living retired in a beautiful home on West Monroe street in ]Mount Pleasant, was born

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William Campbell, the third in order of birth in a family of nine children, acquired his education in Orange township. Ashland county, Ohio, and by reading and observation in later life. His youth was passed on his father's farm and he assisted in its development and improvement until thinking to find other occupation more congenial he learned the trade of a plasterer, which he followed for about thirty years. He took contracts for plastering and employing a large number of men was thus enabled to cover an extensive field of labor. He did much work all through that.section of the state, being accorded an extensive patronage that enabled him to retain many workmen in his.service. He first came to Iowa in 1854. and here continued in the plastering business, being accorded much of the important work in this locality, one of his last jobs being the plastering of the Harlan house built by Senator Harlan.

Mr. Cami)bell was married in December, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Spearman, a daughter of James Spearman, who was a farmer and old settler, coming to this section of the state when it was largely a new and undeveloped region. Mr. Campbell afterward returned to Orange township. Ashland county. Ohio, where he gave his attention to farming upon a tract of land which he owned, but when he had spent six years in his native state he came again to Henry county and purchased the Spearman homestead, thereon his wife was reared, about four miles southeast of Mount Pleasant, in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. The farm comprised three hundred and seventy acres and had been developed and improved by Mr. Spearman. There Mr. Campbell successfully carried on g'general agricultural pursuits and the dairy business. He was the first cheese manufacturer in the county, and he had on the farm about one hundred cows of his own. and at times as many as one hundred and thirty-five head. He also added to his land two fami amounting to three hundred and twenty acres. For a time he purchased milk from the neighboring farmers and did an extensive dairy and cheese business and the cheese factory is still conducted by his sons. He was also interested in the sheep industry\% having driven six hundred sheep from Ashland county, Ohio, with which he first stocked his farm. There is no man who has been more interested in improving the grade of stock raised and few have assisted so largely in this work and thereby promoted so efficiently the welfare of the agricultural class. Mr.

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DANIEL M. CAMPBELL, farmer and dairyman, residing on section.SI, New London Township, was born in Ashland County, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1843, and is the son of Robert and Margaret (Archibald) Campbell. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Westmoreland County, Jan. 26, 1800, and was descended from the Scotch. He married Miss Margaret Archibald in that State, by whom he had nine children, seven now living: the eldest. Dr. John Camjbell, residing in Gallion, Ohio, married Rachel Bryan; James married Ruth Cole, and is a farmer of New London Township; William married Lizzie Spearman, and resides in Centre Township; Sarah Jane, wife of Thompson Chambers, a farmer of New London Township; Milton M., of Denver, Col., wedded Lucy Weston; Daniel M., a farmer of New London Township, wedded Mary Rhodes: Mary, wife of James Patten, of Centre Township. Robert Campbell removed to Ashland County, Ohio, in an early day, and went from there with his family to Henry County in 1865, and located in New London Township, where he spent the remainder of his days, dying in June, 1877. His wife, an estimable lady, died in November, 1872. He spent his whole life in tilling the soil.

Daniel M. was reared on a farm, and learned the plasterer's trade, at which he worked several years. He came to Henry County in the spring of 186.5, and was married near Salem, this county. May 30, 1872, to Miss Mary Rhodes, daughter of John W. and Sarah (Thompson) Rhodes. Mrs. Campbell was born in Morrow, Warren Co., Ohio, Oct. 28, 1844, and came to Henry County with her parents in 1851. Five children have graced their union, three of whom are now living. Daisy May, the eldest, died when four and a half j'ears old; Ross A. died when two and a half years old. Those living are Florence A., aged seven; Daniel W., aged five, and Mary Helen, one year of age. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the First Presbyterian Church of New London. iSIr. Campbell is a Democrat in politics. He has a fine dairy farm of 240 acres, on which he keeps a large herd of cows, and manufactures butter and cheese.

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English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes had a family of eleven children, six sons and five daughters. Clarksoii went.South prior to the late war and was a Captain in the Confederate army; his death occurred in 1881. Samuel was a soldier in the Union army, a member of the California battalion, enlisted for a Massachusetts regiment, was captured while on a scouting expedition, but escaped soon. Franlilin was a member of a Kans.as regiment, was captured, and he also soon escaped; Newton, Milton and Wesley were in the lath Iowa Volunteer Infantry; Wesley was wounded, Newton and Milton were taken prisoners at Shiloh, and both escaped from Macon, Ga. Caroline is the wife of Joel.Jones, of Salem Township; Henrietta is the wife of Caleb Trapp, residing in Florida; Eliza died at the age of twenty-eight; Mary is the honored wife of D. M. Campbell, of New London Township; Emma is the wife of Oliver Garretson, of Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. Rhodes died in Ohio in 1848. Mi-. Rhodes came to Henry County in 1851, and settled in Tippecanoe Township, wlierc his death occurred in tiic spring of 1880. Mr. Rliodes was a second time married, to Mrs. Daraaris Alden, by whom he had four children, two of whom are living..Julia married Addison Frasier, living in Lincoln, Neb.: Edwin married Melissa Frasier, a sister, also living in Lincoln, Neb. Those deceased are Alice 1'. and Jennie. The mother is still living at an advanced age with her daughter.

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HON. THOMAS F. CAMPBELL.

Hon. Thomas F. Campbell, president of the Henry County Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company and a prominent retired farmer living in Mount Pleasant, was born near Shelbyville, in Shelby county, Indiana, on the 9th of August, 1844, his parents being Hugh and Cheney (Ray) Campbell. The father was born near Knoxville, Tennessee. The paternal grandfather was one of five brothers who came from Scotland to this country prior to the Revolutionary war and served as a soldier in the struggle for independence. He was with the Southern Army and he participated in addition to the engagements of that war in the battle of Horse Shoe Bend with the Indians. After the close of hostilities he located near Knoxville, Tennessee, where he conducted a large plantation, being recognized as one of the prominent men of his day. There he spent his active life, but shortly before his death came to the north and made his home with his son.

Hugh Campbell, born in Tennessee, in 1 80 1, was reared to manhood there and when a young man of twenty-one years removed to Shelby county, Indiana, W'here he settled upon a tract of raw land With characteristic energy he began its cultivation and in the course of years developed it into a good property. In that county he married Miss Cheney Ray, who was born near Wilmington, North Carolina, and went with her father's family to Indiana. The home property of Mr. Campbell embraced four hundred acres of rich and cultivable land. In the development of this place he endured the usual hardships and trials incident to pioneer life. Their home on the frontier w'as far separated from the contingencies of the older east, for around them lay an uncut forest. From his own doorway Mr. Campbell shot deer and wild turkeys. The farm implements were of a very- primitive character compared to the improved agricultural machinery of the present day, and it required much arduous labor to bring the fields under cultivation. In public affairs Mr. Campbell W'as prominent and influential and was called to various county offices. Again he cast in his lot with pioneer settlers, w'hen, in the spring of 185 1, he came to Henry county, Iowa, and purchased twenty-five hundred acres of land from Samuel Wells. This was all wild and unimproved, save for a tract of about eighty acres. He divided this land among his children, who improved their respective portions and the father also developed a good home for himself. In the early days he espoused the cause of abolition and when the Republican party was formed to prevent the extension of slavery he joined its ranks. Both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, and his death occurred in September, 1870, while her death occurred April 27, 1883. They had eight children who reached adult age, while four died in childhood: James H., now of Nebraska; Mrs. Maria Leach; Mrs. Martha J. Lafferty; Robert, who died in 1900; Susan, the wife of J. W. Keith; Mrs. Emily Payne, Thomas F., and Mrs. I. J. Holt.

Thomas F. Campbell was a lad of about seven summers when brought by his parents to Iowa, and in the common schools near Wayland he acquired his early education, which was supplemented by study in Howe's Academy. In 1862 he enlisted as a defender of the Union cause, becoming a member of Company K, Fourth Iowa Cavalry. The regiment was engaged in active duty in Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and Alabama, completing its services at Atlanta. Mr. Campbell was on active duty throughout that entire time and was never home on a furlough. He was too young to be promoted, but proved a brave and loyal soldier and returned home with a most creditable military record.

On again reaching Iowa, Mr. Campbell resumed the occupation of farming, to which he had been reared, early becoming familiar with the work of the field and meadow. His father had given him land six miles north of Mount Pleasant, which he improved, residing thereon from 1867 until 1892, and during that time bringing his farm up to a high state of cultivation. He added to the original tract until he owned two hundred and forty acres of land, which was splendidly developed. He carried on general agricultural pursuits and stock-raising and for a number of years dealt in high bred Norman horses, continuing in this business until the spring of 1905. In 1892, how'ever, he sold his farm and removed to !Mount Pleasant, where he now has an attractive home. He was one of the organizers of the Henry County Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company, has been a director and vice president and is now the chief executive officer. His official service with the company covers fifteen years and he has been president since 1902. This company has had a successful career from the beginning and its risks now represent about three million dollars.

On the 8th of January, 1868, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Hattie E. Button, a daughter of Willard Button, and they have six children: Hugh, who is now a merchant of Mount Pleasant; Ada, the wife of C. Carnahan, a resident farmer of Henry county; Susie, the wife of W. E. Young, also a farmer; Alice, a teacher in the schools of Mount Pleasant; Carrie, who is teaching in New London, and Bessie, who is now a student of the Iowa State University. The parents are members of the Congregational church. Miss Button was educated at Dunkirk, also Howe's Academy, Mount Pleasant, and was at home until her marriage. Hattie E. Button was born near Dunkirk, New York, a daughter of Willard and Anna M. (Jenks) Button. The Buttons were of New England ancestry; the father was born near Norfolk, Connecticut, and the mother at Amenia Union, New York. Soon after their marriage they moved to near Dunkirk, where he was a farmer and came to Henry county, Iowa, in the spring of 1864, and owned a farm seven miles north of Mount Pleasant. This he improved. He later moved to Page county, Iowa, where he died February 29, 1904, and the mother died about 1877. Mr. Campbell gave his political allegiance to the Republican party until 1876, since which time he has voted for the Democracy. He has been active in support of the cause of education and his services in this particular have been effective and far-reaching. In 1899 he was elected to represent Henry county in the twenty-eighth general assembly, and on the minority side he served on the committees of the agriculture, insane hospitals and others. His well directed business efforts have resulted successfully and he is today classed among the substantial citizens of the county in which almost his entire life has been passed.

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Joel Campbell, who has a wide and favorable acquaintance in Henry county, resides at No. 503 Division street, in Mount Pleasant, having retired from active connection with agricultural interests, to which he devoted his energies for many years. He was born November 30, 1846, and is of English lineage. His parents. James and Nancy (Birdwell) Campbell, were born in East Tennessee, the former on the 18th of May. 1818, and the latter March 4, 1825. The father came to Iowa in 1848, when his son Joel was only two years of age. Much of the journey was made on a flatboat, for there were no railroads at that time, and travel was either by water or by stage, or private conveyance. Mr. Campbell was a farmer by occupation, and on his removal to the Mississippi valley settled first in Sullivan county, Missouri, where he remained for a year, and then came to Henry county, Iowa, establishing his home near Maryland. He purchased land from the state, which he afterward sold, and then removed to Jefferson township, where he carried on general agricultural pursuits until his death, which was occasioned by typhoid fever, November 25, 1855. When about eighteen years of age he had aided in driving the Indians out of Kentucky and Tennessee, this war against the red men occurring about 1836. ''hen he came to Henry county he found that the Indians were still numerous in this part of the state, and that wild game of all kinds was plentiful. He was well fitted to cope with the difficulties of pioneer life, possessing a genial, jovial nature that set at naught the hardships and difficulties and made the most of opportunities. Moreover, he was an honest, upright man and did much to promote the good of the community. His political allegiance was given to the Whig party, and both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Campbell survived her husband for a number of years, and died

January 3, 1866. In their family were six children, of whom two are living: Joel and Polly N., the latter of Harper county, Kansas. The father was married twice, and by his first union he had one daughter, Mary Jane, who married Abraham Carpenter, who died in September, 1904, his remains being interred in Forest Home cemetery in Mount Pleasant. His widow now resides in Harper, Kansas. The mother of our subject was laid to rest in Tippecanoe township, while the father's burial occurred in Way land. Their eldest son, Joshua B. Campbell, enlisted for service in Company I, of the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry in the Civil war, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Shiloh, which occurred on the 6th of April, 1862. He was, after being in prison sixty days, paroled and was in parole camp at St. Louis one year and afterward on detached duty. There were also three cousins of Joel Campbell in the Civil war: James, Archibald and Jasper Campbell, the lastnamed being only fourteen years of age when he was killed.

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Mr. Campbell also made a creditable military record in the Civil war. In February. 1864, he secured his mother's written consent, and enlisted as a member of Company G, Thirtieth Iowa infantry. He was transferred in May, 1865, to Company K. of the Sixth Iowa Veteran Infantry, and was honorably discharged on the 28th of July of the same year. He participated in the battles of Dalton. New Hope Church, the siege of Atlanta, Savannah and Bentonville, being under the command of Sherman. He also participated in the celebrated march to the sea, which proved the weakness of the Confederacy; at the close of the war, he took part in the grand review in Washington, the most celebrated military pageant ever seen on the western hemisphere. He endured the privations and hardships that were meted out to a soldier, and his mind is filled with interesting reminiscences of the great conflict. He tells of being for three days and three nights without anything to eat but green chestnuts, and he was suffering severely from rheumatism ai that time and was unable to walk. It was about the time that Hood flanked the

Union troops. He now has in his possession a most interesting and valuable map, showing the route of the marches of the army of General Sherman from Atlanta to Goldsboro, North Carolina, being the only map of the kind in the county.

Mr. Campbell was first married July 4, 1872, to Miss Sarah Collins, who was born in Salem township, and was a daughter of John and Martha Collins. She died January 26, 1873, and was laid to rest in Pleasant Point cemetery. On the 27th of July, 1892, after living alone for about twenty years, Mr. Campbell was again married, his second union being with Miss Leona Luzadder, who was born in Highland county, Ohio, May 22, 1850, a daughter of Jacob and Mary Ann (Barnard) Luzadder, both of whom were natives of Highland county, Ohio. The maternal grandparents were born on the island of Nantucket, and the paternal grandparents were natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ltizadder was a farmer, and brought his family to Iowa from Ohio in a wagon in 1850. His destination was Tippecanoe township, this county, where l"ie purchased an improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he carried on general agricultural pursuits for many years, there residing at the time of his death, which occurred January 26,

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1893. Her people were members of the Society of Friends, while the ancestry of the Campbell line were represented in the Baptist and Methodist churches. Mr. Luzadder, father of Mrs. Campbell, was for several months in the state miHtia, actingas a member of the home guards at the time of the Civil war. In politics he was a republican, and kept well iiiformed on the questions and issues of the day. He served as one of the school directors and also as county commissioner, and is said by all who knew him to have been one of nature's noblemen. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Luzadder were born seven children, of whom four are now living: Clark, a resident of Miami county, Kansas; Albert, of Butler county, Kansas; Arthur, who is living in Wapello county, Iowa, and Mrs. Campbell. Besides rearing his own family, Mr. Luzadder always had some orphan or homeless child with him. who was treated as a member of his own family. His broad humanitarianism and benevolent spirit prompted him to many actions of kindness and deeds of charity, and the poor and needy found in him a warm friend. Many have lived to bless his memory for timely assistance which he rendered, and his influence was ever given on the side of right, progress, truth and justice. During his declining years Mr. Luzadder was tenderly cared for by his daughter, Mrs. Campbell.

Following the splendid example of her father, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have reared an adopted son, William Arthur Luzadder, who was born September 15, 1878. in Henry county, whose parents were Arthur B. and Sarah L. (Craig) Luzadder. He lived with Mr. and Mrs. Campbell until his marriage to Miss Leslie Scott and now resides in Adair county, Missouri. By this marriage there are three children. Vera H., Laura Ruth and Nelda Belle. ]\Mr. Campbell is a republican with somewhat independent tendencies. He has been a member of the school board and township constable for two years. Fraternally he is connected with Glasgow Lodge, No. 145, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and with McFarland Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Mount Pleasant, thus maintaining cordial relations with his old army comrades. Both Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are held in the highest esteem by all who know them. He has a genial, jovial nature, with native wit, with always a joke and a pleasant smile. His kindness of heart, his inflexible integrity and his genuine worth have gained him the unqualified respect of all with whom he has been associated. His wife, too, enjoys the esteem of many friends, and no history of this community would be complete without mention of this worthy couple. Although his school privileges in youth were limited, he has, by reading and travel, gained broad and comprehensive knowledge, and is an entertaining conversationalist, having acquired an education equal to that of many of better early advantages.

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ALFRED J. CAMPBELL is among the 01 oldest and best known citizens of Henry County'. He was born in Sussex County, Del., April 2, 1816, and is a son of Robert and Hannah (Hazard) Campbell, both natives of the same State, where their whole lives were passed. They were the parents of four sons and three daughters who grew up. Besides the subject of this sketch, one other member of this family is now living, a brother, John S., who is now in his seventy-seventh year and is a resident of Passadena, Cal. Both of his parents died when Alfred J. was six years old, and he went to live with older brothers and sisters. He received such education as the schools of that day afforded, and was reared on a farm until he was fourteen years old, when he came West with an older brother, William H., who kept a general store at Shelby ville, Ind. He was in his brother's employ for eight years, when he began on his own account in the same town. Two years later he began trading in the South, and sometimes clerking, usually spending the summers in the North.

On the breaking out of the Mexican War, Mr. Campbell enlisted in the 3d Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. Sullivan, their Colonel being the afterward celebrated Gen. James H. Lane, of Kansas border war fame. He participated in the battle of Bueiia Vista, fought by Gen. Taylor against tremendous odds, and which was one of the most brilliant victories of that war. On his return to peaceful pursuits he again settled in Shelby County,

Ind. Mr. Campbell was married in September, 183; at Dayton, Oliio, to Miss Mary Sullivan, who died in July, 1848. The fruit of this union was one child who died in infancy. In Seiitember, 1849, Mr. Campbell was married to Mrs. Prudence Lockhart, widow of Benjamin Lockhart, of Ripley County, Ind., who died July 1.5, 1848. This couple had no children.

In 1853 Mr. and INIrs. Campbell emigrated to Iowa, settling on a farm in Henry County, on which he lived for twenty- years, and on which, by the aid of his industrious and thrifty habits and good judgment, he accumulated a competence. In 1873 he retired from active life on the farm and removed to his present home in Mt. Pleasant. In earljlife Mr. Campbell acted with the Democratic party, but on the breaking out of the Rebellion joined the ranks of the Republicans with whom he has ever since affiliated. In his religious views he is a believe in Christianity and a liberal supporter of churches, but not a member of any denomination. His wife is a member of the Christian Church. A man of sound judgment, well informed as to public matters, and of undoubted probity of character, Mr. Campbell commands the respect of his fellowmen.

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