Jesse Campbell

As printed in 1880

JESSE CAMPBELL, farmer; P. O., Pulaskiville; the subject of this sketch was born July 12, 1802, and is a son of Benjamin and Sarah (Teitsworth) Campbell; he is a native of Northumberland Co., Penn., and spent the.,days of his youth on a farm, receiving but little education, as his home was among the mountains with the nearest school seven miles distant. His father dying just after his son had reached his majority, Jesse was left to help in the support of the family, which filial duty he performed for four years. In the fall of 1825, with his mother and five children he came to Ohio, being conveyed by wagon, the journey occupying twenty-one days. He immediately entered eighty acres of land and erected also a hewed log house, hauling logs to a saw-mill below Mt. Gilead. The first spring he put out two acres of corn; he remained here some two years when he went East in company with Allan Kelly, driving a heard of cattle; during the next seven years he worked by the day and month at various points, including the Canal R. R. Sept. 6, 1832 he was united in marriage to Ellen Williams, a daughter of Jonathan and Elleanor (Ues) Williams; his wife was born Feb. 24, 1813 and shared with him the pleasures and pains of life until her death, April 1, 1878. For some time after marriage he lived with his wife’s father, and then buying a team in the fall of ’35 he removed to his mother’s place. His brothers and sisters having married and scattered, each for themselves, he in time bought the place which he still owns. Mr. Campbell is the father of four children now living, two dying when quite young — Jonathan W., born Oct. 30, 1836, married Mary Hogler and settled in Lee Co,, 111; Mark W., born March 23, 1844, married a Miss Bumbarger, and is ls> in Ogle Co., In.; Sarah B., born July 12, 1847, is still at homo; Eliza J., born July 17, 1854, at home. The mother of Mr. Campbell died Dec. 26, 1868, aged 98 years, 7 months, 16 days; her mother also had lived to be 98. He is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson; with his wife and family he is a member of the M. E. Church, and since early manhood has been a constant Christian and man of upright integrity.

As printed in History of Morrow County and Ohio : containing a brief history of the state of Ohio ... a history of Morrow County ... biographical sketches, portraits of some of the early settlers and prominent men, (1880). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.