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Born 1832
From History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages, together with a (1881)
W. Y. C. CAMPBELL,
P. O. Bates City, Missouri, is a native of this county, where he was born February 19, 1832; he was also raised and educated in this county, and has lived here all his life, engaged in farming. November 4, 1858, he was married to Miss Martha Gleaves, of this county, and by this union has nine children living. He is the son of Henry and Nancy Campbell, who moved from Kentucky to this county in 1820, and settled in Clay township. His father raised a family of twelve children, in this county, and died April 6, 1874, at a very advanced age.
As printed in History of Lafayette County, Mo., carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources, including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages, together with a (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name W. Y. C. Campbell: O. A. Hook (b. 1855)
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