William Campbell

ILLIAM CAMPBELL was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, April 18, 1818, on the same farr on which his father, Archibald Campbell, and his grandfather, William Campbell, were born. This farm was owned by his grandfather, who passed his entire life on it. William Campbell, Sr., was a member of the Episcopal Church, and in that faith pared his family. Archibald Campbell, like his father, spent his whole life or the farm on which he was born. He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-nine years. The maiden iame of his wife was Elizabeth Stewart, she being a native of the same vicinity, and a daughter of James Stewart, who was a native of Ireland and a descendant of Scotch ancestry. Mrs. Campbell died in Ireland, aged seventy-eight years. The names of their six children are: Mary, William, Catherine, James, Archie and Ann. James and Archie are deceased. Mary is the wife of Samuel Shaw, and re- BIOQRAPHIOAL REVIEW OF CMS, sides in Dixon, Illinois. Catherine married Hugh Gibney, and lives in Canada. Ann still makes her home in Tyrone, Ireland.

William Campbell, the subject of our sketch, was reared and educated in Ireland, and as soon as he was old enough aided in the farm work. In 1840, bidding farewell to the Emerald Isle, he sailed from Londonderry, May 10, and landed at New York after a voyage of thirty-one days. From New York he came direct to Illinois, making the journey via water, rail and stage, to Pittsburg, and thence by way of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown. Then he came by team to the vicinity where he DOW lives. At that tipe Cass county was sparsely settled, some of the land still being owned by the Government. He spent a few months with his brother-in-law, Samuel Shaw, and at this time "vyas taken sick with ague. Seeking a change of climate, he went to St. Louis and took charge of a livery stable, remaining there three years. At the end of that time he came back to Cass county and bought a farm three miles and a half west of Virginia. This farm, consisting of 100 acres, he purchased for f 5 per acre, a log house and stable and fifty acres under cultivation comprising the improvements on it. Five years later he sold out at an advance, and bought the farm on which he now resides, two miles west of Virginia. The improvements on this place at the time of purchase were a log house with a frame addition, and a frame stable. He has since replaced them with a good set of frame buildings, has purchased other lands at different times, and is now the owner of upwards of 1,000 acres in Cass county.

Mr. Campbell was married in 1845, October 10, to Mary I). Sudbrink, daughter of Frederick and Catherine Sudbrink. She was born in Germany, and came with her parents to America when young. Their four children are Henry I., Alfred, Emma Ann and Edwin. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Politically he affiliates with the Democratic party. He has served as a member of the Board of County Commissioners.

R. ARCHIBLE R. ALLEN located in Huntsville in 1882. He was born in Bainbridge township, Schuyler county, Illinois, September 22, 1851, being a son of William J. and Mary G. (Edmondston) Allen, natives of North Carolina and Indiana. The father of our subject was reared in Indiana and in 1844 came to Illinois and settled in Bainbridge where he married; and in 1852. Having some land in Missouri, he left his wife and children with her parents and went to that State. From there he went to Oregon nd later to California, where he died. His wife died in Adams county, Illinois. They had two sons, Archible and James E.

Archible is the older, and resided with his grandfather in Schuyler county; but when he was ten years old he removed to Adams county. In 1869, after the death of his mother, he went to Fandon, McDonough county, where he lived with an uncle. Colonel Samuel Wilson, and attended school. In 1874, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. N. E. Wilson. He subsequently attended college at Keokuk, graduating in 1886. He located in practice at Huntsville.

He was married in May, 1882, to Maggie R., daughter of Marshall and Rebecca Spondenburg) Wells. She was born in Brown county, Illinois, January 8,1870. They have one child, Bessie May.

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The Doctor was in the drug trade from 1874 to 1876, at Birmingham, Illinois. He was quite successful at it.

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fEORGE CONOVER, of the firm of Petefish, Skiles & Co., bankers, Virginia, Illinois, was born in Princeton precinct, Cass county, this State, September 11, 1846. Of his life and ancestry we present the following facts:

Dominicus Conover, great-grandfather of George Conover, was born in Holland and came to America in Colonial times, settling in New Jersey, where his son, Levi, was born. The latter served in a cavalry regiment for five years during the Revolutionary war. In In 1790 he moved to Kentucky and settled near Lexington. Five years later he moved to Adair county, where he spent the residue of his life. The maiden name of his second wife, grandmother of our subject, was Jane Galbraith Turnbow. Their son, Levi Con over, Jr., was born in Adair county, Kentucky, and was there reared to manhood, t the age of twenty-two years he cane to Cass county, Illinois, arriving here without any means other than the Iorse he had ridden. He found employment Qf various kinds, earning his first money by splitting rails at fifty cents per hundred. In 1834 he went to Galena and worked in the mines of that vicinity till fall. He then returned and went to the territory of Iowa, where he took a squatter's claim to Government land. He came back to Illinois and spent the winter, and in the spring returned to Iowa, in company with a friend, making the journey with oxen and wagon. He at once began the work of improving his claim, and soon had his log cabin built. In 1836 he returned to Illinois, married Elizabeth Petefish, and took his bride to their frontier home. In 1837, while they were on a visit to Cass county, this State, Mrs. Conover died, and soon after her death Mr, Conover sold his Iowa claim and settled in Cass county. In 1841 he the Peter Conover homestead, on which he was engaged in farming for some years. From there he moved to the town of Virginia, where he spent the last years of his life. The maiden name of his second wife, mother of George, was Phoebe A. Rosenberger. Her father, John Rosenberger, was born of German parents.

George Conover was reared on his father's farm, attending the district schools a portion of each year. He advanced his education by one term at Beardstowii high school and one term at Wesleyan University at Bloomington, after which he entered Bryant and Stratten's Business College t Chicago. After his marriage he located on a farm, owned by his father, two miles and a half southeast of Virginia, which farm his father deeded to him soon afterward. He continued to reside there till 1876, when he came to Virginia to accept the position of book-keeper in the bank of Petefish, Skiles & Co. The same year he became a partner, and so remains, and since 1884 has been cashier. He still owns his farm.

In February, 1870, he married Virginia Lee Bone, a native of Rock Creek, Sangamon county, Illinois, daughter of William and Farinda (Osborn) Bone. To them have been born four children: William B., Ernest B., George B. and Virginia Louise.

As printed in Biographical review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown counties, Illinois. Containing biographical sketches of pioneers and leading citizens .. (1892). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.