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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

HON. JOSEPH N. H. CAMPBELL, deceased, who resided in Russell, Iowa, during the
past decade, was one of the honored men of this State, in which he made his home
for thirty-eight years. He springs from an ancestry in which he had reason to
take just pride. Of his own active and useful life, and of the distinguished
ancestry from which he descended, we take pleasure in here presenting the
following sketch:

   Mr. Campbell's father, Charles Campbell, was born in Augusta county,
Virginia, December 28, 1778, son of William Campbell and grandson of Charles
Campbell, both natives of the Old Dominion. The elder Charles Campbell had a
souvenir from Ireland, namely, a family chair in which was inserted the hilt of
a sword that came from his ancestor under King William III, in the battle of the
Boyne, Ireland, which battle occurred about 1691. William Campbell served in the
Virginia line during the Revolutionary war. He died in Brown county, Ohio, in
the sixty-eighth year of his age. His wife, who before her marriage was Miss
Elizabeth Wilson, was also a native of Virginia, and it was in that State they
were married. Her people were Presbyterians, and several of her brothers were
ministers of that denomination. William and Elizabeth Campbell were the parents
of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom we make record as
follows: James W., the eldest, died in Georgetown, Ohio; Charles, the father of
our subject, was next; John W., who served a constituency in Congress for twelve
years and who was subsequently appointed United States Judge of Ohio, died of
cholera while filling the latter office; Joseph N., Judge of the Common Pleas
Court of Brown county, spent his life in mercantile pursuits in that county;
Elizabeth was the wife of William Humphreys, of Ripley, Ohio; Phoebe was the
wife of Henry Martin, a farmer and a Judge of Common Pleas; Rebecca was the wife
of William Baird, a farmer of Ohio; Mary was the wife of Archibald C. Tweed, a
farmer, the younger brother of the mother of our subject; Samuel S. was in early
life a farmer and later a merchant; Sarah was the wife of John Bimpson; and
Fidella was the wife of Benjamin Hopkins.

    Charles Campbell, the father of our subject, and the second born in the
above named family, taught school several terms when a young man, but nearly the
whole of his life was devoted to agricultural pursuits. He removed to Kentucky
with his parents in 1790 and in 1800 to Brown county, Ohio. In Ohio he lived for
thirty-five years and from there removed to Illinois, where he spent another
thirty-five years. In 1870 he came on to Iowa and located in Mahaska county, and
here he died the following year, 1871. He and his good wife, nee Elizabeth
Tweed, a native of Maryland, born February 13, 1777, spent sixty-seven years of
life together, and, what is remarkable, both lived to the ripe old age of
ninety-four years. Their remains rest side by side in Tazewell county, Illinois.
Of the maternal grandfather of our subject, Archibald Tweed, we record that he
was a native of Maryland, was a Revolutionary soldier, and emigrated to Kentucky
in 1793. Charles Campbell and his wife were married in Maryland. As the years
passed by, children to the number of five were born to them, namely: William
Wilson, born in 1804, removed to Tazewell county, Illinois, in 1834, and died in
Morton, that State, in 1880; Patterson died in infancy; John, born in 1807, died
in Ironton, Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1892; James M., born in l810, died in
1890, in Morton, Tazewell county, Illinois, of which town he was the founder,
the last forty years of his life having been spent on a farm; and Joseph N. H.,
whose name initiates this sketch. Of John, we further record that he was the
founder of the town of Ironton, Ohio, and that he was at one time a millionaire,
his fortune having been made in iron ore at the town he founded and named.

   Coming now to the immediate life of the Hon. Joseph N. H. Campbell, we find
that he was born in Brown county, Ohio, near the county seat, Georgetown,
January 30, 1816, and that he was reared on a farm and received his early
education in one of the primitive log school-houses of Ohio. Subsequently he
attended school at Georgetown, where he was a pupil of John D. White and a
fellow student with Ulysses S. Grant. All his life he has been of a studious
nature and is a man of more than ordinary attainments. He followed the fortunes
of his father into Illinois, when in the twentieth year of his age, and was
engaged in farming during the twenty-two years he resided in that State, leaving
there in 1857 and moving to Mahaska county, Iowa. Here he purchased a farm.
Subsequently he entered land in Wayne county and still later purchased another
farm in Mahaska county. In 1886 he came to Russell and invested in property, and
at the time of death recently owned five acres and one of the prettiest homes in
this place, all in the center of the town. He died June 14, 1895, after an
illness of only an hour, mourned by a large community of citizens.

   February 6, 1840, Mr. Campbell married Miss Maria McClure, a native of
Lawrence county, Illinois, born August 27, 1820, daughter of James and Mary
(Campbell) McClure. Mrs. McClure's father, Joseph Campbell, was born in
Kentucky, and Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are cousins. The McClures are of German
origin. Our subject and his wife had twelve children, eight sons and four
daughters, and of this number only one is living,— Chester C., — born in Mahaska
county, Iowa, July 1, 1863. Two of their sons, Marion and Perry, served in the
Civil war. Marion enlisted September 24, 1861, was taken as a recruit to
Davenport, served in the Commissary Department of the Tennessee, was regimental
clerk of Company H, Eighth Iowa, and was promoted from time to time until he
reached the Captaincy. He was honorably discharged in June, 1866. He died July
21, 1878, and fills an honored grave in Mahaska county. Perry enlisted as a
recruit in the same company, in November, 1862, at St. Louis. He was regimental
clerk at the battle of Spanish Fort, where he distinguished himself and where he
was promoted to the position of Sergeant Major. He died at Hernando,
Mississippi, February 2, 1872, of consumption, having contracted this disease
while in the army. Both of these sons were young men of more than ordinary
business ability, and of Marion we further record that he was elected from
Mississippi to both the Senate and the House and served one term in each.
Politically, Mr. Campbell for many years affiliated with the Democratic party,
his last Democratic vote having been cast for Samuel J. Tilden; but from that on
he was a decided Republican. During the war, in 1863-4, he served his
constituency as a member of the lower house of the Iowa Legislature, having been
elected to that body on the Democratic ticket and receiving the largest vote
ever given in the county up to that date. On numerous occasions he served as
delegate to county and State conventions, and in whatever position he was placed
he rendered effective service. Always of a public-spirited and generous nature,
he gave liberally to all the enterprises calculated to promote the general good
of his community.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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