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the scenes of his military experience being in the southwest. For about a
year he was attached to the fleet operating in the Mississippi Valley, and
during the term of his service was twice wounded. One of his injuries
was accidental, and the other was so serious that he was reported mortally
wounded—the latter being received at the battle of March Mill, Arkansas.
He was with the first regiment that landed at the capture of Memphis,
Tennessee, and really has occasion to claim that he knows something of
the horrors of war, and the unspeakable relief of returning to home scenes
and paths of peace.
    Upon his return from the front in the fall of 1864 Mr. Campbell
secured an interest in a grist mill in Shelby county, Kentucky, his partner
being James Miles, his maternal grandfather. After about a year lie
returned to Clay county and engaged in the lumber and milling business,
thus continuing for a number of years. About 1874, in association with his
brother, he bought forty acres of land which is now a portion of the
County Poor Farm, and at one time he had amassed a landed estate
amounting to eight hundred acres. At present he is the proprietor of
some four hundred and thirty acres in sections 7, 12 and 13, over whose
cultivation and improvements he retains a general supervision. Mr.
Campbell is a firm Republican, and has served Washington township as
trustee for two terms and as a member of the advisory board for two
years. As is natural, he has taken a deep interest in the affairs of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
    His wife, to whom he was wedded on the 10th of December, 1878,
was Ann Mae Boothe, who was born in Clay county, Indiana, daughter
of Thompson and Huldab (Thomas) Boothe. Mrs. Campbell’s maternal
grandfather was a native of Kentucky, and at a very early day came with
his wife by boat to Spencer, Indiana; thence blazing a way through the
forest to what he called the Promised Land, located on section 13, Wash-
ington township. This tract of land is owned by James M. Campbell, and
as Grandfather Thomas is conceded to be the first permanent settler of
Washington township it has a sentimental value as “historic ground.”
Mrs. Campbell died April 12, 1905, without issue.

    WILLARD H. GLIDEWELL, editor and owner of the Brazil Democrat,
was born at Metamora, Franklin county, Indiana, February 26, 1859.
His father, Emory G. Glidewell, also a native of Franklin county, was
descended from ancestors who came originally from the north of Eng-
land. The great-grandfather, Robert Glidewell, arrived in Indiana about
one hundred years ago and settled on Templeton’s creek near Brook-
ville, at which place the government land office was then located. The
family came from North Carolina on horseback and on foot, the women
and some of the men of the company riding, while a part of the male
contingent made the whole trip across the Alleghenies on foot. The
grandmother of W. H. Glidewell is said to have been a direct descendant
of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. The family name was Coleman. The
mother, who bore the maiden name of Eliza N. Murphy, was born in
Fayette county, Indiana, and died on the frontier in Kansas on Christ-
mas day of 1866. For nearly a half century Emory G. Glidewell devoted
his energies to the profession of teaching school.
    Willard H. Glidewell was educated in the public schools and mani-
fested notable precocity in various lines. He could read readily when
four years of age and at six read in the fifth reader, being considered