BIO: CAMPBELL, George W., s/o Maxwell & Sarah (Field) Campbell

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)
 
CAMPBELL   FIELD   RHODES

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE,ORANGE & WASHINGTON COUNTIES INDIANA"  
GOODSPEED BROS.1884.

PAOLI TOWNSHIP, ORANGE COUNTY, INDIANA
Page 581

GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, a native of the county of which he is now Treasurer, was
born at Lick Creek, August 12, 1843, a son of Maxwell and Sarah (Field)
Campbell, who were natives respectively of North Carolina and Kentucky, and
who were among the pioneers of Orange County, Indiana.  At twenty years of
age George W. Campbell began doing for himself, and shortly thereafter
engaged in merchandising at Orangeville, which he continued until 1870, when
he purchased a farm on Lost River and for three years was engaged in
agricultural pursuits.  He then opened a store at Lick Creek, and in 1881
established another at Newton Stewart.  In 1883 he purchased an interest in
the West Baden Springs, and besides this and his extensive mercantile
interests, Mr. Campbell owns 550 acres of land which are under his direct
supervision.  In politics he has always labored in the best interests of the
Republican party, and in 1882 was elected County Treasurer, and to his
credit be it said that the finances of Orange County have never been
entrusted to more competent or trustworthy hands.  Mr. Campbell was married
in 1866 to Miss Annie Rhodes, and to them two children have been born, named
Fannie R. and Noble C.  The home of the family is at Lick Creek in French
Lick Township.
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