Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Campbell, James P. 1855 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JAMES P. CAMPBELL, of Grand Prairie township, is one of the oldest settlers

living in that precinct, having resided there continuously since 1876. He owns

240 acres on sections 26 and 27.



  Mr. Campbell was born in Ripley county, Indiana, June 13, 1855, the son of F.

M. and Mary Ann (Huckstep) Campbell. The father was born in Ripley county, Ind.,

Jan. 1, 1828, and died in Cook county, S. D., April 14, 1907. Our subject's

mother was born in the same county. She died in 1865.



  When James was three years old he moved with his parents to Dodge county,

Minn., and there he resided until he became of age, securing a country school

education and working on the farm. W. H. Kelly, who had taken a claim in Grand

Prairie township, stopped at the Campbell home in Dodge county one day and spoke

favorably of the new Nobles county country. He urged young Campbell to take a

look at the country, and the young man did so. It was on April 18, 1876, that he

first landed in Nobles county. He bought the relinquishment of Mr. Kelley's

eighty acre claim and proved up on it, later adding by purchase the other eighty

to the quarter, and about 1900 he bought another eighty acres adjoining. His

home has been in Grand Prairie township ever since. He encountered many setbacks

during the latter part of the grasshopper scourge, but with the passing of those

days came prosperous times.



  Mr. Campbell was married at Sibley, Iowa, Nov. 27, 1878, to Etta Mann,

daughter of Nelson B. and Lydia (Beede) Mann. She was born in Allamakee county,

Iowa, Nov. 27, 1865. To them have been born the following named children; Elma

J. (Mrs. W. E. Marr), of Olney township; Cora Ellen, deceased; James Edward,

deaceased; George F., residing at home; Nellie M., deceased; Pearl, deceased;

James E., at home.



  Mr. Campbell is supervisor of the township and has held the office nearly all

the time since residing in the county. He has served four years as director of

school district No. 54, and prior to that was clerk of the district for six

years. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. lodge of Ellsworth.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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