Bio of Campbell, S. L. Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Campbell, S. L., attorney-at-law; office corner of Main and Alleghaney
streets, Post-office building. Mr. Campbell established business in this
city in the spring of 1856, and is the oldest practicing attorney in the
county. He is a native of Chenango county, New York, was brought up on the
old home farm, and followed farming until his removal to this state (then
territory), in 1855. During his intervals of leisure from farm labor he
pursued his legal studies, making himself familiar with the principles of
law, leaving a knowledge of its practice to be acquired in the courts. He
was admitted to practice at Red Wing, in this state, by the then chief
justice of the territory (Welch), in the fall of 1855. When Wabasha county
became organized for judicial purposes in the following spring, Mr.
Campbell was appointed clerk of the United States district court for the
first district, and held that office until the state was admitted to the
union in 1858. From the date of the establishment of his law-office here,
more than twenty-seven years since, Mr. Campbell has continued steadily in
the practice of his profession. During these years his only law partner
was E. M. Birdsey, Esq., with whom he was associated in business from 1867
to 1872, when Mr. Birdsey's health compelled him to relinquish practice,
and he soon afterward died. Mr. Campbell has served the bar of the county
as clerk of court and county attorney, the city as mayor, the
representative district as representative in 1862, and again from 1875 to
1879.