Bio of Campbell, W. H. Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Campbell, W. H., is a native of Mississippi, and resided there until he
was eight years of age, when he came north with his father's family. He
first came to Wabasha in 1857, and before the war broke out had returned
to the south to visit his mother's people. He was there impressed into the
rebel service, and was in the army of the confederates nearly a year, when
he succeeded in effecting his escape to the north, and returned to Wabasha
in 1863. He subsequently went into trade here, and has conducted business
as a general merchant four years. In 1872 he was elected auditor of the
county, and held that office until 1881, having been four times elected
and once appointed to fill a vacancy. He is a member of the firm of Z. C.
Goss & Co., but takes no active part in the management of business. In
connection with J. J. Stone, M. D., he is farming on a tract of sixteen
hundred acres, on the line of the Northern Pacific railway, forty miles
above Crookston. They have now eight hundred acres under cultivation-seven
hundred in wheat, and one hundred in oats. Last year's wheat crop of three
hundred and fifty acres averaged a yield of twenty bushels to acre. Mr.
Campbell has also a valuable tract of sixty acres on what is known as West
Wabasha. Mr. Campbell was married October 12, 1869, to Miss Alma A.
Downer, of this city. They have but one child living, Susie D., born
September, 1870. Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. J. H. Mullen were the daughters
and only children of John B. Downer, for many years a prominent business
man of this city. Mr. Downer was born in Stowe, Vermont, July 8, 1811, and
was married April 8, 1834, to Miss Caroline H. Tinker, who was born at
Morristown, Vermont, April 7, 1815. The daughters were both born at Jay,
New York, Marion B., January 29, 1849, and Alma A., March 11, 1851. Mr.
and Mrs. Downer were very happy in their married life of forty-eight years
and a half, and in their deaths they were not divided, Mr. Downer dying
October 19, 1882, her husband surviving her only a few hours.