Biographical Sketch of James J. Campbell, Johnson County, Missouri,
Columbus Township.

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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James J. Campbell, proprietor of "Brookside Farm" in Columbus township,
is a direct descendant of one of the signers of the Declaration of 
Independence of 1776.  Mr. Campbell is a native of Howard county and a
member of a prominent pioneer family of Missouri.  His parents came to
Missouri in an early day from Kentucky.  He was born August 25, 1872, a
son of James and Priscilla Grace (Rush) Campbell.  James Campbell was
born November 9, 1824 and Mrs. Campbell in 1833.  They were the parents
of fourteen children: Harriet Frances Leakey, McAlester, Oklahoma; Alp-
honso, deceased; Mrs. Ruth N. McMullen, Rich Hill, Missouri; William
Thomas, deceased; Mrs. Sidney Parker Werton, Joplin, Missouri; Mrs.
Sallie Bell McMullen, Henrietta, Oklahoma; Mrs. Emily Grigsby Nelson,
St. Louis, Missouri; Stephen Romeo, Rich Hill, Missouri; Nancy Jane
Bynum, deceased; Mrs. Grace Rush Ainsworth, Idaho Falls, Idaho; James 
J., the subject of this review; Mrs. Kate Celeste Mudd, Kansas City,
Missouri; Casey Blake, Odessa, Missouri; and one child died in infancy.
James Campbell, Sr. was a veteran of the Mexican War and he also served
in the Civil War for four years with the Confederates.  He died June 
28, 1878 and his remains were interred in the cemetery at Boonesboro in
Howard county.  The mother survived her husband many years.  She died
September 1, 1913 and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Rich Hill in
Bates county.  Mrs. Campbell was a member of the Rush family, who trac-
ed their lineage back to Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence.  In 1912, a reunion of the James Campbell
family was held at Rich Hill, Missouri and the ten children, survivors
of the splendid family of fourteen, were all present and the three
daughters-in-law also.  James Campbell, Jr. obtained his education in
the public schools of Howard and Johnson counties.  Mr. Campbell came
to Columbus with his mother in 1884 and he was then a lad twelve years
of age.  He was a child six years of age, when death entered their home
and left him fatherless.  The mother rented a farm and for a few years
they resided there.  Mr. Campbell purchased his present home in 1898
from James M. Stout.  This place was formerly the Hornbuckle place. 
Mr. Campbell has added all the improvements now on the farm, including
fencing, wells, orchard, barns and residence.  A barn was built in 1909
which is 40 x 48 feet in dimensions and sixteen feet to square, used
for stock, grain, and hay.  The eight room residence was built in 1914
and is modern throughout, having a splendid basement and supplied with
water and wired for lights.  Mr. Campbell has a fine herd of high grade
Polled Aberdeen Angus cattle, a registered male heading the herd of 
twenty cows and heifers.  He produces on "Brookside Farm" the feed for
his cattle and hogs and he has one of the best Spotted Poland China 
male hogs in this county.  "Brookside Farm" coprises 152 acres of land
located two miles northwest of Columbus, eleven miles southeast of 
Odessa, and seventeen miles from Warrensburg.  Blackwater is but a mile
away and a tributary flows through the northwest corner of the place.
This is one of the beautiful country homes of Johnson county and it was
acquired not by inheritance but by hard labor and the practice of con-
stant eceonomy and frugality.  June 2, 1897, James J. Campbell, Jr. was
united in marriage with Rosa Boyd Stout, daughter of James M. and Nancy
Ann (Fitch) Stout, natives of Kentucky, who came to Missouri in 1874.
The grandfather of Mrs. Stout came to America in colonial days from
England.  The Stouts were formerly residents of Columbus, but Mrs.
Stout is now making her home in Warrensburg, Missouri.  To Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell has been born one child, a daughter, Ada Lucille, who is now a
student at the Warrensburg State Normal School.  Miss Ada Lucille has 
an established reputation for high scholarship for as a student in the
Odessa High School she won the Columbia University scholarship in 1917,
which would have admitted her as an honor student in the State Univer-
sity of Missouri.  She is a young lady of excellent attainments and
marked ability, a daughter of whom to be proud.  Mr. and Mrs. Campbell
are progressive, intelligent citizens and Mr. Campbell is one of the
county's most public spirited men, a "booster" for good roads, better
farms, and better homes.

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