Elmer R. Campbell Biography


	This biography appears on pages 242 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				ELMER R. CAMPBELL. 

	Elmer R. Campbell is a young business man of enterprising, 
progressive spirit who is filling the position of cashier of the State 
Bank of Spencer. He has always been a resident of the middle west and 
is imbued with the spirit of progress which has ever actuated this 
section of the country. His birth occurred at Hanover, Jo Daviess 
county, Illinois, on the 9th of September, 1886, his parents being 
Robert H. and Cora E. (Reed) Campbell, the former being now a resident 
of Ireton, Iowa, and the mother died January 16, 1915. For many years 
the father carried on agricultural pursuits and thus provided for the 
needs of his family, but is now living retired. 

	Elmer R. Campbell was educated in the rural public schools and 
also attended the high school at Ireton, Iowa. He also spent a year in 
college and a year in the University of Storm Lake, Iowa, thus being 
well trained for the later responsibilities and duties of life. When 
his textbooks were put aside he turned his attention to the banking 
business, becoming assistant cashier in the Farmers & Merchants Bank at 
Ireton, Iowa, where he remained for five and a half years, gaining an 
intimate and comprehensive knowledge of various phases of the banking 
business. He then came to South Dakota and on the 1st of January, 1914, 
entered the State Bank of Spencer as cashier and has since been active 
in managing the bank, of which his father is the president. 

	On the 30th of August, 1911, Mr. Campbell was married to Miss 
Lillian M. Mauer, a daughter of C. A. and Louisa (Koch) Mauer, of Le 
Mars, Iowa, and to this union has been born a son, Eugene M. Both Mr. 
and Mrs. Campbell hold membership in the Presbyterian church and 
already they have won for themselves an enviable position in the social 
circles of the town, gaining many friends by reason of their sterling 
traits of character. In politics Mr. Campbell is a progressive 
republican and fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of 
America and the Masonic blue lodge. His chief source of recreation 
comes through the automobile. He intends to make South Dakota his home 
and although he has been a resident of the state for less than two 
years he has already won for himself a creditable position in business 
and other connections.