Hiram Campbell Biography


	This biography appears on page 885 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				HIRAM CAMPBELL. 

	The demise of Hiram Campbell occurred at Aberdeen on the 14th of 
December, 1914. From 1887 to 1910, when he retired, he was prominently 
connected with business interests of Aberdeen as the founder of a first 
class grocery and he was therefore numbered among the men who had been 
active in shaping the course of business development in the city. He 
was, moreover, an honored veteran of the Civil war. Mr. Campbell was 
born in New York, June 23, 1833, and was a son of William and Betsey 
(Mudge) Campbell, the former a native of New York and the latter of 
England, both of Scotch descent. The family moved to Ohio in 1834 and 
in 1841 to Waukesha county, Wisconsin, where the father died. 

	After completing a public-school education Hiram Campbell removed 
to Monroe county, Wisconsin, where for a number of years he engaged in 
farming. From that locality he enlisted for service in the Civil war in 
1864, joining Company I, Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and 
serving as a private until the close of hostilities. He removed to 
Aberdeen in 1887 and remained an honored and respected resident of the 
city from that time until his death. On the 3d of July, in the year of 
his arrival here, he opened a grocery store and this he conducted for 
twenty-three years thereafter, gaining a large and important patronage. 
In 1910 he sold his business to his son and retired from active life. 

	In 1854 Mr. Campbell married Miss Emeline L. Wyatt, a native of 
Ohio, who died in 1886, leaving six children: Frank E., an attorney at 
Groton, South Dakota; Judge A. W., of Aberdeen; Carrie M., who married 
S. C. Daniels, of Montana; Jessie D., the wife of C. N. Harris, an 
attorney in Aberdeen; F. H., a railroad conductor residing in 
Minnesota; and E. V., who has charge of the grocery business so long 
conducted by his father. 

	Mr. Campbell was a member of the Christian church and gave his 
political allegiance to the republican party. He joined the Benevolent 
Protective Order of Elks in 1912 and was long affiliated with the Grand 
Army of the Republic. On the 14th of December, 1914, when he passed 
away, an active, busy and useful career was brought to a close.