Albert W. Campbell Biography



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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 242-243

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HON. ALBERT W. CAMPBELL.  In the last half of the present century the 
lawyer has been a pre-eminent factor in all affairs of private concern 
and national importance.  He has been depended upon to conserve the 
best and permanent interests of the whole people and is a recognized 
power in all the avenues of life.  He stands as a protector of the 
rights and liberties of his fellow men and is the representative of a 
profession whose followers, if they would gain honor, fame and success, 
must be men of merit and ability.  Such a one is Judge Campbell, of 
Aberdeen, South Dakota, who now occupies the bench of the circuit court 
in his district, winning high commendation by his fair and impartial 
administration of justice.

The Judge was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, October 10, 1856, and is a 
son of Hiram and Emeline L. (Wyatt) Camp-bell, natives of New York and 
Ohio, respectively.  In 1848 they became residents of Oconomowoc, where 
the father engaged in farming until 1857, when they removed to Monroe 
county, Wisconsin.  He served as a soldier of the Civil war, being a 
member of the Nineteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry.  The mother died 
in 1886.  In their family were six children, namely:  Frank E., an 
attorney of Groton, Brown county, South Dakota; A. W., our subject; 
Mrs. C. S. Daniels, of Tomah, Wisconsin; Mrs. C. N. Harris, of 
Aberdeen, South Dakota; Fred H., a railroad conductor; and Earnest, a 
clerk in a grocery store.

Judge Campbell acquired his literary education in the high school of 
Tomah, Wisconsin, and prepared for his profession in the law department 
of the State University of Wisconsin.  He was admitted to the bar in 
1878 and the following year began practice in Viroqua, Wisconsin. 
Corning to Aberdeen, South Dakota, in 1883, he opened an office here, 
and as his skill and ability soon became widely recognized it was not 
long before he built up a large and lucrative practice.

In 1880 Judge Campbell married Miss Lulu E. Casson, a daughter of John 
R. Casson, of Viroqua, Wisconsin.  She died in July, 1891, leaving two 
sons, Joe C. and Donald H.  The Judge was again married, in October, 
1893, his second union being with Miss Mamie A. Havens, a native of 
Wisconsin, by whom he has two children, Roger A. and Dorothy.  In 
religious faith Mrs. Campbell is a Presbyterian.

Fraternally the Judge is a Master Mason and a member of the Ancient 
Order of United Workmen and the Bar Association of Brown county.  
Politically he is a stanch Republican, and served as a delegate to the 
territorial conventions of his party.  He was elected to the 
territorial legislature in the fall of 1886, and reelected in 1888, 
serving with distinction as a member of that body for two terms.  In 
the fall of 1889 he was elected judge of the fifth circuit of South 
Dakota, comprising Brown, Beadle, Spink, Day, Marshall, Grant and 
Roberts counties, and so capably and satisfactorily did he fill that 
responsible position that he was re-elected in 1893 and again in 1897.  
He is a genial, courteous gentleman, a pleasant, entertaining 
companion, and has many stanch and admiring friends among all classes 
of men.  As an energetic, upright and conscientious lawyer, and a 
gentleman of attractive social qualities, he stands high in the 
estimation of the entire community.