Frank Campbell Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 813-814

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FRANK CAMPBELL, an industrious farmer, residing on the southwest 
quarter of section 34, in Clyde township, is of Irish parentage, and is 
the fourth child of a family of thirteen children born to Frank and 
Mary (Morrow) Campbell, of County Tyrone, Ireland. His father was a 
farmer by occupation and he passed to his rest many years ago, but his 
mother is still living in the Old Country home, where our subject was 
born August 16, 1842. 

Mr. Campbell spent his early life on his father's farm, and when 
eighteen years of age came to the New World, a brother and sister 
having emigrated to America previously. He landed in New York, and 
accepting the first work offered began to learn the trade of carpenter, 
and for many months he was kept at sawing rough lumber and pounding 
nails. He went to Illinois and located in Ogle county, where he was 
employed on a farm, and soon afterward rented land and began farming 
for himself. After accumulating a few hundred dollars he went to 
Dakota, in 1881, and took a homestead claim to his present farm, upon 
which he erected a 16 x 22 foot frame house, which was his home until 
1898, when he added a well finished, upright, 16 x 24-feet with twelve-
foot posts, and now resides in a comfortable home, which is his own 
handiwork. He has a large barn and good sized sheds, and outbuildings, 
and a plentiful supply of water, from a well sixty-four feet in depth. 

Mr. Campbell was married in 1881, to Miss Joanna Evans, who was born in 
New York, April 5, 1838. Mrs. Campbell was the daughter of William and 
Mary (Jones) Evans, both of whom are deceased. Our subject and his wife 
work contentedly in their comfortable home, pleased with the success of 
their efforts, and respected by their many acquaintances. In political 
views Mr. Campbell is a Republican, and favors high license.