Cache County UT Archives Biographies.....Campbell, Joseph 1861 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

BISHOP JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

    Bishop Joseph Campbell is the treasurer of the Cache county school board and
a teacher in the Providence public schools. He is also a bishop in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thus he is actively connected with the
educational and moral progress of his section of the state. He was born October
26, 1861, in Providence, where he still makes his home. His father, Joseph H.
Campbell, is a native of Ohio and of Scotch descent, the family having been
founded in America by the great-grandfather of Bishop Campbell, who on crossing
the Atlantic to the new world established his home in the state of New York and
afterward removed to Ohio. Joseph H. Campbell was reared in the Buckeye state
until 1850, when he accompanied his parents on their emigration to Utah. His
father, Benonia Campbell, died on the plains while en route to Nebraska. Joseph
H. Campbell was at that time a youth of fourteen years, and with his brothers
and sisters he continued the journey to Salt Lake, where he arrived in the month
of September. During his youthful days he followed agricultural pursuits but
later engaged in business on his own account. In 1857 he went to Cache to seek a
location and in 1859 took up his abode as a permanent settler within the county,
devoting his attention to farming and stock raising throughout the remainder of
his active business life. He won substantial success in that undertaking and is
now living retired in Providence, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. He is
an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and in 1863
filled a mission at Missouri river points and conducted the emigrants from that
section of the country to Utah. He has been active in various other lines of
church work and has ever been regarded as one of the substantial and valued
citizens of Cache county. The mother of Bishop Campbell bore the maiden name of
Elizabeth Mathews and was born in Wales. She came to the United States with her
parents and in 1856 made the trip to Utah with a hand-cart company, walking the
entire distance over the hot, sandy plains and across the mountains. She was a
daughter of the late Hopkin and Margaret (Morris) Mathews, both of whom died in
Providence. Mrs. Campbell passed away August 22, 1916, at the age of seventy-two
years. She had become the mother of nine children, six sons and three daughters,
all of whom are yet living.

    Joseph Campbell, whose name introduces this review, was the eldest child and
in the district schools near his father's home he began his education,
supplementing his early opportunities by study in the Brigham Young College of
Logan, in which he completed the normal course. His early life to the age of
twenty years was spent upon the home farm, during which period he became
familiar with all of the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the
agriculturist. He then took up educational work, in which he has since engaged
with the exception of a period of four years, spent upon a mission. He has done
excellent work as an educator, imparting clearly and readily to others the
knowledge that he has acquired and inspiring teachers and pupils under him with
much of his own zeal and interest in the work. He has continually studied to
improve the methods of instruction which he has employed and has kept in touch
with the modern ideas of the most advanced educators of the country. He is also
the vice president of the Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank of Logan and in
addition he conducts a ranch at Providence.

    It was on the 30th of September, 1887, at the place of his nativity, that
Mr. Campbell was married to Miss Ella Hammond, a native of Providence and a
daughter of M. D. and Freelove (Miller) Hammond, the former now deceased. Mr.
and Mrs. Campbell have become parents of eight children, six daughters and two
sons. Ella Irene, the eldest, is the wife of Godfrey J. Fuhriman, who is living
at Ridgedale, in the Pocatello valley of Idaho. Vesta is the wife of Leon Alder,
also living at Ridgedale, Idaho. Elizabeth is the wife of Bernard Hansen, whose
home is at Sheridan, Wyoming. Genevieve is the next of the family. Joseph Milton
married Vera Thorpe and is a resident of Providence.   Alta and Alva, twins, and
Glenn complete the family.

    Mr. Campbell is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
and is bishop of the second ward of Providence, having been ordained May 1,
1909, by Apostle Hyrum M. Smith. He served on a mission from 1890 until 1893 in
England and was president of the Norwich Conference during the latter part of
that period. His second mission was to the northern states and while there he
served as president of the Northern Illinois Conference for nineteen months,
with headquarters in Chicago. In politics he is a democrat and while never an
active politician he has ever been a supporter of those plans and measures which
work for public benefit and progress and during the period of the war was
chairman of the Council of Defense at Providence.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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