George P. B. Campbell Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Potosi, Biographical Sketches, Page 939

GEORGE P. B. CAMPBELL, carpenter and lumberman; P. O. Lancaster; born in Indiana 
July 18, 1835; son of George and Rachel (Preston) Campbell, who came to Grant 
Co. in July, 1844; settled at Waterloo two years, Potosi one year and Lancaster 
two years; then bought the mill business established in 1854 by Mr. Irish, and 
afterward owned by Hampton & Walker in 1866.  The mill runs seven months of the 
year with eighteen-foot head, and will cut 2,000 feet in ten hours.  Mr. C. was 
three years in the 25th W. V. I., and draws a pension.  He has been Constable 
several years, and is a Democrat.  He was married March 13, 1853, to Sarah 
Taylor, of Potosi, who died July 3, 1877, leaving eight children - Amanda, wife 
of Robert Greener, of Minnesota; has two children - Prudence E. and John Frank 
and Sarah are twins; Sarah is wife of Henry Foster, of Minnesota; Henry A. and 
German W.  His second marriage was on Aug. 20, 1879, to Sarah L., daughter of 
Oliver F. and Jane Ann Keene, of Little Grant.  She was born Jan. 13, 1860, and 
has one son - Preston A., born July 9, 1880; owns 3 1/2 acres of land, house and 
saw-mill.