Campbell, Frank T. 1836-1907

CAMPBELL, CHRISTIE

Posted By: Dee Helphrey Stamper (email)
Date: 4/25/2005 at 12:10:11

The Newton Daily News Mar. 7, 1907
F.T. Campbell, Former Citizen of Newton,
and Honored Man of the State, Passed Away at Lima, Ohio

Campbell, Frank T.

Frank T. Campbell, for many years honored citizen of this city, died in lima, Ohio, at 3 o’clock Wednesday morning. With his wife at his bedside and his sons, Bert, of that city, and Murray Campbell of Des Moines. About three years ago his health began to fail and for more than a year his condition has been considered serious. His trouble was a complication of stomach and liver diseases. The funeral was held this afternoon at Lima, and the interment was made in that city.

Of the life of this citizen of Iowa, the Register and Leader says in part as follows:.

Frank T. Campbell was born in Ohio in 1836, so that his life has filled the _______ three score years and ten. At the age of twenty years he removed to Newton, Iowa, and with his brother, A.K. Campbell, now of Des Moines, he assumed the management of the Newton Journal. Fourteen years later he was introduced to public life as the Republican candidate for state senator of Jasper County, and being elected, he served in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth general assemblies.

The funeral will be attended by three of the four surviving brothers, a sister, Mrs. Antoinette Christie, of Ripley, Ohio, the aged mother, who though 94 years old, journeyed from Ripley to the bedside of her son, and the two sons. A.K. Campbell, of this city, will not be able to attend on account of sickness in his own family. The brothers, who will be present are; J.Q.Campbell, and Charley D. Campbell, both of Bellefontaine, O, and W. Archie Campbell, of Lima.

All five of the brothers, at some time, in their careers, have been newspaper men. Frank T. and A.K. Campbell published the Jasper County Express at Newton for a number of years. J.Q. Campbell was for thirty years editor of the Bellefontaine, Ohio Republican, and W. Archie Campbell is still active in the publication of the Lima Gazette.

No history of Iowa or the assembly of the causes which contribute to progress of the chief state of the great corn belt will be complete without allusion to the services of Frank T. Campbell.

He entered the legislature as a young journalist from Jasper county, and the term undoubtedly will cling to his name though all the varied recountings of the work he did for the people. He was the editor of the Newton journal and he was elected to the state senate of Iowa in 1869, almost forty years ago, when the commonwealth was young and when the public services corporations were new.

Frank T. Campbell was a man of the highest integrity and principle and genuinely patriotic. He was a captain in the Fortieth Iowa Infantry and his soldier record, like that in his private and public life, was of the highest type.

Following his retirement from political office in 1893, he went into the shoe business in Des Moines, and eventually withdrew from this. He resided for several years at Ninth and Crocker streets. About two years ago he removed to Lima, Ohio, where he had been engaged with his son, Bert, in the publication of a daily newspaper. Another son, Murray A. Campbell, lives in Des Moines and is one of the state agents for the Ginn Book Company. A third son died in Des Moines a few years ago. His widow probably will remain at the home of her son in Ohio.

Conspicuous as was the public service of Frank Campbell in the offices of senator, lieutenant governor and railroad commissioner during the years that Iowa was finding itself on the question of corporation control, the truest gratification comes to his family and his friends in contemplation of his integrity and unselfishness.

And while it is meet that men pause in the work of crowning the achievements of one of the pioneers in a great public movement to bestow praise and give credit to him, the thing that really satisfies the sorrowing heart and in part assuages grief. Is the knowledge that possession of the Christian virtues will ever make his name a shining memory.

Originally submitted on Wed Sep 25 22:29:30 2002 by Dee Helphrey Stamper, the!mother@allegan.net