Campbell, M. G.

CAMPBELL, ADAMS, VAUGHN

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Date: 9/9/2020 at 14:18:42

M. G. Campbell, farmer and stock-raiser, resides on section 10, Oregon Township. He is a native of Mercer County, Pa., born in 1837, and is the son of Mark and Anna (Adams) Campbell, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch and the latter of Irish descent. The father died in 1862, while the mother is still living in Pennsylvania at the age of eight-seven. They reared a family of five children, all of who are living, and two residing in the county.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and has followed that occupation thus far through life. He came to this county in 1861, and settled at Ainsworth, where he remained two years, then went to a farm near Crawfordsville, where he remained one year, and in 1864 came to his present farm, where he purchased eighty acres of raw prairie at $4 per acre. He has since added to his original purchase until he now owns 140 acres in the home farm and thirty acres on another section. The land which at that time, as already stated, was raw prairie , he has improved, until he has now one of the finest farms in Oregon Township, with a neat residence, good barns, and all other necessary out-buildings. Everything around him denotes thrift and enterprise. In 1858 he married Mary L. Vaughn, a native of Mercer County, Pa., and the daughter of John Vaughn. Her parents died when she was a small child. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are the parents of seven children, all living: John W., the eldest, married Etta Carson, she has one child, Harry; W. L. resides in Missouri; Anna is the wife of A. Cocklin, of this county; Frank resides at home; E. Belle, Mark and James L., area also at home.

Politically, Mr. Campbell is a Republican, though at the same time a strong Prohibitionist. He and his wife are both members of the Presbyterian Church, and in the work and services of the Church take great delight. On their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were in limited circumstances, but they have toiled early and late, have been economical in their expenditures, and have thus acquired a comfortable property. They both enjoy the respect and confidence of all who know them.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington County, Iowa (1887). Excerpt from Biographical Sketch of M. G. Campbell, pages 596-597.