Campbell, Hamilton 1803 - 1887

CAMPBELL

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 1/4/2015 at 10:43:18

Postville Review, Sat., 17 Sept. 1887.

Hamilton Campbell, the pioneer settler of Bloomfield township and probably of Winneshiek county, died at his home near Castalia, last Monday. The Decorah Republican has the following:

Mr. Cambell was the pioneer settler of Bloomfield township, and to the best of our research, the first actual permanent settler in the county. He died of paralysis at his home, on the land upon which he squatted in 1848. According to the information secured in 1875-6, when the early events of the county were being exhumed, Mr. Campbell arrived in Bloomfield township on the 7th of June, 1848, almost immediately after the land was opened to settlement and squatted on the land in what became section 28 and ___, and on this the family has resided until this time.

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