CHAPTER VII -- EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS IN SHELBY COUNTY (CONT'D)

THE SCOTCH AND WELSH ELEMENT IN SHELBY COUNTY.

There were comparatively few Scotch people among the early pioneers of the county. In 1870 Neil Carmichael and his wife settled in Monroe township, and about the same time his brother Hugh and wife settled in Union township, or perhaps a little later. Dr. W. D. Campbell, father of W. C. Campbell, who settled in the town of Shelby in 1876, was a graduate of the famous University of Edinburgh. The Maxwell family, pioneers of Douglas township, were of Scotch ancestry. Alexander Maxwell, for several years superintendent of the county farm, was a Scotchman. Alexander Campbell, of Jefferson township, comes of Scotch ancestry. The McCoid family of Washington township pioneer days, was originally a Scotch family.

The Welshmen among the early pioneers of Shelby county were very few. Among them may be mentioned, however, W. E. Edwards and his brother J. E. Edwards, both very early settlers in Shelby township. Another Welshman was J. C. Hardman, of Lincoln township.

Transcribed by Denise Wurner, October 2013 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 133.

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