THOMAS CAMPBELL.
The name of Thomas Campbell for many years has been an honored and respected one in this county, Mr. Campbell richly deserving the universal respect and esteem accorded him in the community where he lives. He is numbered among the enterprising farmers of Audubon county and is a man of sound judgment, discretion and thorough knowledge of his life's vocation. He is possessed of business ability of a high order and has managed his affairs with splendid success, being generally recognized as one of the leading citizens of Melville township, where he owns two hundred and forty acres of land in section 36.
Thomas Campbell was born on February 4, 1875, in Logan county, Illinois, the son of George Campbell, a native of Ireland, who came to Audubon county in 1885, Thomas Campbell being then eleven years of age. He had attended the public schools of Logan county, Illinois, and after coming to Audubon county, attended the public schools of Melville township and in these places received his education. When twenty-three years old, Mr. Campbell began farming for himself, renting land from his father, and has farmed the lower farm of section 36 continuously since that time. In 1907 Mr. Campbell invested in eighty acres of land, a portion of his father's farm, at fifty dollars an acre, and has improved this farm by the erection of numerous buildings. Previously, in 1900, his father had given him eighty acres and in 1910 he bought eighty acres additional.
Mr. Campbell raises one hundred and twenty head of hogs annually, and is an extensive breeder of Shorthorn cattle, at the present time feeding more than thirty head of registered thoroughbred cattle. His corn, of which he raises about forty acres each year, produces upwards of sixty bushels to the acre. He, therefore, has each fall from twenty-four hundred to twenty-five hundred bushels of corn.
On February 4, 1893, Thomas Campbell was married to Nannie Glascock, who was born in Illinois, the daughter of Thomas Glascock, deceased. To this union four children have been born, George Thomas (deceased), Harry Arthur, Byron Francis and Laura Kathryn. The Campbells are held in high regard in their neighborhood and enjoy the cordial esteem of all who know them.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 557-558.
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