BYRON B. CAMPBELL
Byron B. Campbell resides on the northwest quarter of section 25, Pymosa township, land which he has owned since September 1872. He has altogether, three hundred and twenty acres, eighty of which is in section 24. He was born in Jamesville, Onondaga county, New York, November 6, 1832, and was reared upon a farm. In 1852, his fther, William Campbell, went to La Salle county, Illinois, to purchase land for his sons, but died soon after he reached Illinois. Byron B. went to LaSalle county in December following his father's death and lived there one year. In 1853 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land near Geneseo, Illinois, which he soon after sold, and returned to La Salle county, thence again, to the State of New York. In 1854, he came to Iowa and engaged in farming in Scott county, where he remained until he came to Atlantic, Cass county, in the spring of 1868. The same season he bought two hundred acres of land in Benton township which he improved. He sold this farm to Jacob Walkey and began improving his present farm. A brother-in-law of Mr. Campbell, C. R. Marks, came to Cass county with him. Mr. Marks is now living in Los Angelos(sic), California. Mr. Campbell was married in Syracuse, New York, to Electa C. Knapp, a native of Onondaga county, born May 11, 1836, in the same house in which his father, Milo K. Knapp, was born, twenty-three years before. Her mother was Susan C. (Crosby) Knapp. Her father died when Mrs. Campbell was sixteen years old. Her mother is still living in Onondaga county. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have one son - Harry B., born March 9, 1874. Mr. Campbell is one of the most enterprising and prosperous farmers of Pymosa township. His residence and surroundings are beautiful, and are evidence of the culture and good taste of their owner.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 561.
