Biography - Charles Campbell
CHARLES CAMPBELL, farmer, Sections 7 and 6, P. O. London. Mr. Campbell
was born in Belmont County Ohio, October 28, 1834; has been a life long
farmer; removed to Knox County, Ill., in 1856, and in September, 1861,
enlisted in the Eleventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry commanded by the now
famous Col. R. G. Ingersoll; participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth,
etc., and was honorably discharged on account of physical disability at the
end of eighteen months. He came to Nebraska in 1866, and to his present farm
in the spring of 1867. Mr. Campbell has made substantial improvements here
in the line of tree-planting and building. He married Eliza Miller [the
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index lists a Charles Campbell marrying a Eliza
F. Miller in Knox County on November 5, 1863], of Preble County, Ohio, by
whom be has three children -- John A., Frank E. and Viola B. Mr. Campbell
has been Master Pleasant Ridge Grange, and is now a member of the Farmers'
Alliance.
Contributed by Bob Miller, extracted from the 1882 History of the State of
Nebraska - Nemaha County, by Andreas.
