Charles R. Campbell

    Charles R. Campbell, Miller Township, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, August 3, 1815, and in Antrim Township, on the fork of the Conococheague Creek, grew to the age of sixteen years. In 1831 his parents,  Allen K. and Esther R. (Berryhill) Campbell, with their seven children, came to Ohio and stopped near Fort Harrison about ten months, and in the spring of 1832 came to this locality and purchased land on Georgetown Ridge. He subsequently sold out and moved to the pres4ent site of Guilford, where he died February 20, 1837. His widow died in December, 1865. They reared seven children, four now living.

    Our subject remained with his parents till 1833, and then began boating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, continuing till 1849, in which business he was fairly successful. He then engaged in railroading for a time, and in 1857, in partnership with James H. Skatts, erected the store building in Guilford, now occupied by Robert Hargitt and took up merchandising, which he continued till 1863-64 with excellent success. After that Mr. Campbell purchased a farm, which he cultivated till 1884, when he sold out and purchased his present home. He was married, February 26, 1846, to Catharine Ewbank, of this county, daughter of Thomas Ewbank, an early English settler of Dearborn County. They had eight children, four of whom are still living: Thomas D., station agent and telegraph operator, Boylston, Indiana; Mary, wife of William D. Hammel, Lexington, Indiana; Charles G., bridge repairer, west end "Big Four" Railroad and Lizzie, who is still at home. Mr. Campbell has always been an active business man, and he takes a keen interest in passing events. He is of Presbyterian faith religiously, a strict temperance man and an enthusiastic Democrat.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.