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Biographies of Scott County, 1888 Capt. William W. Campbell, a prominent stock farmer of Scott County, Mo., was born in Kentucky in December, 1826, and is a son of William J. and Priscilla (Asbell) Campbell, natives of North Carolina, where they were reared, being married in Kentucky, to which they removed about the time of the Jackson purchase. In the winter of 1833 they came to Southeast Missouri, and located near Charleston, where they both died, the father in 1848, aged forty-six years, and the mother on November 5, 1855, aged forty-eight years. They had nine children: Eson C. (deceased), William W., Joseph M. (deceased) Malissa C., Granderson M., Aaron D. (deceased), Martha I. (deceased), and Polly Ann (deceased). Granderson M. is in Texas engaged in farming. Malissa C. lives with the subject of this sketch. William W. came to Missouri with his parents, and remained at home until 1848, when he went to North Missouri, but was taken sick soon after and returned home and engaged in the grocery business in Charleston. After continuing about two years he sold out, and in the spring of 1850 went to California. Four years later he left the latter State and went by ship to Key West, thence to Virginia, where he left the ship and proceeded to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and from there on to Southeast Missouri. After one year's merchandising at what is known as Lane's Landing, on the Mississippi River, he purchased 260 acres of land near his present farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits. The next year (1856) he sold that and purchased the farm on which he now resides. In 1864 he was mustered into the Federal army as captain of Company D, Fiftieth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged in St. Louis in July 1865. At the close of the war he returned home and resumed farming, but his house had been burned by guerrillas. In 1854 he was married to Molly Daniel, a native of Mississippi County, Mo. She died in 1859, leaving one daughter, Louisa, who afterwards became the wife of Martin L. Terrell and died in 1877. On August 18, 1859 Mr. Campbell married Emily J. Hinton, who was born in Scott County, Mo., on April 12, 1888, and died October 8, 1879. To this union six children were born, as follows: Alexander, Joseph (born on December 19, 1862, died on September 1, 1864), Alice (born on February 16 1866, died on August 19, 1871), Murray (born April 1, 1875), Thomas (born April 2, 1876) and George A. (born February 16, 1879). Mr. Campbell is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. His wife was also a member of the same church. Mr. Campbell is enterprising and progressive, and has done much to promote the educational facilities of his district. This site is a AHGP Project which is a volunteer genealogical organization dedicated to the free access of genealogical information. NOTE: If you run across a site thats charges a fee to view these pages, please let me know This is a free site. There is not a charge to view these pages. Return To -C- Biographies 
 
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