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DAVID F. CAMPBELL has been for many years prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Jefferson County, and is the proprietor of a fine farm of two hundred acres located on section 33, Blissville Township. This estate is supplied with substantial improvements, including neat and commodious buildings, and is in every respect well improved and well managed. Mr. Campbell is numbered among the influential citizens of his township, where he has borne a conspicuous part in the management of public affairs, and his community values him as one of its best members. Mr. Campbell, of this sketch, was born in October, 1833, in Kentucky, and is the son of Edward and Mary (Lewis) Campbell, the former of whom was a native of Virginia, as was also his father. The mother of our subject was born in Lewis County, Ky., where she was living at the time of his birth. David had but few opportunities for gaining an education, for his mother dying when he was quite young, he was bound out to a man with whom he remained until fourteen years of age. He received very cruel treatment during the years he was an inmate of this home, and after leaving his hard task-master lived with another family until he reached his nineteenth year. When twenty years of age David Campbell came to Illinois nd made settlement near his present home. He worked industriously, and by the exercise of economy and good judgment soon accumulated a handsome property and now owns two hundred acres of as fine land as is to be found in Jefferson County. In December, 1854, he married Miss Mary L., a daughter of Jesse P. and Sarah (Moore) Dees, who came to this county in an early day. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were born eight children, one of whom died in infancy. Those living are, Charles E., who married Hetta Conaha and resides in Blissville Township; Sarah A., who is the wife of H. B. Harris and makes her home in this township; Mary C., who resides with her parents; Marshall C., who married Emily Dees; Julia E., who is the wife of A. B. Eater; Martha J., who became the wife of George Howard; and Stephen E., who married Eliza Rosenberger. The children all make their home in Blissville Township with the exception of Martha J., who is living in Casner Township. In February, 1865, our subject became a Union soldier, enlisting his services as a member of Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-second Illinois Infantry. He was mustered in at Springfield and was on guard duty until the date of his discharge, in September of that year. In his political affiliations he has been a life-long Democrat and socially is a member of Stephen Place Post No. 581, G. A. R. He is a liberal-minded and public-spirited gentleman and is held in the highest esteem by the entire community. He has been Constable, Justice of the Peace and Assessor of his township and is the present Democratic nominee for the office of Township Supervisor. Together with his wife he is a devoted member of the Free Will Baptist Church.
Source: "Portrait and Biographical Record Clinton, Washington, Marion and Jefferson Counties, Illinois" |
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