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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio.
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and
Representative Citizens Together with
Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents of the
United States.
Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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JOHN Q. A. CAMPBELL.
the well-known editor and proprietor of the
Bellefontaine Republican, the leading paper of
Logan County, has exercised a marked influence on the
affairs of the section of Ohio, and even of the entire
State, not only professionally, but as a progressive,
public-spirited citizen, who has aided in guiding its
political destiny, as well as a guarding its dearest
interests, materially, socially and morally.
A native of this State, our subject was born in Brown
County, Sept. 28, 1838, and is a son of Charles F.
and Harriet E. (Kephart) Campbell, natives
respectively of Virginia and Pennsylvania, of German
descent on the mother's side and of Scotch-Irish
ancestry on the father's side. The paternal
great-grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and was one of the founders of
Washington College at Lexington, Va. The direct
progenitor of our subject came to this State in 1828,
and was married to Miss Kephart, who had
accompanied her parents here as early as 1818 in Ripley
Brown County. There the father passed the
remainder of his days, while the mother, who is still
living, has reached the advanced age of eighty years.
During the late war, Charles F. Campbell was
Probate Judge of Brown County. He was a lawyer of
some note and was also editor and publisher of the
Ripley Bee for fourteen years. He ranked
high as a lawyer, and fortune having smiled upon his
efforts, he was numbered among the well-to-do citizens
of Ripley. He was the parent of five sons, all of
whom became editors, and of one daughter.
J. O. A. Campbell was
reared in Ripley, where he received a good practical
education, and when old enough to choose a life
occupation, learned "the art preservative: in his
father's office. Prior to the outbreak of the
Civil War, Mr. Campbell went to Newton,
Iowa, where he published the Newton Free Press,
in company with his brother, Augus K. They
were thus engaged in short time, when our subject
abandoned his business interests and offered his
services as a volunteer in the Union army, enlisting
under Lincoln's first all as a member of Company
B, Fifth Iowa Infantry. He served in that regiment
for a period of three years, and at the end of that time
was transferred with the veterans of his regiment to
Company I, Fifth Iowa Cavalry. He was popular with
the "boys," and indeed with the officers, and served in
the positions of Second Lieutenant, Captain and Adjutant
of the regiment, and as Assistant Adjutant-General of
his brigade. Mr. Campbell was on the field
of battle during the entire period of war, during which
time he saw much hard fighting participating in many of
the most important battles in the West, serving with his
regiment in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia, and
participating in the battles of New Madrid, Island No.
10, Corinth, Iuka, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill,
Vicksburg and Mission Ridge.
Near the close of hostilities, Mr. Campbell
returned to Ripley in order to settle up the estate of
his father, who had died during his absence. In
1865, he found a good opening for a live newspaper in
Bellefontaine, and purchased the Republican,
which was the first paper to appear as a Republican
paper, setting forth the principle of that party in the
United States. At the time of its establishment in
1854, it was edited by Judge W. H. West.
Under the supervision of Mr. Campbell it is now
one of the leading papers in Ohio. The
Republican is a semi-weekly, 20x40, has
circulation of twenty-two hundred, and is a sound family
newspaper supplied with solid and useful information, as
well as with lighter matter; it keeps its readers well
informed on current topics and the affairs of this and
other countries, and one of its interesting features is
the correspondence from various localities in the
county. It has been noted for its independence,
its advocacy of right and its rejection of everything
unworthy and unclean from its columns. Mr.
Campbell is a practical printer himself, and has
devoted his best energies to the work of making a paper
that should be a potent factor in the upbuilding of city
and county. His office is supplied with power
press and all the modern machinery, and his editorials
have been copied from Maine to California, in such
leading papers as the Cincinnati Commerical Gazette,
Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle,
New York Tribune, New York Post and Bangor
Whig and Courier. The usual amount of praise
and fault-finding has been measured out to him as an
editor, but his character as a man of honor, integrity
and public spirit has never been questions.
Mr. Campbell was married in 1866 to Miss
Isaella Dorwin, by whom he became the father of one
son, Wilfred B., now a clerk for Marshall
Field & Co., Chicago. Mrs. Campbell
departed this life in 1866, and our subject in April
1872, was married to Estelle Hoge. To them
have been born two daughters, Bertha E. and
Claire G. Our subject is a member of the Grand
Army, and in religious matters is Elder of the
Presbyterian Church of this place.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 424 |
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ROBERT H. CANBY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 536
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C. B. CHESHER
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 466
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CLOUGH BROS.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 478
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WILLIAM CONWAY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 371
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CHARLES C. COOKSTON
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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OLIVER CORWIN
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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JOHN P. COST
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
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CHARLES COULTER
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 206
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JOHN B. COWGILL
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 189
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