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Note: 1. The following information was copied from correspondence from Robert Campbell of Long Beach, CA: "....James Madison Campbell, the first child of John Davidson Campbell and Mary Funk Kesler. The families became separated during the Civil War, for several reasons, including, but not limited to the fact that James Campbell settled in Harpers Ferry and became confused with the sheriff who arrested John Brown and then became executor of his will. James Madison Campbell's family moved to Illinois and then to Kansas. After the Civil War his brother Samuel went to visit him in Kansas but did not live to share the news as he was reportedly killed by Quan- trill's raiders on his way home." 2. Copied from The Hutchinson News, 2 Nov 1915: "A PIONEER PASSES ON James M. Campbell, Veteran Resident of Reno County is Dead. Came Here In The '70'S He Was Probably the Oldest Surviving Engineer of the Baltimore & Ohio. James M. Campbell, one of the oldest ex-employees of the Baltimore & Ohio railway system, and probably of the the earliest engineers of that road still surviving, died at his home in Hutchinson, at 426 Tenth west, this morning. Mr. Campbell had lived in Reno county for thirty-eight years, having located here in 1877. He was an engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio division at Harper's Ferry and Piedmont, Va., in the early '50s, and when the B. & O. built a branch over the [Alegheny] mountains in that vicinity, his train was the first to run over the branch. The funeral of Mr. Campbell will be held Thursday at 10 o'clock from the residence on Tenth west. Rev. Hinshaw, of Turon, officiating. The deceased is survived by four sons, J.W. Campbell, of Nickerson, John H. Campbell of Hutchinson, J.C. Campbell of Arlington and P.L. Campbell of Hutchinson. His wife died several years ago. James M. Campbell was a native of Virginia, having been born in Fayette county, in what is now West Virginia, in 1829. His father, John Campbell, was also a native of that state, born in 1804, he and his father-in-law having been the first white men to settle in Fayette county. His grandfather, John Campbell, came to this country from Ireland. Jas. Campbell spent his boyhood and youth on his father's farm, and became a hunter of great efficiency, for in those days the country was full of big game, bears, panthers, and wildcats. When 21 years old he located near Harper's Ferry, and he was married there in 1851. He engaged in railroad work there, when the Baltimore & Ohio road was first built up the valley, starting in as brakeman, and finally advancing to the position of engineer. In 1858 he quit railroading and moved to Lee county, Illinois, where he engaged in farming. In 1878, he moved from Illinois to Kansas, shipping three carloads of stock, and goods to Hutchinson from Chicago. He purchased a half section farm in Salt Creek township, and at once put in 100 acres of wheat. The residence which he built on the farm was said to be the second frame residence erected in Salt Creek township. Mr. Campbell engaged extensively in farming in that township, and in 1879 he and his older boys harvested 1,360 acres of wheat. He was one of the first farmers to try alfalfa in that part of the county. In 1898, Mr. Campbell bought property in Hutchinson and moved here and retired from active farm life. He sustained a partial stroke of paralysis years ago, from which he never fully recovered." SOURCES INCLUDE: Robert Campbell, 247 La Verne Ave., Belmont Shore, Long Beach, CA 90803. (RCampb1437@aol.com) Some of his information came from: Karen Kessler Cottrill, 458 Delaware Ave., Egg Harbor Twp., NJ 08234-5906. (kesslerwv@ aol.com).
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