From: "Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and
Brown Counties, Illinois 1892", by Biographical Review Publishing
Company, Chicago, Illinois; pages 220-221, a reprinted by Stevens
Publishing Co., Astoria, Ill., 1971, is sold by the Schuyler County
Historical Society, Rushville, Illinois.
George S. Campbell was born in Missouri township, Brown county,
Illinois, April 12, 1857. His father, William O. F. Campbell, was born
in Logan county, Kentucky, in 1815, and his father, Owen Campbell, was
a native of Orange county, North Carolina, while his father, John
Campbell, came from Ireland to America in Colonial times, and served in
the Revolutionary war. The grandfather of our subject went to Kentucky
with his parents when quite young. He was married to Mary, the daughter
of William Clark, a native of North Carolina, and a soldier in the
Revolutionary War. Owen Campbell resided in Logan county until his
death, during the war of 1812. He greatly opposed England and was
killed during a dispute relating to the great measures which were then
attracting the attention of everyone. He left a farm of sixty-two
acres. The father of our subject resided in Kentucky until 1835, when
he emigrated to Illinois, and settled on that part of Schuyler county
now included in Brown county. He had a tract of land in what is now
Missouri township, but at that time they were included in Schuyler
county. Here he resided until his death in 1891. His wife, whose maiden
name was Caroline Stubblefield, was born in Kentucky, in 1819, and died
in 1870. He was a firm member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
but after coming to Illinois he united with the Christian Church, and
served as an Elder seven years; and also preached. He was a great bible
student, and a Democrat in politics. He also served as Justice of the
Peace for seven years.
George S. Campbell was educated at the Mt. Sterling schools. He
lived with his father until 1872. At that time he began to learn the
printer's trade in the office of the Gazette of Mt. Sterling, and this
has been his business ever since. He has worked at his trade in
different place, and in 1878 purchased the Examiner, a weekly paper
devoted to the interests of the people in general, and the Democratic
party in particular.
He was married, in 1886, to Miss Alta M. Larkin, born in Brown
county, daughter of John and Mary Larkin. They have had two children,
Earl and Elsie. Mr. Campbell is a Democrat in politics, and is a member
of Jephtha Lodge, No. 100, I.O.O.F., and also the Encampment of the
I.O.O.F., and the I.O.M.A. and Modern Woodmen.
