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ALFRED CAMPBELL

Alfred Campbell, farmer and stock raiser of Castor Township, was born in Madison County, Mo. in 1831, one mile from where he now resides. He is the son of George and Mary Ann (Stone) Campbell, and the grandson of Moses Campbell, who was a native of Virginia, and who, at the beginning of the present century, moved to Kentucky, and about 1825 came to Madison County, Mo., locating on a farm three miles east of Fredericktown, where he died about 1885. George Campbell was born in the State of Virginia in 1803, and was of Irish descent. He came to Madison County and here married (1828), and located near the old home place, but in a few years went to Webster Mines in Washington County. A few years later he returned to Madison County and bought a farm in Caster Township. He also owned a saw-mill, which he operated for many years. He died in 1852. His wife was born in Tennessee in 1810, came to Madison County when young, and is still living. She was the mother of six children, four now living, Alfred being the eldest. During the gold fever excitement in the "fifties," Alfred Campbell, like many others, resolved to seek his fortune and obtain his share of the hidden wealth in California. Consequently, in 1852, he, with four others, went overland, five months being occupied in making the trip. After mining in the Eureka State for three years, he returned to his birthplace and purchased his father's old place of 120 acres. In 1860 he sold out and purchased 219 acres four miles east of Fredericktown, where he now resides. In 1872 he married Miss Lucinda S. McMurtrey, who was bon in Madison County, Mo., in 1836, and who was the daughter of Martin McMurtrey. One child was born to this marriage named George William. Mr. Campbell is a Democrat politically, and his first presidential vote was for Millard Fillmore. He is a member of Lodge No. 172 I.O.O.F., a member of Lodge No. 116, Farmers' Alliance, and he and his wife are members of the Christian Church.