Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 86

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856

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of Colonel Bowen's regiment, and was captured with the other troops under Gen- eral D. M. Frost at the surrender of the camp to the Federal forces under General Lyon. Early in August following he was released and at once entered the Confederate Army, in which he served four years, passing through several gradations of rank. After the final surrender of the Confederate forces he was paroled, June 8, 1865, at Columbus, Mississippi, and at once returned to St. Louis. The rigid enforcement of the "test oath" provision of what was known as the "Drake Constitution," at that time. made it impossible for him to resume the practice of his profession in that city, and he went from there to New Orleans, where he practiced successfully until 1873. In that year he came back to St. Louis, and since then has oc- cupied a commanding position at the bar of that city, achieving distinction alike for his erudition, his high-minded and honorable methods of conducting litigation, the judicial bent of his mind, and his ability as a trial lawyer. He has at different times taken a dignified and honorable part in political campaigns, as a member of the Democratic party, with which he has always affiliated, but has had no fondness for official preferment. He was elected a member of the first City Council organized under the "Scheme and Charter," in 1878, but resigned shortly after- ward, and, so far as the writer of this sketch is informed, has held no other office. Ile has, however, been prominent in the councils of his party, and sat as a delegate in the National Democratic Conventions of 1872 and 1880. He is an exemplary churchman of the Presbyterian faith, and a Master Mason, affiliating with George Washington Lodge No. 9. of St. Louis. January 26, 1865, he married Miss Susan Elizabeth Woods, of St. Louis. Through her mother, whose maiden name was Susan Berry, Mrs. Camp- bell is descended from an old Massachusetts family, several representatives of which served as officers in the Colonial and Revo- Intionary Wars. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are Dr. Given Campbell, of St. Louis; Mrs. Susan C. Armonx, wife of Anthony Armoux, of New York City; and James C. Campbell.

Campbell, John Alexander, mer- chant, was born September 19, 1871, at

Steeleville, Randolph County, Illinois. His parents were James Polk and Sarah Alice (Stillwaugh) Campbell, both natives of that State. He acquired a common school educa- tion in the public schools of his native State, and completed a high school course at Co- lumibus, Kansas, in 1890. For nearly two years he was deputy county treasurer of Cherokee County, Kansas, resigning that po- sition to become assistant cashier of the Cherokee County Bank of Columbus, Kan- sas. After serving two years in that capacity he resigned in order to enter the service of the J. J. Graham Grocery Company of Jop- lin, as cashier and credit man. He resigned this position, after a six years' engagement, in order to begin business on his own ac- count, and, in association with others, founded the Campbell-Redell Grocer Con- pany of Joplin. April 10. 1899, he being the managing partner. His associates are Henry P. Campbell-not a relative-who was con- nected with the J. J. Graham Grocer Com- pany from its establishment, and George H. Redell. prominent in many of the business enterprises of the city. The Campbell-Redell Grocer Company is capitalized at $30,000. Its trade territory comprises the area bounded by Nevada and Monett, Missouri ; Mena, Arkansas, and Cherryvale, Kansas, and includes a portion of the Indian Terri- tory. Mr. Campbell's entire attention is di- rected to the interests of his house. He is an exceedingly active and well informed man, and holds the mastery of the wholesale gro- cery business in all of its various details. His ability finds ample acknowledgment in the highly responsible positions he has been called upon to fill, at an early period of his life, from none of which he was released but with deep regret upon the part of his em- plovers. The house to which he has joined his fortunes has already established a large trade, and is soon destined to stand in the very front rank of the business enterprises of southwest Missouri. Mr. Campbell was one of the original owners of the celebrated John Jackson mine, which he and his associates sold to the Corbin syndicate.

Campbell, Robert A., lawyer, legisla- tor and Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, was born in Pike County, this State. He comes of a distinguished patriot family, and his ancestors' names have borne high and

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honorable relations to the country and the State. His great-grandfather, James Camp- bell, was a native of North Carolina. and commanded a battalion at King's Mountain, that famous and glorious battle that did so much for the patriot cause in the Revolution. He was also in the battle of Guilford Court- house, and saw other active service under General Sumter. His grandfather, William Campbell, born in Virginia, came to Missouri in the year 1818, while it was yet a Territory, and was one of the pioneer settlers in Pike County. His father, Rev. James W. Camp- bell, who was born in Harrison County, Ken- tneky, was an active minister in the Cumber- land Presbyterian Church for sixty-five years, and was popularly credited with the honor of having united more couples in marriage than any other clergyman in the State. Lienten- ant Governor Campbell's mother was Sophia (Henry) Campbell, whose father, a citizen of Lincoln County, was one of the forty-one members of the first State Convention of Missouri, in 1820, which formed the Consti- tution under which the State was admitted to the Union. Robert A. Campbell was edu- cated at Spring River Academy, in Missouri, and Illinois College, at Jacksonville, gradu- ating from the latter institution in 1851. In 1855 he was chosen clerk of the House of Representatives of the Missouri Legislature, and served till 1860. When the State Con- vention of 1861, called to consider the rela- tions of the State of Missouri to the Union, assembled, he was chosen secretary. In 1868 he was elected to the Legislature from Pike County, and served a term of two years. Up to this time he had been a citizen of Pike County, but in 1874 he removed to St. Louis, and in 1876 was elected to the Legislature from that city, and re-elected in 1878. In 1880 he was elected Lieutenant Governor, along with Governor Crittenden, and served for a term of four years. In 1885 he was chosen comptroller of the city of St. Louis, and it was under his administration that ar- rangements were made for building the new City Hall, and an amendment adopted to the city charter for the better security of the city moneys deposited in bank. Before this amendment there were times when a single bank would hold $3,000,000 of the city moneys, with a bond of $500,000. After the adoption of it deposits in one bank were lim- ited to $500,000. Another measure of great

benefit to the city that distinguished Comp- troller Campbell's administration was the present general system of street sprinkling in place of the former partial method, which proved so unsatisfactory. After the expira- tion of his term as comptroller he was appointed judge of the court of criminal cor- rection, and at the end of his term resumed the practice of law, devoting a share of his attention to the management of his extensive and valuable farm near Bowling Green, in Pike County. He was an outspoken and resolute Union man during the Civil War, and enlisted as private in the Fifth Regiment, United States Reserve Corps, serving after- ward as major in the Forty-ninth Missouri Militia, and adjutant of the Fifth Regiment, General John B. Henderson's brigade. When the Lindell Hotel was built, in 1874, he was secretary of the company, and controlled the erection and management of it for Mrs. Mar- maduke, the owner. Ile was at one time president of the Louisiana & Missouri River Railroad Company, afterward leased to the Chicago & Alton, and also president of the company that built the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad, afterward sold to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. In all the positions of trust to which he has been called he has acquitted himself with honor, and shown himself a Missourian without re- proach.

Campbell, William C., one of the earliest settlers of Clay County, Missouri, and a man prominently identified with important interests in Kansas City, was born in Madi- son County, Kentucky, in 1820, and died at his home in Kansas City in 1897. His father, William Campbell, came to Missouri in 1832, when the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age, and located in Clay County, across the Missouri River from, and near. Kansas City. The family located on a fine farm in Clay County, purchased by William Campbell during the days of his early pros- perity in a new home, and it is owned at this day by William E. Campbell, his grandson, of Kansas City. W. C. Campbell, after the death of his father, continued to advance in material affairs, and was one of the best known men in his neighborhood. His farni in Clay County grew to a splendid place of nearly seven hundred acres, and he added to his possessions in the purchase of various

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pieces of property in Kansas City. He erected a building on Main Street, near the levee, which was occupied by the first owners of the "Kansas City Journal," and a number of pioneer lawyers had their offices in the same structure. Other buildings were erected for him in Kansas City as the town grew in size and commercial importance, and Mr. Campbell became a man of large interests, both on his own side of the river, in Clay County, and in the thriving young metropolis on the south shore of the stream. W. C. Campbell was a soldier in the Mexican War, going out with General A. W. Doniphan for participation in the long series of memorable engagements that marked the military career of that great Missouri leader. The Doniphan expedition, as the student of Missouri history well knows, was of great importance in that struggle, and Mr. Campbell followed the un- certainties of war up to the time when fight- ers were no longer needed. He then returned to his Clay County farm and resumed his agricultural pursuits. In 1851 he was married to Amanda Evans, daughter of William and Amelia (McGee) Evans, both of whom were particularly well known in the early history of Kansas City and Jackson County. Wil- liam Evans was a member of the town board that purchased the first lots upon which the buildings of older Kansas City now stand. He ran the first ferry from what was then Westport Landing-there being no Kansas City-across the Missouri River to the Clay County side. Amanda Evans was born at what is known as Dundee Place, now within the very heart of refined improvement in Kansas City, but then marking only a vast stretch of uncultivated property. She was born in 1832, and her mother was Amelia Me- Gee, the oldest member of the well known McGee family, whose history appears in this work. Amanda was the oldest of the Evans family, and was probably the first white child born in that section of the country west of the Blue River, with the possible exception of the children of French trappers, who might have been located in territory farther west than the line of the picturesque Blue. Wil- liam Evans removed from what is now Dun- dee Place and took up his residence on what became Main Street, in Kansas City, near the levee. There the family resided until about 1846, when they returned to the old home at

Dundee Place. There William Evans died in 1855.

In 1893, after having been identified with the best interests of Clay County for many years, W. C. Campbell gave up his residence there and removed to Kansas City, locating at 624 Brooklyn Avenue, which is still the family home. He died in 1897, mourned by hundreds who had known his true worth as a man of high purposes and patriotic im- pulses. His wife survives, at an advanced but well preserved age. To them three chil- dren were born, two daughters and one son. The latter is William E. Campbell, of Kansas City, who owns, in addition to the farm held by his grandfather, considerable real estate and valuable property in the city which the generations of this worthy family have seen develop marvelously. W. E. Campbell was born on the old home place in Clay County in October, 1859. He was married, in 1878, to Miss Webster, of Independence, Missouri, and removed the same year to Kansas City. They have one child. a son seven years of age.

Camphell, William Lee, dentist, was born August 19, 1858, in Washington County, Ohio. His parents were Charles Henry and Patience (Root) Campbell. The father was a native of New York, born of Scotch parents, and the mother came from a pioneer Ohio family, whose members performed deeds of daring and endured hardships that live in the history of that State. Her father, John Root, was a pioneer and Indian fighter, without the recital of whose brave achievements no early Ohio history is complete. He was one of the first settlers in Washington County. Charles Henry Campbell and his wife were, in the early part of the year 1900, still living, at ages of extreme advancement, on the old Ohio homestead. Their son, William Lee, received his common school education in Washington County, Ohio. Having mas- tered the rudimentary branches, he proceeded to carry out a determination, formed early in his young manhood, to become a representa- tive of the profession of dentistry, and the first year of his training was at the University of Michigan. The following year he entered the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, Cincin- nati, and was graduated in 1884 with the de- gree of D. D. S. For one year he engaged in

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the practice of dentistry with a preceptor at Joliet, Illinois. In the spring of the year 1885 he removed to Kansas City, where he has since continuously resided. Up to the year 1899 he had been connected with the Kansas City Dental College, as an instructor. for twelve years. In the year named he re signed, left the chair he had so ably filled, and is not now actively connected with an insti tution of this kind. During the years of his service in the college he was a lecturer on prosthetic dentistry, and gave evidence of particularly thorough mastery of that branch of the profession. lle is a member of the Missouri State Dental Society. In political affairs Dr. Campbell is a Republican, but is not actively identified with the workings of the party. He is one of the prominent mem- bers and unfailing supporters of the Grand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, of Kan- sas City, has had an important part in the growth of that religious society, and is a member of its official board. His devotion to fraternal affairs is limited, being confined to a membership in the Imperial Mystic Legion. He was married, May 12, 1885, at Joliet, Illi- nois, to Miss Anna L. Cox. Mrs. Campbell's parents were numbered among the oldest and most highly respected families of Ohio, the family home being near Canton. Her father, Joshua H. Cox, was an early settler and a sturdy man of affairs. To Dr. and Mrs. Campbell one son has been born, an inter- esting lad of ten years. The attention and time of the father are divided between his household, his church and his profession. To each of the three he is devotedly attached, and there is an earnest reciprocation on the part of the members of his profession and his colaborers in the cause of Christianity.

Campbell, William M., lawyer and publisher, was born in Lexington, Virginia. in 1804, and died in St. Louis, December 31, 1849. He received a collegiate education, studied law, and in 1827 came to Missouri to practice his profession. He settled in St. Charles, where he acquired distinction as a member of the bar. From 1830 to 1845 he was a member of the State Legislature, and few men of his day had as much to do with the conduct of State affairs as had he. In 1844 he removed to St. Louis, where he con- tinned the practice of law until his death. For some years he was the publisher of the "New

Era" newspaper of St. Louis, and he was the Founder of the Missouri Historical and Philo sophical Society, and president of that or ganization from the date of its incorporation until his death.

Camp Jackson. April 22, 1801. 400 ernor Claiborne F. Jackson issued an order directing the militia of the State of Missouri to assemble in the respective districts into which the State was divided on May 30 fol- lowing, and to go into camp for six days thereafter, in accordance with the State law and military regulations. In obedience to this order the military companies of the first district- which embraced the city and county of St. Louis-assembled for their annual en- campment and pitched their tents in Lindell Grove, a wooded valley near the intersection of Olive Street and Grand Avenue. The camp was named Camp Jackson, in honor of the Governor of the State, and continued in existence, under command of Brigadier Gen- eral D. M. Frost, until May roth, when it was captured by General Nathaniel Lyon, in com . mand of a force of regular and volunteer United States troops, who regarded the en- campment as hostile to the government in intent. The action of General Lyon broke up the encampment, and, although Camp Jack- son has occupied an important place in his- tory because of the momentous consequences which followed upon the heels of its estab- lishment, it had an actual existence of only one week. See "War Between the States."

Camp Lucas .- The name given to the camping ground of the St. Louis Legion in 1846, and occupied for some time before the departure of the Legion on the steamer "Convoy" for New Orleans, on the way to Mexico. The name was given by the first three companies of the Legion that occupied the ground, the Native American Rangers, the Montgomery Guards, and the Montgom- ery Riflemen. Camp Lucas was near the in- tersection of Olive and Twelfth Streets. at that time a shady grove.

Camp Rowdy .- See "St. Mary's."

Camp Union .- A military camp estab- lished in 1861, about one-half mile cast of Brumley. in Miller County, which, at the be- ginning of the Civil War, was the meeting

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place of the Federal forces organized in the county.

Cannefax, Chesley, prominent among the early settlers of Greene County, was a native of Virginia, and came to Missouri with his father, Radford Cannefax, in 1831. He became sheriff in 1834, and served until 1838. The great extent of the county, and its unor- ganized condition, imposed upon him arduous duties. Among his acts was the capture of a number of lawless negroes living near the present site of Osceola, who had successfully resisted arrest by the authorities of Boonville and Jefferson City. The misdoers were each fined $500 and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. He was lieutenant colonel of the militia regiment commanded by Colonel Yancey, and assisted in removing trouble- some Indians to their own territory. In 1838 he was elected as a Democrat to the Legis- lature. He was a man of great physical strength and much determination. He mar- ried Mary Cornelia Townsend, of Kentucky, by whom he had several children. His death took place at his home near Springfield in 1877, at the age of sixty-nine years.

Canton .- A city in Lewis County, on the bank of the Mississippi River, and the St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad, 143 miles from St. Louis, and eighteen miles from Quincy, Illinois. It was settled in 1827. platted as a town in 1830 by Robert Sinclair and Edward White, and incorporated as a town in 1851. It has two good public schools, a university conducted under the auspices of the Christian Church, a commercial college, eleven churches, two operahouses, a planing mill, tile factory, sash, door and blind factory. large canning factory, creamery, two pickling plants, two elevators, two flouring mills, three banks. two good hotels, three newspapers. the "Press," the "News" and the "Common Sense." There are more than seventy miscel- laneous business places. including well stocked stores. lumber and coal yards. shops, etc. The city is nicely located, has fine, wide streets, twelve miles of which are macadam- ized. It has an electric lighting system. waterworks, a fire department, and is in all respects a progressive town. It is one of the most important shipping points in Missouri along the Mississippi River north of St. Louis. The population in 1900 was 3.365.

Cantwell, Harry J., one of the men to whom southeastern Missouri is largely indebted for the development of its great lead-mining industry, was born February 3. 1859. at Sonman, Pennsylvania, son of Albert F. and Isabella (Donnelly) Cantwell, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania.

His paternal grandfather, who was born in Clonmel, in the County of Tipperary, Ireland, came to the United States about the year 1800. His grandmother in the paternal line was born in Holland. Both his grandpar- ents in the maternal line were natives of County AArmagh, Ireland, and came from there to the United States about the year 1790.

Mr. Cantwell only received a common school education. When thirteen years of age he went to work as a clerk in a railroad office. He continued in the operating and construction department of railroads until 1884, when he commenced the study of law. He was admitted to the bar in Mississippi County, Missouri, in 1885. After practicing law one year he entered the law department of Washington University of St. Louis, and was graduated from that institution in 1888, afterward taking a postgraduate course.

After his graduation he formed a partner- ship with Albert N. Edwards and engaged in successful practice until investments which he had made in lead-mining enterprises de- manded his entire attention and caused him to abandon his professional labors.

His active efforts to develop the vast mineral wealth of St. Francois County began in 1888, and with his operation of a diamond drill on what was known as the "Crawley tract" in that county. From the Crawley tract Mr. Cantwell went to the tract of the Central Lead Company, on which, at that time, no development whatever had been made, and there he sunk shaft No. I. In ISyI he was elected president of the Central Lead Company, and between that time and his resignation of the presidency, in October, 1896, the complete plant of this noted com- pany was erected and equipped, althoughi during this period the price of pig lead was lower than it had ever been before in the his- tory of that metal, and many industries in Missouri were completely paralyzed. In August, 1897, he called the attention of the National Lead Company (St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company) to the won-

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derful Flat River district, and as the agent for that company, negotiated the purchase of the Taylor tract. The advent of this com- pany in the district marked the beginning of the remarkable activity there, and attracted the attention of the lead world to the possi- bilities of this wonderful region.

In the same year he organized the Colum- bia Lead Company, and is now the president and largest stockholder of that successful corporation. Ile is also president of the Catherine Lead Company, a corporation own- ing a valuable property near Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri, on which a model concentrating plant has just been completed.

Mr. Cantwell is interested in a number of other mining enterprises in the district, all of which are promising, and in addition he owns individually some 45,000 acres of land in Washington and Crawford Counties. He is with energy developing the mineral re- sources of this land. is planting a commercial orchard there, and is also preparing to en- gage extensively in the raising of sheep and cattle.

lle is a director of the St. Louis Exposi- tion and Music Hall Association, and takes an active interest in its affairs.

Mr. Cantwell married Miss Catherine Cornelius, daughter of the late Thos. ]. Cornelius, a well known lawyer of St. Louis. His living children are Arthur Blair and Harry J. Cantwell, Jr.

Cape Girardeau .- A city of the third class, the largest in southeastern Missouri, located in Cape Girardeau County, on the Mississippi River, one hundred and fifty-nine miles by river and one hundred and thirty-six miles by rail from St. Louis. It is a terminal point of the Southern Missouri & Arkansas Railway. The town derives its name from one De Girardot, who was an officer in the French Army at Kaskaskia. and later an Indian trader, who had a post at Big Bend, about three miles above the present town. The city was first settled in 1793 by Louis Lorimier, was laid out as a town in 1805, incorporated in 1808 and reincorporated in 1824 and 1843, and in 1872 was incorporated as a city by act of the State Legislature, and incorporated as a city of the third class in 1892. The location is beautiful, being ele- vated above the Mississippi River and over- looking the same, and the opposite shore in

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Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri, a compendium of history and biography for ready reference, Vol. I, Part 86

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n Publication date: 1901 Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors Number of Pages: 856

Author: Conard, Howard Louis, ed. 1n
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: New York, Louisville [etc.] The Southern history company, Haldeman, Conard & co., proprietors
Number of Pages: 856