Biography of Charles A. Campbell, pages 941/942/943.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Charles A. Campbell



	The subject of this sketch has early in life realized the fact 
that success never smiles upon the idler or dreamer, and he has 
accordingly followed such a aphorism, being numbered amount the 
enterprising citizens of the township of his residence.  Having spent 
all his life in the community, he is well known and by all is held in 
the highest esteem because of the commendable qualities, which he has 
exhibited thus far.

	Charles A. Campbell was born on September 3, 1866, on the farm on 
which he now lives in section 29, Smithfield township, DeKalb county, 
Indiana, and is a son of John and Cornelia (Hemstreet) Campbell.  John 
Campbell was born in Summit county, Ohio, and came to DeKalb county in 
1847 when he was twelve years of age.  He for awhile farmed with his 
father and later bought the place where the subject of this sketch now 
lives.  He was the trustee of Smithfield township a part of one term.  
He was an active Republican and his death, which occurred in 1904, was 
considered a distinct loss to the community.  He was the father of four 
children: Jennie, who was married in 1882 to Leander Stamuts, and 
expert machinist, who died in 1900; they had one daughter, Glenn, who 
now lives in Waterloo; Sarah married, in 1882, George Parnell, a 
farmer, who later in life engaged in the lumber business and now lives 
in North Carolina.  They have three children, John, Charles and Harry; 
Scott was married in 1902, and engaged in the mercantile business in 
Ohio.  He is the father of two children, Edwin and Clifton.  The 
subject’s mother was a native of Huron county, Ohio, and came to DeKalb 
county, Indiana, in 1843, settling on the Hemstreet farm, where her 
death occurred in 1909.

	The subject of this sketch has spent all but seven years of his 
life on his present farm.  In 1887 he entered a homestead in North 
Dakota, but in 1895 he returned to the home farm and bought the same in 
1909 from the heirs.   He is now the owner of one hundred and two acres 
of splendid land, about ten acres of which is in timber, the balance 
being under cultivation, well drained and in excellent condition.  All 
the buildings on the place are well improved, the barn being large and 
commodious, the residence being neat and attractive, and the appearance 
of the place indicates the owner to be a man of excellent taste and 
sound judgment.

	On July 31, 1898, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Sophia 
Schwitzer, the daughter of Gottlieb and Elizabeth (Metzger) Schwitzer.  
To this union have been born five children: Josh, Herman, Ruth, John 
and June.  Gottlieb Schwitzer was born in Germany on June 15, 1828, 
coming to America when quite young, and first locating at Massillon, 
Ohio, where he worked making braids and trimmings for soldiers’ 
uniforms.  After spending some time in that employment, he moved to 
DeKalb county, Indiana, locating on a farm three and one-half from 
Waterloo, in Smithfield township, which he bought. He was active as a 
farmer and successful in his business affairs up to the time of his 
death, which occurred on June 13, 1889.  His wife was a native of Ohio, 
who came to DeKalb county in 1850, at the age of seven years, he people 
setting in Fairfield township on a farm where she lived until her 
marriage to Mr. Schwitzeer.  She is also deceased.  Mrs. Campbell’s 
paternal grandmother came from Germany with Gottlieb Schwitzer, their 
marriage occurring in this country, and she died on the home place near 
Waterloo at the age of seventy-one years.   To Mr. and Mrs. Schwitzer 
were born four children, George, Sophia, Edwin and Anna. George, who 
married Nora Stomm, lives on a farm in Fairfield township and has four 
children, Charles, Anna, Willard and Wilber; Edwin, who married Edith 
Bickel and lives on the home place three and one-half miles from 
Waterloo, has three children, Wilson, Raymond and Lloyd; Anna is 
unmarried and lives on the old home place.  Personally, Mr. Campbell is 
a pleasant man to know, and hospitable in his home, straightforward in 
his business relations and a man in whom all repose the utmost 
confidence who have occasion to know him.  He has taken a broad view of 
men and things and gives his earnest support to every movement 
calculated to advance the best interests of the community along moral, 
educational, social or material lines, and therefore he is deserving of 
being numbered among the representative men of the community which has 
for so many years been honored by his citizenship.



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Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

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