Biography of Clark Campbell, pages  923/924.  History of DeKalb County, 
Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Clark Campbell



	Among the honorable and influential citizens of DeKalb county, 
Indiana, is the subject of this review, who has here maintained his 
home for many years, winning a definite success by means of the 
agricultural industry, to which he has devoted his attention during the 
years of an active business life.  His career has been without shadow 
of wrong or suspicion of evil, and thus he has ever commanded the 
confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

	Clark Campbell was born on October 25, 1875, in Smithfield 
township, DeKalb county, Indiana, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward 
Campbell.  His boyhood days were spent under the parental roof, his 
education being secured in the common schools of his locality.  He 
remained on the paternal estate until 1897, shortly after attaining his 
legal majority, when he and his brother engaged in the hay business at 
Waterloo, shipping large quantities of baled hay to various points 
throughout Indiana and the Middle West, and was eminently successful in 
this vocation.  After twelve years in the hay business Mr. Campbell 
quit the business which had engaged his attention for a dozen years and 
in 1909 turned his exclusive attention to farming, in which he is still 
engaged. He lives in section 35, Smithfield township, and has a 
splendid tract of well improved land, the general appearance of the 
place indicating him to be a man of wise discretion and sound judgment 
in the handling of his place.  He raises all the crops common to this 
locality and also gives some attention to the raising of live stock, 
which is one of the most important departments of farm work.  He is a 
good manager and has achieved a splendid success in his life work, 
being now numbered among the progressive, enterprising and wide-awake 
farmers of his locality.

	On December 10, 1902, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Mrs. 
Isadora Kelley, the daughter of Eli Walker and widow of the late 
Douglas Kelley.  Mr. Campbell is a woman of fine attainments and 
gracious qualities of head and heart, and in the social circles in 
which they move they are both popular among their acquaintances. 
Together they belong to the Order of the Eastern Star and the Pythian 
Sisters, in which they take a deep interest.  Mr. Campbell became a 
Master Mason in February, 1897, and has passed through all the chairs 
of the local lodge of that order, being the present worshipful master.  
His father was a Mater Mason for fifty years and was highly regarded by 
his fraternal brethren.  Mr. Campbell is also an appreciative member of 
the Knights of Pythias.  In all movements for the betterment of the 
community he has given his warmest support and can be counted on at all 
times to throw his influence for the right and for the betterment of 
humanity, and because of his large acquaintance and genial qualities he 
is deservedly recognized as one of the representative men of Smithfield 
township.



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Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

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