Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

MRS. IDA VIRGINIA HARKEY CAMPBELL

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A native daughter of Yuba County, Mrs. Ida Virginia Campbell is well 
remembered for her kind and courteous manner, which endeared her to her many 
friends and acquaintances.  She was born near Marysville, February 24, 1858, the 
third in a family of six children (now all deceased with the exception of 
William S. Harkey, who resides in Sacramento) born to William P. and Clarinda E. 
(Tennis) Harkey.  William P. Harkey was born in Illinois in 1832 and resided 
there until 1854, when he came to California; he was married to Miss Clarinda E. 
Tennis just before starting across the plains.  He engaged in teaming until 
1867, when he settled in Sutter County.  Here he bought 1600 acres, nine miles 
southwest of Yuba City; and later he added to this purchase the John Ogden place 
of 200 acres.  He made his home in Yuba City, where he built a fine residence; 
and he also built a residence on his ranch.  In 1873 he was elected sheriff of 
Sutter County, which office he held for sixteen years and ten months.  He lived 
to be seventy-four years old.
            Ida Virginia Harkey attended public school at Marysville and a 
ladies� seminary in Oakland, Cal.  At Yuba City, on November 27, 1888, she was 
married to William Henry Campbell, born in 1858, who came to Sutter County in 
1879, and for a time taught school.  In 1887 he became deputy sheriff, and after 
holding this position for six years was made deputy assessor.  He was active in 
business life, a director in the Sutter Canning & Packing Company, and half 
owner in the Yuba City water-works.  Later he went into the orchard business on 
his ranch of twenty acres adjacent to Yuba City, and was active in horticulture, 
until his death, on July 2, 1899, from the effects of an accidental injury, when 
he was thrown to the ground and struck in the chest by the hoofs of a runaway 
horse, which he was stopping.  Mr. Campbell was a  Mason and an Odd Fellow, and 
was secretary of the latter order for many years.  He was buried with Masonic 
honors.  Politically, Mr. Campbell was a Republican.  After her husband�s death, 
Mrs. Campbell continued to reside at the old family home on Second Street, 
looking after the orchard and the other interests left by her husband and her 
father.  Mr. and Mrs. Campbell were the parents of one daughter, Clara Idylene, 
who makes her home at the old Campbell residence in Yuba City.  Mrs. Campbell 
was a charter member and very active worker in Fidelia Chapter, Order of the 
Eastern Star, at Yuba City, of which she served as Worthy Matron.  She was the 
first District Deputy of the order in this section of California.  Mrs. Campbell 
passed away on June 15, 1923, mourned by a large circle of friends.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1157-1158