Colusa County Biographies

HON. JOHN C. CAMPBELL

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            This gentleman was born in Ireland, August 6, 1833.  At the age of 
seven years he came with his parents to the United States, settling in Amboy, 
Illinois, where he resided till 1854, when he came to California.  After 
prospecting a short time in Calaveras County, he went to Amador County in 1855, 
where he lived for ten years, engaged in mining and operating a saw-mill.  When 
the Washoe silver mining excitement broke out, he established a line of teams, 
leaving Sacramento City and crossing the Sierras, carrying supplies to the 
mines.  After continuing with success in this line of business for several 
years, he went to Yolo County, purchased a large farm, and, having now turned 
agriculturist, he settled down here for six years, looking to the tillage of his 
acres.
            Mr. Campbell came to Colusa County in 1877.  Here he leased nearly 
ten thousand acres of land located west of the town of Maxwell, belonging to J. 
H. Glide.
            In 1888 he was elected Assemblyman from Colusa County on the 
Republican ticket, overcoming a Democratic majority of over nine hundred and 
receiving a majority of one hundred and three votes.  The question of county 
division entered largely into the canvass and party lines blended with local 
ambitions.  In 1890 he was again nominated for the Assembly by the Republican 
party but was defeated by Hon. Henry Eakle, by a majority of twenty-three votes. 
 Mr. Campbell is one of the popular men of the county, is a pleasant gentleman, 
and makes a vigorous fight for the accomplishment of whatever he undertakes to 
do.
            Mr. Campbell was married, November 1, 1860, to Miss Eliza C. 
Brierly, and two sons and four daughters living are the results of this union.
 
�Colusa County� � by Justus H. Rogers � Orland, CA � 1891 � pp 407.