Charles A. Campbell

Source: History of Northern Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development, and Resources, an Extensive Sketch of Its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers, Views of County Seats, Etc. Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881. p. 70

CHARLES A. CAMPBELL, saloon, Ashland, was born in Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1845. In 1861 he enlisted in the 13th N. Y. V. I.; re-enlisted in the 3d Mich. Cav., and in 1865, was mustered out. He went to Missouri, and traveled generally through the South, and there, having contracted a fever in Texas, went to Montana and Dakota. He stopped for a while in Bismarck, and then came to Ashland County, and kept a hotel in Chippewa until the Spring of 1881, when he came to Ashland and opened a saloon. He was married Nov. 3, 1880. to Hattie Tyler, of Bayfield. They have one child, Lewis Ellis.