When George W Campbell was born in February 1815, in Williamson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Samuel Campbell, was 39 and his mother, Martha Jane Rayburn, was 27. He married Matilda Emaline Kesterson on 9 August 1842, in Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Warrensburg Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Washington Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1870. In 1859, his occupation is listed as livery stable operator in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States. He died on 6 September 1872, in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Old Warrensburg Cemetery, Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
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