Brief Life History of William Asberry
When William Asberry Campbell was born on 4 September 1860, in Blue Springs, Jackson, Missouri, United States, his father, Abraham Thomas Campbell, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Ann Fisher, was 24. He married Elisabeth Catherine Woods on 9 September 1886, in Red Oak Township, Montgomery, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Rockford Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 30 years and Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1942. He died on 12 June 1942, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Branson Cemetery, Loveland, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- W A Campbell, "Iowa State Census, 1925"
- William A. Campbell, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- William A Campbell, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1865
Historical Boundaries: 1865: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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