Brief Life History of William Jackson
When William Jackson Campbell was born in October 1847, in Henry, Indiana, United States, his father, Robert Campbell, was 25 and his mother, Susan Bell, was 18. He married Malinda B Gravatt on 8 January 1873, in Wayne, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Richland Township, Montcalm, Michigan, United States in 1894 and Salamonie Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States in 1900. He died on 4 October 1905, in Majenica, Lancaster Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States, at the age of 58.
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- William J Campbell, "Michigan State Census, 1894"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Jackson Campbell - Government record: birth: about 1848; Indiana, United States
- William Campbell, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: Huntington, Indiana, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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