When Joel William Campbell was born on 16 January 1850, in Oregon, Holt, Missouri, United States, his father, Solomon Leonard Campbell, was 24 and his mother, Mary Lovina Campbell, was 20. He married Mary Winnifred Freeman on 17 August 1874, in Eden, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 14 March 1922, in Corinne, Box Elder, Utah, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Ben Lomond Cemetery, North Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1856: Box Elder, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Box Elder, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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.
Possible Related NamesResearched, chronological by Alona S. Perkes 2000-2011 This is the complex story of the involvement of the Campbell family with a new religion, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the …
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