Brief Life History of James
When James Campbell was born on 4 February 1847, in Oakley, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Campbell, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 23. He married Elizabeth Burnside on 10 August 1867, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1868 and lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and United States in 1928. He died on 21 February 1928, in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- James Campbell in household of Thos Campbell, "Scotland Census, 1861"
- James Campbell, "Idaho, Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
- James Campbell in entry for Jane Allred, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1850
Historical Boundaries 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1854 · Great North of Scotland Railway
Being one of the two smallest railways in 1923, the Great North of Scotland Railway carried its first passengers from Kittybrewster to Huntly in 1854. In the 1880s the railways were refurbished to give express services to the suburban parts in Aberdeen. There were junctions with the Highland Railway established to help connect Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray counties. The railway started to deliver goods from the North Sean and from the whisky distilleries in Speyside. With the implementation of bus services and the purchase of the British Railway the Great North of Scotland Railway was discontinued.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
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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