James Madison Campbell submitted by Conley Wolterman One of the representative farmers of Crawford County, is a resident of Section 27, Goodrich Township, Iowa. He is a native of Jefferson county, New York, born April 3, 1825, and is the son of James and Phoebe (Faster) Campbell, natives of Scotland and New York state. The father was born in the Highlands of Scotland and came to America when he was nine years of age, and followed farming for a time, and also gave some attention to mechanical work in the shipyards at the different places where he resided. He went to California during the gold fever in 1850, but died in San Francisco about three years afterward. The mother of our subject died in Jefferson County, February 3, 1866. She was of English parentage and was the mother of nine children: Marilda, Lucy, Phoebe, Abagail, Wilferd, Judson, Emily, James, and Maryette. James left home at the age of 21 years to work in the shipyards. In the fall of 1858 he located at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin on a farm and remained there for twenty years. In 1878 he came to Crawford County and rented a farm in Goodrich Township for four years and then bought land in Section 27. He made a specialty of raising broom corn, which he manufactured into brooms, turning off between three and four hundred dozen brooms annually. He cultivated the other grains that do well on Iowa farms, and raised stock. He married on February 24, 1848 to Elizabeth Hazelwood, a native of England. She died at Buffalo, New York on April 24, 1855. They had two children: James S. born May 9, 1850 and Adelaide Elizabeth born on January 17, 1852. Mr. Campbell married again on November 2, 1856, a sister of his former wife. Her name was Mary Maria Hazelwood, and they had six children: Walter Joseph born November 16, 1857; Charles Ambert born July 10, 1859; Louisa Adeline born August 18, 1861; Martha Ione born December 29, 1870; Ugene born June 2, 1874, and Albert Gilbert born January 21, 1877. When Mr. Campbell first came to Crawford County he owned three horses, a wagon, 700 pounds of household goods, and $15 in money.

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