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A. CAMPBELL, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 24; P. O. Holder; an old settler of McLean Co., Ill., born in Ireland March 27, 1826; he emigrated to America with his parents when 1 year of age, landing in New York in 1827; coming West, they lived eighteen months in Pittsburgh; then moved to Jessamine Co., Ky., where they lived eight years; they then moved to McLean Co., Ill., in 1835, and the following year located upon Sec. 26, in Old Town Township, where his father purchased eighty acres of land, and afterward entered and purchased some four hundred acres more; here he lived until his decease, which occurred in August, 1873; Mrs. Campbell died June 12, 1869; they were the parents of four children, all of whom are now living, two in Padua and two in this township. The subject of this sketch made his home with his father until Feb. 26, 1852, when he was united in marriage with Mary Ellen Twining; she was born in Pennsylvania June 2, 1833, and is a daughter of Thomas Twining, whose biography appears in this work; they have seven children now living — Mary B., Thomas W., Elizabeth, Franklin E., Howard A., Charles C. and Nellie. Mrs. Campbell was a daughter of Thomas Twining, one of the early settlers and prominent men of Old Town Township, and whose biography appears among the sketches of Old Town Township in this work. Upon the marriage of Mr. Campbell, he settled upon his present place, where he has since lived during a period of a quarter of a century; he has 320 acres of well-improved land, upon which he has good farm buildings; he also owns sixty acres, upon Sec. 26, 329 in other parts of the county; 106 in De Witt Co., 80 in Lee Co. and 80 in Kansas. A more extended mention of his parents is to be found in the biography of his brother, James A. Campbell, in this work.