Representative Charles B. Campbell View All Years

HONORABLE CHARLES B. CAMPBELL

MR. SPEAKER: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorative of the life, charaacter and public services of the late Honorable Charles B. Campbell, of Black Hawk county, Iowa, beg leave to submit the following report:

Charles B. Campbell was born July 2, 1841, in Columbia county, New York. He was the son of John A. and Efferiana Campbell. He came to Waterloo in 1865 and in 1872 settled on 360 acres of land in Poyner and Fox townships where he engaged extensively in the stock raising business. He moved to a farm adjoining the town of Raymond in 1892 and in 1902 moved to Waterloo where he resided until his death, February 25, 1932.

He was united in marriage on January 14, 1879, to Martha H. Woodward, now deceased. Two sons, Herbert Ray Campbell of Valier, Montana, and Frank T. Campbell of Waterloo, Iowa, mourn the death of their beloved father.

In politics Mr. Campbell was a republican and served as a representative from Black Hawk county in the Fifteenth General Assembly. Later he was a member of the county board of supervisors for several terms.

He was a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church in Waterloo. He was initiated into the Waterloo lodge, A. F. & A. M., in January, 1867, and a fifty-year membership certificate was presented to him in 1918.

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That in the passing of the Honorable Charles B. Campbell, the state has lost a valuable and honored citizen, and the House would tender by this resolution, its sincere sympathy to the surviving members of his family in their sorrow, and

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the Journal of the House, and that the Chief Clerk be instructed to send an enrolled copy to the family of the deceased.

ARCH W. MCFARLANE,

J. E. CUNDY,

EDWARD N. OVE,

Committee.

Unanimously adopted, April 18, 1935.