SAMUEL H. CAMPBELL.
  
SAMUEL H. CAMPBELL.
No satisfactory history of Wyoming could be written without extended reference to Samuel H. Campbell, who has been a delegate to every republican convention from the last territorial convention to the present time, who has filled various offices and who has figured most prominently in connection with business affairs, being now an active factor in the field of real estate and insurance.
He was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1857, a son of the late Samuel Campbell, a native of the Keystone state, also born in Brownsville. The family is of Scotch descent and was founded in America by Edward Campbell, who on coming to the new world settled first in Maryland during the early part of the seventeenth century. Samuel Campbell, Sr., was a window glass manufacturer of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died in Fayette county when seventy years of age. During the Civil war he attempted to enlist but was rejected on account of physicial disability. He was, however, a loyal defender of the Union cause and he had two brothers, Robert and Edward, who rendered active service at the front, the former losing his life on the field of battle. Samuel Campbell, Sr., was married to Miss Isabelle McNeal, a native of Ohio and also of Scotch lineage, her parents coming from Scotland and taking up their abode in Canada, whence they afterward removed to Maryland and still later to Ohio, where Mrs. Campbell was born, reared, educated and married. She became the mother of six sons and two daughters, five of whom are still living, and with the exception of Samuel H., of Laramie, all are still residents of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Samuel H. Campbell, whose name introduces this record, was educated in the public and high schools of Brownsville, of Fayette City and of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and started out to earn his own living when still a young lad. It was his early desire to become a member of the dental profession and he began studying toward that end, but ill health, due largely to close confinement, forced him to seek other fields of activity and in November, 1887, he arrived in Laramie. where he was first engaged in the manufacture of glass, becoming a stockholder in the Laramie Glass Company, with which he was thus identified for a period of three years. In 1889 he was appointed by Governor De Forrest Richards as state fish commissioner and was reappointed during the governor's second administration and also by Governor B. B. Brooks, serving altogether in that capacity for twelve years. He became manager and secretary of the Half Moon Mining Company, a Wyoming corporation, and he is an active figure in real estate and insurance circles, conducting an agency in Laramie, where he has negotiated many important property transfers. He is thoroughly informed concerning realty values and everything connected with the business and is likewise one of the well known insurance men of his city and state.
On the 14th of December, 1880, M r. Campbell was married in La Salle. Illinois, to Miss Mary Davis, a native of Newark, New Jersey, and a daughter of the late John and Margaret Davis, who were natives of England. They have become the parents of one son, Otto Davis Campbell, who was born in Laramie, May 5, 1900, and will graduate from the high school with the class of 1918. The family occupy a very prominent social position and their home is characterized by the true western spirit of warm-hearted hospitality.
In his political views Mr. Campbell is a stalwart republican and has ever taken as active interest in politics and in civic affairs. He has exerted marked influence in the councils of his party and has attended every state convention as a delegate, from the last territorial convention to the present time. He was at one time secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and became active in the work of reorganizing that body. Fraternally he is a Mason and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He belongs to the First Methodist church and his life has ever been guided by the high and honorable principles which regulate man's actions in relation to his fellowmen. In business affairs he has been straightforward and reliable, in politics loyal and public spirited and he holds friendship inviolable, while his relation to his family is that of marked devotion to their welfare. In a word, he measures up to the highest American standards.