Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Oldham Co.

JAMES CAMPBELL, was born in Oldham County, January 1, 1829.  His father was
Richard Campbell, a native of Stokes County, N. C., who came to Kentucky
about 1820, and settled on a farm in Oldham County, near Beard's Station,
where he lived until his death in 1881.  He married Nancy Phillips, a
native of Stokes County, N. C., and they had a family of five sons and
eight daughters, of whom our subject is the fifth child.  Mrs. Nancy
Campbell died in 1857.  Our subject's paternal grandfather was a native
of Scotland, came to America in 1800 and settled in Stokes County, N. C.,
on a farm where he died.  Our subject passed his early life on the farm
and in the common schools of Oldham County.  He married, in 1875, Maria J.
Cooper, a native of Jefferson County.  Mr. Campbell has been agent for
the Louisville & Nashville Short Line for twenty-eight years, also Adams
Express agent, and is the present incumbent of the postoffice [sic].  He
has eleven acres in fruit orchards in which he does an extensive business.
He and Mrs. Campbell are members of the Baptist Church.

Campbell Phillips Cooper
=
Jefferson-KY Stokes-NC Scotland

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