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JOHN B. CAMPBELL
Vol. 3, p. 1202-1203
Book has photo

The bar of the city of Muskogee, the metropolis and judicial center
of county of the same name, has maintained a standard that places it
high in prestige in this vigorous young commonwealth, and of this
specially strong bar Judge Campbell is recognized as a representative
member. He has been engaged in the practice of his profession in
Muskogee since 1899, has long controlled a large and important law
business in this section of the state and is know for high broad and
exact knowledge of the science of jurisprudence as well as for the
resourcefulness that has made him exceptionally successful as a trial
lawyer. He has been called upon to serve in minor judicial office and
was the republican candidate for the high office of judge of the
Court of Appeals of Oklahoma in the election of November, 1914. He
has made valuable contribution to the law literature of the state of
his adoption and his high standing as a lawyer and as a citizen makes
most consistent the special recognition accorded to him in the
standard history of Oklahoma.

Judge Campbell was born on a farm near Gratiot, Lafayette County,
Wisconsin, on the 12th of March 1868, and is a son of Francis and
Mary (COLE) Campbell, the former of whom was born in the north of
Ireland, of sturdy Scotch lineage, and the latter of who was of
remote Irish ancestry, she having been born in Lafayette County,
Wisconsin, where her parents were pioneer settlers, her father having
been a scion of a family that was founded in America in the colonial
era of our national history and that gave valiant soldiers to the
patriot army in the War of the Revolution.

Judge Campbell was reared to adult age on the homestead farm which
was the place of his birth and after having duly availed himself of
the advantages of the public schools of Lafayette County, Wisconsin,
he pursued higher academic discipline in Ripon College, one of the
excellent educational institutions of that state. In preparation for
his chosen profession he entered the law department of the great
University of Wisconsin, in which he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1893 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of
Laws, at virtually the same time being admitted to the bar of his
native commonwealth, by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. For three years
thereafter he was established in the successful practice of law at
Darlington, the judicial center of his native county, and within this
interval he served for one term, of two years, as district attorney
of Lafayette County. Upon leaving Wisconsin, Judge Campbell was for a
brief time engaged in professional work in the City of Chicago and
after leaving the great western metropolis he went to Texas and
established himself in practice at Sulphur Springs, from which place
he came to the present State of Oklahoma in 1899, in April of which
year he established his permanent home at Muskogee, where has risen
to the front rank in his profession and where he has been closely
identified with the civic and material development and progress of
the fine city in which his interests have been centered and in which
he has commanding place in popular confidence and esteem.

Prior to the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, Judge Campbell
served two years as city recorder and public judge of Muskogee, and
he proved specially well fortified for the work of his judicial
office, his record in this minor tribunal having attested to his
eligibility for higher judicial honors, though he has in a general
way preferred to give his attention to the practice of his
profession. In the autumn of 1914 he appeared as the republican
candidate for a member of the Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, but he
was, as he anticipated, unable to overcome the large democratic
majority that faced him. He is now junior member of the
representative law firm of MAXEY & Campbell, which maintains offices
in the Barnes Building and which controls a law business that in
scope and importance is not excelled by that of any law firm at the
Muskogee bar. A splendid work was executed by Judge Campbell when he
compiled, with the utmost care and circumspection, the published work
entitled "Campbell's Abstract and Index" This volume was prepared by
him from the census cards in the office of the United States
commissioner of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, and shows
concisely the status of each Creek Indian allottee and his family,
both in the ascending and descending line. To these important data is
added a cross-index, and the publication is the first authoritative
presentation of facts involved and offered to the general public. It
is needless to say that the work is of much value in imparting
information concerning titles to lands of the Creek Nation, of which
Muskogee was originally an integral part, prior to the formation of
the present State of Oklahoma by the combining of the Indian
Territory and Oklahoma Territory.

Judge Campbell has not wavered in his allegiance to the republican
party and has been a resolute and effective advocate of its
principles and policies. Both he and his wife are communicants of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and he is a member of the vestry of the
parish of Grace Church in Muskogee, as well as superintendent of its
Sunday School. Both he and his wife are zealous in the various
departments of Church work and are popular figures in the
representative social activities of their home community, as is also
their daughter.

In the year 1898 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Campbell to
Miss Minnie WARN, who was born at Cuero Texas, and their only child
is Miss Catherine C., who is still attending school.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Earline Sparks Barger, October 11, 1998.