I am looking for information on the following CAMPBELLS
1850 US Federal Census Bloom, Cook, Illinois These two Campbells are next to each other.
Alonzo is my ggg grandfather.
Job CAMPBELL 33 M W 1600 NY
Rebecca CAMPBELL 30 F W OH
John B CAMPBELL 8 M W IL
Lason? A CAMPBELL 1 M W IL
Alonzo CAMPBELL 26 M W NY
Julia CAMPBELL 28 F W NY
Martha CAMPBELL 1 F W IL
There is also mention in these documents that John D and Job CAMPBELL purchased land
together in GLENWOOD in the North Central portion of Bloom Township.
Also, worth noting, Old Adamsville Cemetary in Adamsville NY there are CAMPBELLs and
BUTTERFIELDS. Catch that Butterfields also lived in Adamsville and some moved to Bloom
with this settlement with Campbells. If you have Butterfields from these regions in your
line, please check for references. Thanks!!
http://www.familypage.org/adamsville/adamsville.htm
HISTORY OF EARLY CHICAGO
MODERN CHICAGO AND ITS SETTLEMENT
EARLY CHICAGO, AND THE NORTHWEST BY ALBERT D. HAGER
page 866
HOMEWOOD.
This little village is situated twenty-three miles south of
Chicago, and on the northern border of tim south plateau of the county. It
was platted in 1852 by James Hart, under the name of Hartford, a name which
is still used in deeds to real estate within the village limits.
The first settlers in the neighborhood were the Butterfields, Job
CAMPBELL, Horace Briggs, J. H. Scott, Cyrus Eastwood, James Hart, C. D.
Robinson, James Walker, Daniel Hood, Samuel James, John Johnson, James
Clark, William Hall, William Van Wyck, and Joseph Gallener.
HISTORY OF BLOOM.
This township is situated in the southeast corner of the county
and is bounded on the north by Thornton, on the east by Lake County, Ind.,
on the south by Will County, and on the West by the township of Rich. As an
agricultural district it ranks among the most fertile and productive of any
in the county, and is watered by several streams, tributaries of the
Calumet, which afford splendid natural drainage, while along their valleys
beautiful groves of timber abound. The surface of the country being rims
diversified with alternating wood and prairie land and with large and ·
finely cultivated farms, presents a most pleasing picture to the eye. To its
present state of agricultural development, it has been brought by the
earnest and untiring labors of those men, who nearly fifty years ago,
settled here and began the work of building up a civilized community, where
before had been only the vast and trackless prairie. Of these old settlers.
the majority took their lands at Government prices, and to-day own farms,
which at a forced sale would bring them from $50 to $60 per acre. The great
change, Which in comparatively so short a time, has been wrought in the
agricultural districts of the West, is only another illustration of that
progress of a civilization which in its advancement has had no equal in the
history of the world. Originally, and until 1850, the town of Bloom was a
part of what was then known as Thornton Precinct, composed of the towns of
Bloom, Rich and Thornton. In that year, however, its inhabitants by popular
vote, decided to adopt the township form of government, and at their first
election, held April 2, at the schoolhouse, near Samuel Sloam's farm,the
following named persons were chosen as its first officers: Joseph Hol-brook,
Supervisor; John C. Wilson, Clerk; Florres B. Young, Assessor; Charles
Sauter and Job CAMPBELL, Justices; Benjamin Butterfield, Overseer of the
Poor; Samuel Sloam, I. S. Finn and David Millar, Highway Commissioners.
The following is the roster of officers chosen at the
annual elections from 1851 to the present time:
Supervisors.--1851, John McEldowney; 1852, George W.
Morris; 1853, James Millay; 1854, G. W. Morris; 1855, Charles Sauter; 1856,
William Miller; 1857, John H. Scott; 1858-60, Charles Sauter; 1860, James
Millar; 1861, J. R. Holbrook; 1862-64, G. B. James; 1864, Charles Sauter;
1865, Caleb L. Sweet; 1866-70, Charles Sauter; 1870-83, George H. Caskey;
1883-84, Clark Holbrook.
Assessors.--1851-56, John Grary; 1856-58, Job CAMPBELL;
1858-61, Caleb L. Sweet; 1861. Charles Sauter; 1862-65, C. L. Sweet;
1865-67, Milton B. McCory; 1867-70, James Millar; 1870-75, C. L. Sweet;
1875, Jacob Kirgis; 1876, C. L. Sweet; 1877, James Millar; 1878-82, Clark
Holbrook; 1882-81, A. J. Millay.
Clerks. 1851, Alonzo CAMPBELL; 1852, John McE1-downey;
1853, Elisha Burrett; 1854-57 William Millar; 1857, H. H. Ayers; 1858,
Robert Wallace; 1859, William Millar; 1860-62, Robert Wallace; 1862, James
Millar; 1863-65, Robert Wallace; 1865, Clark Holbrook; 1866, William
McEldowney; 1867-69, Theodore Weiderhold; 1869-73, W. McEldowney; 1873-76,
James Millar; 1876-78, S. W. Wallace; 1879, George Paine; 1880-84, James D.
Wilkie.
Collectors.--1851, John Millar; 1852, James Millar; 1853,
David Millar; 1854, Joseph Edlebrook; 1855, H. H. Ayers; 1856, Charles
Morris; 1857, Charles Sauter; 1858, J. R. Holbrook; 1859, Lewman Hews; 1860,
Job CAMPBELL; 1861, L. Oswald; 1862, Charles Weiderhold; 1863, C. J. Reed;
1864, Orson Pickens; 1865, C. T. Beard; 1866, Theodore Weiderhold; 1867-69,
Jacob Kirgies; 1869, Lewis Claus; 1870, John Millar; 1871, James Millar;
1873,|R*|rWilliam McEldowney; 1874, Theodore Weidehold; 1875, A. J. Millar;
1876, J. Kirgis; 1877, Jacob Berringer; 1878-80, John Held; 1880-82, John
Becker; 1882-84, Claus Jurgenson.
Justices.--1850-54, Charles Sauter and Job CAMPBELL;
1854-58, Charles Sauter and John H. Scott; 1858-70, Charles Sauter and John
McEldowney; 1870-84, Clark Holbrook and Charles Weiderhold.
BLOOM.
The village of Bloom, originally named Thorn Grove, is
situated at the crossing of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and tim Joliet
Division of the Michigan Central railroads. It is twenty-seven miles distant
from Chicago, and five miles west of the Indiana State line.
The first white men who made a settlement here
were -members of the Wells family, who came in the spring of 1833 and built
a small house on the northeast quarter of Section 20, Township 35, Range 14,
east, on the banks of South Creek, just north of the present site of Bloom.
They did not, however, stay long, but left with the Indians on their removal
by the Government to the far West.
Samuel Sloam settled two and a half miles southeast of the
village in 1835, and Morris Murphy who kept the first store here, carne also
in the same year. The following year came Timothy Smith, from Indiana; James
Bell, from Kentucky, and John Hume, from Michigan; John Wallace, Caleb
Sweet, John Call, Jehu McCoy and John McEldowney, Jr., also stayed about the
same time and located lairds in Sections 20 and 28.
Robert Wallace came in 1836, as did also John McEldowney,
senior, with his family, which, besides the son above mentioned, two other
sons--James and Thomas, and six daughters. Of the latter, one only, who
married the Rev. Mr. Morrison, is now living.
Benjamin Butterfield came to Lockport from New York in
1831, and moved to Bloom in 1834. He was one of the first Justices of the
Peace for Thornton Precinct. Adam Brown arrived in this neighborhood shortly
after the Wells family, and built a log cabin at the intersection of the
Vincennes & Sac Trail roads. In the spring of 1840 Mr. Brown planted an
orchard and also built the first frame barn in this part of the country. His
daughter, Lovina, who now resides in the village of Bloom, was the first
white child horn in the settlement. Benjamin Ross settled on the Brown farm,
John Lyons on Thorn Breck, John Caldwell and John Wilson, at Thorn Grove, in
1837; and in the year following came Jacob Bowder and family, Joseph
Caldwell and C. Culver. Frederick Richards and Vincint Sauter came to Bloom
in 1839, and subsequently settled at New Strasburg. Christian Millar, the
first blacksmith, and H. Beekley, the first house carpenter, located here in
1842. James Millay who wrote the Centennial History of Bloom, came with his
parents in 1842; Jeremiah Marony and William err came in 1843. In the year
following quite a number of new settlers came in, among them were Stewart B.
Aiken, James Pickens Farnum, Joseph Gloss, James Rice, John Little and the
Prestage, Dixon and Cushing families. [p.887]
In 1849 the name of the village was changed to Bloom in
deference to the wishes of the German settlers, and in honor of Robert
Bluhm, the patriot, who was executed at Vienna, in 1848. In 1855, William
Caskey came from Green County, Ala., and settled one-half mile west of
Bloom, and three years later, he was joined by his mother, three brothers
and five sisters. In the same year, Captain Finn and John Holmes located in
the same vicinity. In 1848, John CAMPBELL settled a mile northwest of the
village on the farm where he still resides.
It is said that the first merchant in the neighborhood was
a man named Morris Murphy, who, as early as 1835, kept a store one and a
half miles north of the village. He purchased his goods at Chicago, and used
an Indian pony to transport his purchases, often loading the little animal
so heavily that three or four days were consumed in making the trip. The
next store-keepers were Hunter and Aikins, in 1856, who then kept a general
store in the village.
GLENWOOD.
Formerly known as Hickory Bend, is located in the north
central portion of the township, on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad,
about twenty-three miles due south of Chicago. The first white settlers here
were Job CAMPBELL, O. P. Axtell, who located on lands near the village in
1846, and Floris Young, who came in 1847. In the same year came Benjamin
Baker, Jacob Dull and Lott Chapman. In 1848, George R. James arrived and in
the following year, James Pick-ens and his son, Orson, settled on a farm
some three miles south of Hickory Bend, as the village was then called,
while about the same time, the Holbrook family settled on a farm west of the
village, where they still reside. Joseph Kinsley and Thomas Borrows came in
1854, Kinsley moved away the following year, but Mr. Borrows still lives on
the old homestead.
Among those who were residents here before the village was
surveyed are: William D. Wilkie, Caleb Sweet, Claus Jargensen, Henry Krolin,
Chris. Krolin, Robert Bolford, George Nutting, John Wagner, Robert Kiaser,
James and Richard Hemmingway, Fre-incur and Clark Holbrook.
The first birth and death in the settlement was the infant
daughter of Thomas Borrows; the child was born in 1855 and died the same
year. As early as 1838 John D. and Job CAMPBELL purchased a large tract of
land in the vicinity of Hickory Creek, but did not themselves come here
until 1846, as has already been mentioned. Other early land owners here were
Thomas Dyer, Julius Wadsworth, John Finn, Samuel, James and Sheldon Peck;
these purchases were made as early as 1854.
In 1871, the village was surveyed for CAMPBELL and Young,
and at the suggestion of O. P. Axtell, the name was changed to Glenwood. On
March 5, of the same year, a post office was established under the same
name, with H. K. Axtell, Postmaster, and George H. Paine, assistant.
The first minister to hold services in the settlement was
a Mr. Ball, a Baptist, who preached here in 1848. In the year following, a
Mr. Gilbert, a Presbyterian minister, and a Rev. Mr. Bartlett, a
Congregationalist, visited the settlement occasionally and held services at
the houses of the farmers in tim neighborhood. In January, of the present
year, the Catholics of the vicinity began the erection of a church edifice,
which, when completed,will have cost near $2 000. The Presbyterians of the
neighborhood hold meetings in the school-house each Sunday, Rev. William
Morrow, of the church at Bloom, officiating as pastor.
The first schoolhouse in the district was built in 1850
and was situated one and a quarter miles east of the present site of
Glenwood. It remained there until the summer, of 1882, when it was moved
into the village and located on Main Street, some eighty rods east of the
railroad track. [p.888]
The Glenwood House was built by Job CAMPBELL in 1871 and
was rented to O. P. Axtell and John Dull; subsequently it was conducted by
H. K. Axtell and others. It was finally sold to Theodore Weiderhold who
converted it into a general store, which is now kept by F. Kobal. This, with
the post-office store, of which George H. Paine, who is also the station
agent, is proprietor, a saloon and a blacksmith and wagon shop, constitute
the present business houses of the place.
New Strasburg is the name of a settlement made in 1839,
near to where is now the village of Bloom. It was originally the post-office
town for the southeast quarter of the township. James Morrison kept a store
here as early as 1836. At New Strasburg were held, it is claimed, the first
religious services in the township, the officiating clergyman was a
Catholic, named Fischer; and in 1847 the Church of St James was built,
which, in 1870, was destroyed by lightning, but was rebuilt in 1883.