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Campbell, William M

farmer, soldier, state legislator, was born Sept. 17, 1845, in Shelby county, Ind. He served three years as a soldier during the civil war in the seventh Indiana infantry and was severely wounded several times. He participated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness, and was twice made a prisoner of war. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Kansas legislature on the labor ticket; in 1890 on the Alliance ticket, and in 1892 and in 1894 on the populist ticket.