Life Of Robert Campbell

Robert Campbell, wLo died at his residence in Tpsilauti on Feb. 15, in the 86th year of hie age, was bom Oct. 31, 1802, in Ayrshire, Scotland, within a few miles of the "home and haunts of the poet Burns." Ha was thefíther of ten children, five sons and one daughter of whom survive him. His paternal gr ami fatkers were descended fiom the Campbells of Argyle, devoted worshipers of tbe living God, earnest advocates and defenderá of tbe rights of man. His maternal grandsire of the ifth generaiion was the celebrated Sir Will'am Lockhart, of Lee, who was England's ambas-iador to France during the protectrtrate and the reign of' Cnarles II, of whom Carlyle saya : "H-s commandded in several wars, was a man of disttnguifhed qualities, and judges called hi:n the best ambaasador of the ag." His grandsire of the seventh genera' ion was Robert Croinwell, the father of the great O iver Cromwell. He was an example of "ihe man ol independent mimi." Public position or patronage he never soughl, but was tru'y the architect of his own fortune. As a business manager he was strictly honest and erninently sucueseful; he acquired a bandsome compett-nce which, after quietly bestowing numerous benefactiouc, he left to his children. He could discourse intelligenlly upon foreign and domestic rel itions, ihe t-ffi ciencv of men, and iheirvarious abilities; the divergence of thouht in politics and religión, and ihe varióos conflicto in modern philosophy. Hu bd a heahhy, compact body, a large brain and a good memory ; had a generom, sympathetic feeling for his fellow men, nd was a consistent member of the Presbyterian chnrch. He was among the few who labored and contributed for tne establishment of the State Normal tchool at Ypsilanti, wbere six of his sons afierwards graduated, and for the last quarter of a century the University of Miuhigan has been represented by some of his children or grand-children. In early manhood he married Ann Muir, a lady of marked moral and religious convictions, who wag ever a devoted wife, a gelf-saciificing muther, a model helpmeet, and an earnest chnstmn, who passed to the vale beyond but a chort time before him in the 80th year of her ase. Mr. Campbell's mind wag clear and unclouded to the lust, culm and trusüng in lile, triumphant in death, he pased into tbe anseen world without a strnee'e.