Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1890 — ADMIRED HIS HORSEMANSHIP. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ADMIRED HIS HORSEMANSHIP.

Hon George W. Campbell Won an English Girl tor a Wife.

R. GEORGE W. Campbell, of Chi- , ) cago. owes the I success of his loveJ making to his exF pert horsemanship. When ridL ing a spirited aniw mal at a “Wild * West” show in England in 1887 he excited the admiration of Miss Helen Dodd, daughter .of Sir

Thomas Dodd, and the acquaintanceship that followed led to the marriage cf the young people. Mr. Campbell, after winning his bride, was unable, on account of business engagements, to cross the water to wed her, and she came to America in care of Capt. John R. Dewar, the Superintendent of the Guion, Steamship Line, an old friend of her father’s family, to meet her future husband. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of the Twenty-third Street Baptist

Church, at Association Hall in New York. The young couple are now living in a palatial mansion on Chicago’s most aristocratic thoroughfare. George W. Campbell is the . son of James H.| Campbell, the mill-] ionaiie cattleman * and head of the J. H. Campbell Com-

pany of Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Omaha. He now occupies the place of chief salesman for the company. He is 25 years old. When but 15 years of age he ran away from home and went to Texas, where he followed the wild life of a cowboy, during which he acquired that marvelous expertness in horsemanship which secured him his bride. While in Liverpool, a little more than a year ago, in a spirit of fun be took part in a “Wild West” show which

was exhibiting there. One day during a performance he picked a silver dollar out of the mud by reaching down from the back of his horse while it was going at full speed. Every one in the audience ap.plauded, but none so vigorously as a young girl who, with her father, occupied one of the

private boxes. While waving her kerchief to the gallant rider a gust of wind snatched it from her hand and carried it out to the center of the track, where it fell in the dirt. Campbell was coming down the raceway on the full run and saw the bit of lace fall. Without checking his horse he bent low in the saddle, and as he swept by picked it up. He was cheered to the echo as he turned his pony, and riding up to the box returned the handkerchief to its fair owner. Introductions followed through the medium of a mutual friend. The occupants of the box proved to bo Sir Thomas Dodd, of West Derby, near Liverpool, and his eighteen-year-old daughter Helen. Between the young people it was a case of love at first sight. Objections to the marriage were raised on both sides, but it was finally decided that if Campbell did not change his mind in a year no further objections would be made. The sequel has been told. Mrs. Campbell L a beautiful brunette, with hair and eyes that verge on black in color. She is medium in height and has a graceful curriage.

MRS. G. W. CAMPBELL.

G. W. CAMPBELL.