Biographical Sketch (1918):1675, p. 1053. "Born in 1853, and for many years engaged in hard work and difficult enterprises in which, fortunately, he has profited through good management, Charles Stewart Campbell is both one of the oldest native sons of Butte County and among the pioneers most comfortably situated; and what is still more worth the while, he and his good wife succeeded, far beyond the average, in rearing and educating a large family, and so providing others with the training and equipment for good citizenship. . . .

Born on December 30, 1853, Charles S. Campbell was brought up here and educated in public schools in Cherokee. From a boy he, too, learned the butcher's trade; but he was also given a chance to learn about stock raising, in which he rode over the range after cattle. When only seventeen he began to operate somewhat for himself, with a few head of cattle, and it was then that he chose the easily discerned brand C C, stamped upon the right hip. Since that time, with the exception of four years or so, he has continued in that activity, having once turned aside to accept employment at Powellton with the Consolidated Cherokee Mining Company. He served under Jacob Patterson, the well-known expert who had charge of a ditch, and Charles S. assumed the responsibility for a section."

1880 U.S. Census:1207 Charles enumerated with his wife Alice Patterson in the household of his father-in-law Jacob Patterson in the Village of Cherokee, Oregon Township, Butte County, California as a white male, age 26, son-in-law, married, married within the year, works in lumber mill, born in California, father born in Ireland, mother born in Michigan.

1919 Tombstone:1674 Cherokee Cemetery, Cherokee, Butte County, California.
Charles Stewart Campbell
Dec. 31, 1853—October 25, 1919
son of John and Ophelia