Brownfield Family and Marvin Campbell Papers
DePauw University
DC 6

Archives of DePauw University

and Indiana United Methodism

Brownfield Family and Marvin Campbell Papers

Size: 0.40 lf

Restrictions: none

Accession: none or unknown

Provenance: donor

Processed by: unknown

Biographical Sketch

John Brownfield was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1808. John Brownfield, son of John Brownfield and Lydia Ann Beeson, was born in South Bend, Ind., on July 4, 1849. He was prepared for college in Miss Bacon's private school and the Northern Indiana college. In 1872 he married Juanna Kelley of South Bend and in June 1872 was graduated from the Harvard law school. After graduation he entered upon the practice of law in South Bend, which he followed until removal to Indianapolis in 1884 except for a few years when he was owner and editor of The Union, a democratic paper, the predecessor of the South Bend Times. After his return to South Bend in 1889 he was connected to the Campbell Paper Box Co., until his retirement in 1912. Since then he has made his home with his daughter in Chicago, Gary, and since 1922 in Greencastle.

John Brownfield, 90 years old, and possessor of the DePauw cane given successively to the oldest living graduate of Asbury-DePauw University, died at his home on Memorial Day 1939. He was the father of Dr. Lillian Beeson Brownfield, one of the members of the faculty of DePauw University. Lillian Beeson Brownfield was born in South Bend, Indiana on March 4, 1873. She was the daughter of Joanna (Kelly) Brownfield and John Brownfield, Jr. She entered DePauw University in 1892, received an A.B. in Latin (1895), then returned to South Bend where she headed the English department and taught Latin and Greek at South Bend Central High School until 19112. During this time she also earned an M.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University (1904). She returned to DePauw in 1922 and taught advanced literature until her retirement in 1940. Lillian Beeson Brownfield died on September 2, 1961.

Marvin Campbell (1849-1930), son of Samuel A. Campbell, married Lydia Brownfield, daughter of the late John Brownfield, one of the earliest merchants in South Bend.

Collection Statement

This collection consists of clippings and a ten page scrap book. It also contains information on Marvin Campbell too.

DC 6

Brownfield, John 1808-1890

1857 Elected Trustee of Indiana Asbury

Children - John Brownfield, JR. '70

Lydia Brownfield Campbell (Mrs. Marvin)

Grandchild - Lilian Brownfield, '95

Folder 1 Brownfield - Miscellaneous

            2 Brownfield - Clippings

            3 Campbell, Marvin & Lilian Brownfield Campbell

Campbell, Marvin 1849-1930

Marvin Campbell, son of Samuel A. Campbell, married Lydia A. Brownfield, daughter of late John Brownfield, one of the earliest merchants in South Bend

Scrapbook: Ten pages of clippings on the death of Marvin Campbell. The remaining pages contain letters of sympathy to John Brownfield Campbell on the death of his father,

Marvin Campbell. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of DePauw University.

See: Folder 17, Hughes Document Case #45 for material on the Campbell sustaining fund.

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