Jourdan Campbell

Jourdan Campbell (1867-1938), whose family had moved to Atascosa County by 1870 after his father John Campbell founded Campbellton, married Alice Louise Marr in 1897 and had eight children. He became County Commissioner in the 1890s, and in 1907 he and Col. T. H. Zanderson bought the 33,760 acre Tobey Ranch, part of which would become Jourdanton. After the town was formed, Campbell served as vice president of the bank, lobbied for a railroad, and supported a 65-mile hardtop highway project linking Jourdanton to the principal communities of Atascosa County. Jourdanton became the Atascosa County seat in 1910, and Campbell was the driving force behind the town's creation, prosperity, and growth.

Jourdanton, Texas · United States