Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Melville Clark Campbell
CAMPBELL, MELVILLE CLARK (1849–1932), inducted between 1920–1936
Pioneer Kansas rancher and cattleman M. C. Campbell was born in northern Illinois, where his family drove steers to the Chicago market. In 1872, he moved to Barton County, Kansas, and served as county clerk for a term, before settling in Wichita. In 1882, he drove Texas cattle to Clark County and established the 20,000-acre Campbell Ranch on the Cimarron River. Campbell was a leader of the Kansas Livestock Sanitary Board and the Kansas National Livestock Show and a founder of the Kansas Livestock Commission. He helped organize the National Bank of Commerce in Wichita, in 1896, and continued as a director when the bank became First National.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 61