Alexander Campbell (1833–1877)
This page is the schuylkillhub corpus’s biographical anchor for Alexander Campbell, the entity documented on Wikidata as Q3818144.
Wikidata-anchored vitals
Each row below is directly traceable to a property statement on Q3818144 or to Q3818144’s Wikidata-tracked English-language description / sitelink. The table is the load-bearing structure of this page’s biographical claims.
| Field | Value | Q3818144 source |
|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1833 (year only — exact day/month not recorded) | P569 |
| Place of birth | An Clochán Liath | P19 |
| Country of citizenship | Ireland | P27 |
| Date of death | 21 June 1877 | P570 |
| Place of death | Jim Thorpe | P20 |
| Occupation (structured) | businessperson | P106 |
| Occupation (described) | “tavern owner and criminal” | English description |
| Convicted of | murder | P1399 |
| Manner of death | capital punishment | P1196 |
| Cause of death | hanging to death | P509 |
| English Wikipedia sitelink title | Alexander Campbell (suspected Molly Maguire) | sitelink |
For the historical context of the Molly Maguires (Wikidata Q399701), see the topic anchor: The Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region.
Honesty guardrails
- Every biographical cell in the Wikidata-anchored vitals table is anchored to a specific Q3818144 fact — a property statement (P-number), the entity’s Wikidata English-language description, or its English Wikipedia sitelink title. This page asserts no biographical claim outside the table.
- Q3818144’s
P569records the year of birth at year-level precision; the schuylkillhub h1 title “(1833–1877)” presents the year only. - The rendered Person schema’s
hasOccupationvalue follows Q3818144’s structuredP106(“businessperson”). The entity’s Wikidata English description (“tavern owner and criminal”) is included as a separate row in the table for completeness. - This page does NOT assert specific identifications commonly associated with this case in non-Wikidata accounts — the named trial court, the specific prison, the named murder victims, the year window of the broader execution wave, the count of defendants executed on June 21, 1877, or the distribution between the Carbon and Schuylkill County prisons. Readers are directed to
/history/molly-maguiresfor those details, which the topic anchor carries with its own sources.
Sources
- Wikidata: Alexander Campbell (Q3818144)
License: CC0 - Wikidata: Molly Maguires (Q399701)
License: CC0