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Alexander Campbell (1833–1877)

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A soft black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of Alexander Campbell, a dark-haired man with a full mustache, wearing a dark jacket, wing collar, and bow tie.
A soft black-and-white head-and-shoulders portrait of Alexander Campbell, a dark-haired man with a full mustache, wearing a dark jacket, wing collar, and bow tie. Unknown photographer, before 1877, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

This page is the Schuylkill Hub 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.

FieldValueQ3818144 source
Date of birth1833 (year only — exact day/month not recorded)P569
Place of birthAn Clochán LiathP19
Country of citizenshipIrelandP27
Date of death21 June 1877P570
Place of deathJim ThorpeP20
Occupation (structured)businesspersonP106
Occupation (described)“tavern owner and criminal”English description
Convicted ofmurderP1399
Manner of deathcapital punishmentP1196
Cause of deathhanging to deathP509
English Wikipedia sitelink titleAlexander 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.

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  • 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 P569 records the year of birth at year-level precision; the Schuylkill Hub h1 title “(1833–1877)” presents the year only.
  • The rendered Person schema’s hasOccupation value follows Q3818144’s structured P106 (“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-maguires for those details, which the topic anchor carries with its own sources.

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Frequently asked

Who was Alexander Campbell?
Alexander Campbell (1833–1877) is documented on Wikidata as Q3818144 — year of birth 1833 (per Q3818144 P569) at An Clochán Liath (per P19); date of death 21 June 1877 (per P570) at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — the borough formerly named Mauch Chunk (per P20). Wikidata's structured occupation field (P106) describes him as a businessperson; the English-language description records 'tavern owner and criminal.' For the broader historical context of the Molly Maguires, see /history/molly-maguires.
Where did Alexander Campbell die?
Per Wikidata Q3818144 P570 (date of death) and P20 (place of death), Campbell died on 21 June 1877 at Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — the borough formerly named Mauch Chunk and the seat of Carbon County.