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...Warsaw, which was founded in 1837 in what hadbeen Osage Indian territory, was named in honor ofa Polish general who aided the Colonies during theRevolutionary War, according to John Owen, a92-year-old Warsaw resident and a member of thelocal historical commission. The town is the seatof government for Benton County, named after aU.S. Senator from Missouri...
...three majorindustries: hunting, fishing and the manufactureof gunstocks, the wooden part of guns. In recentyears, wealthy suburbanites from St. Louis andKansas City in search of fresher air have turnedthe area north of the river into a rich man'sneighborhood, according to Campbell's high schoolguidance counselor, Bill Gott. But Warsaw is stilla place, Campbell says, where school attendancedrops on the first day of deer season...
...Campbell family is as much a part of thelandscape as the dam. His paternal grandfather hadserved as principal at Warsaw High, and Brad grewup on 200 acres of Campbell land about 15 milessouth of town...
Brad's father, Jim Campbell, left Warsaw forcollege and found a teaching job in an affluentsuburb of St. Louis where he met another teacher,Joan Polmantier. Joan grew up in the college townof Columbia, where her father was an educationalpsychologist at the University of Missouri...
They had a Baptist Wedding in Columbia (thoughthe Campbells now belong to the Church of theBrethren), and quickly moved back to Warsaw. Thenewlyweds taught for a year, but soon decided togive up teaching to start an insurance agency...