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Source:
Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Personal and Genealogical
with Portraits
- Vol. II -
Madison, Wis.
Northwestern Historical Association
1904
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ANSON B. CAMPBELL,
insurance agent at McKeesport, was born in
New Lisbon, Ohio, Oct .23, 1837. He
attended the public schools there until
1845, when the family moved to Elizabeth
township, Allegheny Co., Pa. Here he
attended the public schools, and afterwards
studied two years at the Monongahela
academy. Mr. Campbell then
studied medicine for a year and a half, and,
in 1861, gave up his books to join the Union
army, as a member of Company M, 100th
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry.
This regiment was called by its commander,
Col. Daniel Leisure, "Roundhead
regiment," after Cromwell's famous
soldiers of that name. Mr. Campbell's
war-record is a most creditable one. A
short time after his enlistment he was
elected second lieutenant, and afterwards
became captain of his company. He was
with his regiment at the taking of Hilton
Head and Bay Point; moved thence to
Beaufort, S. C., where he remained until
May, 1862, and took part in the capture of a
fort on the mainland, which was accomplished
after a serious brush with the rebels.
He then returned to Hilton Head, and from
there went to James island, remaining on the
island from June 1st to July 4th, and then
came back to Hilton Head. From Hilton
Head the regiment was sent by transport to
Newport News, Va., and from there went to
Aquia creek, and thence to Fredericksburg,
stopping about four weeks at the latter
place. The Roundheads then went to
reinforce Pope in the Slaughter
mountains, but arrived to late to be of
service, and, on Aug. 16th, retreated to
Kelley's Ford and crossed the river with the
confederates close behind. Mr.
Campbell fought two days at second Bull
Run; then fell back with his regiment to
Centerville, where they made a stand and
remained over Sunday, and on Monday, helped
defeat the reels at Chantilly. The
regiment then marched to Washington, in
August, 1862, stayed there one day, and then
went into Maryland and too part in the
battle of South mountain, on Sept. 14, 1862.
Thence they participated in the battle of
Antietam, and pursued the rebels to
Shepherd's Ford, and then, having lost the
trail, camped at Pleasant Valley until
October 26th. From there they went ot
Fredericksburg and took part in the battle
of that name, on December 13th. At
South mountain, Mr. Campbell was
wounded twice, and, early in 1863, resigned
to attend the bedside of his mother, who
died in March. His war service over,
he remained at home until March. His
war service over, he remained at home until
March, 1864, when, with a number of friends,
he left for Idaho, the party making the
journey by ox-team from Nebraska City until
they reached their destination. He
reached Virginia City in August, remained
there until October, and then, with a party
of sixty-five, started for the headwaters of
the Yellowstone. Here they built
thirteen boats, sawing the lumber with
whip-saws, and started on a journey to which
no man had ever made before - a journey
fraught with unknown perils and countless
hardships. They went, first, 1,000
mile to the Missouri river, then down the
Missouri to Sioux City, Ia., being attached
twice on the way by Indians. Mr.
Campbell was married in October, 1866,
and took a trip of a month to the East at
that time. In the same year he began
his long an successful career as an
insurance agent. In politics Mr.
Campbell is a republican. He
was elected to the State Legislature in 1879
and re-elected in 1881, and has served his
borough fifteen years as a member of the
school board, being secretary of the board
thirteen years. In religion he is a
Baptist, has been a deacon thirty years and
fifteen years Sunday school superintendent.
He is a member of the G. A. R.
Source: Memoirs
of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 2 - Publ. 1904 -
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JAMES CAMPBELL,
general inspector of the National tube
works, is a native of Prince Edward Island,
where he was born in the year 1838. At
the age of fourteen he left the parish
school and went to sea on a merchantman, but
while on a voyage to the United States he
left his ship, soon afterward engaging as a
sailor on an American vessel. From
that time until about the year 1870 he
followed the sea, the last few years being
passed as master of a ship. During the
Civil war he served in the United States
navy, and was for three and a half years
with Farragut. He was present at the
famous naval engagement in Mobil bay, was
with the fleet at Galveston when Harriet
Law was taken, and participated in the
blowing up of Westfield. Part of the
time during his service he was a petty
officer, and was honorably discharged from
the navy in 1864. Upon giving up a
seafaring life, he entered the employ of the
tube works, first at Boston, and later at
McKeesport. Altogether he has been
with the company for thirty-three years;
twenty-two years of that time were spent in
the finishing department, and for the lat
four years he has held the position of
general inspector. He came to
McKeesport while it was still a borough, and
for eleven years was a member of the common
and select council. Four years of that
time he was chairman of the select council,
and was a member of that body when the city
government was organized in 1891. In
politics he is a republican, and it was as a
representative of that party that he was
elected to the council, though while serving
in that capacity he never allowed his
partisanship to stand in the way of the
public good. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Aliquippa lodge
of Masons, the Heptasophs, and the Protected
Home Circle. He is the son of
Roderick and Isabella (Stewart) Campbell
His father was a native of Prince Edward
Island, though both his grandfathers were
full-blooded Scotchmen. After coming
to McKeesport, he married Mary J.,
daughter of Richad A. Hitchens, of
that city. They have six sons and two
daughters, viz.: Roderick, aged
twenty-four years; Hector,
twenty-one; Edmund sixteen; Lilly,
fourteen; James, ten; Horace,
eight; Laura, seven, and George,
six. Roderick, Hector and
Edmund are employed in the tube works,
and the younger children are still in
school. The long residence of Mr.
Campbell in McKeesport, his efficient
services in the select council, and his
interest in all questions relating to the
general welfare, combine to render him one
of the best-known men in the city. His
home is at No 530 Olive St.
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 2 - Publ. 1904 -
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JOSEPH LOUIS CAMPBELL
is the son of John and Rachel Campbell
and a grandson of William Campbell,
whose father, Thomas Campbell, came
to this country from Scotland and during the
Revolutionary war was, according to history,
a messenger for Washington. William
Campbell, son of Thomas and
grandfather of Joseph L., wa a
veteran of the war of 1812, and his sons,
with one exception, where all soldiers in
the war of the Rebellion. John and
Rachel Campbell, the parents of the
subject of this article, celebrated their
golden wedding, Jan. 10, 1897, at
McKeesport, Pa., where John Campbell
has charge of the bridge that spans the
Youghiogheny river. Joseph L.
Campbell was born in Jacktown,
Westmoreland Co., Pa., May 16, 1858.
He attended school only until he was twelve
years old, and afterward worked in mines and
mills until he reached the age of
twenty-five. He then became solicitor
for a daily newspaper and subsequently one
of the proprietors of the Braddock Evening
Times, his partner being the late Will H.
Large. After Mr. Large's
death, Mr. Campbell sold out his
interest in the Evening Times and became a
reporter and solicitor for the Braddock
Daily News, assisting in the placing before
its readers the first issue of that paper.
In 1893 he was elected justice of the peace
for North Braddock by a majority of
thirty-two over the combined votes of three
other candidates, and was re-elected in 1898
and 1903 by votes over his opponents of four
to one. He is now serving his third
term in his office, having discharged his
duties with marked ability and fidelity.
He also does a considerable business in
writing deeds, bonds and mortgages, in the
management of property, insurance, and in
the collection of rents. In politics
Mr. Campbell has always been a
republican, prominent in local party
affairs, and has been for a number of years
a member of the Allegheny county republican
executive committee. He is a member of
the Junior O. U. A. M., Knights of Malta,
and Maccabees, is a past officer of the
first-named organization, and during the
administration of Stephen D. Collins,
as State councillor, was deputy State
councillor for the Braddock and Turtle creek
valley district.
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 2 - Publ. 1904 -
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL,
retired miller, residing at Woodville, was
born in County Down, Ireland, on New Year's
day, 1840. His parents were James
and Margaret (Alberthnot) Campbell.
James Campbell was a farmer in Ireland.
He died in 1882, when seventy-five years
old, and his wife in 1883, at about the same
age. Joseph Campbell is one of
twelve children, of whom five, besides
himself, are living: Mrs. Charles
Pierce, Mrs. Samuel McVey, Miss Eliza, Miss
Margaret and Mrs. William Frew.
Mr. Campbell was educated in Ireland,
and learned there the trade of milling, at
which he spent four years before coming to
the United States. He landed in
America on June 11, 1871, and came to
Allegheny county two months later, locating
at Woodville, where he has since resided.
He at once took charge of the Woodville
flouring mill and ran it for eleven years,
then bought the property, and has been owner
and manager for over thirty years. In
1901 the mill was remodeled and fitted out
with the most modern milling machinery, so
that it is now the best equipped mill in
western Pennsylvania. The mill grinds
wheat, corn, buckwheat and rye, and has a
capacity of fifty barrels a day. It is
excellently located on Chartiers creek, and
can be run either by water power or steam.
For the past four years natural gas has been
used as fuel, the mill being provided with a
gas well near by. A side-track on
Mr. Campbell's property connects
it with the Chartiers branch of the
Pennsylvania railroad, and, in all, the mill
has facilities of three railroads, which
carry the products in every direction. The
mill is a structure forty by sixty feet in
size, with four stories, with a slate roof,
and the sheds and side toward the railroad
track protected against sparks by a
sheet-iron covering. As a further
safe-guard against fire, there is a
stand-pipe running up through the center of
the mill, and each floor is provided with
twenty-five feet of rubber hose. In
all his long experience, Mr.
Campbell has never suffered loss by
fire. The fifty-horse-power engine
with which the mill is equipped has never
suffered a breakdown, because Mr.
Campbell is, besides being a practical
miller, an engineer and mechanic as well.
On Dec. 8, 1860, Mr. Campbell
was married to Miss Agnes
Rogers, a native of County Down,
Ireland, and has had thirteen children.
Of these, Elizabeth died when
twenty-one years old, Robert died
when twenty-three years old, Agnes
died at the age of twenty-one, and three
others died young, two being twins.
Those living are: James, a clerk at
his father's mill; William W., a
miller; Maggie, who married John
Wilson, who is employed in a railroad
office in Pittsburg, and lives in Woodville;
David R., an assistant in the mill,
who married Alice Gudbub;
Lottie C., Joseph L. and Clara
J. W. He has also eight
grandchildren. His daughter, Mrs.
Wilson, has three children, Joseph
L., Howard R. and Agnes M.,
and lost one child, James, who died
when three years old; and his son, David
R., has four children, Jacob R.,
Joseph A., David R. and
Mary E., and had another child, Harry,
who died when two years old. Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph
Campbell are members of the United
Presbyterian church of Woodville, of which
Mr. Campbell is treasurer and
trustee. Mr. Campbell is
treasurer of the building and loan
association and a member of the grain
exchange. In politics he has always
been a republican. Mr.
Campbell is a man whose life has been as
honorable as it has been prosperous.
He is a man of spotless integrity, and the
products of his mill are noted for their
honest value, which gives them a ready sale.
He has won for himself in the community an
enviable standing as a miller, a citizen and
a friend.
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 1 - Publ. 1904 -
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W. J. CAMPBELL,
a prosperous farmer of West Deer township,
comes of Irish ancestry, who, for
generations back, were successful tillers of
the soil. His grandfather came from
Ireland during the early years of the last
century, settled in Allegheny county,
married a native of Pennsylvania, and died
an honored citizen, after devoting his life
to the cultivation of the soil. His
son, Thomas A. Campbell, married
Jane, daughter of James Ross, who
came from Ireland and married a Miss
Anderson, of Pennsylvania, and died near
Kirksville, Mo. His widow ended her
days in West Deer township at an advanced
age. Thomas A. Campbell owns
ninety-five acres of land, and has farmed
with success in his native township.
He is an adherent of the republican party,
and has held the office of road commissioner
for two terms. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, while his wife
was connected with the United Presbyterian
church until her death, which occurred Dec.
11, 1890. Their family consisted of
seven daughters and one son, all living
except one of the former. W. J.
Campbell, the only son, was born in West
Deer township, Allegheny Co., Pa., Feb. 23,
1859. He grew up on his father's farm,
enjoyed the usual school routine, and
obtained a thorough mastery of the details
of farm work by the time he had attained to
manhood's estate. For some time he has
had charge of the homestead, and has managed
the affairs with discretion and good
judgment. Politically, he affiliates
with the republican party, and, with his
wife, renders allegiance to the United
Presbyterian church. On Sept. 26,
1889, Mr. Campbell was united in marriage
with Miss Rachael, daughter of
George Hoffman, a prominent
farmer of West Deer township. They
have five children, Loyd Webster,
Norman Ray, Bertha Ione,
Clifford Anderson and
William Kenneth.
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 1 - Publ. 1904 -
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WILLIAM OLIVER CAMPBELL,
of Sharpsburg, Pa., a successful farmer of
O'Hara township, was born in that township,
Feb. 2, 1861, son of James C. and
Isabelle (Marshall) Campbell, of O'Hara
township, Allegheny Co., Pa. His
father was a well-known farmer and was a son
of Thomas Campbell, who was a native
of County Down, Ireland, and came to America
when a young man and here married Mary,
daughter of James Crawford, of
Allegheny city, Pa., who owned all the land
now owned by the Campbell brothers
and the adjoining farm owned by Mr.
Crawford. William O.
Campbell was educated at the Robinson
school, of O'Hara township, which he
attended until fifteen years of age.
He then began to assist his father on the
farm and continued in that capacity until
his twenty-fourth year, when his father
retired from active life. For the next
six years the farm was run by the sons of
James C. Campbell, and then it was
divided between them, W. O. Campbell
securing the eastern half. This part
of the original farm consists of forty-seven
and one-half acres and is situated on the
Mill road, two and one-half miles from
Sharpsburg, in O'Hara township, Allegheny
Co., Pa. Mr. Campbell was
married, on Mar. 28, 1899, to Mary,
daughter of Hugh and Susan (Price)
Pollock, formerly of Pittsburg, but then
residing in Indiana township. Hugh
Pollock was a native of County Down,
Ireland, and when a mere infant accompanied
his parents, James and Nancy (McCord)
Pollock, to America, and there he
married Susan Price, a native of
Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have one daughter,
Helen Lenore, residing with her parents.
Mr. Campbell is a member f the
Presbyterian church, the Junior Order of
United American Mechanics and of the
republican party. He is well and
favorably known in that part of the county
and is a man of genuine worth.
Source: Memoirs
of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 2 - Publ. 1904 -
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WILLIAM V. CAMPBELL,
a prominent young McKeesport insurance man,
son of A. B. and Eliza Campbell, is a native
of that city, and was educated in the public
schools, graduating from the high school in
1890. He then went into the National bank of
McKeesport, starting as messenger, and was
advanced from one position to another until,
at the end of five years, he was teller.
He then left the bank, and, in 1895, went
into the insurance and loan business with
his father, and has continued in that line
up to date. He still, however, works
part of each year in a bank during the busy
season, his experience gained in the
National bank making him a valuable man in
an emergency. Mr. Campbell
was appointed postmaster of the city of
McKeesport Mar. 2, 1903, took charge of the
office Mar. 19, 1903, and on July 1st the
office was advanced from a second to a
first-class postoffice. Mr.
Campbell is a member of the McKeesport
lodge, No. 375, F. and A. M., and the
Knights of Malta. In politics he is a
republican, active in local party affairs,
and a man of great influence in the
community. He is a member of the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church and secretary of its
board of trustees. Mr.
Campbell was married, in 1895, to
Anna J. Longabaugh, of
McKeesport, daughter of George W.
Longabaugh. Mr. and Mrs.
Campbell reside in the fourth ward.
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 2 - Publ. 1904 -
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WILLIAM WASHINGTON CAMPBELL,
of Pittsburg, Pa., a prominent attorney,
with offices at No. 413 Grant St., was born
at Paisley, Scotland, May 26, 1842, son of
Hugh and Agnes (Johns) Campbell.
His family is of Scotch ancestry, and his
father, Hugh Campbell, was a son of
William and Jane Campbell, and a
shawl manufacturer in his naive land.
He came to America in1847 with a company
which intended to manufacture shawls in
California, but owning to the constant
harassing of the Indians, this project was
abandoned, and Hugh Campbell became a
trooper in the United States cavalry.
He saw distinguished service in the Mexican
war, participated in a number of bloody
fights, and was so severely wounded at
Pueblo that he died from the effects of his
wounds. He had three children:
William W., Hugh, who died in Aberdeen,
Miss., in May, 1901, and John P., who
resides at Marietta, Ohio. Mrs.
Campbell, mother of the subject, died in
Fairmont, W. Va. William W.
Campbell accompanied his parents to
America when only five years of age, and
after a short stay in St. Louis, removed to
West Virginia. He was educated in the
Marietta academy and college of Marietta,
Ohio, and at the beginning of the Civil war
entered the government service as a
telegraph operator, and at the same time
also acted in that capacity for the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. He was
stationed at Oakland, Md.; then at
Rowlesburg, W. Va., and, in 1864, at
Fairmont, W. Va., where he received and W.
Va., and, in 1864, at Fairmont, W. Va.,
where he received and published the bulletin
pertaining to Lee's surrender.
At the close of the war he was placed in
charge of a station for the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad at Fairmont, where he remained for
a number of years, and subsequently held the
same position with that company for many
years at Farmington, W. Va. In the
meantime he was devoting his leisure to the
study of law, and was admitted to the bar in
1880, after passing a splendid examination
conducted by John J. Hoag, Altheus
Heymond and Judge A. Brooks
Fleming. He practiced in West
Virginia with much success until 1889, when
he removed to Pittsburg, was admitted to the
bar of Allegheny county, and since has
continuously practiced in that city.
Mr. Campbell is a democrat,
and while living in West Virginia took an
active part in politics, holding the office
of commissioner of deeds and being defeated
for the office of county clerk by the narrow
margin of eleven votes. He has been
twice married - first, to Elmina,
daughter of Jacob and Jane
Straight, of Fairmont, W. Va., and
they had ten children: Jane Agnes,
who died at the age of six years and six
months; Mary Martha, wife of
Robert T. Walsh, of McKeesport;
William H., who married Jessie
Griffith and resides in Pittsburg;
Guy Edgar, who married Edith
Phillips and is a broker in
Pittsburg; Betsey Blanch, wife
of Harry T. Foley, of Philadelphia;
Clyde S., a resident of Texas;
Maud Ella, wife of Elmer
Schrock, of McKeesport; Lula
Margaret, wife of W. R.
Worthington, of Greensburg; Otto C.,
resident of Pittsburg, and Ruhamie
Belva, wife of Malcolm B. Brady,
of Philadelphia. Mrs.
Campbell died in Crafton, Pa., Oct. 19,
1897, and is buried in the Phillips burial
ground near Crafton. Mr.
Campbell was married the second time, on
Feb. 28, 1899, to Catherine, daughter
of Matthew and Jessie
Howard, of Allegheny city, and they
have one daughter, Aurelia Alta,
and one son, Robert Burns,
born Sept. 19, 1903. He is a member and past
noble grand of Henry Lambert lodge No. 475,
I. O. O. F., of Pittsburg and is past grand
of Electic lodge of Farmington, W. Va., of
which lodge he is a charter member, and also
of Campbell lodge of Spencer, W. Va.
He is a past chief patriarch and
representative to the grand encampment.
Mr. Campbell is a member of
the First Presbyterian church of Crafton,
and resides at Wilkinsburg, Pa
Source: Memoirs
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Allegheny County, Pennsylvania - Vol. 1 - Publ. 1904 -
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