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The arms granted to the Duke of Argyll were:
Arms-Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or and sable (for Campbell), second and third, argent, a lymphad, her sails furled and oars in action, all sable, flag and pennants flying gules (for Lorn).
Crest-A boar's head couped or.
Motto-Vix ea nostro voco.
The patronymic "Campbell" is derived from two old Gaelic words, and has refer- ence to a facial characteristic, or, in the opinion of some authorities, it denotes a facial deformity. The surname is com- pounded from cam, meaning "wry," and Beul, meaning "mouth," wry-mouth. Wry- mouth could have reference to a stern expression or firm, straight, unsmiling lips. W. & A. K. Johnston's "The Scot- tish Clans & Their Tartans," however,
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claims that it is now generally admitted that the surname denotes a facial deform- ity, wry-mouth meaning twisted lips. The clan tartan of the Campbells of Argyll is one of the most beautiful, being of inter- secting squares of dark green, dull blue, and black, with alternating narrow stripes of yellow and white. Nothing need be said of the consummate bravery, the prominence, or the military exploits of the early Campbells, for these are synony- mous with the surname, and a recountal here would be but in the nature of repeti- tion. The American branch herein con- sidered begins with Daniel Campbell, of whom further.
(I) Daniel Campbell was born in Nairn, Scotland, in the year 1810. He served in the British Army and was granted a tract of land in Newfoundland for his services. He was one of a large family which im- migrated to America in 1830. They set- tled in Newfoundland and later removed to Eastport, Maine. Daniel Campbell then moved to Ridges, New Brunswick, Canada, and still later returned to the States, settling finally in Boston, Massa- chusetts, where he learned the trade of tailor, which he followed for many years. He was married, in 1836, to Lucy Perry, a native of Sherbourne, Massachusetts, and a member of an old New England family. Daniel and Lucy (Perry) Campbell were the parents of six children, as follows: Donald, Lucy, Margaret, William, Henry A., of whom forward; Frederick.
(II) Henry A. Campbell, fifth of the six children of Daniel and Lucy (Perry) Campbell, was born in Westford, Massa- chusetts, in the year 1854. His early years were spent at Gardner, Massachusetts, where he received his education in the local public schools. His first business venture was in the logging and lumber industries, buying wooded districts, and then sawing, trucking, and selling the
lumber. Later he conducted a wood- working factory at Everett, Massachu- setts, which business he eventually sold in order to enter the contracting and building field. He built many residences for speculation both in the North and South, and upon his return from the South he settled permanently in Boston, Massa- chusetts, where he now (1924) lives retired. Politically, Henry A. Campbell is a staunch Republican. Fraternally, he holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His religious affil- iation is given to the Baptist Church of Boston.
Henry A. Campbell was married, in 1875, to Lila O. Gifford, a daughter of George E. and Adeline (Harrington) Gif- ford, of North Grafton, Massachusetts. To Henry A. and Lila O. (Gifford) Camp- bell have been born seven children, as fol- lows: Maud, Walter, Gertrude, George D., of whom further; Adeline, Harold, Chester, now deceased.
(III) The Hon. George D. Campbell, fourth of the seven children of Henry A. and Lila O. (Gifford) Campbell, and a representative of the third generation of the ancient Campbell Clan of Scotland in America, was born in Williamsville, town of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, Septem- ber 14, 1884, and at the age of one year removed with his parents to North Graf- ton, Massachusetts. Here he acquired his education in the local public and high schools, following which he worked for a short time in a country grocery store in North Grafton. He then learned the car- penter's trade, and somewhat later the mason's trade, and for a year, beginning in 1911, he was engaged in general con- tracting and building in North Grafton.
The year 1912 brought Mr. Campbell's advent into Poughkeepsie, New York, which city was destined to be the seat of his business and public activities for more
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than a decade. Mr. Campbell, in the prac- tice of his chosen vocation, has achieved success. For a year following his removal to Poughkeepsie he was in charge of the carpenter work in the course of construc- tion at Vassar College. In 1913 he formed a partnership with Walter Willis King- ston under the firm name of Kingston & Campbell, and during the succeeding six years the firm constructed many private residences, the Dutchess Manufacturing Building, the Smith Brothers' Factory, the Windsor Hotel, and the First National Bank Building. In 1919 the firm was dis- solved by mutual consent, and since that time Mr. Campbell has conducted the business alone. Among the many build- ings which he has erected are the Re- formed Church; the Arlington School; the new Merchants' National Bank Build- ing; the new St. Francis Hospital, as well as additions to the original building; the Corrugated Rubber Building; and addi- tions to the Wallace Department Store. Mr. Campbell's building operations have been characterized in every instance by excellence of material and workmanship, and have brought him a high reputation as an efficient contractor and builder throughout Dutchess County in general and the city of Poughkeepsie in particular.
For many years Mr. Campbell has been identified with the Republican party, and has held a prominent place in civic affairs. He served Poughkeepsie as alderman, representing the Seventh Ward for a period of two years, and for two years was president of the Board of Aldermen. In 1921 he was elected mayor of the city of Poughkeepsie, and in this highest civic office he ably discharged the duties de- volving upon his executive position in a manner that called forth the praise of the public and press. His achievements while in office were noteworthy and deserving of more than passing mention. It was
once remarked that "an able public official is a priceless boon and heritage." Fol- lowing Mayor Campbell's incumbency the local press devoted columns of edi- torial comment on his régime, excerpts from the "Poughkeepsie Eagle-News," under date of December 31, 1923, being herewith granted inclusion :
George D. Campbell will serve as mayor of Poughkeepsie for the last time to-day. To-morrow he will turn the duties of the office over to Mayor- elect Frank B. Lovelace, after two years' labor for the good of the city, marked by an enviable record of achievement. Coming to the City Hall as an alderman, raised from the ranks to the posi- tion of alderman-at-large and then the highest office in the power of the voters of the city to give, Mr. Campbell steadily maintained his principles of square dealing with friend and foe, above-board politics, business-like methods and progressiveness throughout his administration.
Perhaps it was the fact that Mr. Campbell came from another city in another State that he could see Poughkeepsie and its need so clearly. There were enough natives with perspective, however, to second his ideas in taxpayers' election and help him toward the realization of a clean, well-paved and progressive city.
The Campbell administration has brought fol- lowing improvements :
Smooth, wide pavement, where before there was a succession of bumps and hollows, suggestive of Flanders, after the retreat of the armies of the Central Powers.
An electrified water pumping station in place of an antiquated one.
Water mains twice the diameter of the ancient mains they replaced and capable of supplying strong, inexhaustible streams to the firemen to save city property, instead of futile little spouts.
An auxiliary reservoir to insure the new mains adequate supply.
Pavements and adequate water supply were the crying needs of the city as Mr. Campbell saw it, but he saw other things, too. The need of taking care of ever-increasing traffic was great and he not only supervised the redrafting of the city traf- fic ordinance to aid the police in the performance of their duty, but he assisted them in their work by widening streets in connection with the paving program as much as possible. The widening and electric lighting of Cannon Street are character- istic of the mayor's progressive policies. That was
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the next logical step in making the street what it fast is becoming-a business street and a traffic thoroughfare.
An appropriation to help obtain the intercollegi- ate regatta here was put on the polls for voters election day at his suggestion and was carried. The construction of new sewers wherever needed was urged by him.
As ex-officio president of the Board of Health the mayor made the work of the board his hobby. All kinds of difficulties were encountered by the board by circumstances beyond their control during his presidency, but all were met and overcome. Child clinics were established and what was the mayor's pet idea, the establishment of the office of the city physician, to supply free medical atten- tion to the poor, developed.
Realizing that the pressure of his business would make it impossible for him to remain in politics after the conclusion of his term of office, he sought for some means to extend his own and the efforts of his predecessors into the future. As a means to this end he studied the subject of zoning and city planning and became convinced that it was a neces- sity. He was able to inspire others with this con- viction and with the help of those who had tried to bring zoning to this city in the past was able to get an appropriation in the city budget for the work, which already is being done. In city plan- ning he saw the reasonable development of the city along lines of efficiency and beauty.
George D. Campbell to-day rounds out his term as mayor of Poughkeepsie and at midnight becomes again a private citizen.
To permit him to retire without some public expression of the appreciation of his fellow-citizens for the extraordinarily high service which he has rendered them would be the part of an unbecoming lack of gratitude. For when Mayor Campbell gives up the reins to-night, he will leave behind him an administration that has been one of the most progressive and constructive in the city's history, an administration whose good works will continue to bear civic dividends for many years to come.
Now that question has been answered in full, and the public realizes, now that Mr. Campbell is about to retire from office, what a striking success he made of it. He has been mayor in the two years that Poughkeepsie has done more than it did in any like period in the last decade to improve its equipment and physical well being as a city. Under his administration we have begun notably to make good the deficiencies which the war inevit- ably brought about; we have taken up the slack
and made a fine start for the future. His admin- istration has seen the new Main Street pave- ment, planned for and hoped for these many years, become a reality. It has witnessed the installa- tion of the new water system, including the new mains which will give Poughkeepsie adequate fire protection and provide for the normal needs which its growth will bring with them. Under his admin- istration, too, the foundation has been laid for city planning and city zoning to make possible the assimilation of the increase in population which Poughkeepsie expects in a normal and well- regulated manner. In the schools something has been done to relieve overcrowding by adding to present buildings and by obtaining new sites for units which presently must be built. A start has been made toward the new Poughkeepsie highway bridge. Aside from such out of the ordinary achievements, there has been in addition, under Mayor Campbell, a high standard of efficiency for all of the city boards and commissions, a har- monious doing of business without much ostenta- tion, but with extremely beneficial results.
In reviewing Mayor Campbell's administration, it is hard to resist the temptation to become per- sonal with him. What he has been able to do has been, of course, the result of what he is and what he believes. He has been a good public servant because he has taken the time and trouble to make a study of the city's needs in a level-headed, busi- ness like manner, and because he has attempted to meet those needs as well as possible with such resources as were available. He has wasted no time shooting at the moon, but on the other hand he has not been deterred from advocating courses of action which appeared to him desirable merely because they were difficult of accomplishment to himself or anyone else. He has shown initiative of a high type combined with good common sense.
So as Mayor Campbell completes his term of office, "The Eagle-News" wishes to express to him the esteem in which it holds him as a man, a citi- zen, and a public official, and to give utterance, for the city, to the appreciation with which it regards his contributions to its welfare during his term of office.
Fraternally Mr. Campbell is active in Masonic circles, being a member of Frank- lin Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Grafton, Massachusetts; Poughkeepsie Council, Royal Arch Masons ; Poughkeep- sie Chapter, Royal and Select Masters ; and Poughkeepsie Commandery, Knights
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Templar. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of North Grafton, Massachusetts; and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Poughkeepsie. He also holds member- ship in the Amrita Club, the Dutchess Golf and Country Club, the Rotary Club, and the Poughkeepsie Chamber of Com- merce, being a director of the last-named organization. His religious affiliation is with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Poughkeepsie, of which he has been a trustee for some time.
Mr. Campbell was married at Putnam, Connecticut, April 24, 1912, to Mildred Windle, a daughter of John E. and Eliza- beth (Wilbur) Windle, residents of North Grafton, Massachusetts. To Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have been born three chil- dren, as follows: George Donald, Jr., born August 10, 1913; H. Wilbur, born September 7, 1915; M. Douglas, born April 7, 1921. The family residence is maintained at No. 60 Grand Avenue, Poughkeepsie, New York.
HULL, Hon. J. Frank, V
Late Mayor and Prominent Industrial Head, Poughkeepsie, New York.
To the wise and beneficent manage- ment of Hon. J. Frank Hull, late mayor of the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, is due the remarkable growth and world- wide reputation of the great industry of which he was the organizing head and the directing genius for nearly thirty years. With his passing he left to his home city and State a model of business established upon the principle of cooperative man- agership by employer and employees of the concern which they all alike had helped to build as a monument of suc- cess. This astute and far-seeing business man was the son of John F. Hull, cashier of the Fallkill National Bank, Poughkeep-
sie, who was born in Standfordville, New York, November 20, 1816; married Chloe Winchell Hartwell; he died October 20, 1896, at Poughkeepsie. He was of Quaker ancestry.
(I) The family in America was founded by Rev. Joseph Hull, born in Somerset- shire, England, in 1594, sailed March 20, 1635, and landed at Boston, Massachu- setts, May 6, 1635. He died at Isle of Shoals, November 19, 1665. From him the line descends through his son, Tristam, of whom further.
(II) Captain Tristam Hull, son of Rev. Joseph Hull, was born in 1624 in Eng- land, and came to America with his father. He died February 22, 1662. He married and was the father of John, of whom further.
(III) John Hull, son of Captain Tris- tam Hull, was born March, 1654, died De- cember 1, 1732. He married and was the father of John, of whom further.
(IV) John Hull, son of John Hull, born December 4, 1694, died March 9, 1765. He married and was the father of Tedeman, of whom further.
(V) Tedeman Hull, son of John Hull, was born February 1, 1734. He married and was the father of Charles Wager, of whom further.
(VI) Charles Wager Hull, son of Tede- man Hull, was born April 16, 1765, died August 28, 1858. He married and was the father of eleven children, among whom was John Franklin, of whom further.
(VII) John Franklin Hull, son of Charles Wager Hull, was born at Stan- fordville, New York, November 20, 1816, died at Poughkeepsie, New York Octo- ber 20, 1896. He was privileged only to receive a common school education, and at the age of fourteen he came from Stan- fordville to Poughkeepsie and entered the employ of W. W. White as a clerk in his
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dry goods store, serving in association with Stephen Frost and a Mr. Appleton. From that position he was called to the Poughkeepsie Bank, and while serving that institution he was elected cashier of the Pine Plains Bank as successor to F. W. Davis, who had come to Poughkeep- sie to assume the office of cashier of the Farmers' and Manufacturers' Bank. For more than fifty years Mr. Hull was cashier of the Fallkill National Bank, re- tiring from that position four years before his death. Mr. Hull was prominent in the municipal affairs of Poughkeepsie, having served his city as alderman, police com- missioner, member of the Board of Edu- cation, and Dutchess County as its treas- urer during the trying times of the Civil War. The name of Mr. Hull will con- tinue to be associated with the progress and growth of the city of Poughkeepsie, and his valued services as a public- spirited citizen will long be remembered. In addition to his varied activities, he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Old Ladies' Home and a director of the Fallkill National Bank. When Mr. Hull, who was of the Quaker persuasion, was a resident of Pine Plains, there was no meeting of the Society of Friends in that town, and he, therefore, attended the services at the Baptist Church, where he made the acquaintance of Chloe Winchell Hartwell, who became his wife. They were the parents of a daughter and two sons, namely : John Franklin (J. Frank), of whom further; William Bird, born Jan- uary 26, 1852; Mary Shepard, born De- cember 28, 1856.
(VIII) Hon. J. Frank Hull, former. mayor of Poughkeepsie, son of John F. and Chloe Winchell (Hartwell) Hull, was born at Pine Plains, November 15, 1849, and died July 5, 1907. His education was received at the College Hill School and Riverview Military Academy. He entered
upon his business career as a clerk in the Fallkill Bank, and on the death of Wil- liam Forby, in 1879, he purchased an in- terest in the firm of Lasher, Haight & Kelly, which had been established a few years before, the firm, on Mr. Hull's entrance, becoming Lasher & Hull. Mr. Hull later acquired Mr. Lasher's interest in the business and the firm name became Hull & Company, and in 1901 it was in- corporated under the name of Dutchess Manufacturing Company. The plant first was located on North Cherry Street, and in 1888 it was removed to Crannell Street. Through Mr. Hull's energy and business foresight, the establishment was developed to its present great size; it now is known as the largest industry of its kind in the world. The "Dutchess Trousers" is a well-known product of the Hull concern and sold the country over.
Mr. Hull not only attained success as a business man, but he also won the re- spect and the affection of his employees. Upon the business becoming incorpo- rated, nearly all the heads of departments became stockholders in the concern. He believed in cooperation on the part of the owner and the employees, and no serious labor trouble ever interrupted the opera- tion of the Hull plant. Mr. Hull made it his earnest endeavor to throw pleasant surroundings about those whose efficient labor was an important element in his success. During his presidency he devel- oped many industrial reforms then in their infancy, the nine-hour day and the conference idea standing out prominently. There were many outings and entertain- ments for the employees, which were due to his kindly forethought and cooperation on the part of Mrs. Hull.
In 1896 Mr. Hull was the choice of the Republicans of Poughkeepsie for mayor of the city, and it is recorded that he gave the city an excellent administration. He
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was a director of the Fallkill National Bank; a charter member of the Amrita Club, and an active member of the Sec- ond Reformed Church.
Mr. Hull married (first), March 7, 1877, Mrs. Lucinda Ruth (Sterling) Holley, daughter of George W. Sterling, who died during the late eighties. They were the parents of three children : John Franklin, born July 1, 1878, died August 1, 1878; William Franklin, born August 30, 1881, died August 9, 1882; Ruth Chapin, born May 2, 1884. Mr. Hull married (second), December 31, 1894, Carrie L. Gibson, born at Marengo, New York, March 24, 1868, daughter of the late Rev. David Gibson. They were the parents of four children : Lucinda Gibson, born April 8, 1896, died June 3, 1896; John Franklin, born Octo- ber 16, 1898, educated at private schools in Poughkeepsie, and Columbia Univer- sity, New York City, is associated with the Dutchess Manufacturing Company ; Stanley Gibson, born August 18, 1900, educated at private schools, connected with the Dutchess Manufacturing Com- pany ; Charles Amory, born December 17, 1901, educated at private schools and Wil- liams College, class of 1924.
As a fitting completion of this memorial to J. Frank Hull, the following obituary notice from "The Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle" is given :
The death of J. Frank Hull adds another link to the chain of losses of prominent citizens this city has sustained during the past few months. Mr. Hull was a citizen and manufacturer of the best type. The growth of his business was an increas- ing benefit to the city, and certainly no one could say of him that as he grew richer, anyone was made poorer. The principle of friendly coopera- tion with his employees, for which he stood, is a principal that has not been much favored by labor unions; but it is the right principle and is sure to increase in favor when fairly tried. Fortu- nately Mr. Hull had so arranged his business that it can probably continue without serious interrup- tion, though sadly missing the inspiration of his presence and counsel. The sympathy of the whole
city is with his family so suddenly bereaved just as they were planning a happy summer together. -"Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle," July 8, 1907.
CLEVELAND, Joseph Manning, M. D., Public Benefactor.
To stamp upon the history of one's time the impress of his life as a pioneer in any worthy movement is a matter of record justifiably to be envied by all those per- sons who have been so fortunate as to have fallen under the influence, either directly or remotely, of a life intensively lived for the betterment of his kind, men- tally, spiritually and physically. Such a benefactor of his fellowmen, particularly in the State of New York, was Dr. Joseph M. Cleveland, of happy memory, who de- voted more than a quarter of a century of a crowded life to the study and care of the insane and was among the very first inspirers of the movement for the treat- ment of this class of unfortunates as folks mentally ill, and to divorce from hospital walls the ancient and heathenish custom of harshly, often brutally, dealing with the patient as an offender against the laws of the State and society because of the superstition that they were possessed of devils. With the establishment of Dr. Cleveland's system of applying humane methods only in ministering to the care of the mentally ill, he became a nationally known figure in the medical world. At Poughkeepsie, New York, where the major part of his highly useful life was lived, his name was made for himself and his fame attained as the medical superin- tendent of the Hudson River State Hos- pital. The superintendent, the hospital and the adoption of kindness into the rules governing a hospital for the insane soon became the cynosure of the medical fra- ternity in general and specialists on men- tal diseases in particular, the country over. The thing that had been done at
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Poughkeepsie under the Cleveland régime gradually in many similar institutions came to be recognized as the correct method of assisting the curable to regain their mental faculties, at the same time flashing to the confirmed human derelict the illuminating fact that a human being was at the helm of his broken life to guide it humanely while life held together the malformed functions of the patient. So long as the age endures, then, the name of Dr. Cleveland will continue to be asso- ciated with one of the most progressive revolutions in the modern world of new discoveries in science and other fields of human endeavor. Poughkeepsie's loss, though very great, was essentially that of the physical presence of one of its oldest and most efficient public servants.
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