Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 63

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090

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In 1848 Mr. Campbell married Hannah C.

Christopher Campbell, son of Robert, was born in 1795 in Rush township, and died July 31, Campbell, who was born in 18 ?? in Shamokin 1851, aged fifty-six years, six days. In 1823 he. (now Ralpho) township, near Elvsburg, daughter moved to Upper Angusta township, settling on of Josephi D. Campbell. Until her death, April 3, the farm now owned by his grandson, James H ._ 1911, she made her home with her son, James H. Campbell, where he owned 100 acres. He was a Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had children lifelong farmer, and gave the rest of his life to as follows: Dr. Jolin Moore, born July 18. 1849, the cultivation and improvement of this property, who died in July, 1893; Rebecca, who married on which he built the house and barn. His death Joseph Eckman and lives at Snydertown ; Dr. was caused by a fall from the top of the barn, Lemuel C., deceased, who was a veterinary surgeon and he was buried at Klinesgrove cemetery. He of Philadelphia ; James H. : and Flora H .. who . was a Methodist in religious faith. Mr. Camp- died when twenty-two years old. bell married Sarah Kline, who died at her home

JAMES H. CAMPBELL, who is engaged in farm- in Upper Augusta township, Feb. 26, 1841, aged ing on the homestead in Upper Angusta township, forty-four years, eleven months, fourteen days, the mother of ten children: Isaac died on the home- stead ; Rhoda married Samuel Oberdorf; Abraham, who remained with his father, died at the old home, of typhoid fever; Isabella married David Rockefeller ; Catharine married Lewis Rockefeller : Elenore married Kelso Savidge and (second) George M. Forrester : Elizabeth J. married Bloom- field Carr and (second ) Charles Haughawont and they live at Riverside, Pa. : Lemmel is a resident of Sunbury ; Harmon K .. born in 1837. died in 1820; Sallie (Sarah) M., born in 1839, married Charles P. Eckman. was born Aug. 22, 1858, and received his early education in the township schools. Later he at- tended the academies at Freeburg and Elvsburg and the State Normal school at Bloomsburg, and was only seventeen when he began teaching, which profession he followed for twelve years. He was in Shamokin one year : Upper Angusta township, seven winters; Snydertown, two winters; Evert school, in Upper Augusta, one term; Hile school. in Rush township, one term. Meantime, about 1884, he had beeome interested in the Jumber business, and for a number of years after giving up teaching devoted his time principally to that.

Isaac Campbell, son of Christopher, was born line, being thus engaged in Center county. where

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he bought 887 acres of timber land. He had and he later added coal, being a retail coal dealer lumbered over about half of this acreage at the for twenty-six years before his retirement. He time of his father's death, and had employed as was the first agent to handle from the Philadelphia many as thirty men at one time. From 1882 he & Reading Railway Company. For about five has been interested in farming, which he contin- ued during his lumbering operations on a farm adjoining the homestead, and after nine years of lumbering he decided to give all his attention to agriculture, which he carries on yet. Since 1897 he has owned the homestead, which consists of 172 acres, and he also has an adjoining tract of sixty- three acres, all of which is under cultivation, Mr. Campbell following general farming. He is an intelligent and prosperous agriculturist, energetic and up-to-date in his business affairs, which are in a thriving condition. Since 1902 he has served as assessor of Upper Augusta township and still has four years to serve in that office, in which he has given general satisfaction.

years he owned and operated a boat on the Penn- sylvania canal, between Sunbury and Baltimore. Mr. Campbell has acquired a large amount of valuable property, owning a block 175 by 230 feet in the heart of the borough, lying between Fifth and Sixth streets, bounded on the north by Woodland avenue and on the south by Market street. He has refused a high price for this block. Mr. Campbell devoted himself faithfully to the management of his business affairs throughout his active carcer, but he served one term as council- man of Sunbury from the Eighth ward, to which position he was elected on the Republican ticket. He is a substantial citizen, esteemed by all who have had dealings with him, and has made an honorable record during his long residence in Sun- bury. Socially he is a member of Lodge No. 22, F. & A. M., of Sunbury. He and his family

On Feb. 17, 1881, Mr. Campbell married Anna F. Van Zant, daughter of Kinkade and Sarah M. (Vastine) Van Zant, and they have had two chil- dren : Verda died Jan. 6, 1902, of measles, after united with the Methodist Church. an illness of bnt two days (she was twenty years, one month, sixteen days old ) ; Lessly I., born Dec. 25, 1882, lives at home with his parents ; and Bes- sie A., who is an adopted daughter, is attending school. Mr. Campbell and his family support the Methodist Church.

In 1860 Mr. Campbell married Emma J. Smith, daughter of John and Eliza ( Rockefeller) Smith, of Klinesgrove station, and they have had four children : Mary (married to J. C. Crawford); Dr. Charles F., Sarah Eliza (who died aged three years) and William Moore.

Joseph D. Campbell, father of Mrs. Hannah C. Campbell, was a farmer, and lived at Elysburg. He is buried at the Baptist Church in Shamokin 1867. He received his early education in the common schools, later attending Bucknell Univer-

Charles Foster Campbell, M. D., of Sunbury, was born in Upper Augusta township, Sept. 17,

township. He and his wife Annie (Moore) had five children : Rebecca, Hannah C., Amos, Alina sity, from which he was graduated in 1891, with and Asenath. degree of A. M. He then entered the University .of Pennsylvania taking the course in the medical cialized in diseases and treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat. After practising three years in Philadelphia he came to Sunbury, in 1896, and has since been located there. He is physician

LEMUEL CAMPBELL, a well known citizen of the department, and graduating in 1893. He spe- borough of Sunbury, now living retired, was born Jan. 9, 1834, son of Christopher and Sarah (Kline) Campbell. He received a common school education and was reared to farin life, remaining with his parents, as was customary, until he at the Mary M. Packer Hospital of Sunbury. reached the age of twenty-one years, after which Dr. Campbell is a member of Lodge No. 22, F. he began farming for himself, in Rush township. & A. M., of Sunbury, of the County Medical So- There he resided four years, in 1860 becoming ciety, and of the State Medical Society. as well associated with his brother Harmon in the pur- as the American Medical Association. He was married in 1896 to Lizzie Lee Enos, daughter of

chase of a mill at Klinesgrove, in the conduct of which he was engaged until 1866, meantime inak- the late John M. Enos, of Delaware.

ing his home at that place. Thence he moved William Moore Campbell, son of Lemuel, was to what is now the farm of Dr. Isaac Huff, who born in 1823 in Upper Augusta township. He bought the place from Mr. Campbell, and in 1820 'was given a public school education, graduating he bought a tarm at Keefer station, in Upper from the Sunbury high school when sixteen years Augusta township, this county, upon which he re- old, after which he assisted his father in the con- sided until his removal to Sunbury, in 1882. He duet of his business affairs. During the Spanish- continued to own the property, however, until American war he enlisted, becoming a member of 1905, when he sold it to William Hoover. Since Company E, 12th Regiment. Pennsylvania Vol- his removal from that place he has been a resi- unteers, with which command he served until his dent of Sunbury, where he was engaged in busi- death, from the effects of typhoid fever. Sept. 20, ness continously until the fall of 1910. His 1898. He had become a corporal while in the first venture was as a dealer in farm machinery, service, and in the army, as everywhere else he

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was known, was recognized as a young man of tioned below; Sarah married Shultz Knittle; bright mind and promising future. He was well Jackson settled on one of the two farms into known as a sharp-shooter, and had a medal of

which his father's 300-aere tract was divided, honor. As a bieyclist he enjoyed considerable lo- Elijah Yoeom, his brother-in-law, coming into pos- eal fame and had won a number of raees; he session of the other.

made the round trip between Sunbury and Snyder- town, a distance of sixteen miles, in fifty to fifty- five minutes.

Obadiah S. Campbell, son of Obadiah, was born Nov. 25, 1816, near Elysburg, was reared upon the homestead, and received his edneation in the local schools. He learned the trade of millwright,

Obadiah Campbell, one of the sons of the Oba- which he followed for the long period of thirty- diah mentioned at the opening of this article, five years, until he was fifty-five years old, build- was born in New Jersey in 1776, and was a young boy when his parents eame thence to Pennsylvania, in 1779. He was brought up on the farm in Ralpho township, part of which is now embraced in the south end of Elysburg, and eventually came to own his father's homestead, upon which he made his home for some years. He then made a settle- ment in Columbia county, upon a large traet of timber land which he had purchased, just three or four miles east of Elysburg, erected a sawmill and engaged in the lumber business which he continued all his life. He was a man of thrift and enterprise, and built up a business which kept his sawmill busy day and night, giving em-

ing saw and grist mills in Lycoming, Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Schuylkill coun- ties: he worked at his trade considerably in the eastern part of Northumberland county, putting up five or six gristmills on Roaring ereek. During part of the time he was engaged at his trade he lived in Columbia county. After giving up mill- wrighting he farmed for about ten years. living one mile east of Elysburg, on a farm in Ralpho township which he had purchased in 1852 in part- nership with his brother-in-law, James Fox, re- moving there in 1856. The place contained 120 acres, now owned by Columbus Raup. Here Mr. Campbell carried on general farming until his ployment to a number of men. He had three retirement, in the spring of 1889, after which he hundred or more aeres of land upon which there made his home in Elvsburg until his death, which was good timber, his land extending to the ereek oeeurred there in 1896. Mr. Campbell was a mem- whiel divides Columbia and Northumberland ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Sharp Ridge, where he is buried; he was aetive in the work of that church for a number of years, served counties, and he eleared two farms there, both now owned by one of his grandsons, Ezra Yocom, whose inother was Jane Campbell. There Oba- many years as. elass-leader, and was faithful in diah Campbell lived, worked and died, and he is all his religious duties. In politics he was a buried upon that place, as is also his father, Oba- Democrat and quite active in the party, held va- diah, who brought the family out from New rious township offices, and was specially interested Jersey. They were Presbyterians, but many of in publie education, serving on the school board the old Campbells are buried at the Sharp Ridge and assisting in the advancement of the schools Church, which is a Methodist church. Obadiah whenever possible. In 1865 he was elected a justice Campbell was a man of note in his community in of the peace of what is now Ralpho (then Sha- every way. He was, like his father, a strong mokin) township, continuing to hold that office Demoerat, and wielded considerable influenee in for a quarter of a century and giving eminent the local councils of the party, though he would satisfaction in the discharge of its duties. Fra- ternally he was a member of the I. O. O. F. A public-spirited and intelligent citizen, ready to give his time and influence to all matters affect- ing the general welfare, he was respected and be- not aeeept office. He was an active member of the Presbyterian Church, held offices in the church and led the choir for many years. He was captain of a military company for thirteen years. His death occurred July 27, 1865, and that of his loved by a large number of friends and acquaint- wife May 27, 1866. Her maiden name was Eliza- ances and left a name which will long be honored beth Shipman, and she was like her husband a in the community.

native of New Jersey, eoming to Pennsylvania On Jan. 9, 1840. Mr. Campbell married Eliza when five years old with her father, Nicholas Teats, who was born at "Dark Corner," daughter Shipman, who settled with his family in Roeke- of John Teats, and is buried by her husband's feller township. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had a side at Sharp Ridge Church : she lived to be about family of ten children, namely: Nicholas settled ninety-six years old. They had children as follows : in Elysburg: Mary married. William Thompson : Oliver died in Michigan: Ehnira (deceased ) mar- Hannah married James Hile : Jane married Elijah ried Samnel Swank or Schwenk: John is a resi- Yoeom; Obadiah S. is mentioned below; Eliza- dent of Elysburg: Clement is a resident of St. beth married and is deceased : Joanna married a Louis, Mo .: Edgar B. is mentioned later: Alvin MeMirtry (or McMurtrie), who was from New died at Elysburg: Iva married Oliver Brady and Jersey and returned to that State (they had a they live at Elysburg: Lorin died young. son John and a daughter Maggie) ; John is men-

Edgar B. Campbell was born Feb. 14, 1855,

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at Elysburg, Northumberland county, and was reared to farm life, working for his parents until after he attained his majority. In 1889 he began work in the -ear shops at Sunbury, where he was employed as car repairman for twenty-one years, until his retirement, Feb. 26, 1910. Mr. Camp- bell has had his home in Sunbury since 1889, but he spends his summers upon his farm in Rocke- feller township, with the tenant on the plaee. Tulpehocken road, which he purchased from Isaae Conrad homestead, later owned by Elias Emrieh.

John Campbell, son of Obadiah and brother of Obadiah S., was born Dec. 7. 1823, at Elysburg, and died Mareh 8, 1908. He received a good edueation, and taught school for a time, also as- sisting his father in his business affairs. Pur- ehasing a farm in Shamokin township, he lived thereon three years, and for three years was settled with his family near Waverly, Ohio, engaged iu farming. Returning to Pennsylvania in 1859, The property consists of 110 acres situated on the he traded farms with his uncle, Caleb Ely. re- eeiving a farm of 225 acres in Lower Augusta Lepley in 1904, and was formerly the George township, which tract is still in the Campbell name, being now owned by his son Delmer. It was Mr. Campbell is a Demoerat in politics, and he originally the homestead of William Shipman and his family are Lutherans in religion. He (brother of Elizabeth Shipman, who married Oba- married Annie George, danghter of William and diah Campbell), and the house which this pioneer Elizabeth (Schuler) George. of Columbia eounty, Pa., three miles east of Elysburg. They have had one ehild, William Kimber.

WILLIAM K. CAMPBELL, of Sunbury, who is publie road that passed through the land; some regarded as the leader in musical matters in that of the foundation is still intact, and sour cherry borough, was born Oct. 21, 1880, and has lived trees grow around the spot. Here Mr. Camp- in Sunbury from boyhood. He attended public' bell lived and died. He was a prosperous farmer, school there, and began taking music lessons when and except for the springhouse built by Caleb

twelve years old, in 1900 entering Combs' Broad Street Conservatory of Musie, Philadelphia, which he attended four years, graduating in 1904. Returning to Sunbury, he began teaching music, violin and piano, and has since devoted himself to teaching and orchestra work, usually having about fifty pupils in Sunbury. He plays in the Chestnut street theatre and at Armory Hall, in Sunbury, and is the director of Campbell's Or- chestra, of Sunbury, which he organized in 1905 and has led ever since. This is an ambitious musical organization and very popular throughout this region. Mr. Campbell has been notably suc- eessful in his chosen work, to which he is en- thusiastieally devoted, and he has labored faith- fully to establish and uphold the most worthy musieal standards in his community.

On Dee. 9. 1904, Mr. Campbell married Annie Ditty, and they have one child, S. Ruth. They oceupy the comfortable home at No. 330 North Seventh street, Sunbury, which Mr. Campbell erected in 1902. He and his family are mem- bers of Zion's Lutheran Church.

The Ditty family located in Lower Mahanoy township, this county, soon after the close of the in Lower Angusta township, son of John Camp- Revolutionary war, its founder being one of the bell. He obtained his early education in the local Hessian soldiers who decided to remain in America. schools, and later attended summer Normal ses- He is buried at the Zion's Union Church in Stone sions at Dalmatia and Milton. then taught by the Valley, near Hickory Corners, where many of his county superintendent and one Professor Geho. descendants have also been interred. Members of both men of high edueation, the latter a graduate this family still live in the neighborhood of of Princeton. When twenty-one years old Mr. Georgetown ( Dalmatia), in that section of North- Campbell received a license to teach public school umberland eounty. Andrew Ditty, grandfather of in the county, and has taught fourteen terms in all. Mrs. Campbell, married a Lenker, of Dalmatia, eleven in his native township-six years of this and his son Charles, Mrs. Campbell's father, mar- period in what is now Rockefeller township, which was then a part of Lower Augusta; one term in

ried Sarah Arndt. They live in Sunbury.

oeeupied stood between the present home of Del- mer Campbell and his neighbor to the east, Lin- eoln Troutman, standing on the left side of a

Ely about a hundred years ago ereeted all the present buildings on the premises. He was a use- ful eitizen and aetive in local affairs, serving as school director twelve years, as township assessor and as overseer of the poor. In 1853 he mar- ried Mary A. Fuller, daughter of John and Phoebe ( Maly) Fuller, natives of Laneaster eounty who came to Elysburg from Dauphin eounty. Pa. Mrs. Campbell died July 11, 1895, aged sixty- one years, eight months, ten days. She and her husband are buried at the Mountain (Hollowing Run) Presbyterian Chureli in Lower Augusta township, of which he was a leading member and for many years an elder, filling this office until his death. Their children were as follows: Georgiana married Henry C. Smith, of Lower Augusta ; Theodore Alvin married Katie Reitz and they live in Jackson, Mich. : Clara Jane married Hall Yeager and lives at Shamokin; Delmer F. is mentioned below ; Charles W. died of diphtheria when seven years old ; Warren L. married Stella Reitz, and they live at Rising Springs, Center Co., Pa. : Miles H. died aged twenty-one years.

DELMER F. CAMPBELL was born Feb. 13, 1864.

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the high school at Herndon; two terms in Lower he removed to Harrisburg and published the Mahanoy. He is well remembered by pupils and Patriot until the fall of 1886, when he established the Evening Star, now the Star-Independent. In 1887 he removed to Milton and assumed the man- agement of the Economist, which paper was later merged with the Record. This paper was con- tinued until 1909, when it was consolidated with the Standard. fellow teachers as an educator of high repute, and he was always in demand while engaged in the profession. He has been a farmer from young manhood, and followed farming in the summer season while teaching. On Feb. 23, 1908, he came into possession of his father's homestead, upon which he now resides, devoting himself to the With the exception of a year spent on a Virginia plantation MIr. Hastings made his home in Milton from the time of his removal there. In January, 1890, he established the Weekly Stand- ard, which was made a tri-weekly a few months cultivation of this large tract, which contains 175 acres. It is located between Fisher's Ferry and Trevorton, in the southeast corner of Lower Au- gusta township, along the Little Mountains. He is an enterprising and progressive man, and has later. In May, 1900, he changed the paper to a daily, and under his management it increased rap-

found farmning very profitable. Like his father Mr. Campbell is a Democrat in politics, but he idly in circulation and influence.

has never cared for public preferinent and has taken no part in public affairs. He is active in church life, however, being a prominent member of the Mountain Presbyterian Church, which he has served as elder since he was twenty-two years old; he was treasurer of the church four years, and has filled all the Sunday school offices.

On June 23, 1890, Mr. Campbell married Thom- son Speece, one of the seventeen children born to Anthony and Ann (Shipman) Speece, of Lit- tle Mahanoy township, the latter a daughter of Abraham Shipman, who served as associate judge of Northumberland county. To Mr. and Mrs. Delmer F. Campbell have also been born seven- teen children, and another daughter of Anthony S. and Ann (Shipman) Speece, Effie, wife of Ambrose DeWitt, also of Lower Augusta town- ship, has the same number. Mr. and Mrs. Camp- bell are the parents of: Myrtle A., Ada V. (whose birthday is on Dec. ? th, her .grandfather Camp- bell's birthday), Don Lee, Grover, John Anthony (named after both his grandfathers), Goldie, Ora, Alvin, Fay, Vera (who died of measles when three years old), Russell, Ethel, Lloyd, Elsworth, El- wood, Marvin and Theodore A.

WILLIAM PENN HASTINGS, late of Milton, Northumberland county, a newspaper man of that borough for over twenty years, died March 2, 1911. He was editor of the Evening Standard at that time.

Mr. Hastings inherited a love for newspaper work, four generations of his family having been engaged in it. His grandfather, Thomas Hast- ings, published the first newspaper in Jefferson county, the Backwoodsman, the publication of which was commenced in 1838.

Politically Mr. Hastings was a Democrat. In 1884 he was a candidate for State senator in the Jefferson-Indiana district. but was defeated by twenty-three votes. In 1902 he was defeated for chief burgess of Milton by but six votes. He served one terin as school director and three terms as councilman of Milton, and gave the same ardu- ous labor and devotion to his public duties that characterized his newspaper work. For many years he was an active member of the Pennsylvania State Editorial Association. being its vice pres- ident at the time of his death.

Mr. Hastings had an attack of paralysis on Monday, Feb. 27, 1911, while at his office, but. though he seemed to rally at first he passed away the following Thursday evening at his home on North Front street. He was buried in the Milton cemetery.

Mr. Hastings married Emma L. Evans, daughter of the late John Evans, of Punxsutaw ney, Pa., and she survives him with five sons and three daughters: Mrs. Leon W. Budd, of Chicago ; and Mrs. Harry D. Crane, Penn G., J. Edward. Percy W., Anna G., Berkeley V., and Frederie G., of Milton.

Mr. Hastings. was born Aug. 1 1854, in Pittsburgh, Pa., son of Captain John Hastings, JOHN HAAS, for many years of his long life one of the leading citizens of Sunbury, was not only a successful man so far as his personal inter- ests were concerned, but also gave his aid and in- fluence to insuring the success of a number of enterprises affecting the general welfare of the borough and vicinity. He was not only interested in the material prosperity of his community, but in the promotion of educational and religions proj- ects, of philanthropie affairs, and of public im- provements which would benefit the greater nnmn- who married a daughter of Charles C. Gaskill, of Camden. He was but four years of age when his parents removed to Punxsutawney, Jefferson Co., Pa., where he resided until 1885. Mr. Hastings edited and published the Punxsutawney Plain Dealer when but sixteen years of age. In 1873 he purchased the Spirit, a paper started but a few months before, the publication of which was about to be abandoned. In twelve years he had made the Spirit one of the best paying country news- papers in the western part of the State. In 1885 ber of his fellow citizens, he displayed a zeal and

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degree of public-spiritedness which betokened an however, until William Fagely's death. Mr. Haas intelligent and unselfish interest in humanity gen- erally. Mr. Haas was born June 22, 1822, near Bear Gap, in Ralpho township, this county, son of Daniel Haas ..

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Genealogical and biographical annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 1, Part 63

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co. Number of Pages: 1090

Author: Floyd, J.L., & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Chicago, J. L. Floyd & Co.
Number of Pages: 1090