JOSEPH CAMPBELL married AGNES ROGERS Dec. 8, 1860
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL son of JAMES and MARGARET (ARBERTHNOT) CAMPBELL
Cathy Farrell 9/22/09
Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1
Madison, Wis. : Northwestern Historical Association, 1904
Pg. 343 (PICTURE of JOSEPH CAMPBELL)
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 75 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 U. S.He landed in America on June 11, 1871, and came to Allegheny Co. 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 most milling machinery, so that it is now the best equipped mill in western Pa.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 Pa. railroad, and, in all, the mill has facilities of three railroads, which carry the products in every direction...On Dec. 8, 1860, MR. CAMPBELL was married to MISS AGNES ROGERS,a native of County Down, Ireland, and has had 13 children.Of these, ELIZABETH died when 21 (pg. 344) years old, ROBERT died when 23, AGNES died at age 21, 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 in Pittsburgh, and lives in Woodville; DAVID R., and assistant in the mill, who married ALICE GUDBUB; LOTTIE C., JOSEPH L. and CLARA J. W.He has also 8 grandchildren.His daughter, MRS. WILSON, has three children, JOSEPH L., HOWARD R. and AGNES M., and lost one child, JAMES, who died when 3 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 on the building and loan association and a member of the grain exchange.In politics he has always been a republican...