The Campbell Family of Kane, Pennsylvania

A family of this name in Scotland can be traced to the beginning of the fifth century, and the name has become one of prominence, especially in military affairs. At Balhaldie, Scotland, there is an old church, whose churchyard can never be sold and in which no one not a Campbell can ever be buried.

(I) Prince Campbell

Prince Campbell, the first member of this family about whom we have definite information, was a Scottish Jacobite, and was therefore exiled with his wife to France. He married Lady Elizabeth Stewart.

1. Patrick Campbell, commissary for the British army; bought cattle all over the world to supply the army; stock farmer at Perth, Scotland; removed to Australia; he died, leaving a fortune of half a million pounds in the Bank of England, besides real estate; although this should belong to the Campbell family, it cannot be claimed, as the letters of proof have been destroyed by fire.
2. Dougall Campbell, of whom further.

(II) Dougall Campbell

Dougall, son of Prince and Lady Elizabeth (Stewart) Campbell, was private secretary to the Duke of Richmond. He became captain of the old Forty-second Highlanders, known as the “Black Watch.” This company was disbanded after the Ashburton treaty, and officers and men received grants of land in New Brunswick, Canada; Captain Dougall Campbell received one thousand acres. He married —— Drummond.

1. Alexander Campbell, of whom further;
2. Patrick Campbell, married Ann Ross Monroe;
3. Ludlow Campbell, married Sarah;
4. Jacobina Campbell, engaged to Sir Colin Campbell;
5. Ann Campbell.

(III) Alexander Campbell

Alexander, son of Captain Dougall and —— (Drummond) Campbell, married Carolina Frederica Hoffman.

1. Thomas Dougall Campbell, married Margaret McCloud;
2. Alexander Neil Campbell, of whom further;
3. Patrick Wirtle Campbell;
4. Carolina Frederica Campbell, married George Armstrong;
5. Mary Campbell, married W. J. Shaw;
6. Ludlow Campbell;
7. Richard Campbell, married Susan Morley;
8. Jacobina Campbell, married James Moore;
9. Edwin Jacob Campbell, married Eliza Shaw;
10. Frederick Campbell, died young.

(IV) Alexander Neil Campbell

Alexander Neil, son of Alexander and Carolina Frederica Hoffman, was born at Taymouth, New Brunswick, November 29, 1820, died at Bradford, Ontario, January 22, 1877. He was a lumberman in Canada and Maine. He was a member of the Church of England. He married (first) Mary Ann Casey; she also was a member of the Church of England, (second) Mary Jane Arnold.

Children, all by first marriage:

1. Collin Drummond Campbell, born at Taymouth, May 8, 1844, died at Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, in 1894; hotelkeeper; married Francis Nogar; she now resides at Mount Jewett, and keeps the Hotel Campbell; children:
   1. Linna Campbell;
   2. Frederica Campbell;
   3. Alexander Campbell, deceased;
   4. John Campbell;
   5. William Campbell;
   6. Frances Campbell, deceased;
   7. Huston Campbell.
2. Randolph McGibbon Campbell, of whom further.
3. Allen Douglas Campbell, born at Taymouth, January 21, 1848, died at Elmira, New York; machinist; married Elsie J. Ames; she resides in Elmira; children:
   1. Daisy Campbell,
   2. Elsie Campbell,
   3. Anna Campbell,
   4. Arthur Campbell.
4. Frederick Alexander Campbell, born at Stanley, New Brunswick, June 8, 1850; grocer; lives at Winnipeg, Manitoba; married Janet MacDonald; children:
   1. Mary P. Campbell,
   2. MacDonald Campbell,
   3. Lillias Campbell,
   4. Duncan Campbell,
   5. Randolph Campbell,
   6. Kathleen Campbell,
   7. Kenneth Campbell.
5. Arthur Edwin Campbell, born in Aroostook county, Maine, February 1, 1853, died in Chicago; band saw filer; unmarried.

(V) Randolph McGibbon Campbell

Randolph McGibbon, son of Alexander Neil and Mary Ann (Casey) Campbell, was born at Taymouth, February 11, 1846, died at Kane, McKean county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1892. At that place he had at the time of his death been assistant railroad yardmaster for twenty-three years. In the civil war he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Sixty-ninth New York Volunteer Infantry; for about one and one-half years he was in the Army of the Potomac, about Richmond, but he was stationed at Raleigh, North Carolina, at the time of Lee’s surrender. In political and civic affairs he was prominent; he was a Republican, and held the offices of school director and tax collector. He married Laura Clementia, born at Springfield, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, October 30, 1845, now resides at Kane, daughter of John D. and Emily (Stacey) Leonard. Springfield, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, was named after Springfield, Massachusetts, because a majority of its inhabitants came from that city. In June, 1803, Austin and Ezekiel Leonard came from West Springfield, Massachusetts, under the auspices of the Susquehanna Company, to make a home in Northern Pennsylvania. John D. Leonard was born at Springfield, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1816, and was one of the first settlers of Kane. At the time of his death, July 14, 1888, he was with one exception the oldest citizen of the borough. Here he was a merchant, although he had retired from business life before his death, and for twenty-one years he was postmaster, holding this position until February 22, 1886. He married (first) Emily Stacey, who died January 3, 1856, (second) Betsey E. Fuller, born at Springfield, November 3, 1837, died November 2, 1859, (third) Susan M., daughter of Nicholas B. Smith, who was born at Alba, Bradford county, Pennsylvania; she now lives in California.

Children of John D. Leonard, three by first, one by second wife:

1. Evaline Leonard, born at Springfield, February 4, 1839; resides at Kane; married, at Springfield, March 10, 1859, Philip F. Whiting; he was killed in the civil war; no children living.
2. Maria Leonard, born at Springfield, October 26, 1842; married, at Erie, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1869, J. C. Malone; he is a retired jeweler; child,
   1. Maud Malone.
3. Laura Clementia Leonard, aforementioned, married Randolph McGibbon Campbell.
4. Edith May Leonard, born at Springfield, September 28, 1859, deceased.

Children of Randolph McGibbon and Laura Clementia (Leonard) Campbell, all born at Kane:

1. Claude Campbell, born December 16, 1868, died at Kane, April 19, 1883.
2. Norma Campbell, born April 5, 1874; married, at Chautauqua, New York, July 2, 1896, Willard P. Merrell; he is a jeweler at Kane; child,
   1. Willard Randolph Merrell.
3. Frederick Randolph Campbell, of whom further.
4. Eva Campbell, born April 7, 1880; resides with her mother at Kane; graduate of Kane high school, in the class of 1898.

(VI) Frederick Randolph Campbell

Frederick Randolph, son of Randolph McGibbon and Laura Clementia (Leonard) Campbell, was born at Kane, June 4, 1877. After graduating from the Kane high school, in the class of 1896, he took a year’s work at Bucknell University. In 1897 he accepted a position with the National Food Company at Niagara Falls, New York, but he returned the next year to Kane. Here he worked until 1905 in a jewelry store. Then he started out for himself with a news store, books, and phonographs. He has practically a monopoly of the newspaper business at Kane, and is also manager of the jewelry store. In college he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He is a member of Kane Lodge, No. 566, Free and Accepted Masons; Kane Chapter, No. 279, Royal Arch Masons, of which he is past high priest; and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Kane. Formerly he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Kane. He is a Republican, and attends the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, December 5, 1901, Jessie Clarina, born at Bradford, Pennsylvania, June 17, 1880, daughter of John C. and Rosetta (Mapes) Breneman. Her father was born near York, Pennsylvania, in 1850; he now keeps the county home at Smethport, which office he has held for many years. His wife was born in 1852.

Children of John C. and Rosetta (Mapes) Breneman:

1. Jessie Clarina Breneman, married Frederick Randolph Campbell;
2. Walter Asper Breneman, born at Bradford, April 10, 1889.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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