Shasta-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Campbell, William N. 1865 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

WILLIAM N. CAMPBELL is the senior member of the firm of Chambers & Campbell,
hardware merchants of Redding, California. He was born in Sacramento, October
25, 1865. His father, W. L. Campbell, a native of Ohio, born in 1838, was for
many years the manager of a large hardware business in Sacramento. He married
Miss Alice Hatch, daughter of John Hatch, who crossed the plains with his family
in 1849. His daughter Alice was one of the first white children there. He opened
and conducted the pioneer jewelry business of that city.

  The subject of this sketch is the only son in a family of three children. He
was reared and educated in Sacramento; was a page in the State House during the
Constitutional Convention and in the Assembly for two terms. At the age of
sixteen years he entered the house of Huntington, Hopkins & Co., and was with
them until he was twenty-two. Mr. Campbell and his partner, Mr. Chambers, are
cousins and have been together all their lives. They were engaged in the cattle
business in Butte County for two years. In 1888 they came to Redding and
purchased their present hardware store from Garrett, Lyon & Co., and are doing a
large business, their trade extending 275 miles toward the north, in several of
the northern counties and also into Oregon.

  Mr. Campbell is secretary of the Parlor of Native Sons of the Golden West, and
is also a member of the National Guard of California. He is a bright, active and
obliging business man and is bound to succeed.


Additional Comments:
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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.

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