Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Campbell, Peter Dougal 
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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Peter Dougal Campbell

Date Of Photograph: August 17, 2014
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Peter D
1850-1916




Peter Dougal Campbell was born 1850 and died April 1916.
Peter married Lois E. Allen.

Charlevoix Courier
April 26, 1916

CAPT. CAMPBELL DIED THURSDAY

WELL KNOWN RESIDENT WILL BE GREATLY MISSED.

Was a Member of Masonic and Maccabee Orders—Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon.

The residents of Charlevoix were greatly shocked Thursday by the death of
Captain Peter Dougal Campbell at 4:00 p. m.  Captain Campbell had been in ailing
health for the past year and had become nearly blind. The cause of immediate
death was a series of complications.

Peter Dougal Campbell was born at St. Charles, Illinois, July 30, 1850. When 11
years of age he went to Canada, where he remained during the Civil War, residing
with a relative. He then went to Stony Creek, where he began sailing on tugs at
the age of 14. He was master of a tug in and around Chicago during the time of
the Chicago fire, and at this time aided in the rescue of several persons. Later
he entered the steam barge business and built two boats, the R. C. Britton and
the M. B. Covell.  He owned three other barges about this time. He operated the
Erie L. Hackley from Muskegon and White Lake to Chicago until 1896, when he
started fishing in Little Traverse Bay with this boat. In 1897 he moved to
Charlevoix and operated the Hackley on the Beaver Island and Charleviox route
for several years.

In 1903 he purchased a boat from the Booth Fisheries company and rebuilt it,
calling the ship the Beaver.  He continued operating this boat until the fire at
midnight, April 20, 1915, which completely destroyed it.  A strange coincidence
appears in the fact that Captain Campbell's death occurred just a year from the
the date of his retirement from sailing activities.

Mr. Campbell was married to Lois E. Allen at Hampshire, Kane county, Illinois,
41 years ago. To this union three sons and one daughter were born, Ira A. of San
Francisco, John Harvey and Peter Donald of this city and Mrs. A. H. Cameron of
Chicago. The widow and four children survive to mourn the loss of a devoted
husband and father.

Captain Campbell was a member of the Maccabees and the Masonic orders, also a
member of the Licensed Tugmen's Protective association.

The funeral services were held form the home Sunday afternoon, Rev. Walker,
officiating. Burial at Brookside. All the children were present but Harvey, of
this city, who was away on his boat and could not get home. John M. Campbell, a
brother of Michigan City, was present at the funeral.

The pall bearers were close friends of Capt. Campbell and were Captains G. W.
Weaver, Wm. Finucan, S. M. Rose, O. E. Wilbur and W. J. Rachow and Henry M.
Sherman.

In the death of Captain Campbell, Charleviox has lost one of her best citizens.
A man of courage and forceful manhood, he numbered his friends by all who knew
him. His congenial manner and sameness won many staunch companions who join with
the bereaved family in the loss of a noble character and warm friend.

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