Cassius Samuel Campbell Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: CAMPBELL
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

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  CASSIUS SAMUEL CAMPBELL, for many years a successful and
well known educator, now living retired in Derry village, Rockingham 
County, N. H., was born In Windham, N. H., November 19, 1845, a son of 
Samuel and Lydia ( Crowell ) Campbell. He is a descendant on the 
paternal side of Henry Campbell, who emigrated to this country from 
Londonderry, Ireland in 1773, settling in Londonderry, Rockingham 
county,. N. H. ,   The subject of this sketch, after acquiring his 
elementary education in the public schools, prepared for college at 
Pinkerton Academy, Derry , N. H . Finishing at Pinkerton 10 1864. he 
entered Dartmouth College in September of the same year, and was 
graduated with honors in 1818. He then went to Hastings, Minn., where 
he became superintendent. of the public schools, remaining ten years. 
During this time he established and organized a system of graded 
schools, which was pronounced by the state superintendent of

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schools to be one of great excellence and the high school to be the 
best in the state. He next became principal of the high school in the 
city of St. Paul, Minn., which position he held for five years, when he 
resigned and returned to New Hampshire to teach in the McCollom 
Institute at Mt. Vernon. In 1888 he became a member of the faculty of 
his alma mater, Pinkerton Academy, and here he continued, with the 
teaching of mathematics and physics as his special departments, until 
his voluntary retirement in 1909.
   On becoming a resident of Derry, Mr. Campbell at once gave evidence of
possessing a high practical order of citizenship by publicly advancing 
ideas and suggestions that culminated in some notable civic 
improvements, such as lighting the streets, laying sidewalks, planting 
trees, etc. He was the first to suggest the building of the Chester & 
Derry Electric Street Railway, was a charter member of the organization 
that took that work in hand, and was president of the company for a 
number of years. He was also a charter member of the Derry Water Works 
Company and for several years was superintendent of the works. In every 
position he has held Mr. Campbell has shown marked efficiency, and, as 
a citizen, his public-spirited efforts in the direction of civic 
improvements will long be remembered and appreciated. 
  August 30, 1869, Mr. Campbell married Miss Lydia Lorane Ashley, of
Northampton, Mass., a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, descended from
Rev. Justus Forward of Belchertown and Rev. Noah Merrick, first 
minister of Wilbraham, Mass. He and his wife are the parents of four 
children George Ashley, Arthur Forward, Francena L. and Percy A., whose 
records in brief are as follows: George Ashley was graduated bachelor 
of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, subsequently 
receiving the degrees of A. B., A. M., and Ph. D. from Harvard 
University. In addition he studied for three years in leading 
universities in Europe, holding a traveling scholarship from Harvard. 
He is now holding the position of research engineer of the American 
Telegraph and Telephone Company of New York.
  Arthur F. Campbell was graduated A. B. from Dartmouth in 1895 and is
now sub-master in a Boston high school. Francena L. Campbell was grad-
uated A. B. at Mt. Holyoke and later took a post-graduate year at 
Columbia University, N. Y. Percy A. Campbell graduated B. S. at 
Harvard, is now with the General Electric Company at Newark, N. J.

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