CRAWFORD COUNTY OHIO - BIO: HON. ALLEN CAMPBELL (1881)

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CRAWFORD COUNTY
HISTORY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY AND OHIO
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part III, p.724 
CHICAGO
BASKIN & BATTEY, HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS
186 DEARBORN STREET
1881

BUCYRUS TOWNSHIP, CRAWFORD COUNTY, OHIO

HON. ALLEN CAMPBELL, lawyer and Mayor, Bucyrus. The Mayor of Bucyrus is the son of William H. and
Esther (Gallup) Campbell and was born in Voluntown, Conn.. Oct. 13, 1839. He received a good education
attending school at Plainfield and Ellington; also at normal seminaries in Norwich and Providence, R. I. He
afterward entered a wholesale dry goods house in Providence as clerk, occupying the position some fifteen months.
Next he was book-keeper in the Remington Rifle Works at Ilin, N. Y. having previous to that time made a trip to
the West Indies on the man-of-war San Jacinto, in search of the Alabama. In the fill of 1868, he came to Mansfield,
Ohio and from there to Bucyrus, where he soon became book keeper for the Bucyrus Machine Works, holding this
position some two tears. He was next a member of the firm of D. W. Twitchell &, Co. in the boot and shoe trade
and continued until 1877. In 1878 he was elected Justice of the Peace, filling that office and carrying on at the
same time a General insurance business. He was elected Mayor of the city in April, 1880, receiving the support of
both parties. He was married in January, 1871, to Eva Rowse, daughter of Horace Rowse, of Bucyrus. Three
children are the fruits of this union: Lillian, Horace and Allen. Since his election. Mr. Campbell has proven himself
a competent official, and during his residence in this city he has always been held in high esteem by the citizens of
the place.