Columbia-Luzerne County PA Archives Biographies.....CAMPBELL, Charles H. unknown - living in 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com July 5, 2005, 1:30 pm Author: Biographical Publishing Co. CHARLES H. CAMPBELL, who is a veteran of the Civil War and was for many years connected with the many leading industries of Bloomsburg, is now living in retirement in that town and resides in a handsome and modern brick residence on Fifth street. He is a son of Joseph W. Campbell, and was born in Luzerne County, Pa. Joseph W. Campbell was born in York County, Pa., in 1813 and was a good citizen and a reliable business man, accumulating a handsome competency during his active life. For many years he was foreman of construction on the North Branch of the Pennsylvania Canal, the duties of which position he performed up to the time of his death in 1878, at the age of sixty-five years. Charles H. Campbell was reared and educated in his native county, after which he became an instructor in the public schools as a means of earning a livelihood, continuing as such for three years. He was an able teacher and was appointed to the position of principal of the high school of White Haven, performing the duties of that office for about eight years. He then engaged in the same line of work as that of his father, following it until 1862 when the Civil War assumed a very gloomy aspect, and, seeing that his services were needed at the front, he enlisted in Company F, 143rd Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf. Enlisting as a private he traveled the line of promotion and was finally made adjutant. He participated in all of the battles of the Army of the Potomac, including the battles of Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Culpeper, Wilderness, Petersburg, and many others of lesser importance. He was at all times in command of three companies of brave and daring soldiers. Never flinching in the hour of peril, always faithful to his charge, and always to the front he rendered valuable aid to the cause of the Union and received praise on all sides for his admirable conduct and coolness while under the enemy's fire. He continued in the army until the close of the war and his enviable record in the service has been continued throughout his life. Upon returning from the war he located at Bloomsburg where he became identified with some of the leading industries of which he is still a stockholder. From 1880 to 1887 he was superintendent of what is now the Bloomsburg Car Mfg. Co.'s store, but resigned in 1888 when he was elected register and recorder of Columbia County. He served in the latter capacity for six consecutive years in a satisfactory manner. He has since lived in retirement to enjoy a well needed rest after so many years of activity. He is a member of the company which built and owns the beautiful Proctor's Inn, one of the finest summer hotels in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1880 he erected a residence on Fifth street but it was burned to the ground in the following year. Nothing daunted by this misfortune, Mr. Campbell again built a home, one of brick, which far eclipses the former one in beauty and is supplied with all conveniences of modern times. Our subject is well and favorably known throughout Columbia County, numbering his friends almost by his acquaintances. He was united in marriage to Sarah E. Rambach of Columbia County, by whom he had one daughter, Madge, whose beautiful young life went out at the age of twenty-three years. Mr. Campbell is a member of Sylvania Lodge, No. 354, F. & A. M. of Shickshinny, Pa.; and past colonel of the Union Veteran's Legion. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District Published by Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb