BIO: Charles CAMPBELL, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 219-220.
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  CHARLES CAMPBELL, M.D., Petersburg, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born 
at Waterloo, Juniata county, Pa., October 5, 1859. He is a son of 
William and Sarah (Short) Campbell. His paternal grandfather was Samuel 
Campbell, who was of a Scotch family, but born in Ireland. With his 
parents and his two brothers, Charles and James, he left Ireland in 
1820 for New Brunswick, Canada. There the family resided for about 
eleven years at St. John, Samuel Campbell who was a house painter, 
working at his trade. He continued in the same business in Philadelphia 
and in Juniata, to which place the family successively removed. In 
Juniata county, Mr. Campbell was also for some time engaged in hotel 
keeping. He was a Democrat. He had a notable talent for music, learning 
readily to play any kind of instrument. Samuel Campbell was married in 
New Brunswick to Nancy Junk; their children were: John; James; 
Washington; William' Margaret and Mary. Mr. Campbell was a member of 
the Presbyterian church. He died at Waterloo, Pa., in 1841. His son 
William Campbell received but a limited amount of school training, but 
with true Scotch perseverance and intellectual ambition, he became a 
self-educated man. He had Scotch thrift, too; before he was twenty 
years of age, he had already laid up $1,000, from work in the windmill 
business and in an agency for patent rights, by which he made 
considerable money. He studied dentistry, and practiced that profession 
for twenty-eight years; he is now a silversmith, residing at Shade Gap, 
Pa. he is a Democrat. William Campbell married Miss Waters, of 
Waterloo, Pa.; they had three children: Ann; Bruce; and an infant, not 
named; all are deceased. The mother of these children dying at 
Waterloo, Mr. Campbell married Sarah Short, a native of that town, and 
a daughter of William Short, a farmer. Their children are: Charles; 
Dora, wife of Rev. William Stephens, M. E. clergyman at New Bloomfield, 
Perry county, Pa.; Bella, trained nurse, at R. R. hospital, Sayre, 
Bradford county, Pa.; Albert and Julia, twins; the former is a 
carpenter; Edna, deceased; and Mabel. Mr. Campbell has filled different 
township offices; he is a school director, and chief burgess of Shade 
Gap. He is a member of the Presbyterian church.
  Charles Campbell attended the common school at Shade Gap, and 
completed his literary training at the academy of the same place. For 
four terms, one in Juniata and three in Huntingdon county, he taught 
school. He began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Jones, 
of Shade Gap, Pa., studied at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Baltimore, Md., and graduated at the end of a three years' course, in 
1882. He then practiced one year at Saltillo, Huntingdon county, and 
two years at Robertsdale, where he had a good practice for the Coal Co. 
He then practiced two years at Dalton, Ga., but the climate not being 
favorable for him, he came north, and in 1889, took up his residence at 
Petersburg, succeeding Dr. H. C. McCarthy. He compounds and dispenses 
his own medicine. Dr. Campbell is a member of the State Medical 
Society, of Pennsylvania, and of the American Medical Association. He 
is a Democrat. He has a delightful home, a dwelling which he has 
remodeled, which is fully heated by steam and is well supplied with 
other conveniences.
  Dr. Charles Campbell was married September 27, 1883, at McCoysville, 
Juniata county, Pa., to Mary E., daughter of Rev. John McGill, minister 
of the United Presbyterian church at McCoysville, Mrs. Campbell's 
native place. Their children are: Edna, at school; Guy; and Raymond. 
Dr. Campbell is an active member of the Presbyterian church; takes a 
deep interest in church music, and in quite a variety of piano and 
other instrumental music.