BIOGRAPHY: John CAMPBELL, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 475-476.

  JOHN CAMPBELL, deceased, was born in Tell township, Huntingdon county, Pa., 
April 3, 1801, son of William and Rachel (McDonnell) Campbell.  Both the parents 
were of Scotch-Irish extraction.  The parents of William Campbell, on coming to 
America, settled in New Jersey, where he was born.  They afterwards removed with 
their family to Chambersburg, Pa., where they spent the latter part of their 
lives.  William Campbell was a farmer, and lived to be about one hundred and two 
years of age.  His wife, Rachel McDonnell, had received an academic education, 
and taught school for many years in Tuscarora valley and in Franklin county, Pa.  
Their children were:  John;  Stephen, died from injuries caused by the kick of a 
horse;  Ezekiel;  Elizabeth (Mrs. Daniel Owens), had a family of five sons and 
one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Yohn, residing on the homestead in Lack township, 
Juniata county;  Bathsheba (Mrs. Robert McFarland), had eight children, all of 
whom are deceased except two;  and Mary Ann.  The third son of this family, 
Ezekiel, married Lydia Polk, of Juniata county;  they had eight children;  their 
eldest son, Eli Campbell, served in the United States army throughout the whole 
war of the Rebellion, except while, having been captured, he was confined in 
Andersonville prison;  after his return home he married, and died;  his widow 
resides in Norristown, Pa.  The two surviving children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
McFarland, above mentioned, are Rachel (Mrs. John Stong), of Lincoln, Neb.;  and 
Amanda (Mrs. Samuel Wax), of Lack township, Juniata county, who has three 
children.
  The eldest son, John Campbell, was educated in the old-fashioned subscription 
schools, and passed a quietly useful boyhood on his father's farm, where he 
remained until he married.  He then settled in Ferguson township, Clearfield 
county, Pa., where he became a very prosperous farmer.  In his later days he 
removed to Blair county, Pa., where he died in 1888, on January 16.
  John Campbell married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (McMullen) 
Briggs, a native of Tell township, Huntingdon county.  Two of their children, 
Briggs and Elizabeth, died in early life;  Bathsheba (Mrs. David Alleman), of 
Cumberland county, Pa., died, leaving five children;  and John B., is also 
deceased.  The children of Mrs. D. Alleman are:  Katie  (Mrs. Silas Reese), of 
Philipsburg, Pa.;  John, killed in a railroad accident in Ohio;  Curtin, 
residing in Illinois;  Hight, also of Illinois;  and David H., of Shippensburg, 
Pa.  John B. Campbell enlisted during the Rebellion, was captured at Culpeper, 
and died five days later;  he had married Susan McCracken, and left two 
children:  John Briggs, married and residing at Kermoor, Pa.;  and Mary (Mrs. 
John Davis), of Elk county, Pa.  The surviving children of John and Elizabeth 
(Briggs) Campbell are:  Rachel (Mrs. Robert Hope), of Oliver township, Mifflin 
county;  Jane, resides with her sister, Mrs. Hope;  Lavinia (Mrs. Nelson Young), 
had eleven children, of whom Linnie Jane died, and John C., a graduate of 
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., was ordained to the ministry, and is now 
stationed at Three Springs, Huntingdon county;  Lemuel, merchant, of Louisville, 
Clearfield county, Pa.;  and M. A. (Mrs. W. J. Owens), had six children, of whom 
five are deceased.  The eldest son of Mrs. Owens, Horace L., married Mary F. 
Auker, and resides at Lewistown Junction, Mifflin county, Pa., where he is 
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.  Mrs. Owens was married again, to 
L. Cole, of California;  he died, and Mrs. Cole has returned to make her 
permanent residence in Lewistown, Mifflin county, where she has invested in real 
estate.