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DUNCAN C. CAMPBELL,* a representative and leading farmer of Rush township,

Northumberland County, was born June 15, 1826, on the place where he now lives,

and is a son of Abraham and Jane (Cameron) Campbell, and grandson of Robert

Campbell of New Jersey, who was a farmer and had a family of eight children. The

Cameron and Campbell families are of Scotch descent.



  Abraham Campbell, our subject's father, was a native of New Jersey, but was

brought when a lad of eight years to Rush township, where he grew to manhood and

lived the remainder of his life, following the peaceful vocation of a farmer,

until he died in October, 1861. His wife, Jane (Cameron) Campbell, who died in

1854, was a native of Fishing Creek, Pa. To them were born five children:

Robert, who died in 1861, was a farmer and married Sarah Ann Vastine, now

deceased, of Rush township; Margaret, and her husband, Joseph Hartman, are both

deceased; Flora, who died at the age of four years; Duncan C., our subject; and

Joseph L., deceased, whose wife was Ellen John of Danville, N. Y. Mr. Campbell

was an active, stirring man, a Democrat in political views, in religious

attachments a Methodist and served as trustee and steward in the church.



  Duncan C. Campbell, our subject, was married December 25, 1849, to Nancy

Colket of Rush township, who died May 30, 1887. She was a daughter of John and

Elizabeth (Vastine) Colket. John Vastine was a cooper by trade, and both he and

his wife lived and died in Rush township. Our subject and wife became the

parents of five children, namely: Arthur Monroe, born February 17, 1851, married

Blanche Wood of Syracuse, N. Y., and manufactures corsets in that city; Flora

J., who married Charles M. Vendevander, and lives in Northumberland, Pa., having

one son, Forrest; Elizabeth, who married Obadiah Fox, a merchant of Mount

Carmel, Pa., and has four children, Stella, Kimber K., Howard, and Ethel; Joseph

B., who married Esther Leiby of Bear Gap, Pa., and has two children, Gertrude

and Duncan; and James L., a carpenter for the Pennsylvania Railroad at

Riverside, Pa., who married Mary Hurd, and they have four children, Blanche,

Arthur, Duncan C, and Myrtle.



  Our subject has always lived on the old homestead, with the exception of three

years, when he lived on an adjoining farm. He has 180 acres of land, upon which

he has made many improvements; he built a very fine house in 1894, in which he

has hot and cold water, bath, furnace heat, etc. He has operated a threshing

machine for several years and also cut and sawed a great deal of lumber from his

place. He keeps on the average about twenty cows and has run a milk route to

Danville, Pa., for about fifteen years, the management of which is now in the

hands of his son Joseph, who has always lived with him and is one of the

prominent men of Rush township. Our subject's popularity among his friends has

caused him to hold many offices, viz., school director, auditor, overseer of the

poor, judge of elections and many other minor positions. He has always been a

stanch Democrat. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 527, of

Snydertown, Pa. He is also a member of the Grange. Inheriting all the love and

respect of his Scotch ancestry for the Sabbath and divine worship, our subject

has not confined his energies to secular work alone, but has devoted much of his

time to church affairs, and has served as trustee and steward of the Methodist

Episcopal Church at Kline's Grove. He has a rugged constitution, which has

enabled him to labor hard and long, and his many friends regret that a bad

accident which left him with a broken hip should cripple him for life and

prevent him from enjoying some of the blessings which have come to him as the

result of the toil of younger days.





Additional Comments:

* The information contained in this biography was supplied by the subject of

this sketch. A type-set copy of the biography was sent to the subject to be

proof-read, but the subject did not edit and return the copy, so this biography

may contain typographical errors.



  Extracted from:

    

    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

    Published by 

    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)





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