Sullivan-Bradford-Susquehanna County PA Archives Biographies.....CAMPBELL, John C. 1837 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
      JOHN C. CAMPBELL, the popular postmaster at Piatt, Fox township, is one of
  the well known citizens of Sullivan county and a veteran of the Civil war. He
  was born in New Albany, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1837, the son of Caleb and
  Catherine (English) Campbell. Caleb Campbell was the sixth son of John C.
  Campbell, who was a direct descendant of the famous Campbells of Scottish
  history, whose Highland chiefs play such a prominent part in song and story.
  John Campbell and his wife, nee Caroline Metcalf, had seven children: Alice,
  William, Caleb, John, James, Hiram and Joseph. Caleb Campbell was a miller by
  trade and followed this occupation in company with C. H. Mills for a number of
  years in Susquehanna and Bradford counties. He then came to Sullivan county and
  founded the town of Campbellville in or about 1850. Later he lived in New
  Albany, Dushore, Headly Mills, Monroe Corners, Cape Mills, and finally settled
  in Shunk, Fox township, where he carried on a milling business until his health
  failed and he was obliged to retire from active life. His death took place at
  Eaglesmere, in October, 1895 when seventy-eight years of age.
  
      Mr. Campbell was twice married, his first wife being Miss Catherine English,
  who was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was the daughter of William
  and Mary English. Ten children were born of this union: John C., subject of this
  sketch; Fernando, who died in childhood; Theodore, who also died at an early
  age; William, who was a soldier in the Civil war, a member of the Fourteenth
  Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he served nineteen months, and died
  while at home on a furlough; Henry, who also was a soldier, serving three years
  and four months in the Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and is
  deceased; Wilson, who lives in New Albany, Pennsylvania; Charles, deceased;
  Alice, who became the wife of George Northrup and is deceased; Louise, who
  married John Smith and lives near Forksville, this county; and Rebecca, the wife
  of Charles Easenwine, and is living in Towanda, Pennsylvania. The mother of
  these children died in 1854, at the early age of thirty-three years. Mr.
  Campbell's second wife was Miss Ursula Cheever, who bore him two children -
  Willis and Samuel.
  
      John C. Campbell had the usual advantages of schooling which boys of his day
  enjoyed, and when he was old enough learned the carpenter's trade. In August,
  1864, he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company I,
  Two Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served during the remainder
  of the war and saw some heavy fighting in the battles of Deep Bottom, Fort
  Fisher, Wilmington and Portsmouth. He was in the hospital for some time at Long
  Island and was discharged on July 14, 1865, with a good record as a faithful and
  brave soldier. Mr. Campbell took up his residence in Sullivan county in 1867,
  working at his trade at Williamsport. After General Harrison had been elected
  president Mr. Campbell went to Washington, District of Columbia, where he
  remained some time, returning to this county in 1892, since which time he has
  lived at Piatt.
  
      Mr. Campbell's first wife, to whom he was married in 1861, was Miss Margaret
  Lowe, a daughter of Jesse and Jessie (Plotts) Lowe. She died at Eaglesmere in
  1892, leaving one son, George L. Campbell, now a resident of Dushore and the
  manager of the Campbell Electric Traction Company, of Towanda. See his sketch on
  another page of this volume. Mrs. Jessie (Plotts) Lowe was widely known
  throughout Sullivan county, before the days of regular physicians, as an expert
  nurse and doctress. The second wife of our subject was Mrs. Emily (Hoagland)
  Williams, the widow of Daniel Williams, to whom he was married January 25, 1893.
  Mr. Campbell resides on a fine farm of fifty acres, which he has under excellent
  cultivation and on which he has built a very pleasant and comfortable house and
  also a cozy little building used as the post-office. He was appointed
  post-master by President McKinley on November 24, 1897, and is fulfilling the
  duties of that office to the general satisfaction of the public. He is well
  liked by every one and is deserving of the high esteem in which he is held.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
      Extracted from: 
        
      History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
      by Thomas J. Ingham
        
      Compendium of Biography
        
      The Lewis Publishing Company
      Chicago: 1899
  
  
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