Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Campbell, John Morgan June 15, 1850 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, pg 150
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    John Morgan Campbell was born June 15, 1850, in Dunbar 
township, Fayette county, Penna, and is the son of Emmanuel 
Campbell and Lydia Morgan Campbell.  
    Emmanuel Campbell was born May 9, 1824, in Georges 
township, and was married to Miss Lydia Morgan, daughter of 
Morris Morgan.
    David Campbell was the name of the paternal grandfather 
of John Morgan Campbell.  
    Morris Morgan was his maternal grandfather; he was a 
blacksmith by trade and an old time democrat in politics.  
At an exciting election in 1812, a Tory cried, "Hurrah for 
King George;" no sooner had he uttered the shout than he was 
knocked down by the brawny fist of Morris Morgan.  He was 
afterwards a soldier in the War of 1812-1815 against 
England.  He was a brother of Colonel John Morgan, who 
represented this county in the legislature for several 
terms.  Morris Morgan married Susan Stentz of this county.
    John Morgan Campbell was reared on the farm, and was 
educated in the common schools of Menallen township and at 
Waynesburg College, Penna.  His first business was that of 
tanning and farming and was a scientific farmer.  He engaged 
in school teaching for ten terms, a part of that time he 
taught in Illinois, the remainder of it in the schools of 
the county. He came to Hopwood in the year 1881, and engaged 
in the tanning business and continued in the same for four 
years, when he embarked in the general mercantile business 
in which he has been successfully engaged ever since.
    He is energetic and enterprising, a good citizen, and is 
an active member of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America, 
of the United Benevolent Fraternity, and has been a Good 
Templar.  He joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of 
Pleasant View, and was superintendent of the Sabbath School 
at that place a number of years and has served as trustee of 
that church.  He is now a member of the same denomination at 
Uniontown, and has been superintendent of the Sabbath School 
there.  He is a democrat in politics and has held township 
offices although not an office seeker.  He was appointed 
postmaster at Hopwood by President Cleveland.
    He was married to Miss Lydia Miller, September 20, 1877, 
by Rev J P Fulton, pastor of Dunlap's Creek Church.  She was 
born February 5, 1854, and her father, Warwick Miller, was 
born December 8, 1811.  He married Mary Moore, daughter of 
Aaron Moore of German township and died at the advanced age 
of ninety six years.
    To the marriage of J M Campbell and Lydia Miller have 
been born four children: Ira Fulton Campbell, born August 
29, 1878; Rolla Miller Campbell, March 11, 1880; Mary 
Frances Campbell, December 1, 1882; and Clarence Danley 
Campbell, February 10, 1888.
    Mrs Campbell is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church at Uniontown.  

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