BIO: John A. CAMPBELL, Beaver County, PA
  
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  BOOK OF BIOGRAPHIES.  This Volume Contains Biographical Sketches 
  of Leading Citizens of Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  Buffalo, N.Y., 
  Chicago, Ill.: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899, pp. 378-381.
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  JOHN A. CAMPBELL, junior member of the firm of D. Campbell & Son, contractors
  in heavy masonry, is one of the most successful and prosperous men of Beaver
  Falls. He was born near New Galilee, Beaver county, Pa., in 1863, and is a
  son of David Campbell, whose father was John Campbell, a native and life-long
  resident of Scotland.
  
  David Campbell, the father of John A., was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and
  received a thorough mental training in the common schools there. He was then
  bound out as an apprentice to the trade of a mason, and after serving his
  time, worked as a journeyman until he came to this country. He located at
  Beaver Falls, Beaver county, Pa., in 1864, at the age of twenty-two years,
  and at once resumed work at his trade, being employed on the Ft. Wayne R. R.
  construction. He subsequently started in business for himself, as a general
  contractor, and being one of the first business men in the district, Beaver
  Falls, at that time, not having a population of more than two hundred, he
  laid the foundations for nearly all the buildings built in that section of
  the county. He worked on the construction of an arch at Wallace Run. This was
  a long and difficult task, the wall under ground being thirty feet thick; and
  it required three years for its completion. He did alt the masonry work for
  the cutlery shops, built the Economy Bank and Geneva College, did the masonry
  on the File Works and Axe Factory, and also considerable work on the P. & L.
  E. R. R. He has for many years been one of the foremost business men and most
  reliable citizens of Beaver Falls. In 1861, he was joined in wedlock with
  Margery McKim, of Scotland, and nine children resulted from this union, as
  follows: James, deceased; Jeanette (Gaston); John A., the subject of this
  personal history; Robert, a stone mason by trade; Samuel, who follows the
  occupation of a master plumber; Elizabeth, deceased; Jane, deceased; Margery;
  and Myrtle, a graduate of the Beaver Falls High School, and of Beaver College,
  who is now a successful teacher at College Hill school. Mr. Campbell is a
  strong supporter of the Republican party, but has never accepted office. He
  is a member of the F. & A. M., and of the mother lodge in Scotland; the
  Ancient Order of United Workmen; and the; Odd Fellows.
  
  John A. Campbell received his education in the public schools at Beaver
  Falls, and upon completing his schooling, became associated in business with
  his father. In 1887, he purchased the interest of Mr. Moffit in the
  
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  firm, and has since devoted his entire time to its success. Although it has
  always been the leading firm of the kind in that district; since our subject
  has been identified with it, its business has increased steadily until it
  encounters some difficulty in keeping apace with its contracts. At the
  present time it has a contract to build the shops of the Atlantic Tube
  Company, which will cover three acres of ground, at Moravia, Pennsylvania.
  The subject of this sketch is an enterprising and energetic young man,
  popular with his fellow citizens and he has a host of friends wherever he is
  known.
  
  Mr. Campbell was joined in hymeneal bonds with Mary C. Robel, a daughter of
  Lewis and Sophia (Cleis) Robel, of Germany, a native of Morgantown, West
  Virginia, where she received her education. Our subject is a Republican in
  politics, and like his father, is a member of the Presbyterian church, of
  which he is an elder.