Bios: JOSEPH J. V. CAMPBELL: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    JOSEPH J. V. CAMPBELL,
    
    [p. 302] a retired contractor of New Castle, well known throughout Lawrence
  County, was born in Mahoning township, Feb. 1, 1837. He is a son of Alexander
  Campbell, grandson, of Robert Campbell, and great-grandson of John Campbell.
    
    Our subject's grandfather was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and worked at
  the weaver's trade until he immigrated to America. After his marriage with
  Maria Stewart, also a native of Scotland, he came to this country, and
  settled on a farm, located near West Liberty, Pa., where he was engaged in
  agricultural labors the rest of his life, dying at the advanced age of
  ninety- six years. His wife lived to be seventy-two years old. Their children
  bore the following names: John; Robert; Thomas; Henry; Alexander; Ruth;
  Margaret P. (Wigton), and William.
    
    Alexander Campbell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was but a boy when
  his parents brought with him the rest of the family then born to this
  country. He followed the trade of a carpenter and millwright in connection
  with farming. The old homestead remained his home until 1834, when he sold it
  and moved to Parkstown, Pa., where he bought a farm and engaged in
  agricultural pursuits for fifteen years; at length disposing of that
  property, he bought a grist and saw-mill at Covert Station and was identified
  with the milling business three years. He then moved to New Castle, where he
  lived two years, and from there went to Edenburg, Pa., where he died at the
  age of fifty-five. He married Cornelia Covert, daughter of Garrett Covert;
  she passed away aged sixty-seven years. Their children were: James; Garrett;
  Margaret (Fitch); Henry; Thomas; Orlando; McKee; and Joseph J. V. They were
  Methodists in their religious belief, and Mr. Campbell was a Whig.
    
    Joseph J. V. Campbell, after receiving but a limited school education,
  became an apprentice in New Castle to the carpenter's and wagon-maker's
  trade. He followed the carpenter's trade, and was located at a number of
  places, but finally settled in New Castle in 1881, and began to figure on
  contract work, and to undertake large jobs in the building line; he was thus
  engaged until 1895, when he turned over the business to his son, Louis L.,
  and since then has been content to rest from his labors and to enjoy a
  peaceful, retired life.
    
    In 1858, Mr. Campbell married Mary Morrow, daughter of Matthew and Sarah
  (Bullman) Morrow. They have brought up five children, as follows: Willis L.,
  a contractor; Thomas A., who married Elizabeth Mosher and has four
  childrenGeorge, Leonard, Elizabeth and Willis; Addison married Lovica
  Connors and has one child, Albert L.; Laura B. married Joseph Knoll; and
  Newton L., a painter by trade. Mr. Campbell's family favor the Baptist
  Church. He is a strong Republican, and active in his partisanship. Socially
  he is a member of Lodge No. 406, Knights of Pythias.