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Campbell Township.
The township of Campbell was organized April 15, 1831. It is bounded on the north by the townships of Bath and Bradford, on the east by Hornby,
on the south by Erwin and Addison. The Rochester branch of the Erie railroad, and the Delaware Lackawanna and Western R. R. cross the township
in a north westerly and south easterly direction. The Conhocton river crosses the township in the same direction, and courses as the railroads. The
townships contains some splendid alluvial soils in the valley of the Conhocton, and along Meads' Creek, and good grazing and wheat land in the uplands.
Some of the finest white pine in Steuben county, was originally found in this town.
The first settlers were Mead, Joseph Wolcott, Elisha Williams, Samuel Calkins, David McNutt, Robert Campbell, Solomon Campbell, Philo Campbell, Daniel Curtis, Joseph Stevens, Joseph Stevens, Jr., Benjamin Stevens, David Holmes, William Holmes, Jonas Woodward, Jacob Woodward,
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Hinsdale Hammond, Seth Hammond, Cyrus Ames, Zalmon Tousey, Robert Bonham, Archibald Campbell, James Faulkner, James Fulton, Frederic
Stewart.
The first election for town officers, was held at the house of Samuel Bessley in the year 1832. The officers elected were Daniel Clark, supervisor;
Milo Hurd, town clerk; William Stewart, Samuel Cook, Daniel Horton, assessors; John H. Burritt, William Stewart, Selah Hammond, commissioners
of highways; Joseph Stevens, Pliny Cobb, overseers of the poor; H. Corbin, Frederic Stewart, Miner Campbell, commissioners of schools; Milo Hurd,
Harvey Burritt, Daniel Horton, inspectors of schools; Aden J. Pratt, collector; Aden J. Pratt, John Robbins, Jr., constables; Parley Seamans, Alvin
Corbin, justices of the peace. There were fourteen road districts in the town, and the path masters appointed were, district No. 1, Richard Gregory; No.
2, Samuel Bessley; No. 3, Daniel Clark; No. 4, Gilbert Reed; No. 5, Benjamin F. Balcan; No. 6, Alanson Peirce; No. 7, Peter Covenhoven; No. 8,
Stephen Boyden; No. 9, Moses Hammond; No. 10, Moses Woodworth; No. 11, Salmon Hunsinger; No. 12, Salmon Dickinson; No. 13, Parley Seamans; No. 14, Hosea Robbins.
—In 1846, a saw and grist mill combined was erected.
—Union Free school house in Campbell town, cost $4,500. It has three departments.
—Baptist Church of Campbell, organized as a branch of Savona, in 1870. In 1873 church erected.
—The first grist mill in Campbell, was built in 1812, by Gen. John Knox and Archibald Campbell.
—The first school in Campbell, on Mead's Creek, was taught by Rhoda Simmons in a hunter's cabin, in 1817.
—First Presbyterian Church organized January 20, 1812, at the house of Frederic Stewart, church erected in 1833. Rev. B. F. Pratt, of Southport N. Y., preaching the dedicatory sermon, Thursday Nov. 5, 1833.
—Methodist Episcopal class organized in 1827, services for many years were held in school houses. Church dedicated Jan. 21, 1869, by Rev. M. Searles, of Auburn, N. Y. J. P. Knox and J. M. Bemis gave the lot, of edifice $2,500.
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