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EDWARD J. CAIN
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Edward J. Cain,* whose excellent
farm of sixty-eight acres is situated in
Hickory Township, on the east side of the
Neshannock Falls Road, is a prominent
general farmer of this section. He was
born August 23, 1860, and is a son of John
and Martha (Irwin) Cain. Robert Cain,
the grandfather, was a leading citizen of
Allegheny County and filled many offices of
trust and responsibilty. For sixteen years
he was sheriff of that county, in the days
when the office was one of the greatest responsibility.
Edward J. Cain was reared and educated
mainly in Allegheny County. On September
25. 1881, he was married, at
Bradford, Pa., to Anna E. Walker, a
daughter of John A. and Elizabeth
(Thomas) Walker. John A. Walker served
in the Civil War and was connected with
the marine engineering corps, under Colonel
Ellsworth, and was color bearer of his
regiment. Mr. and Mrs. Cain have had four
children, namely: Edward J., W. J., John
L. and Irene C.
Edward J. Cain, Jr., was born August
31, 1882, in Bolivar, Allegheny County,
New York. His family came to Lawrence
County when he was eleven years of age
and while he assisted his father during vacations,
he closely applied himself at other
times to his studies at the Brier Hill
School. After completing the course there
he studied mechanical engineering at New
Castle and then entered upon railroad work
with the Pennsylvania, Lake Erie and the
Baltimore & Oliio, in different capacities.
He further prepared himself for usefulness
by taking a course in the Scranton
Technical School. His death occurred,
from accident, on October 4, 1906. He was
a consistent member of the East Brook
Methodist Episcopal Churcli and taught a
Sunday-school class and was an active
member of the Epworth League. He belonged
to the Knights of Pythias, No. 160
Western Star and Uniform Rank of Company
36, New Castle Lodge. He belonged
also to the Odd Fellows at New Castle and
to the order of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen. He had a wide circle of
friends and his death was a heavy blow to
them as well as to his family.
W. J. Cain, the second son, was born
July 25, 1884. He married Emma Hill,
a daughter of Richard and Nellie (Daughterty)
Hill, of McKeesport, Pa., and they
have one daughter, Anna E. He is an engineer
by profession. John L. Cain was
born April 16, 1887, and assists his father
on the farm. Irene C. was born December
11, 1889, and attends school.
Mr. Cain has devoted his life to agricultural
pursuits and has met with satisfactory
results. His comfortable residence is
a two-story frame structure, and his large
outbuildings, barns and granaries are of
substantial appearance. He is a member
of the East Brook Methodist Episcopal
Church. While not very active in politics,
he thinks deeply on public questions and
votes according to his judgment.
WILLIAM E. CALDERWOOD
Pg 721
William E. Calderwood, who
fills the office of paymaster of the Shenango
mills of the American Steel and Tin
Plate Company, has been identified with
this enterprise, in his present capacity,
since 1899. Mr. Calderwood is a native
of New Castle, Pa., born here December
12, 1868, and is a son of Jolm and Mary
(Byers) Calderwood.
John Calderwood, the father, has resided
in Mercer County since the death of
his wife. Formerly he engaged in farming
in Union Township, just west of New
Castle.
William E. Calderwood attended the
country schools during boyhood and later
the Mercer High School, from which he
would have graduated in 1887 save for the
fact that during the last year he dropped
his Latin studies in order to take a fuller
course in philosophy and German, thereby
losing his chance of graduation, the rules
requiring another year in Latin. He then
began his business career, engaging as a
clerk in a grocery store for two years. In
1889 he entered into the employ of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, accepting
a position as clerk in the railroad
shops at Lawrence Junction, and continued
there until 1893, when he went into
the grocery business with his father and
brother, Harry, at Mercer. In 1897 he
returned to the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and remained until 1899, when
he accepted his present responsible position.
Mr. Calderwood married Miss Bertha
Butler and they have one child, Paul. Mr.
Calderwood's particular talents have made
him a very valuable addition to the great
clerical force necessary to keep orderly the
details of great concerns like those with
which he has been associated.
S. JAMES CALLAHAN
Pg 528
S. James Callahan, a leading citizen
of New Castle, secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce and prominent in Republican
politics, was born in 1868, in Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, and was about
seven years of age when his parents moved
to Tioga County.
Mr. Callahan was liberally educated, attending
the Wellsboro High School, Cook
Academy and Hillsdale College, after
which he accepted a position as teacher in
a school in Lycoming Comity. In spite of
the fact that this school was situated twenty-
five miles from home, he visited the old
mother, who was left alone on the farm,
every week, walking the distance back and
forth, his father having died the previous
winter. After completing his college attendance
he acquired a knowledge of shorthand
and typewriting, which he had lacked,
at Pott's College, at Williamsport,
Pa., and this acquirement he has frequently
found a great convenience. He then entered
the law oiiSce of C. E. Sprout, a leading
attorney at Williamsport, with whom
he studied law for one year and during
this time had an agency for the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company in
that district. After coming to New Castle
he continued with that company as general
agent for about six years and then became
general agent for the New York Life, a
position he still fills. He registered, on
locating at New Castle, with Attorney McCaslin,
with whom he completed his law
studies, and was admitted to the bar in
April, 1907, and has engaged in the practice
of his profession in addition to attending
to his numerous other interests.
He is a member of the Lawrence Coimty
Bar Association.
At Warren, Ohio, in 1900, Mr. Callahan
was married to Etta B. Hayford, of that
city, and they have had three children:
Clare; Berdena, who died aged two years
and eight months, and James. Mr. and
Mrs. Callahan belong to the First Baptist
Church, in which he has been a prominent
and useful official member. He was chairman
of the finance committee when the
church edifice was remodeled, and at present
is a member of the lecture course committee.
He has farming interests in Mercer
County. In politics he is an ardent
Republican and is treasurer of the Lawrence
County Republican Committee. For
three years he has been secretary of the
New Castle Chamber of Commerce and is
closely identified with the city's business
interests. He belongs also to various
branches of Masonry.
HOWARD E. CAMPBELL
Pg 166
Howard E. Campbell, M. D., formerly a
practicing physician of New Castle, was
born in Lawrence County in 1858. He
graduated from the medical department
of the University of New York in 1890,
and located in practice at New Castle. He
left this city in 1895.
JOHN DODDS CAMPBELL
Pg 741
John Dodds Campbell, general
farmer and prominent citizen, residing on
his valuable property which consists of
117 acres of land situated one mile west of
Moravia, on the Galilee highway, was born
November 22, 1851, in Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania. His parents were James
and Eliza Ellen (Dodds) Campbell.
James Campbell was born and reared
in Allegheny County, where his father,
James Campbell, had settled when he came
to America from Ireland. The maternal
grandfather of John D. Campljell was
Robert Dodds, who was also born in Ireland.
James and Eliza Ellen (Dodds)
Campbell were married while the latter
was living in Butler County, after which
they went to housekeeping in Allegheny
County. They had six children born to
them, namely: Lulu, deceased: Saurinmanton,
deceased; Evadna, deceased; John
Dodds; Mary, who married Dr. William
McGeehan, of Eastbrook, and Harvey
James, who is engaged in farming in North
Beaver Township. In 1871 James Campbell
moved his family to North Beaver
Township, where he bought 200 acres of
good land, building here a substantial barn
and making many excellent improvements.
This farm is now owned by his two surviving
sons. He died here in April, 1903,
having survived his wife since 1883.
John Dodds Campbell was educated in
the local schools and grew to manhood a
practical farmer. He carries on a general
agricultural line, having land that is well
located for successful farming. He married
Ella Duff, who was born and reared
in North Beaver Township, and is a daughter
of Alexander Duff. Mr. and Mrs.Campbell
are members of the Presbyterian
Church at Moravia, of which Mr. Campbell
is a trustee.
RALPH M. CAMPBELL
Pg 666
Ralph M. Campbell, deputy prothonotary
of Lawrence County, has probably
had more years of experience in the
prothonotary's office than any other man
in the State of Pennsylvania. He was born
in 1866, at New Castle, Pa., and is a son of
David I. Campbell, a native of Turtle
Creek, Allegheny County, who served six
years in the office of prothonotary.
Ralph M. Campbell was reared at New
Castle and educated in her public schools.
He made himself useful in clerical positions
from boyhood, for a time being in the
employ of the firm of G. M. Clark & Company,
in the crockery line. In 1884 he became
his father's deputy in the prothonotary's
office and served through the latter's
incumbency and served six more
years in the same capacity under Capt. J.
H. Grilliland and six under A. S. Love,
when he was elected prothonotary himself.
Mr. Campbell served six years or two
terms, and since then has been deputy for
the present prothonotary. He has ever
taken a more or less interest in politics,
being an ardent Republican. His father
served in the Civil War, first as a musician
in the noted Round Head Regiment, and
later in the One Hundred and Ninety-third
Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry.
In 1894 Mr. Campbell was married to
Miss Eva M. Robinson, who is a daughter
of the late Joseph Robinson. They are
members of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church of New Castle, of which he is secretary.
He has been a member of the Sons
of Veterans ever since its organization,
and is quartermaster of Troop F, N. G. P.
He has also been for many years a member
of the B. P. 0. E.
WALTER LOWRIE CAMPBELL, B.S., M.D.
Pg 173
Walter Lowrie Campbell, B. S., M. D.,
of New Castle, was born in Moniteau, Butler
County, March 4, 1876, and was educated
in Grove City High School and Grove
City College, graduating from the latter
in 1900. He graduated from Jefferson
Medical College in 1903, and after practicing
two years in Mobile, located in New
Castle on April 1, 1905. He is a member
of the Physicians' Club of New Castle, the
Lawrence County Medical Society, the
State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association.
PROF. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL
Pg 436
Prof. William W. Campbell, A. B.,
director of music at Westminster
College, New Wilmington, occupies a
prominent position in the country as an
educator and also is recognized as an authority
on music. Professor Campbell was
born October 25, 1869, in Lawrence County,
Pennsylvania, and is a son of Rev. William
and Mary A. (Turner) Campbell.
Rev. William Campbell is a retired minister
of the United Presbyterian Church.
For a period of sixteen years he was connected
with the faculty of Westminster
College. His father, Ross Alexander
Campbell, came to Lawrence County from
Scotland.
William W. Campbell was mainly educated
at Westminster College, where he
took both an A. B. degree and his first degree
in music. After leaving college Professor
Campbell accepted the chair of
Latin and history in the Pawnee Academy.
In the fall of 1892 he received from the
governing board of the Nebraska Institute
for the Blind an appointment as director
of music there, a position he filled for two
years and then resigned in order to accept
a similar one in Baird College, at Clinton,
Mo., where he remained for four years.
He then took charge of the music at Trinity
University, in Waxahachie, Tex. Prior
to Professor Campbell's coming to Westmuister
College, the department of music
had by no means occupied its proper position
in an institution of the high standing
of this one. Professor Campbell soon had
the whole department reorganized and
from a student roll of thirty in two years
he increased it to 119. It now is one of
the leading departments of study.
On August 30, 1899, Professor Campbell
was married to Edna Pauline Fillmore,
who is a daughter of Lorain A. Fillmore
and a lineal descendant of former President
Millard Fillmore, a distinguished
statesman of the United States, who succeeded
to the office on the death of President
Taylor in 1850. Professor and Mrs.
Campbell have one son, William Fillmore,
an engaging, intelligent child of six years.
The family belong to the United Presbyterian
Church.
[Photograph of Prof. William W. Campbell, A.B.
on Page 437]
WILLIS L. CAMPBELL
Pg 856
Willis L. Campbell, of the general
contracting firm of Campbell & Young, at
New Castle, has been a resident of this city
for twenty-nine years and has taken an active
part in its different lines of development.
He was born in Butler County,
Pennsylvania, March 6, 1860, and is a son
of J. J. V. Campbell.
The late J. J. V. Campbell was born in
Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, February
1, 1837, and died at New Castle, in 1899.
For many years he was engaged in a contracting
business in this city. His father,
Alexander Campbell, came to America
from Scotland and was a pioneer settler in
what is now Lawrence County. On March
8, 1818, he married Miss Cornelia A. Covert,
who was a daughter of Garret Covert
and Ellen (Black) Covert. These are all
old names in the county. On August :29,
1859, Joseph J. Y. Campbell married Mary
Morrow, and they had eight children, as
follows: Willis L. ; Thomas A., born in
1861, residing at Volant, Lawrence County;
Addison A., born in 1864, residing at
Morgantown, Virginia; Laura Belle, wife
of Joseph K. Knoll, residing on a farm in
Lawrence County; Joseph H.; Sarah
Emma, and Cornelia, both deceased; and
Newton L., born in 1871, residing at New
Castle, is a member of the fire department
of this city.
From the age of fourteen years to nineteen,
when he came to New Castle, Willis
L. Campbell lived in Armstrong County,
and from 1880 to 1886, he worked in the
rolling mills. Since then he has been engaged
at work at his trade of carpenter,
and since the spring of 1887, has been engaged
in contracting, and for the past four
years has been associated witli James S.
Young, under the firm style of Campbell &
Young. This competent firm has clone a
great amount of important building in New
Castle, among the most important, perhaps,
are the following structures: Terrace
Avenue School Building; Croton
Avenue and Oak Street School Building;
the Reformed Presbyterian Church; the
Euwers Block on Neshannock Avenue; the
Odd Fellows Building on the same street;
the beautiful chapel in Graceland Cemetery,
and many others. Mr. Campbell is a
substantial citizen, owning a large amount
of valuable city realty consisting of houses
and lots.
Mr. Campbell was married in September,
1899, to Miss Harriet E. Dinsmore,
who was born and reared at New Castle
and is a daughter of Watson N. Dinsmore.
They have three children : Joseph Watson,
Lena May and James Newton.
Politically, Mr. Campbell is a stanch Republican
and has served on the city council
through some of its most important sessions.
Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow, belonging
to Lodge No. 195 and to Lawrence
Encampment, No. 85. He is also prominent
in his craft and for the past four years has
served as president of the Builders'
League.