Cassius Samuel Campbell

Cassius Samuel Campbell

Birth: 1845 Death: 1929

Born in Windham, New Hampshire the son of Samuel Campbell and Lydia Crowell. He was educated in the Windham schools then went on to Pinkerton Academy in Derry and from there entered Dartmouth college and graduated with the class of 1868. Immediately following graduation he moved to Minnesota, where he became superintendent of schools in Hastings, a position he held for ten years. He then became principal of the high school in St. Paul for five years. Upon resigning he returned to New Hampshire to teach in the McCollom Institute, Mt. Vernon, NH. In 1888 he became a member of the faculty of Pinkerton Academy, his alma mater, teaching mathematics and physics.

He married in 1869, Lydia Lorane Ashley of Northampton, Massachusetts. She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke college. They had four children, three boys and one girl. George Ashley, Arthur Forward, Francina Louise. The name of the youngest son is not known by this biographer. He attended Central Congregational church of Derry.

After the death of his first wife he married, Alice M. Watts, a member of the Molly Reid Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).

Note: For more information see The Granite State Monthly, Vol. XXXIII, published 1902.

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Spouses:

 Lydia A. Ashley Campbell (1845 - 1915)*

 Alice M. Watts Campbell (1872 - 1965)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Forest Hill Cemetery East Derry Rockingham County New Hampshire, USA Plot: sec 20, Greenough Ave, Plot 550 Grave # 1

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28835308

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Cassius S. Campbell Sex: M Birth: 19 NOV 1845 in Windham, Rockingham, NH 1 Note: He attended district school until 1861; Pinkerton Academy, Derry, until 1864; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1868' took charge of public schools of Hastings, Minn., in Sept. 1868, where he remained until Aug. 1878, when he removed to St. Paul, Minn. and accepted the position as principal of the high school of that city, where he still remains (1883).

Father: Samuel Campbell b: 1 SEP 1819 in Windham, Rockingham, NH Mother: Lydia E. Crowell

Marriage 1 Lydia L. Ashley b: 12 MAR 1845 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA

   Married: 30 AUG 1869 in Nashua, Hillsborough, NH 1

Children

   Has No Children George A. Campbell b: 27 NOV 1870 in Hastings, Dakota, MN

   Has No Children Arthur F. Campbell b: 4 OCT 1872 in Hastings, Dakota, MN

   Has No Children Francena L. Campbell b: 23 OCT 1874 in Hastings, Dakota, MN

   Has No Children Percy A. Campbell b: 19 AUG 1877 in Hastings, Dakota, MN

Sources:

   Title: History of the Town of Windham, New Hampshire 1791-1883

   Author: Leonard A. Morrison

   Publication: Cupples, Upham & co, Boston, 1883

   Repository:

   Note: LSD Family History Library

   Media: Book

   Page: page 373 

Source: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=campbelln...