Charles Campbell, Son of John Campbell, founder of Ironton
Submitted by Sharon M. Kouns
I.R. Sept. 13, 1877 – Charles Campbell has returned from a summer trip in which he visited Philadelphia, Cape May, and White Sulpher.
I.R. Sept. 13, 1877 – Charles Campbell brought some specimens of the 300-foot deposit of iron ore near Lynchburg from Virginia. The specimens embrace beautiful hematite specular ore.
I.R. Jan. 3, 1878 – Charles Campbell caned D. Voglesong with a beautiful ebony as the old year lay dying.
I.R.Thurs. Aug. 4, 1881 – Charles Campbell is at White Sulpher, enjoying the baths.
I.R. Oct. 9, 1890 – The Century Club had its first meeting of the year at Mrs. J. W. Campbell’s last night. The opening meeting was delightful. Mr. Charles Campbell was elected president.
M.I. Tues., Dec. 14, 1915 – PIONEER FURNACE MAN CRITICALLY ILL – Charles Campbell, the well-known pioneer furnace man, was reported as critically ill at his home, Hecla suffering from valvular heart trouble. Mr. Campbell is probably one of the best-known men in the vicinity, and many friends will regret learning of his critical illness.
M.I. Wed., July 18, 1923 – CHAS. CAMPBELL DIED MONDAY – Charles Campbell, 71, son of Mr. John Campbell, one of the pioneer residents of Ironton, died at the Athens hospital Monday. Mrs. J. L. Anderson of this city, a deceased niece, was notified yesterday.
Mr. Campbell is the last of the John Campbell family and will be remembered by many of the older Ironton residents. Three nieces, Mrs. Alexander Julian of Cincinnati, Mrs. William Means of Yellow Springs, and Mrs. J. L. Anderson of this city, survive, as does a cousin, Mrs. L. B. Campbell, also of Ironton.
The body will arrive here today, the funeral to be at 4 o’clock at Woodland cemetery. Friends are invited to attend the services.
SEMI-WEEKLY IRONTONIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 01, 1908
CHAS. CAMPBELL WRITES OF OLD FAMILIES
The following communication appears in an issue of The Ohio Magazine: To the Editor: Some recent genealogical facts stated in correspondence to The Ohio Magazine prompt me to offer the following regarding two old families in Virginia and Ohio:
THE HOGE FAMILY
Near Winchester, Va., lived William Hoge and his wife, (Miss Hume), after emigrating from Scotland to New Jersey, thence to Delaware, to Pennsylvania, and finally to Opeekon Creek, Virginia, becoming the first settlers there. Their son James was born in Pennsylvania, went to Virginia in 1735, and died June 2nd, 1795.
Their grandson Moses Hoge attended Liberty Hall, now Washington and Lee University, in 1778, and received from it, joined with the Rev. William Wilson and others, the degree of A. B., in 1785, was made President of Hampden-Sidney College, Virginia, 1807. He married twice: First, to Elizabeth Poage, August 23, 1783, daughter of John Poage.
She died June 18, 1802, second to Mrs. Susannah Hunt, October 23rd, 1803, daughter of Joel Watkins. In 1787 he moved to Shepherdstown, Va. There were three sons by the first wife, all ministers, Rev. James Hoge of Columbus, Ohio; John Blair Hoge, who died early and was buried at Martinsburg, Va., and Samuel Davies Hoge, who died young, the father of Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D. D., of Richmond, Va.
THE POAGES
Three miles north of the site of Staunton, Va., then called Beverly’s Mill place, lived Robert Poage, his wife, and nine children, emigrants, May 22, 1740. They located on the pike on 772 acres; his will was proved on March 6th, 1774. One daughter married Robert Breckinridge, son of Alexander Breckinridge, and was his first wife; they have two sons – Robert and Alexander, both prominent in Kentucky.
His second wife was Lettuce, daughter of John Preston, an emigrant. The two Robert Breckinridge and John Preston were the ancestors of the renowned families of those names in the South and West. Robert Poage’s son, John, was the father of Elizabeth Poage, the first wife of Rev. Moses Poage, whose descendants are famous in the Presbyterian pulpit.
Another son, Thomas Poage, had two daughters who married the Wilson brothers. Elizabeth married Rev. William Wilson, born 1751, graduate and A. B. tutor, and trustee for twenty-five years of Washington College, Va.; pastor, 1780-1811, of Augusta Church, organized 1737, eight miles north of the site of Staunton, Va.
Polly Poage married the Hon. Thomas Wilson, M. C., of Morgantown, Va. Their son, Edgar Campbell Wilson, was a member of Congress in 1832, and their grandson, Eugene M. Wilson, in 1868. Bishop Alpeheus Wilson of Baltimore is a grandson.
Rev. Norval Wilson was a prominent son in Alexandria in 1832; a daughter, Mrs. Louisa Ann Lowrie, whose letters were published, was the second cousin of Rev. James Poage. She died in 1833, a missionary in Calcutta, India, the wife of Rev. John C. Lowrie, sixty years connected as secretary, etc., with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Moderator of the General Assembly, in 1865, son of U. S. Senator, Hon. Walter Lowrie of Pennsylvania.
The Wilson Scotch ancestor was located in Ulster, Ireland; a son James, born 1715, emigrated very young to Philadelphia; in 1771, he moved to Rock Bridge, Virginia, and was an elder in New Providence Church; appointed 1775 with Captain Charles Campbell by Hanover Presbytery to solicit funds to establish Augusta Academy.
It is the gem of Washington and Lee University, on James Wilson’s lands on Mount Pleasant, afterward inherited by his son, Moses Wilson. Elizabeth, daughter of Jas. Sister of Hon. Thomas Wilson, born 1758, married (1775) Wm. Campbell and they were the grandparents of John Campbell of Ironton, Ohio, and were located five miles north of Staunton, Va., on the pike.
The two first cousins were named John Wilson Campbell – one a Federal judge at Columbus, Ohio, who died in 1833, and the other a graduate of Washington College and a historian of Virginia. He died in 1842. The first married Eleanor, daughter of Col. Robert Doak, who in 1740 secured the Presbytery through the services of Rev. John Craig, the first minister of the Valley of Virginia, the predecessor of Rev. William Wilson in Augusta Church.
The second John Wilson Campbell of Petersburg, Va., bookseller, and publisher, married Mildred Walker Moore, the great-granddaughter of Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia. His brother, Dr. Samuel L. Campbell, was the second President of Washington College in 1798, now Washington and Lee University.
He married Sally, the sister of Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, President of Hampden-Sidney College, whose memory is dear to the Presbyterian Church as its exponent and profound theologian who won the hearts of men.
Dr. Campbell, an able writer, is quoted at length by Foot and others. His peon to the Mount Pleasant Augusta Academy location has not been successfully imitated. Charles Campbell, Historian of Virginia (1860), son of John W. Campbell and Mildred Walker Moore, was the second cousin of John Campbell of Ironton, Ohio. All the families mentioned were Scotch Irish and Presbyterians up to 1800, and very few have changed since.
Rev. John Poage Campbell was my grandfather Charles’ second cousin. Rev. Campbell died at Chillicothe in 1814. He was a very brilliant man whom Dr. Timothy Dwight spoke of as being “a remarkably accomplished scholar and divine.” He was born in 1767 in Augusta County, Va., and graduated in 1790 from Hamden-Sidney College. His theological studies were under the Rev. Dr. William Graham at Liberty Hall and the Rev. Dr. Moses Hoage, then of Shepherdstown, Va.
He was licensed to preach in 1792. His life was spent in Kentucky and Ohio, and he was a physician and naturalist. His second wife was Miss Poage of Kentucky, and he was named for Rev. Thomas Poage, brother-in-law of Rev. Moses Hoge. His essays were published between 1800 and 1812. There is a copious notice of him in “Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit” (vol. 111, p. 626) and also in Green’s “Historic Families of Kentucky.”
His grandfather, John Campbell, emigrated in 1730 from near Newry Carlingford Bay on the east coast of Ireland. He married 1721 Elizabeth Walker, a descendant of Samuel Rutherford, one of the “Westminster Assembly” members and author of “Rutherford’s Letters.” Her father, John Walker, married Catherine Rutherford and the latter’s mother, whose maiden name was Isabel Allein, was a descendant of Rev. Joseph Allein, who wrote “Allien’s Alarm.” Therefore, the Rev. John Poage Campbell had a truly noble heritage in the church.
Respectfully,
Charles Campbell
Ironton, Ohio.
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