Excerpt from Genealogical Account of the Ancestors in America of Joseph Andrew Kelly Campbell and Eliza Edith Deal (His Wife)

Joseph andrew kelly campbell, born in Lewisburg, Penn sylvania, February 27 1832, the fifth child of John and Mary Helen Kelly Campbell, traces his ancestry to John Campbell, of Scotland, who came to America about 1750; to James and Mary Poak, who settled in Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, in 1768, and to John Kelly, of Ireland, who arrived in America in 1723.

Soon after he was born his parents moved to Williamsport, Penn-sylvania, where his boyhood was spent and he received his education. Upon leaving school he learned the trade of pattern maker. When twenty-one years of age, having been offered more remunerative employment in Philadelphia, he moved to the Frank ford District of that city, and there spent the remainder of his days.

He soon entered actively into the political life of the community, and for a number of years was a member of the Democratic Ward Executive Committee. On the 22d of March, 1868, he received the appointment of Miscellaneous Clerk in the office of the City Treas urer, under Joseph N. Piersol, who had been elected to that office in October, 1867. Joseph Andrew Campbell, (as he preferred to be known) held this position for several years, giving a bond for which was signed by himself, Francis Deal and John Cocker. In 1870 he was nominated, on the Democratic ticket, for State Representative from the Seventeenth Legislative District of Pennsylvania, and in October of that year was elected, the Board of Judges, after its meeting on Tuesday, October 11, 1870, send ing him official notice of his election.

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