John Alderman Hyde Campbell (1839 - 1914)

Born 4 Aug 1839 in Youngstown, Niagara, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 7 Apr 1914 at age 74 in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada

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Biography

John is present in Windsor with his family by 1871. He was listed along with his brother George as a lumberman. They ran a lumber yard in the city, first on Sandwich Street West and then at the southwest corner of London Street and Campbell Avenue, (which would seem to have been named after the brothers.)

John was apparently the more civic minded of the two brothers. He served for sixteen years on the public school board, and thirteen years after his death, the board named a school after him. Built in 1926 and accepting its first students in September of 1927, John Campbell Public School on Tecumseh Road at Hall Avenue, continues to operate and in April of 2009 it was recognized as an Ontario Heritage site.

His son Wallace R. Campbell would become one of the leading industrialists of the early twentieth century in Canada, serving as President of Ford of Canada for many years, taking a prominent role in both the evolution of social policy in Canada and the war effort in the Second World War.

Note on the Name

Many Ancestry trees list John as John Angus Campbell, same as his son of that name. But I can find no original record to confirm this. The only record that I could find which spells out his middle names was the registration of his death. And it clearly shows his name as John Alderman Hyde Campbell.

Sources

• 1850 US Federal Census, New York, Niagara, Porter, pg. 55 of 62.

• 1871 Census of Canada, Ontario, Essex, Sandwich East, pg. 98 of 151.

• Canada, City and Area Directories, 1819-1906, Ontario, Windsor, Sandwich, Amhertsburg, 1876, Charlton and Co’s Directory of Windsor, Sandwich, and Amhertsburg, 875-1876, pg. 18 of 62.

• Cited in Canada Births, 1869-1913, Essex, 1882, pf. 43 of 220.

• Cited in Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913, Essex, 1885, pg. 42 of 248.

• 1891 Census of Canada, Ontario, Essex North, Windsor, pg. 2 of 213.

• Canada, City and Area Directories, 1819-1906, Ontario, Windsor, Sandwich, Walkerville, 1895, Windsor Directory including Sandwich and Walkerville, 1895, pg. 16 0f 103.

• Canada, City and Area Directories, 1819-1906, Ontario, Windsor, Sandwich, Walkerville, 1895, Windsor Directory including Sandwich and Walkerville, 1895, pg. 94 of 103. (Listing as School Board member.)

• 1901 Census of Canada, Ontario, Essex (North/Nord), Windsor (City/Cité), pg. 2 of 318.

• Cited in Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, York, 1910, pg. 1065 of 3174.

• "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSZ5-F3R : 8 March 2021), John A H Campbell in entry for Kenneth C Campbell and Florence M Mcgie, 19 Oct 1910; citing registration , Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 1,887,239.

• Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Essex, 1914, pg. 165 of 226.

• Canada's Historic Places - John Campbell School.