Born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, he was named after his father's father and was a bookbinder by trade who was known as R.P., Rob, or Robert Campbell.
Son and oldest child of Thomas Campbell and his first wife, Margaret Smith, he was baptized August 5, 1855 at Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Zanesville, Ohio by Fr. C. P. Montgomery, O.P. (ex-Provincial); sponsors were his uncle, James Smith, and Alice Mort. This church record gives his birthdate as July 27, 1855. His mother died when he was 12; his father twice remarried and Robert Jr. stayed close to his family and siblings in Zanesville.
In 1876 a Zanesville bindery firm "passed under the control of Robert Campbell, a skilled workman" which was where he was working when he married Isabella Ellen ("Nell," "Ella") Emery in Zanesville on October 30, 1879. In the 1883 Zanesville city directory he was listed as: "Campbell Robert P, (The Times Co) rooms 52 Zane House Block," the Times being a local Zanesville newspaper affiliated with the bindery where he was superintendant.
Robert and Ella had four children: Clarence Roy Campbell, called Roy (1886-1969), Robert Pollock Campbell, Jr. (1889-?), Ruth Emery Campbell Fisher (1891-1972), and a child who died before the 1900 census.
Roy was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Then, for Rob's next job, the family moved to Lima, Ohio, where Robert, Jr. and Ruth were born. In Lima they lived on West North Street and Rob worked in the bindery of The Lima Daily Times newspaper (and was there when a huge fire in that section of Lima burnt out the bindery and the Times and other buildings on 6 October 1891). The family left Lima and went on to Muncie, Indiana by 1893.
In Muncie Robert Campbell started his own book bindery business located in Room 15 of the Boyce Block. The building still stands in Muncie today at 216-224 East Main St. He worked with A. E. Boyce, who was a printer, and Campbell did the binding; they had a big business in blank books, ledgers, made-to-order books, stationery, bill-heads, etc. (the City of Muncie was an ongoing customer). The firm offered binding services for the public (e.g. collections of magazines, photography portfolios, etc.) and was the binder for Emerson's City Directory of Muncie in 1895.
Around 1893 or 1894 two-year-old Ruth Campbell had her portrait painted by local Muncie artist J. Ottis Adams, as payment for Ruth's father rebinding some of the artist's books (the story goes that Adams didn't have cash to pay for the job just then). The artist worked mainly from a photograph, since little Ruth was so fidgety.
Around August 1895 Rob Campbell bought a lot and built a house at 417 Reeves Street in the suburb of Riverside west of Muncie, where the family would live for the next several years as the children grew up. Today Reeves Street has been renamed as West University Avenue.
On January 31, 1896 Rob and his wife Ella were received as members into the First Presbyterian Church of Muncie by reaffirmation of faith. Their daughter Ruth was baptized there at the age of four a few months later on April 5.
The Boyce-Campbell Company was incorporated November 1, 1899 for $2,000, "occupying a room on the second floor of a down-town business block containing less than one thousand square feet of floor space. The equipment consisted of an old style brass frame ruling machine, a broken down lever paper cutter and a handful of stock."
"On February 12, 1900, the Hoosier Printing Company was incorporated, its first officers being G. N. Patterson, president; Robert P. Campbell, vice-president; W. H. Besack, secretary; and A. Earl Boyce, treasurer and general manager. This company consolidated the plants of the W. H. Besack Printing Company and the Boyce-Campbell Company. Two ground floor rooms were then taken and the capacity of the business more than doubled. In July of the same year W. H. Besack sold his interest in the company as did Mr. Campbell in May of the following year, to A. Earl Boyce." (Walden's Stationer and Printer, March 11, 1907). (Today this company has persisted and evolved in the digital world to become Boyce Forms/Systems of Daleville, Indiana.)
After selling their share of the business (which family stories say was failing), the Campbell family next moved to Chicago in 1903; Rob had gone ahead and found work there the summer before. They lived in a five-room apartment on Diverse Boulevard facing Orchard Street for about three years. Then in 1906 they bought a home at 1318 Glenlake Avenue in the North Edgewater neighborhood, which is where their daughter Ruth graduated from Lake View High School in June, 1909.
Rob and his wife were members of the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chicago for many years until his death on October 6, 1916, three days after the wedding of his daughter, Ruth, in Washington, D.C. He died suddenly at age 61 in Chicago of an attack of myocarditis; he was taken to the German American Hospital and died 20 minutes later at 10:15 a.m., according to his death certificate. Doctor James H. Bartholomew had been treating him since September 24. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery not far from his home on October 9, 1916.
At the regular annual meeting of the Graville Avenue Presbyterian Church, March 20, 1917, the following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, on the sixth day of October, 1916, our beloved Elder, Robert P. Campbell, departed this life, and:
WHEREAS, he has so faithfully served our church for so many years by his wise counsels, his untiring work and devotion and loyalty to the best interests in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, and:
WHEREAS, by his exemplary christian life and his faithfulness to his Master, he has been a great encouragement and inspiration to the members of our church and congregation, therefore be it:
RESOLVED, that we, the members of the church and congregation, extend to the bereaved family our sincere sympathy, share with them in their great loss and commend them to the love and care of our Heavenly Father in whom the departed had the utmost assurance of immortality.
/signed/
Edward J. Dunham
Robert L[?]. Simpson
Augustus Kelly,
Committee
Ella gave a Memorial Pulpit Bible to the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in honor of her husband after he died.
Son and oldest child of Thomas Campbell and his first wife, Margaret Smith, he was baptized August 5, 1855 at Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Zanesville, Ohio by Fr. C. P. Montgomery, O.P. (ex-Provincial); sponsors were his uncle, James Smith, and Alice Mort. This church record gives his birthdate as July 27, 1855. His mother died when he was 12; his father twice remarried and Robert Jr. stayed close to his family and siblings in Zanesville.
In 1876 a Zanesville bindery firm "passed under the control of Robert Campbell, a skilled workman" which was where he was working when he married Isabella Ellen ("Nell," "Ella") Emery in Zanesville on October 30, 1879. In the 1883 Zanesville city directory he was listed as: "Campbell Robert P, (The Times Co) rooms 52 Zane House Block," the Times being a local Zanesville newspaper affiliated with the bindery where he was superintendant.
Robert and Ella had four children: Clarence Roy Campbell, called Roy (1886-1969), Robert Pollock Campbell, Jr. (1889-?), Ruth Emery Campbell Fisher (1891-1972), and a child who died before the 1900 census.
Roy was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Then, for Rob's next job, the family moved to Lima, Ohio, where Robert, Jr. and Ruth were born. In Lima they lived on West North Street and Rob worked in the bindery of The Lima Daily Times newspaper (and was there when a huge fire in that section of Lima burnt out the bindery and the Times and other buildings on 6 October 1891). The family left Lima and went on to Muncie, Indiana by 1893.
In Muncie Robert Campbell started his own book bindery business located in Room 15 of the Boyce Block. The building still stands in Muncie today at 216-224 East Main St. He worked with A. E. Boyce, who was a printer, and Campbell did the binding; they had a big business in blank books, ledgers, made-to-order books, stationery, bill-heads, etc. (the City of Muncie was an ongoing customer). The firm offered binding services for the public (e.g. collections of magazines, photography portfolios, etc.) and was the binder for Emerson's City Directory of Muncie in 1895.
Around 1893 or 1894 two-year-old Ruth Campbell had her portrait painted by local Muncie artist J. Ottis Adams, as payment for Ruth's father rebinding some of the artist's books (the story goes that Adams didn't have cash to pay for the job just then). The artist worked mainly from a photograph, since little Ruth was so fidgety.
Around August 1895 Rob Campbell bought a lot and built a house at 417 Reeves Street in the suburb of Riverside west of Muncie, where the family would live for the next several years as the children grew up. Today Reeves Street has been renamed as West University Avenue.
On January 31, 1896 Rob and his wife Ella were received as members into the First Presbyterian Church of Muncie by reaffirmation of faith. Their daughter Ruth was baptized there at the age of four a few months later on April 5.
The Boyce-Campbell Company was incorporated November 1, 1899 for $2,000, "occupying a room on the second floor of a down-town business block containing less than one thousand square feet of floor space. The equipment consisted of an old style brass frame ruling machine, a broken down lever paper cutter and a handful of stock."
"On February 12, 1900, the Hoosier Printing Company was incorporated, its first officers being G. N. Patterson, president; Robert P. Campbell, vice-president; W. H. Besack, secretary; and A. Earl Boyce, treasurer and general manager. This company consolidated the plants of the W. H. Besack Printing Company and the Boyce-Campbell Company. Two ground floor rooms were then taken and the capacity of the business more than doubled. In July of the same year W. H. Besack sold his interest in the company as did Mr. Campbell in May of the following year, to A. Earl Boyce." (Walden's Stationer and Printer, March 11, 1907). (Today this company has persisted and evolved in the digital world to become Boyce Forms/Systems of Daleville, Indiana.)
After selling their share of the business (which family stories say was failing), the Campbell family next moved to Chicago in 1903; Rob had gone ahead and found work there the summer before. They lived in a five-room apartment on Diverse Boulevard facing Orchard Street for about three years. Then in 1906 they bought a home at 1318 Glenlake Avenue in the North Edgewater neighborhood, which is where their daughter Ruth graduated from Lake View High School in June, 1909.
Rob and his wife were members of the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chicago for many years until his death on October 6, 1916, three days after the wedding of his daughter, Ruth, in Washington, D.C. He died suddenly at age 61 in Chicago of an attack of myocarditis; he was taken to the German American Hospital and died 20 minutes later at 10:15 a.m., according to his death certificate. Doctor James H. Bartholomew had been treating him since September 24. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery not far from his home on October 9, 1916.
At the regular annual meeting of the Graville Avenue Presbyterian Church, March 20, 1917, the following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, on the sixth day of October, 1916, our beloved Elder, Robert P. Campbell, departed this life, and:
WHEREAS, he has so faithfully served our church for so many years by his wise counsels, his untiring work and devotion and loyalty to the best interests in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, and:
WHEREAS, by his exemplary christian life and his faithfulness to his Master, he has been a great encouragement and inspiration to the members of our church and congregation, therefore be it:
RESOLVED, that we, the members of the church and congregation, extend to the bereaved family our sincere sympathy, share with them in their great loss and commend them to the love and care of our Heavenly Father in whom the departed had the utmost assurance of immortality.
/signed/
Edward J. Dunham
Robert L[?]. Simpson
Augustus Kelly,
Committee
Ella gave a Memorial Pulpit Bible to the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in honor of her husband after he died.
Born and raised in Zanesville, Ohio, he was named after his father's father and was a bookbinder by trade who was known as R.P., Rob, or Robert Campbell.
Son and oldest child of Thomas Campbell and his first wife, Margaret Smith, he was baptized August 5, 1855 at Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Zanesville, Ohio by Fr. C. P. Montgomery, O.P. (ex-Provincial); sponsors were his uncle, James Smith, and Alice Mort. This church record gives his birthdate as July 27, 1855. His mother died when he was 12; his father twice remarried and Robert Jr. stayed close to his family and siblings in Zanesville.
In 1876 a Zanesville bindery firm "passed under the control of Robert Campbell, a skilled workman" which was where he was working when he married Isabella Ellen ("Nell," "Ella") Emery in Zanesville on October 30, 1879. In the 1883 Zanesville city directory he was listed as: "Campbell Robert P, (The Times Co) rooms 52 Zane House Block," the Times being a local Zanesville newspaper affiliated with the bindery where he was superintendant.
Robert and Ella had four children: Clarence Roy Campbell, called Roy (1886-1969), Robert Pollock Campbell, Jr. (1889-?), Ruth Emery Campbell Fisher (1891-1972), and a child who died before the 1900 census.
Roy was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Then, for Rob's next job, the family moved to Lima, Ohio, where Robert, Jr. and Ruth were born. In Lima they lived on West North Street and Rob worked in the bindery of The Lima Daily Times newspaper (and was there when a huge fire in that section of Lima burnt out the bindery and the Times and other buildings on 6 October 1891). The family left Lima and went on to Muncie, Indiana by 1893.
In Muncie Robert Campbell started his own book bindery business located in Room 15 of the Boyce Block. The building still stands in Muncie today at 216-224 East Main St. He worked with A. E. Boyce, who was a printer, and Campbell did the binding; they had a big business in blank books, ledgers, made-to-order books, stationery, bill-heads, etc. (the City of Muncie was an ongoing customer). The firm offered binding services for the public (e.g. collections of magazines, photography portfolios, etc.) and was the binder for Emerson's City Directory of Muncie in 1895.
Around 1893 or 1894 two-year-old Ruth Campbell had her portrait painted by local Muncie artist J. Ottis Adams, as payment for Ruth's father rebinding some of the artist's books (the story goes that Adams didn't have cash to pay for the job just then). The artist worked mainly from a photograph, since little Ruth was so fidgety.
Around August 1895 Rob Campbell bought a lot and built a house at 417 Reeves Street in the suburb of Riverside west of Muncie, where the family would live for the next several years as the children grew up. Today Reeves Street has been renamed as West University Avenue.
On January 31, 1896 Rob and his wife Ella were received as members into the First Presbyterian Church of Muncie by reaffirmation of faith. Their daughter Ruth was baptized there at the age of four a few months later on April 5.
The Boyce-Campbell Company was incorporated November 1, 1899 for $2,000, "occupying a room on the second floor of a down-town business block containing less than one thousand square feet of floor space. The equipment consisted of an old style brass frame ruling machine, a broken down lever paper cutter and a handful of stock."
"On February 12, 1900, the Hoosier Printing Company was incorporated, its first officers being G. N. Patterson, president; Robert P. Campbell, vice-president; W. H. Besack, secretary; and A. Earl Boyce, treasurer and general manager. This company consolidated the plants of the W. H. Besack Printing Company and the Boyce-Campbell Company. Two ground floor rooms were then taken and the capacity of the business more than doubled. In July of the same year W. H. Besack sold his interest in the company as did Mr. Campbell in May of the following year, to A. Earl Boyce." (Walden's Stationer and Printer, March 11, 1907). (Today this company has persisted and evolved in the digital world to become Boyce Forms/Systems of Daleville, Indiana.)
After selling their share of the business (which family stories say was failing), the Campbell family next moved to Chicago in 1903; Rob had gone ahead and found work there the summer before. They lived in a five-room apartment on Diverse Boulevard facing Orchard Street for about three years. Then in 1906 they bought a home at 1318 Glenlake Avenue in the North Edgewater neighborhood, which is where their daughter Ruth graduated from Lake View High School in June, 1909.
Rob and his wife were members of the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chicago for many years until his death on October 6, 1916, three days after the wedding of his daughter, Ruth, in Washington, D.C. He died suddenly at age 61 in Chicago of an attack of myocarditis; he was taken to the German American Hospital and died 20 minutes later at 10:15 a.m., according to his death certificate. Doctor James H. Bartholomew had been treating him since September 24. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery not far from his home on October 9, 1916.
At the regular annual meeting of the Graville Avenue Presbyterian Church, March 20, 1917, the following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, on the sixth day of October, 1916, our beloved Elder, Robert P. Campbell, departed this life, and:
WHEREAS, he has so faithfully served our church for so many years by his wise counsels, his untiring work and devotion and loyalty to the best interests in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, and:
WHEREAS, by his exemplary christian life and his faithfulness to his Master, he has been a great encouragement and inspiration to the members of our church and congregation, therefore be it:
RESOLVED, that we, the members of the church and congregation, extend to the bereaved family our sincere sympathy, share with them in their great loss and commend them to the love and care of our Heavenly Father in whom the departed had the utmost assurance of immortality.
/signed/
Edward J. Dunham
Robert L[?]. Simpson
Augustus Kelly,
Committee
Ella gave a Memorial Pulpit Bible to the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in honor of her husband after he died.
Son and oldest child of Thomas Campbell and his first wife, Margaret Smith, he was baptized August 5, 1855 at Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Zanesville, Ohio by Fr. C. P. Montgomery, O.P. (ex-Provincial); sponsors were his uncle, James Smith, and Alice Mort. This church record gives his birthdate as July 27, 1855. His mother died when he was 12; his father twice remarried and Robert Jr. stayed close to his family and siblings in Zanesville.
In 1876 a Zanesville bindery firm "passed under the control of Robert Campbell, a skilled workman" which was where he was working when he married Isabella Ellen ("Nell," "Ella") Emery in Zanesville on October 30, 1879. In the 1883 Zanesville city directory he was listed as: "Campbell Robert P, (The Times Co) rooms 52 Zane House Block," the Times being a local Zanesville newspaper affiliated with the bindery where he was superintendant.
Robert and Ella had four children: Clarence Roy Campbell, called Roy (1886-1969), Robert Pollock Campbell, Jr. (1889-?), Ruth Emery Campbell Fisher (1891-1972), and a child who died before the 1900 census.
Roy was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Then, for Rob's next job, the family moved to Lima, Ohio, where Robert, Jr. and Ruth were born. In Lima they lived on West North Street and Rob worked in the bindery of The Lima Daily Times newspaper (and was there when a huge fire in that section of Lima burnt out the bindery and the Times and other buildings on 6 October 1891). The family left Lima and went on to Muncie, Indiana by 1893.
In Muncie Robert Campbell started his own book bindery business located in Room 15 of the Boyce Block. The building still stands in Muncie today at 216-224 East Main St. He worked with A. E. Boyce, who was a printer, and Campbell did the binding; they had a big business in blank books, ledgers, made-to-order books, stationery, bill-heads, etc. (the City of Muncie was an ongoing customer). The firm offered binding services for the public (e.g. collections of magazines, photography portfolios, etc.) and was the binder for Emerson's City Directory of Muncie in 1895.
Around 1893 or 1894 two-year-old Ruth Campbell had her portrait painted by local Muncie artist J. Ottis Adams, as payment for Ruth's father rebinding some of the artist's books (the story goes that Adams didn't have cash to pay for the job just then). The artist worked mainly from a photograph, since little Ruth was so fidgety.
Around August 1895 Rob Campbell bought a lot and built a house at 417 Reeves Street in the suburb of Riverside west of Muncie, where the family would live for the next several years as the children grew up. Today Reeves Street has been renamed as West University Avenue.
On January 31, 1896 Rob and his wife Ella were received as members into the First Presbyterian Church of Muncie by reaffirmation of faith. Their daughter Ruth was baptized there at the age of four a few months later on April 5.
The Boyce-Campbell Company was incorporated November 1, 1899 for $2,000, "occupying a room on the second floor of a down-town business block containing less than one thousand square feet of floor space. The equipment consisted of an old style brass frame ruling machine, a broken down lever paper cutter and a handful of stock."
"On February 12, 1900, the Hoosier Printing Company was incorporated, its first officers being G. N. Patterson, president; Robert P. Campbell, vice-president; W. H. Besack, secretary; and A. Earl Boyce, treasurer and general manager. This company consolidated the plants of the W. H. Besack Printing Company and the Boyce-Campbell Company. Two ground floor rooms were then taken and the capacity of the business more than doubled. In July of the same year W. H. Besack sold his interest in the company as did Mr. Campbell in May of the following year, to A. Earl Boyce." (Walden's Stationer and Printer, March 11, 1907). (Today this company has persisted and evolved in the digital world to become Boyce Forms/Systems of Daleville, Indiana.)
After selling their share of the business (which family stories say was failing), the Campbell family next moved to Chicago in 1903; Rob had gone ahead and found work there the summer before. They lived in a five-room apartment on Diverse Boulevard facing Orchard Street for about three years. Then in 1906 they bought a home at 1318 Glenlake Avenue in the North Edgewater neighborhood, which is where their daughter Ruth graduated from Lake View High School in June, 1909.
Rob and his wife were members of the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in Chicago for many years until his death on October 6, 1916, three days after the wedding of his daughter, Ruth, in Washington, D.C. He died suddenly at age 61 in Chicago of an attack of myocarditis; he was taken to the German American Hospital and died 20 minutes later at 10:15 a.m., according to his death certificate. Doctor James H. Bartholomew had been treating him since September 24. He was buried in Rosehill Cemetery not far from his home on October 9, 1916.
At the regular annual meeting of the Graville Avenue Presbyterian Church, March 20, 1917, the following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, on the sixth day of October, 1916, our beloved Elder, Robert P. Campbell, departed this life, and:
WHEREAS, he has so faithfully served our church for so many years by his wise counsels, his untiring work and devotion and loyalty to the best interests in the advancement of the Kingdom of God, and:
WHEREAS, by his exemplary christian life and his faithfulness to his Master, he has been a great encouragement and inspiration to the members of our church and congregation, therefore be it:
RESOLVED, that we, the members of the church and congregation, extend to the bereaved family our sincere sympathy, share with them in their great loss and commend them to the love and care of our Heavenly Father in whom the departed had the utmost assurance of immortality.
/signed/
Edward J. Dunham
Robert L[?]. Simpson
Augustus Kelly,
Committee
Ella gave a Memorial Pulpit Bible to the Granville Avenue Presbyterian Church in honor of her husband after he died.
Inscription
Robert P. Campbell
Born Zanesville Ohio
July 27, 1855
Died Chicago Ill.
Oct. 6, 1916
