Dictionary of Glengarry Biography

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====== Campbell, Peter E. ====== 
 (23 June 1857-16 Sept. 1939), merchant. (P. E. Campbell) Born Dominionville, GC. Parents: Peter Campbell and his wife Flora McLean. He began working in a dry goods store in Cornwall at the age of 16. With John McIntyre, he formed the partnership McIntyre and Campbell in 1879. Campbell became owner of this extensive Cornwall dry goods firm when McIntyre died in 1909, and continued to direct the firm up to his last illness. Active in Cornwall municipal politics, Campbell served as mayor of Cornwall in 1900 and 1901. Also, he was president of the Cornwall Board of Trade, member of Collegiate Institute Board for 30 years, member of the Board of Governors of Cornwall General Hospital, member of the Library Board, president of the Montreal and Cornwall Navigation Co., and president of the McGill Chair Co. He was a presbyterian elder. He died at his home in Cornwall. He was married in 1884 to Rebecca Gillespie of Cornwall. (two children) He was a brother of the Rev. J. L. Campbell and a cousin of Prof. P.S. Campbell. Pallbearers at his funeral included J.G. Harkness and F.D. McLennan.


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<fs small>//Standard Freeholder// 18 & 20 Sept. 1939, //Glengarry News// 22 Sept. 1939 * //Old Boys 1906// [82, portrait], //Old Boys 1926// 11 DTL on Campbell //SFH// 4 March 1933, with comment //SFH// 15 March 1933 by Dr Fred J. McEwan, of Wichita, Kansas, his nephew * //Campbell (1983)//, 281 * Harkness 297: group portrait of Glengarrians in Cornwall, 1896
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