William Hayden Campbell was born on 29 June 1848 in Cold Springs, Hamilton Township, Northumberland County, Ontario. William was born just three years after the marriage of his father, William Campbell, to Sarah Ann Havens in Norfolk County, Ontario. William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens had left Norfolk County almost immediately following their marriage in order to relocate closer to the main body of the Campbells and Isaacs who had already moved to establish farms in Northumberland County, Ontario. William Campbell worked a farm located in Cold Springs for David Sidey who owned several parcels of land in Northumberland County, purchased as a result of selling his lucrative tavern on Rice Lake. William Campbell and Sarah Ann Havens joined the Congregational Church, newly established at Cold Springs by the Reverend William Hayden. The close personal relationship between the family of William Campbell and Reverend William Hayden undoubtedly resulted in the choice of middle names, namely Hayden, for William and Sarah Ann’s first child. This was not the first time that the greater Campbell family had incorporated the name of a popular clergyman into a family name. Adam Corbet Campbell, one of William’s younger brothers, acquired the middle name “Corbet” due to his parent’s relationship with a clergyman of the same name back in Aberdeenshire. William Hayden Campbell first appears in the written record in the 1851 Census of Canada West. This document notes the following ages for the family, as of their next birthday: William (33), Sarah (27), William Hayden (4) and Sylvester (3). In January 1853 a third child is born, John Campbell, a brother to William and Sylvester. Tragically, only three months later, John Campbell dies on 17 March 1853 with the family still resident at Cold Springs. Devastating misfortune strikes the young family the following year when Sarah Ann Havens dies on 3 May 1854 leaving William Campbell with two small sons under the age of six. It is clear that William Campbell would have required assistance in providing for his two young sons following the loss of his wife, given that he still had to perform the rather arduous labours of a farmer on the Sidey farm. Although it is complete supposition on the part of this researcher that one of David’s Sidey’s daughters, Isabella Jane Sidey, might have helped provide the care needed for those two young boys. In fact, David Sidey and his wife Ann Suter lived quite close, just down the road from the farm managed by William Campbell. Whatever the circumstances, William Campbell married Isabella Jane Sidey sometime in the next couple of years, undoubtedly at the Congregational Church across the road. Unfortunately, the Congregational Church and the accompanying manse burned twice in the latter half of the 1800s destroying all known church records, including those of the marriage of William Campbell and Isabella Jane Sidey. By 1857 William Campbell and his second wife, Isabella Jane Sidey, have produced their first child, Sarah Ann Campbell, born on 12 January 1857. William Hayden and Sylvester were now part of a complete family that would expand in the upcoming years. William Hayden Campbell shows up in the public record next in the 1861 Census of Canada West as a “labourer” aged 13. This census record is somewhat problematic in that the family name is misspelled as “Camell” and the household members are split across two different census sheets with siblings Sylvester (11) , Sarah (4) and David (2) appearing on a separate page. On 23 December 1869 William Hayden Campbell marries Catherine Jane Beggs in Port Hope, Northumberland County, Ontario. William Hayden Campbell is noted as a bachelor and farmer age 21. Catherine Jane Beggs is described as 24 and a spinster. The parents of both bride and groom are named on the marriage registration as William and Isabella for the groom and John and Mary Ann for the bride. As of the 1871 Census of Canada, William Campbell and Isabella Jane Sidey are residing on a farm in Percy Township, Northumberland County, Ontario with their children, including Sylvester (21), Sarah (14), David (12), George (9), Mary (6), Alexander (3) and Isabella (10 months). William Hayden Campbell has started his own family and no longer resides with William Campbell and Isabella Jane Sidey. At this time William Campbell’s younger brother, George Campbell and his wife, Sarah Grubb, are farming literally directly across the road from William Campbell. Only one farm away is found the home of Richard and Mary Sykes and their children, including their daughter Abigail. The proximity of the farming operations for William and his brother George are noted by the author Allan N. Birney in his book “Oak Heights Neighbours“. Shortly after 1871, land records show that William Campbell sold his farm in Percy Township to his oldest sons William Hayden Campbell and Sylvester Campbell and moved his family north to Chandos Township, Peterborough County, Ontario where he would live out the remainder of his life. Although William Hayden Campbell became a landowner shortly after 1871 through the purchase of his father’s farm in Percy Township, Northumberland County, a birth registration for his first child, Frederick Havens Campbell (16 March 1874), identifies his residency in Smith’s Falls, Lanark County, Ontario in 1874. In 1878 a second son is born to William Hayden Campbell in the person of Bertram Lorne Campbell (5 October 1878). The 1881 Census of Canada shows William Hayden Campbell and his family residing in Wellington Ward, Ottawa, Ontario. Something fundamental appears to have happened to the family of William Hayden Campbell and Catherine Jane Beggs in the year following this census. By 1882 William Hayden Campbell has left his family and moved to Livingston, Park County, Montana in the United States. This fact is reported by William Hayden Campbell himself when he writes his autobiography for the 1913 publication “Who’s Who on the Pacific Coast“. William Hayden Campbell has indeed started a new life independent of his original family. On 11 January 1885 William Hayden Campbell marries Rose Harriet Ferte in Livingston, Park County, Montana, USA. In 1897 William Hayden Campbell is elected as a Democratic State Senator representing Park County, Montana in the fifth Legislative Assembly. The 1900 Census of the United States shows William Hayden Campbell and Rose Harriet Ferte still resident in Livingston, Park County, Montana. However, later in that year William Hayden Campbell moves his family to Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana. The 1910 Census of the United States finds William Hayden Campbell and Rose Harriet Ferte still residing in Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana. On 14 June 1915 William Hayden Campbell moved his medical practice to Los Angeles, California. A final move on 11 September 1916 saw William Hayden Campbell moving his medical practice again, this time to Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California. During the years that William Hayden Campbell lived in the United States he was a naturopathic doctor by profession who held numerous positions on medical certification boards and was fully recognized by the American Medical Association. During a serious illness the American Medical Association actually reported the death of William Hayden Campbell in their official journal, only to have him recover – a circumstance which required an actual printed retraction to correct the initial error. On 4 January 1919 William Hayden Campbell did die in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, although this date is still somewhat disputed. William Hayden Campbell is buried in the Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California together with his second wife, Rose Harriet Ferte, who passed away on 31 January 1922. [William Hayden Campbell: supplementary]
William Hayden Campbell’s first wife, Catherine Jane Beggs, and their two sons, Frederick and Bertram, made their way to the Niagara Falls area where they resided for some time in Stanford Village, later incorporated into the city of Niagara Falls. Catherine Jane Beggs died on 18 December 1902 and is buried in the Fairview Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Welland County, Ontario, Canada. Other family members are memorialized on the other faces of the tombstone. Catherine’s son, Frederick Havens Campbell, lived his adult life in the general Niagara Falls area travelling back and forth between Canada and the city of Niagara Falls in the United States. Bertram Lorne Campbell ultimately travelled to California in the United States where, following military service, he was a manager in a shredded wheat factory, living not that far from his father’s final residence in California. Bertram Lorne Campbell was married at least once, and probably twice. Bertram is interred in the “Main Mausoleum” at the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA in Section 7 – Crypt 679 – Tier 4, next to Veronica’s parents. Bertram Lorne Campbell is buried here with Veronica L. Schultz, daughter of Edward and Cecilia Shultz, whom this researcher considers to be his second wife. Information provided by Anthony, an employee of the Mountain View Cemetery, concerning Bertram’s name, date of birth and date of death provide powerful evidence when combined with other documentation that this individual is the second son of William Hayden Campbell and Catharine Jane Beggs. [full credit for photography resides with David Johnson]
To the best of my knowledge, Frederick Havens Campbell (1874-1949) was the only child of William Hayden Campbell who produced children. Frederick Havens Campbell married Katherine Matilda Kostuk (1882-1965) sometime prior to the birth of their first son, Frederick Ross Campbell (1902-1903) on 28 March 1902 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Tragically, Frederick Ross Campbell died on 13 May 1903 and is buried in the family plot in the Fairview Cemetery in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Frederick and Katherine next had a daughter, Catherine Ruth Campbell (1904-1989), on 9 March 1904. Catherine Ruth Campbell married Michael Baker and they lived out their lives maintaining a residence and business in Niagara Falls, New York. Catherine and Michael are both buried in the family plot in the Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Ontario. Frederick Havens Campbell and Katherine Matilda Kostuk had a third child, a son named Harry Lorne Campbell (1909-1933), born on 17 July 1909. Harry Lorne Campbell briefly married Josie May McIntosh (1910-1995) on 28 September 1928 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Harry Lorne Campbell died under mysterious circumstances on or about 30 April 1933 in a “boating accident” on either Lake Erie or the Niagara River. His body was never recovered. Josie May McIntosh married Howard Charles Greenwald (1914-1981) on 26 July 1936 in Erie, Pennsylvania and married again in 1946 to John Lee McCaw (1902-1971). Josie May McIntosh and John Lee McCaw are both buried in the Niagara Falls Memorial Park Cemetery in Lewiston, New York, USA.
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