DANIEL McKENZIE CAMPBELL,
son of Colin and Elizabeth (Lang) Campbell, is associated with some of the
leading industrial and financial interests of Leechburg, where he occupies a
position of high influence. He
was born April 2, 1861, in Glasgow, Scotland, where he was educated,
undergoing the rigorous mental discipline characteristic of Scottish
educational institutions. He took
a thorough course in analytical chemistry at Anderson�s College, Glasgow,
and remained in his native city until the following year.
In 1883, he came to Pittsburgh, PA, where he took a position as
assistant chemist with the Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company, which he held for
one year. He then became chief
chemist for Kirkpatrick & Co., Limited, at Leechburg, PA, in which concern
his father held a large interest and was then acting as chief superintendent. After a year here, Mr. Campbell became chief chemist for the
nail works and blast furnace of E. & G. Brooke Iron Company at Birdsboro,
Berks Co., PA, where he remained four years.
Returning to Leechburg, he assumed the duties of superintendent in the
Russia sheet iron department of the plant of Kirkpatrick & co., Limited,
and remained with that concern until it disposed of its plant, real estate and
good will to the American Sheet Steel Company.
Prior to this time, he, with several others connected with the
Kirkpatrick & Co., Limited, organized the West Leechburg Steel & Tim
Plate Company, to manufacture strips and bands. Lately, the firm name has been changed to the West Leechburg
Steel Company, consisting of J. W. and J. L. Kirkpatrick, James Lippincott,
and D. N. Campbell, all old Kirkpatrick & Co., Limited, employees.
These men are continuing the reputation their fathers established for
high business qualities and capacity in the management of large interests.
As treasurer and a heavy stockholder in the West Leechburg Steel
Company, Mr. Campbell takes just pride in the modernly equipped establishment
which has done much more for Leechburg than affording employment to many of
its citizens, for it is one of the substantial concerns whose location here
has attracted considerable other capital.
Further, he has given direct proof of his faith in the town by
investing heavily in other local institutions, and promoting them whenever his
influence is necessary. He is
president of the Farmers� National Bank of Leechburg, and among his outside
interests may be mentioned the National Fireproofing Company of Pittsburgh, of
which he is a director; he is also a member of the Pittsburgh Stock Exchange. He is well fitted for responsibilities of an industrial and
financial nature, and his practical scientific experience during the earlier
years of his business career has proved of inestimable value where judgment
must be based on expert knowledge. His
many strong qualities and characteristic strictness in attending to all
obligations have made him a trusted leader in all circles into which his
activities have drawn him.
As a Mason, Mr. Campbell
belongs to the Blue Lodge at Leechburg, chapter at Kittanning and Tancred
Commandery, No. 48, K. T., of Pittsburgh.
On Sept. 4, 1895, Mr. Campbell
married Margaretta C. Parr, daughter of Col. John G. Parr, a distinguished
officer of the Civil War. Mr. And
Mrs. Campbell are members of the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church of Leechburg,
of which he is a vestryman and lay reader.
They have four children: Elizabeth
Lang, Donald McKenzie, Alexander McKenzie and Douglas McKenzie.
Source: Page 489-496, Armstrong County, Pa., Her
People, Past and Present, J. H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 2001 by Donna Rae Smith for the Armstrong County Beers
Project
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