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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Charles Campbell
Mr. Charles Campbell , sometime of “Glenrose,” Hampden, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1812. At the age of nine years Mr. Campbell left for the Highlands of Scotland to live with a childless uncle, by whom he was brought up, and with whom he remained till his uncle's death. Mr. Campbell arrived in Port Chalmers in 1859, by the ship “Alpine.” After two years and a half in the Taieri district, he settled at Hampden and purchased 300 acres of land. In the early days he acted as a member of the local school committee and road board, and was a warden of the hundreds before the establishment of local governing bodies. He also took an interest in church work as a member of the Hampden Presbyterian Church, of which he was a manager. Mr. Campbell was married, in 1841, to a daughter of the late Mr. McKinnon, of Argyleshire. Scotland. Mrs. Campbell died in 1896, leaving two sons and two daughters. Mr. Campbell, who had thirty-eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, died about two years ago (1904).
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The late Mr. C. Campbell.