Campbell Edmunston Purviance and Catharine Bredin

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Husband Campbell Edmunston Purviance ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Campbell P. Purviance 1
           Born: 6 May 1806 or 1807 - Butler, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Col. John N. Purviance, Esq. (1781-1820) 2 3 4 5
         Mother: Annalana Anderson (1780-1858) 6 7

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       Marriage: 1 Jan 1835 1

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Wife Catharine Bredin ¹

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1 F Ada Purviance ⁸

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2 M John Purviance ⁸

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3 M Samuel A. Purviance ⁸

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4 F Laura Purviance ⁸

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5 F Annalanah Purviance ⁸

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6 M Louis Purviance ⁸

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7 M Edward Purviance ⁸

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General Notes: Husband - Campbell Edmunston Purviance

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At an early age, he learned the printing business in the office of Maurice and John Bredin. After working some years at his trade, he commenced the mercantile business, and continued in that business until he began the manufacture of gunpowder, in which he was engaged about fourteen years, and up to the time he was elected Prothonotary of the county, in 1848.
About the time of the gold excitement in California, he, with a number of others, went there, but the enterprise did not prove successful. When the Civil War commenced, he volunteered, and was appointed and commissioned Commissary of Subsistence of volunteers, with the rank of Captain, on the 7th day of July, 1864, and was honorably discharged on the 10th of August, 1865, and for faithful service was brevetted Major.

He and his wife had ten children, seven were still living in 1883.

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Bredin

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She was the daughter of Hon. John Bredin. [HBC 1883, 174] Given the dates, this seems unlikely. Could she have been his sister?

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married by the Rev. B. B. Killikelly, of the Episcopal Church.

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 174.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 488.

3 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 151, 738.

5 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 243.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 50, 57.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1458.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 489.