Manufacturer Notes: Terrence Campbell CompanyPittsburgh DirectoriesMaps Blair Station was located between the West Elizabeth and Clarion, Pennsylvania on the west bank of the Monongahela River. Rand McNally Map of Allegheny County Pennsylvania 1911 _______________________________________________________________________________________ The reported removal of the old established window glass plants of T. Campbell & Co. and O'Leary Bros. & Co. to Blair station, on the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, is confirmed by Mr. J, C, Blair and others citizens of Elizabeth. The negotiations were conducted by Mr. J. F. Blair and Messrs. J. B. Larkin & Co. ... in reply to an inquiry said: "Yes, the parties named have signed the necessary papers and are under contract to begin building during the present year and to be ready and in full operations for the season of 1892. Each of the concerns has five acres of land, with rail and river frontage, and within easy reach of Peters Creek coal field." ... Mr. Patterson, County Gas Inspector, and former Secretary of the T. Campbell Company, said he understood the agreement had been made, as Mr. Campbell had instructed him to make a survey of the ground and locate two iron buildings, with capacity of three ten-pot furnaces. Mr. Patterson added thathe had inferred from his talk with Mr. Campbell that the company desired to increase its output and must make more room. "Besides," said he, "my experience leads me to believe that Blair station is the center of the Elizabeth gas field, and the natural location for a large supply of either gas or coal. ......he had inferred from his talk with Mr. Campbell that the company desired to increase its output and must make more room. "Besides," said he, "my experience leads me to believe that Blair station is the center of the Elizabeth gas field, and the natural location for a large supply of either gas or coal. ...... Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) September 12, 1891 _______________________________________________________________________________________ J. B. Larkin & Co., 152 Fifth avenue, sold to the Blair Land Company for William Guckert, 53 acres of land fronting on the Pittsburgh, Virginia & Charleston railroad and Monongahela river for $50,000. The land is at Blair station and adjoining the window glass plants of T. Campbell & Co. and O'Leary Bros. & Co. Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) October 6, 1891 _______________________________________________________________________________________ AMONG THE GLASS HOUSES. Last Window Glass House Started Up and All Are Now Busy. T. Campbell & Co., window glass manufacturers of Blair station, started up their ???ot glass house yesterday. This is the last house in the vicinity to begin operations this fall. The window glass workers on the Southside are all busy. The manufacturers report trade good, and say the prospect for a good winter's work is excellent. Many have enough orders booked to keep them busy for months. Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) October 19, 1892 _______________________________________________________________________________________ T. CAMPBELL CO. . . Factory, Blair Station, Pa.: Office, Pittsburgh, Pa. John Good, President. J. O. C. Campbell, General Manager. Organized 1865. 2 Furnaces. 16 Pots. Johnston, J. R.: Tables of Superficial Measurement (Marion, E. L. Goldthwait & Co., 1898) _______________________________________________________________________________________ TO BUILD GREAT ADDITION. ____ Clairton Steel Company Reported to Have Purchased More Land for This Purpose. The T. Campbell Company, glass manufacturers, is reported to have sold its property at Blair Station, just adjoining Clairton, to the Clairton Steel Company for $15,000 an acre, a total of $75,000. The glass company reserves the right to remove the works. The steel company, it is understood, will build additional finishing mills on the property acquired, together with what it has not already occupied. This is carrying out the plan of concentrating the Crucible Steel Company's various iron crucible works. Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) January 11, 1903 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Bought Land for Glass Plant. The T. Campbell Glass Company of Pittsburgh, whose plant is at Blair station, it is reported has purchased six acres of land fronting on the Monongahela river near Shire Oaks for $39,000 or $6,500 an acre. The plant at Blair station has been sold to the Clairton Steel Company. The land purchased near Shire Oaks is a part of the Coxeefarm.farm. Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) January 13, 1903 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Not Sold. Pittsburg and other papers this week have given wide circulation to a story that the property of the T. Campbell Glass Co. at Blair has been bought by the Clairton Steel Co. says the Crucible. The alleged purchase was set forth with great particularity. First it was said $15,000 an acre had been paid for five acres of riverfront land owned and occupied by that concern, the glass company reserved the right to remove its works, the ground only bought by the the steel company. The property has not been sold to the steel company, nor to any other people and there has been no negotiations looking for such a transfer. The Daily Republican (Monongahela, Pennsylvania) January 21, 1903 _______________________________________________________________________________________ LEGAL NOTICES. NOTICE is hereby given that an application will be made to the governor of Pennsylvania on the 7th day of July, 1903, by the T. Campbell Company under the provisions of the act of assembly approved June 13, 1883, providing for the improvement, amendment and alteration of charters of corporations of second class, fro the amendment of the charter of the T. Campbell Company, the character and form of such amendment and alteration being as follows: Said corporation is formed for the purpose of engaging in the manufacturing and sale of window glass, glass bottles, vials and products of glass, and for these purposes to have, pocessnd enjoy all the rights, benefitsand enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges of the said act of assembly, and the act of assembly entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations," approved April 29, 1874, and the supplements thereto. W. J. BRENNEN, Solicitor Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) June 15, 1903 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Edward P. Campbell. Edward Plunkett Campbell died yesterday at his home, No. 245 South St. Clair street, East End, of tuberculosis. Mr. Campbell was 36 years old, and son of the late James Campbell, a well known glass manufacturer of Pittsburg. Never robust in health, he toured Europe in 1899, hoping that that the change in life and scenery would bring him that which he desired most of all, his health. For may years he had taken an active part in the political affairs of the city, and was an active Citizens party worker in the Twentieth ward, East End, where he resided. In 1903 he was elected ward assessor, and in November of the same year received appointment as clerk in the office of the city treasurer, which position he held until February of the present year, when he was compelled to abandon his desk on account of a severe attach of pneumonia. He never returned to his work, as the Tuberculosis had developed. He was a member of the firm of T. Campbell & Co., glass manufacturers, of the South Side and Blairsville, Pa. Mr. Campbell was a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church and is survived by his mother, three sisters and one brother. The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) August 6, 1904 _______________________________________________________________________________________ W. J. BRENNAN, Attorney at Law. Pittsburg, Pa. In re sale of the real estate of T. Campbell Company. TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE T. CAMPBELL COMPANY: Take notice, that there will be a meeting of the stockholders of the T. Campbell Company at its offices, No. 23 Carson street, Pittsburg, Southside, on to-wit, the 11th day of May, A. D. 1905, at 10:30 o'clock a. m., to consider and act upon the matter of the sale of the real estate and property of the T. Campbell Company and transact such other business as may be property bought before the said stock-hilders (sic) meeting. JOHN GOOD, President T. Campbell Company W. L. ROBINSON, Secretary T. Campbell Company Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) April 22, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ STEEL COMBINE WANTED LAND BOUGHT BY WABASH. ..... The property belonged to the T. Campbell Glass Co. It is five acres in extent and lies between the possessions of the United States Steel Corporation and those of H. C. Frick, a powerful member of the executive board. The property was purchased by the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Co. for $67,500. In order to extend plants of the Clarion Steel Co. through the Campbell property into lands owned by Mr. Frick, Chairman E. H. Gray, of the steel company, opened negotiations with the Wabash for the exchange of the property for one equally suitable for the Gould needs, yet not interfering with steel plant extension plans. Since the acquisition of the Campbell property by Wabash the engineers of the steel corporation have been eager to build the connections with the West Side Belt line. Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) May 20, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ A Balance for Distribution. The first and partial account of the receivers of the T. Campbell Company has been filed. It shows receipts $100,974.04, disbursements of $82,753.43, and a net balance of $9,075.41 for distribution, after deducting $9,145.20 outstanding claims. Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) July 30, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ W. J. BRENNEN. Attorney at law, corner Fifth and Wylie avenues. IN re receivership of the T. Campbell Company, No. 59, April term, 1904. In the court of common pleas No. 2 of Allegheny county. NOTICE is hereby given that the first and partial account of William L. Robinson and J. O'S. Campbell, receivers of the T. Campbell Company, was filed in the prothonotary's office on to wit: July 29, 1905, and that the same will be allowed by the court on Saturday, August 19, 1905, at 9:30 o'clock a. m. unless cause be shown to the contrary. W. J. BRENNEN, Attorney for receivers of T. Campbell Company Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) August 10, 1905 _______________________________________________________________________________________ 20. CAPITAL STOCK ...... T. Campbell Co. 1903 ................ 10 00 T. Campbell Co. 1904 ................. 5 00 T. Campbell Co. 1905 ................. 1 47 ...... TAX ON LOANS ...... T. Campbell Co. 1903 ............... 165 98 T. Campbell Co. 1904 ................ 38 00 T. Campbell Co. 1905 ................ 38 00 ...... 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