Carlyle and Marion's Children

Carlyle and Marion Campbell had three children. Two are still living at this writing and one is deceased.  Their oldest child is Frederick David Campbell who is the one of the authors of this attempt at gathering knowledge about the Campbell family.

 Frederick David (David) was born in September 17th of 1932. He spent his early years in the south side of Syracuse, then in Warners where he went through the eighth grade and back to Syracuse in 1946, attending Lincoln Junior High in ninth grade and then Nottingham High School. He had a very normal life.  He was the second oldest of David Campbell's grandchildren. He was, often, a visitor to his great aunt Lena who was a companion to Miss Crouse, a maiden member of the Crouse Family of Syracus who was industrialist and benefactors of the city in the late eighteen and early nineteen centuries. He met Mrs. Baum who was the mother of L. Fran Baum who wrote, among others, "The Wizard of Oz". His Aunt Lena also made him an early Yankee fan when she visited New York City with Miss Crouse and brought him a baseball game ticket.

He was sent to summer camp for several summers. He was a Boy Scout, went on a canoe trip through the Adirondack Mountains and went to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. He loved to read, a result of his English-teacher mother.  He played the piano and the trumpet. He was in the high school band and the high school A Cappella choir.

He spent a year at Syracuse University but ultimately graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1957. An eight month period of factory work in 1953 sent him back to complete his college degree. At St. Lawrence, he joined Sigma Pi fraternity, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English 1n 1957. That same year he married Jan Lynn Beamer, a Fine Arts major at Syracuse University. Passing up law school for monetary reasons, he took a position with General Motors Acceptance Corporation which was the beginning of a forty year involvement in the credit field. Eight years at GMAC, followed by three years at Marine Midland Bank, led to a position with what is known today as Key Corp. He was, first, a commercial lending analyst and then a lender, over time he ascended the officer ranks, ending twenty seven years as a Senior Vice President

Frederick (David to most) and Jan Lynn had three children, Stephen Scott, born in 1958, Susan Anne born in 1960 and Bennet Douglas born in 1968. He has enjoyed the outdoors for most of his life. He has skied since he got skis for Christmas when he was nine. He has golfed since high-school when a friend got him interested in the game.  He has sailed and has owned five boats over the years.

Frederick and Jan Lyn were divorced in 1977. There followed a long time relationship with a divorcee and her children.  But while skiing in Aspen, Colorado in 1987, he meant a lady attorney from New York City. Just over one year later, Frederick married Bridget Elizabeth Farrell, a younger of-Irish extraction lady.  They have one son, Seamus O'Farrell Campbell born on May 25, 1989. Bridget is a graduate of St. Joseph's College and Fordham Law School.  Specializing in malpractice defense, she is currently an Assistant Attorney General for New York State. They live in Brooklyn, N.Y. except for the summer months which are spent in their summer home at Point Lookout on Long Island.

Douglas Carlyle Campbell (Doug) was born on August 23th, 1938 while his parents still lived in Syracuse. Two years later the family moved to Warners.  Doug began school at Warners High School in 1944. He had an inquisitive mind almost from the day that he started speaking. He did well in school, transferring to Salem Hyde Grammar School when the family returned to Syracuse. This was followed by two years at Lincoln Junior High, one year at Central High and three years at Nottingham High School where he was on the high school football team. He was very athletic all of his life.

He graduated from high school in 1958 and entered as a freshman at St. Lawrence University that same year. Half way through college, he was drafted into the army. After basic, he spent the balance of his two year stint on an assignment that kept him at Fort Dix in New Jersey. He drove home on most weekends. And he had a reason. Being athletic, one sport in which he excelled was swimming. He became a lifeguard, spending his summers working at the public swimming pools in Syracuse. It was here that he met a fellow lifeguard named Ellen Flynn. They became an "item" And they continued to date during his service time.

Released from the army, he was back at St. Lawrence, graduating in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.  After graduation, he returned to Syracuse and began work as a trainee at Merchants Bank and Trust Company. One of Doug's best abilities was his way with people. He had an agile mind and a very positive approach with people. This served him in good stead as he moved from the training program into dealing with bank customers.

In 1965, Doug and Ellen became engaged. Ellen was raised as a Catholic. Doug, who was brought up in the Protestant faith, converted to Catholicism. And they began preparing for their wedding. As part of the preparation, each underwent a physical examination.  This showed that Doug has a tumor which not benign. The wedding was canceled. Doug underwent an operation to remove the tumor and check the entire body. Initial results were positive. But within a year, the cancer had returned. And ultimately, at the age of 28, Doug passed away on December 25, 1966. He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Syracuse, with his parents.

 Kathryn Jean Campbell entered this world on October 29 of 1940 at Memorial Hospital in Syracuse.  Home at first was Grandpa David's home in Warners, but her family moved into the new Cape Cod home next door that her father had built. That house had hot and cold running water, electricity and a Syracuse telephone. Life in the country then was a combination of the old and the new as some neighbors still had outhouses and no furnaces for central heat.

Although her brothers both attended Warners High School (grades one through twelve), there was no kindergarten so, she had to wait one year until the family was back in Syracuse in 1946 and she entered first grade at Salem Hyde Elementary on Durston Avenue, a fifteen minute walk from home on Grant Boulevard. She made many friends at Salem Hyde and, as a group; they bicycled, talked and explored the woodsy area in the cemetery (a dumping area for the cemetery). As one girl among four males in her home, she became an avid reader and with piano lessons, (a must in that house) she became a very good pianist. The family interest in horses continued as she was given riding lessons and became an excellent horse woman.

Six years at Salem Hyde was followed by three years at Lincoln Junior High School where she graduated as class valedictorian.  Then followed three years at Central High, (like her aunt, her uncles and her father).  She graduated in January 1958. During high school, she was an alto in the A Cappella choir and was in the choir at Plymouth Congregational Church. She joined the Girl Scouts (scouting was a family interest), spent time at a Boy Scout camp on Lake Placid in the Adirondacks Mountains which made her a life-long camper and hiker.

College was next with a four stint at Mount Holyoke in South Hadley, Massachusetts. During her college time, she had a two week exchange at Bennett College in North Carolina (a college for black women) where some of the students were involved in the first lunch counter sit-ins to desegregate public facilities. She graduated in 1962 with an economics major and a religion minor.

Three months after college ended, she was married to a fellow Syracusan, Scott William Allison, whom, she had met and dated during high school and college. Known as Bill, he was an M.I.T. graduate in chemical engineering.  While Bill took his Masters as M.I.T., Katherine worked for the Boston Council of the Camp Fire Girls. Bill's first employment in his field took them to Harrogate, Yorkshire in England where they both worked for ICI Fibres LTD. They spent two years there and were able to travel in Europe. She was also involved a theatre group and a coral society.

Back in the United States, they settled in at Durham, North Carolina. Bill had a position with Monsanto. Katherine started her studies for a Masters in Psychology focusing on cognitive development.  During that period, Elizabeth Aileen Allison was born on January 14, 1968. More family meant a larger home in Raleigh near the campus of North Carolina State where Katherine received her Masters in 1971.

 Monsanto sent Bill to their operations in Akron, Ohio in 1971 and Robert Scott Allison arrived on August 19th that year. While now with two children and all the demands of a home, Katherine was able to do volunteer work with the League of Women Voters, the Mount Holyoke Club, Common Cause and the Welfare Department. Despite everything, Christopher Campbell Allison joined the family on March 8, 1971.

Monsanto, never willing to relax them, sent the family to Guntersville, Alabama. While Bill spent his days in labor, Katherine, after suffering "culture shock", joined a theatre group which provided an outlet and led to many life-long friendships. But in only two years, the family was moved once again to St. Louis, Missouri and to a new home in Glendale.

Giving in to a long time hidden desire, she enrolled in Eden Theological Seminary, getting her Master's of Divinity in 1987. Bill and Katherine divorced around that time. She received her calling in 1989, was ordained on April 9 and was the pastor of Ebenezer United Church of Christ in Augusta, Missouri. Called three years later, she became the Associate Minister at First Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Lincoln, Nebraska where she served until her retirement in 2005.  It should be remembered that her family were members of Plymouth Church in Syracuse.

In 1997, Katherine and George Wolcott, M.D., also of Lincoln, were married. A native of Lincoln, George received his Bachelor's at Dartmouth College in 1958 and his Doctorate in 1962 from George Washington University Medical School with a specialty in neurology.

George has reduced his heavy medical responsibilities and they now have a summer home on Lost Moose Lake near Grand Rapids, Minnesota. George has been a licensed flier for many years and owns a single-engine plane. So Katherine is taking flying lessons as a safe-guard against problems while flying.  But thus far, they are enjoying the retirement though George does have some on-going involvement in medicine.

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