Bethanian, 1909 . MRS. LiiiCiMA c.\;m];li:, ijarclay The sole surviving ilaugliter of Alexander Canipljell, owner and mistress ofthe Bethany mansion. k. THE OLD HOMESTEAD FOR nint3-eight years Bethany mansion has been the home of my deuvfather, Alexander Campbell, and his immediate descendants. On the 12th ofMarch, 1811, he was married here (in what is known as the old parlor), toMiss Margaret Brown, only child of John Brown, and after spendixig a week ortwo in Washington, Pa., with his father, Thomas Campbell, and family, theyoung bride and groom returned to this home, which was henceforth
Bethanian, 1909 . MRS. LiiiCiMA c.\;m];li:, ijarclay The sole surviving ilaugliter of Alexander Canipljell, owner and mistress ofthe Bethany mansion. k. THE OLD HOMESTEAD FOR nint3-eight years Bethany mansion has been the home of my deuvfather, Alexander Campbell, and his immediate descendants. On the 12th ofMarch, 1811, he was married here (in what is known as the old parlor), toMiss Margaret Brown, only child of John Brown, and after spendixig a week ortwo in Washington, Pa., with his father, Thomas Campbell, and family, theyoung bride and groom returned to this home, which was henceforth occupiedby Mr. Campbell, until his death in March, 1866, an unbroken period of fifty-fiveyears, in the home of his heart, that he loved so well, and when his most arduousliterary labors were performed, during his long, busy and useful life, of almostseventy-eight years. The little hexagonal study, in the yard, with its light from above, standingamong the evergreens, planted by his own hands in 1836, was built in 1840 at thesame time the College was built,, but he had. prior to this, taught Buffalo Sem-inary for five years, in this house, had edited
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