William Bazil Campbell
William Bazil Campbell, one of Delaware's leading business men, who has been identified with grocery interests since 1891, was born in Delaware Township, Delaware County, Ohio, January 25, 1857. He is a son of Ransome and Henrietta (Lugenbeel) Campbell.
Ransome Campbell was born in New Jersey and came to Delaware in early manhood, and was employed as a millwright at the paper mill at Stratford for a time, later becoming a contracting carpenter. He died in 1899 aged about 71 years. He married a daughter of Bazil and Sevilla Lugenbeel, who still survives at the age of 68 years. They had two children—William Bazil and Mary, the latter of whom is now deceased. She was the wife of Dr. F. A. Stickney, who is a practitioner of medicine at Kilbourne.
William Bazil Campbell was educated in the schools of Delaware Township and at Stratford, later taking a business course in a commercial college at Delaware. After leaving school he learned the carpenter's trade, working later for fifteen years as a house carpenter, and for three years in the shops of the Big Four Railroad. In 1891 he embarked in a grocery business at his present location in Delaware, where his business capacity and enterprise have caused him to prosper. He has been an active political factor at Delaware and is serving his second term as a member of the Board of Public Service, having been elected on the Republican ticket. He has served six years as a member of the City Council.
In 1881, Mr. Campbell married Susan C. Burroughs, who is a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Burroughs, of Delaware. They have two children—Arthur Ransome and Savilla. The son is his father's assistant in the store. The daughter married Charles Smith and they reside at Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have a pleasant home on the corner of Liberty and Eden Streets. He is a member of Olentangy Lodge, No. 53, Odd Fellows, at Delaware.
20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908