Red text denotes books, articles, presentations, art works, notable photos & other tangible legacies.
GMCL = Georgia May Campbell Lollis [1901-1991]. Flags show countries other than the USA.
Stars indicate key individuals of family history:
= Pertaining to genealogist Emily Helen (Lee) Campbell Price [1901-1982] of Edmonton, Alberta, & Vancouver, British Columbia. Click here for Ted's web page.
= Pertaining to stock broker Douglas Argyle Campbell [1929-c2007] of Montreal, New York City & Los Angeles.
December 1808 - Birth of Neil Campbell [1808-1880] in South Knapdale, Argyllshire, Scotland. Great grandfather of Douglas Argyle Campbell [1929-c2007].
1818 - Birth of Flora Johnson [1818-1853] in Utica, Oneida County, New York.
1821 - Neil Campbell (age 13) sails with his family from Scotland to Quebec City, then settles in Herkimer County, New York.
1830 - Neil Campbell (age 22) moves with his family on Erie Canal from Herkimer County, NY, to Kent County, Ontario.
About 1835 - Wedding of Neil Campbell (age about 27) & Flora Johnson (age about 17) in Oneida County, NY? Great grandparents of Douglas Argyle Campbell [1929-c2007].
April 27, 1845 - Birth of Archibald Campbell in or near Ridgetown, Kent County, Ontario. Son of Neil Campbell [1808-1880], father of Douglas Argyle Campbell, Sr. [1884-1950], & grandfather of Douglas Argyle Campbell, Jr. [1929-c2007].
December 2, 1853 - Death of Flora Johnson Campbell (age 35) in Kent County, Ontario. Buried beside John Johnson (a brother?) in Morpeth Cemetery, Howard Township, Kent County; their tombstone says "Natives of Oneida Co., NY."
1866 - Neil Campbell (age 58) has "flour mill" in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario.
1880 - Destruction by fire of the Campbell brothers' grain mill on Big Creek (Klondyke?), Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario
August 17, 1880 - Death of Neil Campbell (age 72) in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario (father of Archibald Campbell the miller)
October 3, 1883 - "Kent Mills [in Chatham, Ontario] operated by Campbell, Stevens & Co., [is] swept by a spectacular fire."
May 24, 1884 - Birth of Douglas Argyle Campbell, Sr. [1884-1950], in Canada
February 2, 1887 - Archibald Campbell (age 42) - "head of Kent Mills" - is elected by 112 votes. "[Thus] Kent [County goes] liberal for the first time since Confederation [on July 1, 1867]."
1890 - Plaque in Hazeldean Park ( coordinates: 43.67333 -79.38402) on the south side of Rosedale Valley Road east of Park Road, Toronto, Ontario. A large City of Toronto display there contains a painting as well as text which says: "In the early 1800s, the City of Toronto did not extend north of present-day Queen Street. Like many of the City's elite families of the time, Chief Justice William Draper (1801-1877) maintained a country estate overlooking the picturesque Rosedale Ravine.
Draper emigrated to Upper Canada in 1820. His successful law career led to his appointment as Solicitor General in 1837, Attorney General in 1840 and Chief Justice in 1863.
Draper's estate, "Hazeldean" included this location, with the residence south of here at the top of the ravine. The image below provides a glimpse of Hazeldean through the trees. A bridge across Castle Frank Creek, which once flowed through this ravine, connected Draper's estate to the Jarvis estate, 'Rosedale'. The City demolished the house by 1890 to make way for the construction of Collier Street."
1892 - Campbell Flour Mills Company Ltd. owned by Archibald Campbell (age 47) relocates to Toronto Junction from Chatham, Ontario
February 3, 1896 - Letter from Archibald Campbell in Toronto Junction, ON, to Peter Campbell in Portage-La-Prairie, MB. See full text in "The Campbells from Auchindrain" (page 53).
1896 - Destruction of dam at the Campbell brothers' former grain mill on Big Creek (Klondyke?), Howard Township, Ontario
October 2, 1896 - Letter from Archibald Campbell in Toronto Junction, ON, to Peter Campbell in Portage-La-Prairie, MB. See full text in "The Campbells from Auchindrain" (page 53).
April 21, 1899 - Letter from Archibald Campbell (age 54) in Ottawa, ON, to Peter Campbell (age 80) in Portage-La-Prairie, MB: "Hugh McDiarmid (age 62) lives at Akron Ohio, U.S. He is one of the Professors in the college there [Hiram College]. Colin Sinclair is preaching at London, Ontario... My brother Malcolm (age 56) is still on the old farm and is very comfortable... My family are all well [Maude, Helen, Mabel, Archie, Douglas & Norman]... Miretta did not come down here with me this session as we are building and remodeling our house and we have a now a beautiful house and grounds [Hazeldene?] at Toronto Junction... I would be glad to have
Isaac [Campbell] down here but I think he would be a very foolish man to run as there is nothing in being an M.P. and he would certainly have to give up his Solicitorship for the City of Winnipeg..." See full text in "The Campbells from Auchindrain" (page 54).
January 24, 1908 - Death of Elizabeth (or Jane?) McDiarmid Campbell in Canada. Second wife of Neil Campbell [1808-1880] - no children - his widow for 28 years.
January 5, 1913 - Death of miller & provincial senator Archibald Campbell (age 67), grandfather of Douglas Argyle Campbell, at his home in Toronto, Ontario. Click here for obituary in Chatham Daily Planet & other information.
January 1929 - Birth of Douglas Argyle Campbell in Canada
July 25, 1938 - Letter on Christian-Evangelist letterhead from GAC (age 69) in St., Louis, MO, to cousin Margaret Jane Campbell Thompson [1880-1965] in Toronto, Ontario, enclosing "a few from the Hon. Archibald Campbell [1845-1913]" of the "many letters I found a few years ago in the attic of [my father's] home [in Portage-La-Prairie]. NB: This is the letter which in 1966 alerted Douglas Argyle Campbell to the existence of our family.
August 20, 1950 - Death of Douglas Argyle Campbell, Sr. (age 66), in Canada. His son, Douglas Argyle Campbell, Jr. (age 21) receives inheritence. Also his daughters Dorethea (age 33) & Helen (age 32)?
1957 - Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 28) makes round-the-world trip: "I just walked out on my job in Montreal for an investment firm... visted India, where his sister's husband was the acting Canadian Ambassador, [in Japan] his interest in Zen deepened..."
1964 Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 35) founds D. A. Campbell Company, Inc., in New York City: "Third Market activities commenced from office adjacent to Columbia University Campus. Office opened in Wall Street area...in 1965 [and] in San Francisco in 1969."
December 24, 1965 - "The Canadian" (magazine of the Toronto Daily Star) publishes "A Canadian swinger on Wall Street," a 4-page article about Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 36): "Cuggy Campbell was known in Montreal for his clever capers & fresh financial ideas. Now he's living the good life in New York & creating something of a revolution in Wall Street's Third Market."
September 15, 1966 - From Vogue magazine: "Bounding around on a trampoline, or tearing up Wall Street, Douglas [Argyle] Campbell is a man who likes to move -- fast..."
November 5, 1966 - GMCL is awakened by late night phone call from Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 37) in New York City. He had 1938 letter from GAC (qv) & was phoning names he obtained by phoning The Christian-Evangelist.
November 9, 1966 - Letter to GMCL from Douglas Argyle Campbell in New York City: "Enclosed [is] copy of your fatrher's [1938] letter & the family tree which my father drew roughly some years ago. Also an article [about me] from The Canadian Magazine & from a recent issue of Vogue.
November 10, 1966 - Letter from GMCL to Mary Evalyn describing late night encounter with Douglas Argyle Campbell on Nov. 5
November 15, 1966 - 3-page letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell in New York City: "Dear Newly Found Cousin:"
November 22, 1966 - 1-page letter to GMCL from DAC: "Thank you very much for your extremely interesting letter of November 15... Do you have Mr. Smith's address in Syracuse? Also do you have the address of Eritt [sic] Hamilton [in California]?"
December 20, 1966 - 2-page letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell
January 20, 1967 - Letter to GMCL from Errett Hamilton (age 77) in La Canada, CA: "Thank you for sending the 2 magazine stories about our newly discovered cousin... He's also in the Jan. 14 issue of Business Week (page 49)... I obtained a good deal of information from Miss Anna I[sabel] Smith [1885-1972]."
July 11, 1967 - Letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell
July 18, 1967 - Letters to GMCL & to Mrs. Ian Fleming (genealogist in Edinburgh, Scotland) from Douglas Argyle Campbell in New York City
August 24, 1967 - Letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell in New York City
Summer, 1967 - Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 38), then living New York City, purchases house at 9255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, from actress Elaine Hollingsworth (Sara Shane)
December 6, 1968 - Christmas Letter to GMCL (& others) from Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 39) "at 9,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 300 miles north of Los Angeles, CA...I got engaged to Pat Kendrick of Eugene, OR, after an Acapuilco trip last February..."
January 24, 1969 - 5-page letter (plus chart) to GMCL from Emily Campbell Price in Vancouver, BC: "I am the Emily (Campbell) Price you have heard about from your kinsman Douglas A. Campbell, formerly of New York and now of Los angeles....Now about how I came to be mixed up in D.A.'s search... Mary [Elizabeth McDiarmid] Tindale [1911-1970] [in Ontario] went through the diaries, found the information I wanted and sent it to me along with a letter. In her letter she told me that...someone (I presume she meant D.A.) was tryng to find out about her grandfather Campbell's ancestors...[long story not copied here]. When Ian [Argyle] Balmer [1907-1995] came to see us the second time he brought with him some letters he had received from D.A. Campbell re D.A.'s search for his ancestors [in Scotland]... This brought forth a letter from D.A. wanting to know that I knew... I told him to have his researcher look in the registers of [the] parishes [along the Crinan Canal]... This was done and the marriage record was found. This of course gave D.A. an exaggerated opinion of my ability. He kept on writing to me and asking for suggestions. Then, in the fall of 1967, he stopped writing to me and also to the researcher in Scotland so I got in touch with her to do some work for me. About two months ago D.A. called me long distance, told me he was living in Los Angeles, that he wanted to go on with the search for his ancestors and would I help him. This I agreed to do..."
March 21, 1969 - 2-page letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell in Los Angeles, CA
April 1, 1969 - 1-page letter to GMCL on Buffaloe, Campbell & Co. letterhead (with "[transcribed] letters from my grandfather [Archibald Campbell in Toronto] to his uncle [Peter Campbell in Portage-La-Prairie]") from Douglas Argyle Campbell in Los Angeles, CA
April 28, 1969 - 1-page letter to GMCL from Mrs. Fleming in Edinburgh, Scotland: "Mrs. Price has asked me to send you these two extracts..."
January 21, 1970 - 2-line note to GMCL from Douglas Argyle Campbell (enclosing "D.A. CAMPBELL COMPANY, INC./A SIX YEAR REPORT").
April-May, 1970 - Emily Campbell Price [1901-1982] of Vancouver, British Columbia, types 2 originals & 8 carbon copies of her 69-page so-called manuscript "The Campbells from Auchindrain." Click here for full text (72 MB as put on-line by John S. Howell of Naples, FL)
September 23, 1970 - GMCL receives copy #5 of "The Campbells from Auchindrain" from Emily Campbell Price [1901-1882]. Alphabetical distribution list: (1) Dr. Ian Balmer (Vancouver, BC), (2) Douglas A. Campbell (9255 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA), (3) John Campbell (Ridgetown, ON), (4) Errett Hamilton (La Canada, CA), (5) Mrs. Edward W. Lollis (Indianapolis, IN), (6) Mrs. Tena Owens (Portage La Prairie, MB), (7) Mrs. Mary Tindale (Chatham, ON), (8) Mrs. Grace Campbell & Mr. Kingsley Campbell (Port Credit, ON), (9) Mr. John Campbell (second copy for a younger descendant) & (10) author's copy.
December 15, 1971 - Wedding of Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 43) & Alegra Kent Taylor - divorced in 1977
November 20, 1973 - "Millionaire [Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 43)] Worrying About His Ego" in Nashua Telegraph. "He also maintains houses in London & Sun Valley, Idaho... Campbell's tall, blond English-born wife by-passes the season & starts her day more conventionally..." Click here for full text.
June 20, 1976 - 6-page letter to GMCL from Erva Laura Bell Hamilton (age 76) in Glendale, CA: "Yes, we did neet Douglas A[rgyle Campbell]. He came to visit us when he first came to L.A... I think his marriage must have gone wrong... His name is mentioned alone whenever I spot it in the society column while after their marriage she was always mentioned too."
August 1981 - Georgia May & Ted Lollis make huge "Campbell Family Chart" while in Argyle Cottage, Pentwater, MI.
October 9, 1982 - Death of Emily Helen (Lee) Campbell Price (age 81) in Vancouver, BC. Husband Earle Marshall Price predeceased (at age 79) in March 1982. Click here for Ted's on-line biography of ECP.
November 14, 1982 - 2-page letter from Ted Lollis in London to Douglas Argyle Campbell: "In recent years, I have begun to interest myself in family history. In 1981, my mother and I created a wall chart... A copy of the chart with some explanatory material is enclosed... I am [also] enclosing the record and maps of my trip [to Auchindrain in Scotland]..."
February 28, 1983 - 2-page letter from GMCL to Douglas Argyle Campbell: "...my son [wrote] Mrs. Price to thank her...but [it] was never answered though it was not returned so we must assume she or her husband received it. I myself tried two afternoons to reach her by phone... I recently read Marion Campbell's 'Argyll, the Enduring Heartland...' Enclosed is a family chart Ted prepared for his cousins..."
March 17, 1983 - 2-page letter to Ted Lollis in London from Douglas Argyle Campbell at 1150 Brooklawn Drive (including large 2-sheet family history chart): "The ultimate part of my research was the enclosed family tree. How does it compare with yours?... I cannot read yours because it is too small... I have had much correspondence with young [Duke] Ian about helping him rebuild Inverary [Castle]. He seems to have accomplished this without adopting some of my more radical concepts."
May 16, 1983 - 2-page letter from Ted Lollis in London to Douglas Argyle Campbell: "With two exceptions, I found your chart practically identical to the information contained in the 1970 book compiled by Emily CAMPBELL Price..."
November 28, 1983 - Letter to GMCL from DAC: "Some eight months ago I started a complete reorganization of my address book. Now that it's finished and Thanksgiving has passed with Christmas on the way, I wanted to take this oppoortunity to write to you and other of my friends and bring you up to date on how life has been for in 1983...Houston (spot on lung), 257,000-acre Parker Ranch, New York (Feather Ball), Jamaica, Miami, London ('Rich Americans pay Millions to Dance with Yankee Doodle Di'), Portsmouth (Mary Rose & HMS Victory), Sun Valley, Saratoga (racing weekend)... I own Symbolized Systems, Inc., in Orange County..."
November 24, 1984 - In London, Ted Lollis makes 18-page chart "Descendants of Peter Campbell [1744-1784] & Isabel Ferguson [1741-1784]" (naming 1,034 direct descendants & providing 92 addresses). Chart is based on (1) "The Campbells from Auchindrain" by Emily Campbell Price, Vancourver, BC, 1970, (2) "Archibald McLarty of Argyll" by Minnie E. Burley, Islington, ON, 1963, (3) Margaret Urquhart, Furnace, Scotland, Sept. 6, 1982, (4) Valerie McGlashan, Kenmore, Scotland, March 15, 1983, (5) chart by Douglas Argyle Campbell, Beverley Hills, CA, March 17, 1983, (6) "The Campbells of Flee Island" by Sonya Beverley Campbell Wright, Winnipeg, MB, 1980, and (7) personal knowledge.
November 29, 1984 - 1-page letter from Ted in London to Douglas Argyle Campbell: "I am [transmitting] some of the things I have been able to do since coming to the U.K. in 1982..."
December 11, 1984 - Letter to Ted from Douglas Arglye Campbell: "I did not get to London this year as it has been an extremely difficult period of time in terms of business."
June 15, 1985 - 1-page letter from Ted in London to Douglas Argyle Campbell (enclosing copies of letters with Mr. Duncan Beaton in Glasgow & Mr. Allister Campbell at Inverary Castle).
July 28, 1985 - Telephone call to Ted from Douglas Arglye Campbell: Talks about staying at Inverary Castle, giving a party for "old Ian's first wife," third wife Margaret "still on jet set scene," financial set-back (just befinning to come out of the woods), going to Biarritz 8/29 for several days, etc.
Fall, 1985 - Cousin Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 56) shows up unexpectedly on Sunday & demands to be driven to Bordeaux' best restaurant for lunch, then he returns to his tour group in Biarritz.
September 19, 1985 - Letter to Ted from Douglas Arglye Campbell: "I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you during my recent trip to Bordeaux... The highlight of the trip was the dinner which I had at the Tour D'Argent... Enclosed please find a copy of a letter which I recently received from Duncan Beaton along with a copy of my reply..."
November 29, 1985 - Letter to Ted from Douglas Argyle Campbell (enclosing another letter from Duncan Beaton).
Christmas 1986 - Christmas letter from DAC: "The last three years have been arduous. The small bar code company, Symbolized Systems, Inc., became a tremendous burden... Other memorable events were...1984 (St. Moritz, LA Olympic Games, Christmas in Jamaica), 1985 (Austria, Spain, France, Biarritz, Switzerland), 1986 (wedding in Far Hills, NJ, Stanford)... my business, personal, and social life are once again under control. Friends who were particularly helpful include Dr. Reynold Sach, Sandra Howard and Gerry Murphy."
1987 - In Bordeaux, Ted tells Jane Callaghan about Douglas Arglye Campbell in Beverly Hills, CA, & she accepts his invitation to stay in his home (with other guests).
1987-1996 - DAC constructs "Campbell Divertimento Fountain" (Historic-Cultural Monument No. 637) attributed to famous Mexican architect Luis Barragán [1902-1988]. Click here for description in Los Angeles Times.
June 29, 1990 - 1-line note to GMCL from Douglas Argyle Campbell (forwarding "THE LEADING MEXICAN COMPANIES, D.A. CAMPBELL COMPANY, INC." (16 pages plus bio slips for Douglas A. Campbell, Ph.D., Ronald I. Levin, Bettina Ferguson, Reynold Sachs, Ph.D., Carol Poundstone, Adam Holiber, Susan F. Gilbertson, Mickey M. Schleien & Norine Naskar Foster).
November 15, 1990 - 1-line note to GMCL from Douglas Argyle Campbell (enclosing "MEXICO: A LATIN AMERICA TIGER IN THE MAKING: apeech delivered to The London Society of Investment Anaysts, 1990, by Douglas A. Campbell, Ph.D., President, D.A. Campbell Company, Inc." (29 pages).
June 27, 1997 - Ted posts message (subject "Campbell's in Toronto area") on Campbell email list. No reply.
March 15 & 19, 1998 - Ted left phone message for Douglas, Elizabeth (former secretary) or Loupe Lopez.
September 22, 1998 - Phone conversation between Ted & Doug Campbell: "I had a problem; Fell into the river at Sun Valley. Nearly died. Will fax... Lupe Lopez will send my address. Stroke three months ago... Uncle Norman [Howard Campbell, 1886-1952] sold the mill [in Ontario]... [Archibald's house] Hazeldene in Toronto? I've never heard of it." /// Fax received same day is article from Wind River Journal: "Visitor injured after fall into Big Wood. A Los Angeles man can thank his assistant and a guide for saving his live after falling down a 20-foot embankment and into the Big Wood River... Lopez took off running as she followed the river with her eye on Campbell who floated, apparently conscious and on his back... After approximately 400 yards, she entered the water to retrieve the now unconscious Campbell... 'Everything happened so quick.' said Lopez... Campbell sounded shaken Monday afternoon, speaking about his 'close call' from his hospital room..."
March
2002 - Ted & Schera visit house of Douglas Argyle Campbell (age 73) at 1150 Brooklawn Drive in Beverly Hills (Los Angeles), CA, & talk by phone to his "housekeeper" Lupe Lopez, but she prevents our finding him. No info obtained on DAC's health.
2002 - Ted exchanges emails with Caryn Sachs. No record of these emails found as of April 14, 2014.
c.2007 - Death of Douglas Argyle Campbell at a nursing home in Southern California. Year as recalled by Caryn Sachs in March 2014. Caryn says that she and her father Reynold visited DAC about three months before he died, but in 2014 she can no longer remember the name or location of the nursing home. No obituary found on-line.
March
2014 - Click here for photos of Doug's house (which sold for $4.8 million in 2012): "Newly renovated modernist home, approximately 5,500 square feet of living space. All public rooms are large in scale with walls of glass that open on to the famed barragan pool and fountain- named a historic-cultural monument #637 adopted in 3-18-97, the campbell divertimento fountain. Stunning ultra-high end finishes throughout. Open kitchen, formal dining room, living room, and separate media/game room with bar. Sexy master suite with private outdoor spa and three additional bedroom suites. A rare opportunity to own a piece of modernist history and live in a museum quality home in the heart of holmby hills /bel air. These photographs were taken by famed architectural photographer julius shulman. Live in a piece of la architectural history!"
March 21, 2014 - Ted Googles "Reynold Sachs," finds website of the Erich & Hannah Sachs Foundation, Yountville, California, phones & leaves a message.
March
24, 2002 - Telcon from Reynold Sachs in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
March
24, 2002 - Telcon from Caryn Sachs in Yountville, Sonoma Valley, California. Caryn reminds Ted that they met at her home in McLean, Virginia, during a visit to the Wshington, DC, area by Jane Callaghan.
