The Campbell family
Lawrence Campbell, Sr. arrived in Washington Territory in 1884 as a six-week-old infant. He had been born in Pennsylvania, but immediately after his birth his parents,Thomas and Margaret, set sail around the tip of South America for Seattle.
Thomas was a miner, so the family relocated to east King County and also acquired a large homestead on Tiger Mountain. The family grew to include six sons and a daughter-George, Lawrence, Robert, John, Bill, Tom and Maggie. Tom was killed in WWI, but the rest of the sons either followed in their father’s footsteps as miners or went to work as loggers.
Tiger Mountain in those days was remote and wild. Cougar and bear roamed freely, and a trip to town was a very long hike. Some left the homestead when they grew up, but that second generation of Campbells all remained in the area extending the branches of the family tree further and further. Last summer, the Campbells held their first family picnic and it attracted more than 150 descendents of Thomas and Margaret.
Of course with that number of relatives and more than 100 years in the area, the Campbells are related to countless other old Issaquah families.
