Hector B. Campbell, aged 82, a pioneer resident of Portland, died at the home of Thomas Anker, at New Era, today of old age.
He was found dead this morning by Mr. Anker. Mr. Campbell had been attending Spiritualist meetings there. The body was removed
to Portland following the coroner's examination.

Mr. Campbell was a native of Boston, Mass., and is survived by a widow, five children and two sisters. He lived with his son
Harry P. Campbell, head bookkeeper for Neustadter Brothers, in Portland.

Mr. Campbell was intimately connected with early Oregon history. He crossed the plains in 1849 by ox team, and came to
Oregon. His father, also Hector P. Campbell, was the first school teacher in Oregon, having taught school in a little log
schoolhouse at Milwaukie. His sister married Alfred Lewellen, a cousin of Seth Lewellen, who brought the first fruit tree to
Oregon, and planted it in his Milwaukie homestead, where it still stands.

He left Oregon in 1870, and went to Bristol, Conn., where he remained until 1886, when he went to Cortchester, New York. In
1891 he again came to Portland and remained here to the time of his death. He was a contractor by trade, but for the last few
years of his life had not been actively engaged in his work. At the time of his first residence in Portland he was employed in
the Smith & Satson Iron Works, as a machinist.

Mr. Campbell was passing the Summer months with his wife at New Era, where he was camping. He is said by his relatives never
to have been sick. He passed away quietly in his sleep.

Mr. Campbell was born in Chester, Mass., January 4, 1829. He was married twice, and two of his surviving children are by his
first wife. He married his second wife, who survives him, in Boston, Mass., 40 years ago.

The two sisters who survive him are Mary Lewellen, of Orofino, Idaho, and Mrs. Ellen M. Waite, of Portland. The surviving
children are Horace G. Campbell, of La Center, Wash., and Louis Campbell, of Milwaukie, who are the offspring of his first
marriage, and H. B. Campbell, Mrs. George Lichtenthaler and Miss Grayce Campbell, all of this city, children of the surviving
widow.

Hector B. Campbell, who was found dead at his Summer home at New Era, Tuesday, by his friend, Thomas Anker, was a native of
Chester, Mass., born January 4, 1829. He crossed the plains to Oregon in 1849, and was intimately connected with the history of
the Western territory. He was a veteran of the Indian wars and served the entire campaign in the Klickitat War.

His father, H. P. Campbell, was one of the first school teachers in Oregon, and his sister married Alfred Lewellyn, a cousin
of Seth Lewellyn, who brought the first fruit tree to Oregon.

In 1870 Mr. Campbell went to Connecticut, where he remained until 1891, and came again to Portland in that year. In this city
he made his home with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Lichtenthal, of 291 East Forty-eighth street.

The funeral was held from Finley's Undertaking Chapel Thursday, and burial was at the Milwaukie Cemetery. He is survived by
Mrs. Campbell; his sons, Horace G. Campbell, of La Center, Wash., Louis Campbell, of Milwaukie, and H. B. Campbell, of this city,
and his daughters, Mrs. George Lichtenthal, and Miss Grace Campbell.