San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 10/21/2009
ERNEST P. CAMPBELL
CAMPBELL AUTO WORKS
Among the progressive and far-seeing business men of Stockton is Ernest P. Campbell, a mechanical inventor and the owner and proprietor of the Campbell Auto Works, 238 North El Dorado Street. He has built up a business that extends among auto and truck and tractor owners in all sections of the country.
He was born in Jewell County, Kan., on December 13, 1886, and was reared and educated in his native county. When he reached the age of nineteen he spent four years learning the machinist's trade in the railroad shops of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad at Neodesha, Kan.; then he was employed in the shops of the Standard Oil Company of the same place; he then went to Kansas City, Mo., and was in the shops of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Early in the year of 1908 he arrived in Stockton and entered the employ of Charles F. Holman as head of the machine shop; later Mr. Holman sold his business and Mr. Campbell purchased the mechanical e quipment and in 1910 opened his own automobile repair business on Main Street in the building now occupied by the Colonial Theater. Starting in a small way with but one lathe, his business has steadily grown and in 1912 he moved to his present commodious quarters at 238 North El Dorado Street, where he has an up-to-date machine shop, fully equipped for all kinds of repair work.
Mr. Campbell is an inventor of established fame who has created implements highly useful to the auto world, the Campbell combination bearing puller and race extractor being especially valuable in the pulling of magnetos and electrical generator bearings, one of the most timely productions of the age. It is in general use among automobile and tractor owners. All wide-awake mechanics and shop owners who have seen the Campbell bearing puller work, speak highly of it. He has also put on the market the Campbell expansion cylinder reamer for the successful re-boring of automobile engine cylinders; these tools are being sent to all parts of the United States, the fame of the products having spread everywhere, and shipments are made daily. The Campbell Works make a specialty of auto-repairing and rebuilding and make over all kinds of machinery, the work being personally supervised by Mr. Campbell. He employs skilled mechanics and the well-equipped factory is properly provided for handling repairs expeditiously. A specialty is made of complete overhauling of all makes of automobiles, trucks and tractor engines. Mr. Campbell has built up a trade and a patronage that extend among auto, truck and tractor owners in all sections of the country. He is an alert business man who believes in results, and his friends and patrons are legion throughout the Stockton and Delta sections.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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