Raymond, E. W.

RAYMOND

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/20/2009 at 14:14:26

E. W. Raymond

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.50, Council Bluffs)
Raymond & Campbell, bridge builders, Council Bluffs. E. W. Raymond, the senior member of this firm, was born near Lockport, N. Y., in 1842. He left New York when a boy and went to Illinois; was in the Quartermaster's office in Jackson, Tenn., Vicksburg and Memphis. In August, 1868, he came to Council Bluffs, where, in 1869, he was married. He has two children - William Randolph, aged twelve years, and Anna Belle, both attending school. Mr. Raymond's mother died here in 1879; his father who is now sixty-four years or age, lives with him. Mr. Campbell, the junior member of the firm, as born in Prince Edward Island, in 1849, and came to the United States in 1867. He came first to Omaha, Neb.; worked there for one year, then worked in Schuyler, Neb., at bridge-building for H. T. Clark for three years. In September, 1874, the present firm of Raymond & Campbell was form, and they are doing a heavy business in bridge-building, employing about fifty men, and doing a business of $200,000.