Arizona republican., 1900-09-22
DEATH OF H. H. CAMPBELL
Whose Career May Be Lesson to All
 Young Men.

| MT. H. H. Campbell of Boston, Mass, but who has resided in Phoenix for i two winters, died at Prescott shortly after II o'clock Thursday night. The news of his death was received by his | friends here with a shock yesterday morning. A recovery Of his health was hardly hoped for, yet no one supposed that his end was so near. The cause of l his death was not described fin the tel l egrams announcing it, but it is certain that it was not directly caused by the disease, to find relief from which he came here, an a:lment of the throat and lungs. MT. Campbell returned to Prescott about ten days ago from Lake Tahoe, where he had spetlt the latter rart of the summer. The be- reaved family consists of a wife and two daughters, the elder of whom is in school at Denver. The younger is with her mother at Prescott. The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon at o'clock.
 MT. Campbell came to Phoenix two years ago last November and in order to get the fullest benefit from the dry climate he established himself on the desert at a considerable distance from irrigation. He seemed to obtain the re | lief he sought for, though not in per feet measure, but his life was Hndoubt- edly prolonged. He had previously re- sided in the south and in the Bermuda | islands.
 | His career is a. lesson to all young men. At the age of twenty-one, hay | ing received an academic education, his father, who was believed to be very wealthy, died. The son had no course marked out, for his future seemed to | be assured. It was learned, though, | that the estate was insOlvent and the young man found himself the sole SUD- port of a mother and several sisters, who had been accustomed to luxury. By reason of his fathers extensive finan- cial connections he was enabled to se, cure a position in a large banking es- tablishment, where he performed the ordinary duties of a bank clerk for three years. Here is where the lesson l begins. He got to looking about upon his fellow clerks. Many of them had grown gray haired in the service of the bank. For years they had received salaries ranging from 1000 to $500 a year and there was no possibility that they would ever receive any more. Tn the nature of things the value of their services would soon begin to deteriOr- ate. Mir. Campbell could easily fore see his future as bank clerk, and de termined to leave the beaten and un- profitable track and learn to do soma. | thing that other bank clerks could not do.
 Those were the days of unclassifled bonds. Every bond presented was n mystery which required solving. MT. Campbell accordingly began a study of bonds. He carefully inquired into the history of every important issue In the country; all the circumstances sur rounding it; whether there were any incidents of weakness and frauds, and upon the result of these investigations he estimated future values. He soon became a valuable man in that banl1-a bond expert.
 Not long after another banking house making q speciality of bond transac- tions was established and Mir Camp bell was put in charge of it. One oi the most important results of his bond education was fee or commission oi
 S15O.OOO from the Standard Oil com pany for the investigation of a line oi securities Perhaps the most notable single incident in MT. Campbelrs ca reer was the floating of the Utah Con solidated Mining company. for which he received $2. 900 GOO
 Those who knew him well say that '
 more honest and conscientious mar
 never lived, nor a more syInpathet' one. He had unbounded faith in Phoe
 nix. After a careful study of the val
 ley and the probabilities of water stor-
 age, which he regarded as ultimatel'
 certain, he made investments in the
 city amounting to S350OO or s4O,OOO. H.
 did not expect to realize upon these in