Fredrick's Offspring

Frederick David's oldest son is Stephen Scott Campbell (Steve) who arrived on June 9th, 1958. He was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse and spent his earlier life in Skaneateles, N.Y. where his parents had rented, and later purchased a house with acreage, just over the north village line. There, they rose and trained horses. Steve went to elementary school, played with the neighborhood children and learned to ride the family horses. He was a vociferous reader from a fairly early age. He liked models. He joined the cub scouts but never really enjoyed it and left after his first year. He learned to ski, he skated land was a good basketball player.

In 1968, the family purchased a small farm several miles south of Auburn, N.Y. and moved from Skaneateles.  Steve transferred to the Auburn school district, graduated from there in 1976 and entered college at Eisenhower College (taken over by Rochester Institute of Technology) in Seneca Falls, N.Y. just west of Auburn. He majored in history and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1981. In his senior year, he met his first wife, Suzanne Jacoby who was a freshman and from Middletown, N.Y. They were married during Steve's senior year. After graduation, Steve interviewed at several companies but was drawn to the potentials in the United State Navy and enlisted that year. He was in the Officer Training Program and the newlyweds spent six months in Newport, Rhode Island while he completed the training program and earned his Ensign's rank.

Post Newport, he was assigned to sea duty and the family, by now, increased by baby Rebecca, moved to the Norfolk, Virginia area. Steve was in the Navy for seventeen years, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He spent most of his time attached to air craft carriers and was drawn to the mechanical operations of ships. With no formal training in mechanical and electrical engineering, he learned while "on the job".

Meanwhile his family had increased by three more daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth and Rachael. In the early 1990's he was assigned to Hawaii to work under the Admiral then in charge of CINCPAC. The family spent two years in Honolulu, returning to the states in 1995 and going back to the Norfolk area. In 1998, after seventeen years of active duty, Steve retired

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But the engineering training that he had absorbed during those seventeen years came into good stead as he looked for work as a civilian. He was hired by Sperry Marine (Northrop Grumman Corporation) and has been involved since with the design and installation of computerized navigation and machinery control systems in sea-golng vessels, both naval and commercial. 

In 2006, Steve and Suzanne divorced and he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia where Sperry Marine is located.  In 2007, Steve re-married to Amy Carroll, a fellow-worker at Sperry and a widow with three children. Originally from Connecticut, Amy has been in Charlottesville for several years.  They live at 3734 Ashleigh Way, Barboursville, Virginia slightly north of Charlottesville.

Rebecca stayed in Williamsburg, Virginia where she was employed as a manager of a bookstore. In the summer of 2005 she married Keith Morgan who is also a Virginia resident. They continue in Williamsburg.

 In 2006, Sarah, the second daughter, moved to Saratoga Springs in central New York, Saratoga Springs is perhaps twenty five miles north of Albany which is the state capital. Saratoga is noted, today for horse racing, Thoroughbreds and trotters as well as Summer Theater and music festivals. And at the turn of the nineteenth century, the city was noted for spa treatments and casino gambling. Sarah, who has son, Ezra, now six years old, is a beautician. In 2007, Sarah married her long time boyfriend, Timothy Windingland, currently in the Navy and stationed in Saratoga Springs. They live at 49 Hawthorne Boulevard. Tim is leaving the navy and they will be moving to Illinois. They are the proud parents of baby Lilah, born with in the past few weeks.

Elizabeth currently lives with her mother in Newport News, Virginia. She anticipates re-entering college in the near future but has not settled on a career goal yet. The youngest, Rachel, who moved with her father to Charlottesville, currently lives in an apartment and holds two jobs. She has finished high school and has no plans, at this time, to go further in education.

Susan Anne Campbell (Sue) was born on February 17th, 0f 1960 at St. Joseph's.  A year and a half younger than her brother, she was very outgoing and very interested in everything.  Sue and Steve attended the same schools. Sue, from her early years, always had a large cadre of friends and still stays in touch today, with most. Sue, like her father and her brother, was an avid reader. She was interested in a career as a reporter after college. But she has a special talent for working with food. Learning to cook at an early age at home, she worked part-time during high school at a fast food operation in Auburn. After high school, she started classes at Auburn Community College and continued to work in the food business.

Moving to Syracuse, she continued to work for a major fast foods company and used that opportunity to take a special cooking course at the Hotel Management School at Cornell University.  During her stay in Syracuse, she was injured in an automobile accident and received a settlement of $ 8,000. That income provided her the means to visit friends in Texas where she planned to get a job.

However, when Steve and Sue were young, they learned to ski and both were proficient skiers.  Sue was a very aggressive down-hiller. When she left for Texas, her skis were in her car. Within five months, she ended up in Denver, Colorado just in timed for the skiing season.  Working for a restaurant, she met her first husband, Douglas Harrier, also a cook. Within two years and after baby Jasana and baby they moved to Florida, living in the West Palm Beach area.

Sue got a position as a cook with Friday's, the national restaurant chain. Sue and Doug divorced in 1984. Sue met a fellow worker at Friday's named Michael Schwarz. They married in 1986, moved to the Orlando area where Mike took on a management position with Friday's and settled in Kissimmee. Sue worked as an auditor and a bookkeeper for the firm. And their daughter, Michalia, was born in January of 1994.

Jasana, now twenty six, graduated from Florida State University, planning to go on to graduate school in accounting but took a temporary position with Friday's and, at this writing, continues there as the bar manager. Samantha is taking college courses and, like the rest of the family, also works at Friday's as a waitress. 

Three years ago, Mike and two friends leased an empty building in Port Canaveral, remodeled and opened a restaurant called "Fishlips", featuring seafood. In three years of operation, each succeeding year shows overall improvement. Sue continues at Friday's and was recently made general manager of a Friday's restaurant.  And Michalia, who is now fourteen, seems to incline towards the restaurant business.  Sue and Mike now live at 2585 Starlite Avenue in Merritt Island, Florida.

Frederick David's middle son, Bennett Douglas, was born in Auburn, N.Y on April 19th, 1967. He spent most of his life in Auburn, graduating from Auburn High School in 1986, just after his eighteenth birthday. Never the reader that his siblings were, he was more involved in working with tools of all types. He took several courses at Auburn Community College, but preferred working over learning. A year or so out of high school, he followed his brother into the navy and was stationed at the Norfolk Naval base and assigned to a navy transport ship (LTD). He was in the service for three years then served in the active reserve for the next eight years. After service and back in Auburn, he met and married Lori Sinicopi, also an Auburnian. Lori had a son, Brandon, by a previous relationship as did Ben whose son is Brett. 

Ben and Lori spent one year in Auburn while Ben worked in Syracuse. He learned to repair and paint damaged autos, working first at a Buick dealership and then at two repair shops. In the early 1990's, Lori and he purchased and moved into a new home in Clay, N.Y. where they remain today. Lori is a hairdresser and has a salon near Cicero. Ben worked, until recently, for the Harley-Davidson dealer in Syracuse, left to work for an auto repair business with four locations, but recently became the manager of the auto body repair department at Crest Cadillac in Syracuse. During 2003, he was pulled back into the Navy and sent to the Gulf Sea to work with incoming troops and machinery being brought into Iraq. After six months, his unit was relieved and returned to the States.

Frederick David and Bridget's son, Seamus, is now nineteen. He spent his first thirteen years in Manhasset, N.Y, going first to St. Mary's Elementary School, then first and second grade at Shelter Rock Elementary School, and transferred back to St. Mary's Elementary where he graduated in 2003. Brought up in the Catholic Church and with his parents moving to New York City, he enrolled in Xavier, a Jesuit high school on West 16th Street in Manhattan. He graduated from there in 2007, having made application to The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He matriculated there in August of 2007 and at this juncture, had transferred to to Fordham University at its Rose Hill Campus.

 Seamus was a Cub Scout and a Boy Scout. He has seen, with his father, all but four of the states of our country. He is an excellent computer nerd, having taught himself over the years. He was Dean's List in his first semester at CUA and came close in his second semester. He will become a Computer Science major but will minor in Psychology. He has an avid interest in politics and has even considered entering the priesthood. During his first year at college, he has been able to meet or re-meet family members.

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