BIOGRAPHY: John CAMP, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 645-646.

  JOHN CAMP, Milroy, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in France, November 15, 1826, 
and came to America with his parents in 1828.  They landed in New York, and 
during the first three years they had their home in any city or town where the 
father was fortunate enough to find employment, thus living for a short time in 
Baltimore, Pittsburg, Erie and Buffalo;  and finally settled in the west end of 
the Kishacoquillas valley.  Here the family remained about six years and then 
removed to Milroy, where the father worked at weaving.  During the latter years 
of his life he devoted his time to the practise of medicine, which he had 
studied in his native land, before his emigration.  He died September 18, 1854;  
his wife died May 2, 1889.  The son, John Camp, acquired a common school 
education at Milroy, and at an early age learned cabinet-making with John W. 
Strahle, serving an apprenticeship of three years.  Wishing to perfect himself 
as a workman, he went to Lewistown, Mifflin county, and placed himself under 
instructions for six months, after which he returned to Milroy and bought the 
business and establishment of his former employer, Mr. Strahle.  In his work as 
furniture dealer and undertaker, Mr. Camp has been very successful.  He is truly 
a self-made man, in the sense in which we usually employ that term.  Entirely 
dependent upon his own resources in early manhood, with no expectations of 
financial aid, he started out with a brave spirit and steadfast perseverance 
that met and triumphed over many difficulties and discouragements.
  Mr. Camp was married January 3, 1847, to Martha M., daughter of Andrew and 
Mary (Ream) Maybin.  They had four children:  William R., married Alice Burnett, 
four children;  Mary M. (Mrs. John Russler), two children;  John A., married 
Mary Martha Brown, three children, one of whom met her death by drowning, at 
Milroy, March 21, 1896;  Lauretta Jane (Mrs. Henry Barr), six children.  Mrs. 
Camp is one of seven children, the others being:  John;  Joseph;  Eliza;  
Rachel;  Jacob;  and Margaret.  Her father, Andrew Maybin, died December 31, 
1879, and her mother June 28, 1882;  she was a daughter of Joseph and Julia Ann 
Ream.  The grandfather of Mrs. Camp was John Maybin, who married Margaret 
Maybin, both natives of Ireland.
  Mr. Camp enlisted, March 16, 1865, in Company C, One Hundred and Second 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, under Captain Moffat, and served to the close of the 
war, being mustered out July 5, 1865.  He is a member in good standing in Lodge 
No. 203, F. and A. M., at Lewistown, and of Colonel Hulings Post, No. 176, at 
Lewistown.  He is a Democrat.  Himself and family attend the Methodist Episcopal 
church at Milroy.