Statewide County AZ Archives Obituaries.....Camp, John 1901
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Arizona Republican-May 21, 1901
JOHN CAMP
May 21 ,1901

John Perlin Camp killed himself, probably accidentally at 
his home on the Howard Ranch, six miles northeast of the 
city, yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock.  Coroner Gray 
was notified and a jury was summoned and viewed the remains, 
which were turned over to Undertaker A.J. Bradley.

Mr. Camp was 26 years old and his home was in Newington, 
Conn.  He was a nephew of the president of the Chicago and 
Eastern Illinois Railroad and was a most excellent young 
man, loved and respected by al who knew him. He was a 
graduate of Yale college and shortly after his graduation 
entered a brokers office in New York.  About a year ago he 
became greatly debilitated and his attending physician told 
him he was afflicted with tuberculosis.

His brother, Charles Camp, a student of sculpture, had 
recently returned from pursuing his studies in Europe 
and he and a sister of the dead man, Mrs. Augusta Wagner, 
whose home is in Chicago, accompanied the invalid to 
Arizona last October, hoping almost against hope that 
the sick man would recover.  His record since then in 
the matter of his terrible affliction has been a 
remarkable one.  When he arrived he was having high 
fevers and his case was apparently that of a consumptive 
in the last stages of the disease.

The brother and sister and the invalid moved to Howard's 
Ranch where a little house was erected for their convenience 
and after a month the fever left him and he improved 
wonderfully.  By April he had gained over fifteen pounds 
in weight and was no longer troubled with fever, could 
walk, ride and do almost anything that a well person 
could do.  The change was almost miraculous from that 
of a bedridden consumptive to a person of rapidly 
recuperating health.  Since then his improvement has 
been rapid and continued.

About a month ago his brother Charles went to Flagstaff 
to secure employment in the mills and it was intended that, 
John and Mrs. Wagner were to join him there next week, 
returning here again next fall, if thought advisable.

Last Wednesday night John had an attack of cholera morbus 
and sent for Dr. Duffield, his attending physician.  The 
doctor saw him frequently till Sunday when he seemed to 
have fully recovered.  About 4 o'clock yesterday his pains 
returned suddenly and he suffered intensely.  It was 
probably 20 minutes after the attack that the fatal 
shot was fired.  Mrs. Wagner looking around the room 
thought to herself that there was no way in which any 
harm could come to him and started to the Howard 
residence, about one eighth of a mile away to dispatch 
a messenger for Dr. Duffield.  When she returned she 
found her brother had risen from his bed and gone to a 
drawer from which he took a 32 caliber six shooter and 
whether accidentally or intentionally had killed himself.

After the examination by the coroner, it was learned that 
it was the custom of the family to fire this revolver when 
help was needed from Mr. Howard and it is probably that 
Camp took the revolver from the drawer with the intention 
of summoning his sister to his assistance.  Mr. camp's 
brother in Flagstaff was notified at once of his brothers 
sad and sudden ending and is expected to arrive here on 
tonight's train from the north.  Before his arrival no 
final funeral arrangements will be made.

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