Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of DR. G. E. CAMP 

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DR. G. E. CAMP, one of the chief citizens of Moreland, is a member of a 
family well known among the early settlers of the state. His father, Rev. 
Hiram Camp, was a minister of the M. E. church, as were also all his 
brothers, and was a son of Abner and Elizabeth (Ragsdale) Camp, the 
former a Virginian, the latter born in North Carolina, who about 1800, 
settled in Walton county, Ga., and cleared up a farm in the midst of the 
wilderness. Abner Camp's father, John Camp, also a native of Virginia, 
was a soldier in the war of the revolution. 

Rev. Hiram Camp was born in Walton county in 1806, and his wife, Penina 
Reynolds, was also a native of that county, to which her parents, John 
and Sallie (Cupp) Reynolds, came at an early day, and for many years kept 
a country inn. Dr. Camp was born in 1849, and spent his early years upon 
the farm, receiving such education as was obtainable in the country 
schools, and afterward completed his course at Newnan, Ga. 

At the age of twenty he began the study of medicine, and in 1884 he 
entered the medical college at Atlanta, Ga., from which he received the 
degree of M. D. in 1886. Dr. Camp began his practice in the town of 
Moreland, meeting with success, but after six years devoted himself 
wholly to mercantile affairs. 

He opened the first store in Moreland, where at that time was nothing but 
a little railroad station, and has continued in this business fourteen 
years, building up a large trade, the town also growing and developing 
very rapidly, so that at the present time there is scarcely a town in the 
state of its size which is its equal in the amount of business carried 
on. Dr. Camp is also an enthusiast on the subject of fruit growing, in 
which he himself has had great success, as well as having aroused an 
interest in the subject on the part of others. He has on his farm fifteen 
acres of fine grapes, forty acres in peaches, five in plums and two in 
strawberries. 

His industry in the development of the resources of these rich lands is 
appreciated by the community, where he has the hearty respect and good 
will of all. In 1870 Dr. Camp married Miss Mattie Couch, daughter of 
James M. and Martha (Davis) Couch; she was born in Spalding county in 
1852; she is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The 
union of Dr. and Mrs. Camp has been blessed with three children: George 
A., Edward H., and Myrtice.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.