Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Mc Camley, Wm. M. June 8, 1828 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

WM. M. McCAMLEY, farmer, sec. 6, Austin Tp., was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., 
June 8, 1828.  His parents, 

Eleazer and Ruth (Wheeler) McCamley, were natives of Scotland, and emigrated 
to the United States, 

locating in the county where the son was born.  They came with their family in 
1832 to Calhoun Co., Mich., 

where they lived until January 1847, when William enlisted as a soldier in the 
Mexican War.  He enrolled 

in the Michigan Vol. Co. G, under Capt. Hicks, with Col. Stockson in command 
of the regiment, which was 

attached to the division of Gen. Taylor.  He was in considerable active 
service but escaped without 

injury, and was honorably discharged in November, 1848.  He then remained at 
home until 1850, when he 

moved upon a farm in Calhoun County, and lived there until the spring of 
1852.  In that year he made an 

overland journey to California, passing through the Mormon "City of the 
plains."  His search for gold 

continued two years and he then returned to his home.  In the fall of 1856 he 
purchased a farm in Mecosta 

Tp., where he was resident until November, 1864, then bought 80 acres on sec. 
6, Austin Tp., to which he 

has since added, by purchase, 40 acres more, and is now the proprietor of a 
valuable farm of 120 acres of 

finely improved land.

Mr. McCamley was married Dec. 4, 1850, to Martha S., daughter of John and Emma 
(Woodward) Fish, 

respectively of Welsh and English descent, who was born in Allegany Co., N. 
Y., Sept. 1, 1832, and came to 

Michigan when but five years old.  Of this marriage six children have been 
born, Delisle, Jan. 18, 1856; 

Alice R., June 4, 1858; Flora M., May 31, 1860; Mary J., March 30, 1862; Wm. 
B., July 9, 1864; Lou A., 

Sept. 12, 1873.  Mr. McCamley is a Democrat in politics, and has held the post 
of Township Treasurer two 

terms.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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