Whitney W. Camp Biography


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WHITNEY W. CAMP, who has attained an assured position among the 
substantial men of the farming community of New Hope township, in Brown 
county, is a man of indomitable will, untiring energy and honest 
dealings. Modern improvements are in course of erection on his farm on 
section 18, and when completed will afford more than usual comforts of 
country life. 

Mr. Camp was born in Michigan, February 5, 1863, and was the son of 
Isaac and Frances (Vermilya) Camp, natives respectively of Connecticut 
and New York, who moved to Ohio, and then to Michigan about 1854. This 
family was composed of three sons and three daughters, as follows: 
Edwin L., Albert E., Ida M., Hansa R. and Mary A., and our subject, 
Whitney W. The mother resides in Michigan, where the father died in 
1890. 

Mr. Camp remained at home until sixteen years of age, and assisted on 
the farm and attended school until February, 1885, when he went to 
Scatterwood, Faulk county, South Dakota. He filed a pre-emption in 
Edmunds county, and improved the property, disposing of it later, and 
returning to Michigan. He rented the homestead for a short time, and 
then returned to Millard, South Dakota, going from thence to 
Scatterwood, and then to Brown county, where he purchased a 
relinquishment and filed a homestead claim to the same in 1890. He has 
since resided on that farm, and made all necessary improvements. The 
estate had taken on the appearance of a well improved farm when, in 
1898, a cyclone visited that district and swept his improvements away. 
Fortunately the family was not at home, thus escaping injury. He is now 
repairing his losses, and expects in a short time to have comfortable 
surroundings again. 

Our subject was married in South Dakota, June 21, 1890, to Mrs. Nettie 
E. Erickson, nee Witter, the daughter of Robert W. and Violet E. 
(Birmingham) Witter, natives of New York state. Mrs. Camp was their 
only child, and was born in Monroe, Wisconsin, December 1, 1863, and at 
the age of five years removed with her parents to Iowa, where she was 
educated in the common and high schools, and was fitted for a teacher. 
She followed that profession sixteen terms in Iowa and South Dakota. 
She is a lady of high attainments and presides over her household with 
true womanly dignity. Mr. and Mrs. Camp have been the parents of three 
children, two of whom are living, as follows: Clarence C., aged seven 
years; Gladys L., aged six years, and a little son, Zelo F., whom death 
claimed at the age of two years. Both our subject and wife are members 
of the Highland Baptist church. Politically Mr. Camp casts his vote 
independent of party. He is a man who keeps well versed on the topics 
of the day, and lends his influence for the government which in his 
opinion will best serve the community and raise its standard.