Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Camp, James L. Jr., 1983 

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JAMES LEONIDAS CAMP, JR.

JAMES L. CAMP, JR., FORMER PRESIDENT OF UNION CAMP CORP.

   FRANKLIN - James Leonidas Camp, Jr. 87, former president and chairman of 
the board of Union Camp Corporation, died Sunday at his home, Wyndie Crest, 
after a brief illness.  A native of Franklin, the son of the late James 
Leonidas Camp Sr. and the late Carrie Fountain Savage Camp, he was the husband 
of Alma Truitt Camp; his first wife Mary Frances Clay Camp had died in 1969.

   Camp, a noted philanthropist, also had been chairman of the board and 
president of Camp Manufacturing co., before its merger with Union Bag & Paper 
Corp. and had been a director of National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 
American Forest Products Inc. and National Association of Manufacturers.

   He was a trustee and former president of Virginia Foundation of Independent 
Colleges and president of Camp Foundation and his own J.L. Camp Foundation. 
He also was a trustee of Virginia Baptist Children's Home, University of 
Richmond, University of Virginia Graduate School of Business Administration, 
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Crozier Theological Seminary.

   In 1961 he received the distinguished service award of Virginia's First 
Citizen from the state Chamber of Commerce and had received a similar award 
from the Franklin Business and Professional Women's Club in 1955.  He was a 
member of the Newcomers Society of North America, the English Speaking Union 
and several clubs in New York, Virginia and Florida.  He was for many years a 
deacon in Franklin Baptist Church and organized the group that founded 
Southampton Memorial Hospital in 1963.  He strongly backed the development of 
Franklin's Young Men's Christian Association.

   He was a graduate of Wake Forest College, where he played varsity football, 
and died graduate work at Columbia University, where he studied voice under 
Frank Croston.  While he abandoned an intended career as a concert and an 
operatic singer when he entered business, for many years he continued to 
perform as a baritone soloist.

   He was a member of the Naval Reserve Flying Corps during World War II.

   Other survivors include a son, Fr. James L. Camp,III, and two grandsons, 
James L. Camp IV and Christopher P. Camp, of Charlottesville, and a sister, 
Mrs. W. Eldridge Smith of Franklin.

   A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Poplar Spring Cemetery by 
Dr. Ira D. Hudgins.  Wright Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.


James Leonidas CAMP, Jr., former president & chairman of Union Camp Corp., 
Naval Reserve Flying Corps veteran of WW-II, philanthropist, 
Franklin native, d. 27 Jan 1983, at home "Wyndie Crest," age 87, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 43*), Franklin, 
   30 Jan 1983, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Jan. 28, 1983 

*Buried with 1st wife, Mary Frances CLAY CAMP. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Mary's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 1, 1970) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510m1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("American Lumberman," Dec. 12, 1925) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510j3ob.txt

Three 1949 obits for his mother are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c510c1ob.txt 


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