The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-23
COL. j. D. CAMERON.
One of the Best Known Men in North
Carolina,

Carolina.
The Asheville Citizen saws: Though
entering the profession comparatively
late in life, there is perhaps not a news
paper man in the state more widely
known or more universally admired than
Col. j. D. Cameron. Possessed of a style
graceful, fluent and exalted, yet discrim-
mating and able, he has been aptly de-
nominated the Macaulay of North Caro-
lima journalism. To those who have the
pleasure of knowing Colonel Cameron
personally, he is as much admired for his
courtly manner, his transparent sincerity
and his genial companioHship, as for
those qualities which have given him a
permanent place among the moulders
and leaders of thought in his native state.
John Donald Cameron, born October
26, 1920, in Fayetteville, n. c., is a son of
John A. Cameron, prominent lawyer and
politician, editor of the North Carolina
Journal, a democratic paper published in
Fayetteville, a jealous advocate of Jack
son. In 1880 he was appointed Consul
| at Vera Cruz, in connection with an i'm
portant mission to the City of Mexico.
On his return in the summer of 1882 he
was appointed by General Jackson judge
of the Western district of Florida, then
| a Territory, which position he filled up
to June, 1888, when he perished at sea in
| the calamitous explosion of the steamer
Pulaski on it's voyage from Savannah to
New York.
At the end of the year 1884 John D.
Cameron was seut as a pupil to the Epis-
copal school at Raleigh, n. c., where he
remained two years. Then he was trans
ferred to the Flushing Institute, on Long
Island, n. Y, remaining there two years,
completing his education at the Univer-
sity Of North Carolina in the class grad
uating in 1841.
He studied law, obtaining license in
both the county and superior courts, but
did not engage in practice, pursuing
various avocatiOns up to 1872, when he
| became purchaser of the Hillsboro Re-
corder While editor of that paper he
| was called to the editorial charge of the
Raleigh News, which position he held,
| in connection with the Recorder, for
period of eighteen months, when he re-
tired from the News. During 1S75-76
he was chief contributing editor to the
Farmer and Mechanic, an industrial pa
per published in Raleigh. At the session
of the general assembly of North Caro-
lima Of 1874, he was elected principal
clerk, and was re, elected to the same
position during five subsequent success
sive sessions, without opposition. At
the session of 1887 he was defeated by
one vote through a combination of the
republican and independent voters.
In 1881, he sold the Recorder, which
two years previously he had removed
| from Hillsboro to Durham, and came to
Messrs Furman and Stone in the con-
duct of The Citizen, then a weekly pa
per. This was in January, 1882. The
paper was at once made a semi weekly,
the first advance step in mountain Jour
nalism; and on April 13, 1884, it ap-
peared as daily, the first of it's kind in
transmontane North Carolina.
In November, 1849, Col. Cameron mar
ried Rebecca c., daughter of F. N. Wad-
dell, of Hillsboro Of his family of. five
children, two daughters survive, one the
wife, of W. S. Cushman, Esq, of Ashe-
vile, and Miss Mary r.