Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-10
DEATH OF HON. HIRAM CAMP.

Making Machinery fin the World |! A Sketch of His Long and Honor l able Career.
 Hon. Hiram Camp, ex president of the New Haven Clock company, died at his residence on Ferry street st Il o'clock Sat urday night, aged eighty-two. His health had been failing for several months past, following the attack of pneumonia which he had year or more ago, whose prostra- tive effects undermined his naturally firm and wonderfully strong constitution. He was 8 man of massive frame and of great muscular strength, few if any equalling him in physical vigor and strength in his palmy days in all of the immense manu factory of which he was one of the chief men for 80 long period. His death will be greatly mourned in this city, of which he had 80 long been one of its leading men and honored citizens. He leaves a mem ory which will be warmly cherished by his family and by his circle of friends which numbered, despite his quiet, unostentatious life, many of the leading men of the state. He was @ native of Plymouth, born April g, 1911. His grandfather was 8 soldier of the revolution, his father was Samuel Camp, and both were of the sterling, in domitable Puritan stock to which the coun- try and the world is so much indebted. Four of Mir. Camps grandfather's brothers served in the war for independence Hiram had natural taste for mechanical pursuits. and at eighteen went to work with his uncle, Chauncey Jerome, in the manufacture of clocks at Bristol. Mr. Jerome after awhile put his nephew in charge of all his work, and the two re- mained together for twenty years. At that period clock manufacturing was in its ip- fancy, and prior to 1915 little had been done toward its establishment in this couu- try.
 In 1842 Mir. Jerome determined to re- move his clock business to this city and delegated to his nephew the work of build ing and fitting up factory here. Only the case manufacturing was done here until 1845. Then MT. Jerome's movement shop in Bristol was burned, and the whole business was centered here. Upon the failure of MT. Jerome, MT. Camp entered into business for himself in 1851, and began the manufacture of clock movements. In 1853 he organized the New Haven Clock company, with capital fixed at $20, 900, president; James E. English, treasurer; and John Woodruff, secretary. In 1856 the company increased it's stock to $200,- | 600 and purchased the plant of the Jerome Clock company. More clocks have been made under MT. Camps supervision than | under that of any other man.
 MT. Camp was high y distinguished ss an | inventor as we'll as 8 manufacturer of clocks. One of his most curious inven- tions was clock which bsat time to music l snd whose movements can bs regulated st | will. It was designed for the use of schools in marking time for gymnastic, calisthenic and military exercises.
 When MT. Camp started in business the | principal clock made was the we'll known mantel timepiece called the 70. G." clock. It was about four feet in height and was considered fine timepiece In its day. MT. l Camp used to sell them for $25 each, but l the increase in machinery has 50 cheapened | production that the same clock could now be made for $1.75. MT Camp in thu. early days shipped most of his clocks to New York, sending them by the sailing packets which carried freight before the railroad was built.
 Mr. Camp filled several public offiees such as member of the court of common council, selectman, chief engineer of the legislature. He supported two Sunday school missionaries in Nebraska and 8 city missionary in another state. He founded the Mount Hermon boys school at Gill
 Mass, which was under the auspices o1 the evangelist, Dwight L. Moody, and co
 operated with him in establishing the Northisld seminary for young ladies. He was a warm personal friend of Mir Moody and about five years ago he felt i5 in his heart to aid the school financially and wrote his check for $20,000 More recent l 1v ha addad 1aroa dop and iu oil bos aided MT. Moody's North6eld school to the amount of $75,000. He visited the school several times year and took par
 ticular interest in the annual commence. ment exercises. MT. Camp was one of ths
 trustees of the institution. MT. Moody
 was present and made an address at the
 celebration by MT. Camp of his eighty
 second birthday.
 Several years ago Mr. Camp built tho
 Ferry Street church, which stands on lot
 adjoining his ample grounds near State
 street, expending for the object some $10, 900. The church is in neighborhood some distance from any other place oi
 worship. MT. Camp has since been a gen
 erous contributor to it's support.
 Several years ago MT. Camp was nomi
 mated by the prohibition party for gov ernor He had been for many years an ardent member of the party and had given literally to the cauee and had also spoken occasionally at temperance rallies. Mir. Camp was prominent member of the old | volunteer fire department and the first president of the Veteran Firemen's sssool ation. The deceased leaves large estate estimated by intimate old friends at half a million of dollars.
 The past two or three years Mr. Camp was very fond of working in tho large manufactory owned and controlled by him. He had 8 work bench of his own which he used to designate his ''privste bench," where he could work at various portions of the machinery. He once said that he enjoyed himself very much while thus engaged, as it brought back old times very wildly to his recollection when he felt himself obliged to work at his trade every day in order to earn an adequate support for his family. Here he could be found occasionally up to within the last three monthe, and he was never so busy ! that he could not stop and talk with any one who was interested in temperance re- form or any other subject for the benefit and betterment of the public. MT. Camp devoted his leisure for many years in the cultivation of a farm near this city and raised and bred many horses of a superior stamp: About twenty years ago he i'm ported some of the largest horses in France.
 MT. Camp retired from the presidency of the company January 1, 1899, and on Thursday, January 28, Samuel A. Galpin was elected president. At the same meet ing MT. Camp was elected one of the directors. Re had been president of the company practically from the irst day he was elected to that office. MT. Camp leaves three daughters-Mrs. Cruttenden, wife of George o. Cruttenden, one of New Haven's prominent carriage manu- lecturers; Mrs. White, widow of the late James White, who died about two years | ago, and Mrs. Harmount, widow of the late Colonel George N. Harmount, who carried on the clock and electric business in Chicago, dying here few months ago. 1 About three years ago MT. Camps wife died. MT. Camp was leading member of the Church of the Redeemer, this city.
 MT. Camp had resided on Ferry street, Fair Haven, for about thirty years past. The Camp residence was for long period about the only fine dwelling on this hand some thoroughfare, on which in the last fifteen or twenty years many pleasant and well-built houses have been erected. Previous to his removal to Ferry street he resided for many years on Wooster street. corner of Hamilton street, in large, we'll built and equipped frame house where his old friend Commodore Richard Peck. who has been so i'll of late, now resides. | Opposite is the house which was for years occupied by the late MT. Smith and later | for years by the late ex-Mayor Henry G. l Lewis. MT. Smith was for many years the