The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-11
WAS BORN IN DURHAJL.

 Death of William II. Camp-Anothor Com
 neotlcut Man Who Rose to Wealth and
 Honor in New Nork-His Wife Was n
 Middietawn Lady.
 New York, Dec. lO,-William Angus tus Camp, well known in business and especially In banking circles in this city, by reason of his long association with the New York clearing house, from the management of which he re- tired on July 1, 1892, died this morn ing at the Madison Avenue hotel, where he had winter apartments.
 MT. Camp was born in Durham, Conn, in 1922, His father was merchant and for twenty-seven years the cashier of a bank in Middletown, Conn. Mir Camp received a common school edu- cation, and early in life developed an aptitude for figures, He was engaged as young man in the dry goods busi- ness in Middletown, Conn, and after wards as a wholesale dry goods mer- chant in this city. Then he entered the Importers and Traders bank in this city, when it first started, as discount clerk--he received the subscriptions to it's capital stock-and afterwards, for nearly 8 year. was employed in the Ar ti2ans' bank At the closing of that bank in 1S57 he went to the clearing house, At that time the clearing house was situated in the basement at No. 14 Wall street. From there it moved to No S2 Broadway; then, in March, 1858, to the Bank of New York build- ing, and on June r, 1875, to the corner of Pine and Nassau streets. MT, Camps connection with the clearing house embraced a period of thirty-five years. He entered the institution as assistant manager, seven years after
 wards he was made manager, sue ceeding George D. Lyman, it's first manager, in 1864, and he held the latter office uninterruptedly until his retire. ment on half pay in 1892. During that time the total transactions of the clear ing house were S1, ,010 159 GOO 000 or an
 average of $130, GOO, 900 a day In all that time the cash received and paid out in settlement of the daily balances aggregated $44, 731 ,OO0, ,000, and that vast sum was handled without dollar be- ing lost. The system and methods of
 the clearing house were largely per fected by him. and he contributed
 greatly to it's success by his methodical and painstaking work. He was very
 useful to the clearing house commit tee in floating the war loan of 1863, and
 generally took great pride in the clear ing house as an institution.
 MT. Camp was a, member of the New York chamber of commerce, the Union League club, and the New England society, a trustee of the American h. stitute, honorary member of the Law yers club, and also a member of St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal church. He served for some time as a member
 of the art committee of the Union League club, and was chairman of the
 art committee of the Palette club.
 MT. Camp married Harriet E. Fay Tor, daughter of a Middletown, Conn, merchant, by whom he had one son, William $. Camp, who, with his wife, survives him. His funeral will take place at St. Thomas Protestant Epis- copaI church on Friday morning at 10 o'clock, and the following bank officers will be the pallbearers, MT Camp hav- ing himself selected them about two years ago. F. H. Perkins, jr, J. Ed ward Simmons. George G. Williams,
 Richard Hamilton. Frederick D. Tap pen, William A. Nash, George s. Coe, | William Dowd, Stuart G. Nelson, and
 William Sherer. The late F. K. Wright, president of the National Park bank,
 was one of those designated, but MT. Wright himself died before MT. Camp. Since his retirement from the clearing house Mr. Camp had made his home
 in the summer at Montclair, N. J.