Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-30

lOt luISC S0NCC0GANS e~1 AtS- AAS
rendered Distinguished service there.
! and Withdrew only because ne
Wished to devote himselt 90 MIS- pri-
! yale affairs. He was Il delegate co
| che Republican National con seneiCl
! OF 1868 and 1880 and IN 1850 was
! chairman OF the Republican NatioG,l
! Committee, and member with
! Logan OF Illinois and ConklinS OF
[ New York OF the trlumvlrate which
sought the nomination. OF Grant fcr
! third presidential term. During
much OF this time III the Senate, SEe
! Democrats were III control at Con-
| sress, bul such was the frienlsnlp
aud respect they held in MIN. th,.c
| he welded an Influence beyond tHde
| ci has Republican colleagues.
! Before Mexican Var
| The active period oil his lifetime
! began before the Mexlcan War.
During the period which intervened
before Lincoin's election he was
gaining the experience with men and
! aITairS which made 1t possible Tor
! him 10 take over his Iather'S bus
mess interests when Simon Cameron
: became LIncoln'S first secretary OF
War. During Inc Civil War he rem
/ oered sigma ser vice as Il railroad
man i'll maintaining and improving
. INC Ol lEOOpo anu
/ supplies. At the close of the war he
! found himself drawn more and more
! into the problems of reconstruction
and atcive political life. Then fol-
! lowed period of twenty years in
| office, during which the country was
| developing the national resources
and its international relations,
which was brought to a close by the
war with Spain After that another
I twenty years devoted to business and
! family affairs. For fifty years he
has been a national figure. For
sixty years he enjoyed the friend
ship and confidence of the leaders
of business, finance and politics. In
his old age he was fortunate in re-
! tanning those qualities which marked
him in his youth. Alert, energetic
and optimistic, he was quick to
! form a judgment and to act unhesi-
| tatingly upon it, and to bear the
consequences. He left a record of
which he was not ashamed and to
which those who come after him
may point with pride. He came of
sturdy stock and worthily represent
| ed it. He was the able son of an
able father
! He was actively identified with
various coal, iron and manufactur-
mia and not a few in other states. He
! was "A man of vast capacity for in
4 duStrial management and kept in
/ close personal touch with all of the
enterprises with which he was con-
nected.
To Mr.. Cameron, as has been said,
more than to anybody else must be
given credit for the establishment
in Harrisburg of the Elliott Type
| writer company, now the Elliott
| Fisher Company. one of the largest
| of its kind in the world. 1t was
| Mr. Cameron also who was largely
! instrumental in the development of
/ the first modern housing experiment
| in Harrisburg, the Cameron EXten-
! sion. where well-designed, good
looking. semi detached houses were
erected with the thought of leasing
them at low rentals to employees of
the Elliott Fisher Company
Mr.. Cameron was always deeply
| interested in Harrisburg. He foresaw
! that what was formerly Eleventh
! street. now Cameron. would eventu-
! ally become one of the most import
ant thoroughfares in the city and he
asked that council change it's name
/ to Cameron. In token of his appre-
citation he brought the typewriter
plant to Harrisburg and located it
/ on Cameron street. Later, he agreed
! to the dedication of Cameron park
way. an important link in the city
parkway The old park commission
! generously named it the Cameron
! Parkway.
/ But while the Cameron farms in
| this vicinity called for some atten-
tion on the part of Senator Gamer
/ on and the old mansion in the lower
! end of the city has been for years
( one of the landmarks, much of the
/ time he spent in Harrisburg during
/ later years was at the family man
sion at Front and State streets. He
! was a great admirer of the river
front and was among the earliest
advocates of wall along the river
and a public park the length of the
city.
| He at one time approached the late
Mayor Charles A. Miller, when the
| latter was city clerk, with the pro-
posal that the property owners along
! Front street each be required to
build the section of wall in front of
his property and donate the land to
low water mark for a park, Mr..
Cameron offering to be the first to
bear his share. The project fell be-
cause of the opposition of property
owners who thought the expense too
high and was at a much later date
carried to completion by the city
along more extensive lines than even
Mr.. Cameron planned.
! Lived ut Donegal
Mr.. Cameron lived for many YEA RS
since his retirement from public life
on account of advancing age and
| large business interests at DONEGAL,
Lancaster county, where his father
I lived and died before him.
Property in Trust
Senator Cameron's death recalls
an interesting fact in his political
career. EIc favored free silver and
differed with most of the potential
Republican leaders on their ad,o-
cacy of the gold standard. He DR.
dicted that the time would come
when silver would be on a par with
gold.
December 23, 1914, Senator Cam
eron began putting his house in order
against the day of his death BY es-
tablishing a trusteeship he placed the
affairs in hands of trustees compris-
ing himself, his son and grandson
and the Fidelity Trust Company. of
Pennsylvania. The trust was to con-
tinue throughout Mr.. Camerons life
time and until the death of the last
survivor of his children and de-
scendants then living. Within one
year after the death of the last sur
vivor named the estate is to be dis
tributed among the issue of Senator
) the interest the parents of each
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