Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-30
]. D. CAMERON is
DEAD, AT DONEGAL
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the destinies of the Republican party
from Lancaster county.
Senator Cameron did much to
help in the business development of
Harrisburg. He was builder and
an investor at home. because he al
ways considered Front and State
streets as his place of residence.
When the East Harrisburg Railway
was projected. he joined the group
OF men who founded the trolley sys,
tenn of this city, and was identified
with other enterprises. Harrisburg
owes the location OF the Elliott
Fisher works to Senator Cameron
who secured Il for the Lochiel dis
trict. where he was also interested
in Lochiel Furnace and where he
had his country home, Lochial, as
famous in state politics as Donegal
was in national affairs.
A page could be written about
Senator Cameron's activities ere, his
close relationship to this city and
vicinity, his notable personality and
the part he played in political af-
fairs Like his father, he has passed
into the history of his native com
monwealth.
His Distinguished Career
,
of war in Grants second administra-
ton, United States Senator from
Pennsylvania for twenty years, chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee in 1880, and the last great
figure remaining from the period OF
American reconstruction, the son and
successor to the fortunes and politi-
cal power in Pennsylvania of his
father, Simon Cameron, sought 10
avoid publicity in the closing years
of his life. and spent most of his time
at the old family seat. Donegal,
in Lancaster county, where his an
cestors had settled on fleeing from
Scotland and after the battle of Cul-
loden in which they had espoused
the cause of the unfortunate Prince
Charlie. going to his plantation OH
st. Helena's Island, in South Caro-
lima, in winter or cruising in south
ern waters on his houSeboat' Cone
WACO. He was a public benefactor
to the city of Harrisburg in partiau-
lar. and was a leader as an agricul-
turalist a railroad builder. a finan-
cier and statesman. While keenly
interested in current affairs, he took
no active part in politics after retlr-
ing from tic United States Senare,
but devoted himself to his business
and family affairs, and associated
with himself in the management of
his affairs his son, ]. NJ. Cameron,
and his eldest grandson, J. G. Brad
ley, so shat he might be sure that
they would be conducted along the
lines in which he had faith
He was born on the fourteenth
day of May, 1888, at Middletown,
Pennsylvania, where he was educat-
ed until he entered Princeton Col
lege. from which he was graduated IN
the class of 1852. Soon after that he
married in Harrisburg, where his
father had moved, Mary Mccormick.
the only daughter of James McCor-
mick, at that time the leader of the
Pennsylvania bar, and a man of
great business acumen and enter
prise. BY this marriage he had six
children, who are still living, FIVE
daughters, Mrs. William II. Bradley.
Mrs. Alexander Rodgers, Miss Mary
Cameron, Mrs. ]. William Clark. and
Mrs. Chandler Hale, and one son,
James NJ. Cameron. His second wife,
who was Elizabeth Sherman, daugh-
ter of Judge Sherman, of Cleveland,
Ohio. and niece of General William
T. Sherman, also survives him.
Prominent in Business
His business career began as soon
as he left Princeton, when he be-
came a clerk in his fathers bank at
Middletown, later becoming cashier
and president of it when it became
the National Bank of Middletown.
After moving to Harrisburg he be-
C5mc interested in the First National
Sank of Harrisburg. He soon pur-
chased from his father the farm on
the Susqu shanna river south of the
city. called Lochiel, and there made
his home Cor many years. In the
meantime his business interests
brcadencd and he became identified
with the Northern Central Railroad,
which extended from Baltimore 20
Canandaigua, New York, opening p
route from Buffalo to the South. I'm
der his direction as president of the
Northern Central Railroad 1t pros
pered amazingly and was finally leas-
ed TO the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, and
is to-day one of that systems most
important lines.
He brought many industries to
Harrisburg, through his connection
with then, among them the Penn
SylVania Steel Company, and the Ell
lott Fisher Company. With his two
hrothers-in-law, Henry Mccormick
Ind James Mccormick, he became a
trustee of the James Mccormick es-
tate. and took an active interest in
developing the business interests
which had been left by his father
in-law of which the Dauphin Deposit
Trust Company, and the blast fur
mace, and steel rolling mills, now
known as the Central Iron q Steel
Company, were part. on his farms
he took an active interest in aSri-
culture, being among the first to in
troduce Jersey cattle into Southeast
ern Pennsylvania He helped 20 RAISE
the standard of horses by breeding
and distributing Hackneys, and was
the owner of Royalty" in mis- day
a famous Hackney sire. For many
years he was the oldest member OF
the Farmers Club of Philadelphia
whose monthly dinners have be er
the gathering place for men of ma
tior III reputation in business anC
politics for generations. AS a phil.
anthropist he sought to hide his ex'
tensive generosity, rather than tC
publish it and was active in assisting
to place the Pine Street Presbyterian
Church and the Harrisburg Hospita
on a secure foundation, and at thC
time that an extension to Harris.
burg's beautiful parkway was a@i.
tated he was the first to donate the
land needed, giving that part of hi!
'Lochiel farms which lay along Mil
creek from the Susquehanna river tC
the Dauphin county almshouse
thereby taking the project out of tl't
realms of Imagination and making i
a reality. This gift helped to give
impetus to the development which
has made Harrisburg one of the mos
beautiful cities of it's size in III,
United States