Guide to the Camp Family Papers,
1817-1953

Collection Number: 891

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Compiled by:
K. Jacklin, M.E. Warren
Date completed:
March 1991
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, April 2003

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Camp family papers, 1817-1953.
Collection Number:
891
Creator:
Camp family.
Quantity:
4.8 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Correspondence, accounts, diaries, family stories, postcards, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

John G. Camp was chief of the Quartermaster Dept. of the Army of the Niagara in the War of 1812, a member of the Ohio Legislature, and U.S. Marshall at Tallahassee, Fla. His son, Jacob Andrus Camp (1823-1900) was paymaster in Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War and a special agent for the U.S. Treasury Dept. Their families lived in Buffalo, N.Y. and Sandusky, Ohio.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes papers of the related Osborn and Camp families.
Correspondence, accounts, and other papers of John G. Camp; Jacob A. Camp's daily reports as special agent and letters of instruction (1878-1884) on investigations of customhouses, complaints against Federal officials, claims against the Federal Government, and bids for Federal appropriations; accounts (1871) for the Oil & Guano Company, Sandusky, Ohio; diary and household expenses of Elizabeth Francis Osborn Camp (1835-1920), wife of Jacob A. Camp; family stories by Anna (Camp) Edwards; postcards from various European cities and from Japan and Russia; and material relating to the Civil War, to Federal patronage, and to life in Buffalo, Sandusky, Florida, New York City, Washington, D.C., and the South after the Civil War. Correspondents include Charles J. Folger, Rutherford B. Hayes, Thomas S. Jessup, Winfield Scott, John Sherman, and John Tyler.
Osborn family papers include letters from Ebeneezer Francis Osborn describing his life as a clerk in the firm of Osborn and Young, New York City, a serious yellow fever epidemic in New York City, a voyage (1825-1828) to Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Arica, Lima, and other South American cities, trading opportunities, social, political, and military activities, and the attitude of the people of Lima toward the intended visit of Simon Bolivar; a series of letters (1831-1839) describing social life in New England and public opinion on the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife; a series (1840-1848) describing life, a flour business and store in the river town of Louisiana, Mo.; a series describing life in Sandusky, Oh.; and a letter (1856) describing a Northerner's reactions to life in the South.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Camp family.
Camp, Elizabeth Francis Osborn.
Camp, Jacob Andrus, 1823-1900.
Camp, John G.
Edwards, Anna Camp.
Folger, Charles J. (Charles James), 1818-1884.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893.
Jessup, Thomas J.
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866.
Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
Tyler, John, 1790-1862.
Ohio.General Assembly.
Oil & Guano Company (Sandusky, Oh.)
Osborn and Young (New York, N.Y.)
United States. Army. Quartermaster Corps.
United States. Dept. of the Treasury.

Subjects:
Custom houses--United States.
Family--New York (State)--Buffalo.
Family--Ohio--Sandusky.
Patronage, Political.
Women's diaries.
General stores--Missouri--Louisiana.
Yellow fever--New York (N.Y.)
Flour and feed trade--Missouri--Louisiana.

Places:
United States--Social life and customs.
South America--Description and travel.
United States--History--War of 1812.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Buffalo (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Sandusky (Oh.)--Social life and customs.
Florida--Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Japan--Pictorial works.
Russia--Pictorial works.
Europe--Pictorial works.

Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
Postcards.
INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Camp family papers, #891. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Osborn family papers
1804-1819
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 1
1825-1828
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 2
1831-1839
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 3
1842-1847
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 4
1848-1855
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 5
1856-1859, n.d.
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 6
Series II. Camp family papers
1814-1835
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 7
1836-1840
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 8
1841
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 9
1842
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 10
1843-1846
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 11
1848-1852
Legal brief, Oct. 24
Box 1 Folder 12
1853-1855
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 13
1856-1859
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 14
1860
Correspondence
Box 1 Folder 15
1861
Correspondence: Jan.-June
Box 1 Folder 16
1861
Correspondence: July-Aug.
Box 1 Folder 17
1861
Correspondence: Sept.-Oct.
Box 2 Folder 1
1861
Correspondence: Nov.
Box 2 Folder 2
1861
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 2 Folder 3
1862
Correspondence: Jan.-Feb.
Box 2 Folder 4
1862
Correspondence: Mar.-Apr.
Box 2 Folder 5
1862
Correspondence: May-Aug.
Box 2 Folder 6
1862
Correspondence: Sept.
Box 2 Folder 7
1862
Correspondence: Oct.
Box 2 Folder 8
1862
Correspondence: Nov.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 9
1863
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 10
1864
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 11
1865
Correspondence: Jan.-Apr.
Box 2 Folder 12
1865
Correspondence: May-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 13
1866
Correspondence: Jan.-Mar.
Box 2 Folder 14
1866
Correspondence: Apr.-Dec.
Box 2 Folder 15
1867
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 1
1868
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 2
1869
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 3
1870
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 4
1871
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 5
1872
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 6
1873-1874
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 7
1875
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 8
1876
Correspondence: Jan.-Mar.
Box 3 Folder 9
1876
Correspondence: Apr.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 10
1877
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 11
1878
Correspondence: Feb.-Sept.
Box 3 Folder 12
1878
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 13
1879
Correspondence: Jan.-Sept.
Box 3 Folder 14
1879
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 3 Folder 15
1880
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 4 Folder 1
1880
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 4 Folder 2
1880
Correspondence: Mar.
Box 4 Folder 3
1880
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 4 Folder 4
1880
Correspondence: May
Box 4 Folder 5
1880
Correspondence: June-July
Box 4 Folder 6
1880
Correspondence: Aug.-Sept.
Box 4 Folder 7
1880
Correspondence: Oct.-Nov.
Box 4 Folder 8
1880
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 4 Folder 9
1881
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 4 Folder 10
1881
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 4 Folder 11
1881
Correspondence: Mar.-Apr.
Box 4 Folder 12
1881
Correspondence: May
Box 4 Folder 13
1881
Correspondence: June-July
Box 4 Folder 14
1881
Correspondence: Aug.-Sept.
Box 4 Folder 15
1881
Correspondence: Oct.
Box 4 Folder 16
1881
Correspondence: Nov.-Dec.
Box 4 Folder 17
1882
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 5 Folder 1
1882
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 5 Folder 2
1882
Correspondence: Mar.
Box 5 Folder 3
1882
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 5 Folder 4
1882
Correspondence: May
Box 5 Folder 5
1882
Correspondence: June
Box 5 Folder 6
1882
Correspondence: July
Box 5 Folder 7
1882
Correspondence: Aug.-Sept.
Box 5 Folder 8
1882
Correspondence: Oct.-Nov.
Box 5 Folder 9
1882
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 5 Folder 10
1883
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 5 Folder 11
1883
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 5 Folder 12
1883
Correspondence: Mar.
Box 5 Folder 13
1883
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 5 Folder 14
1883
Correspondence: May
Box 5 Folder 15
1883
Correspondence: June
Box 5 Folder 16
1883
Correspondence: July
Box 5 Folder 17
1883
Correspondence: Aug.
Box 5 Folder 18
1883
Correspondence: Sept.
Box 5 Folder 19
1883
Correspondence: Oct.
Box 5 Folder 20
1883
Correspondence: Nov.
Box 5 Folder 21
1883
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 5 Folder 22
1884
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 6 Folder 1
1884
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 6 Folder 2
1884
Correspondence: Mar.-May
Box 6 Folder 3
1884
Correspondence: June-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 4
1885
Correspondence: Feb.-Mar.
Box 6 Folder 5
1885
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 6 Folder 6
1885
Correspondence: May-Nov.
Box 6 Folder 7
1886
Correspondence: Apr.-June
Box 6 Folder 8
1886
Correspondence: July
Box 6 Folder 9
1886
Correspondence: Aug.-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 10
1887
Correspondence: Jan.-Apr.
Box 6 Folder 11
1887
Correspondence: May-Sept.
Box 6 Folder 12
1887
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 13
1888
Correspondence: Jan.-Apr.
Box 6 Folder 14
1888
Correspondence: May-Aug.
Box 6 Folder 15
1888
Correspondence: Sept.-Oct.
Box 6 Folder 16
1888
Correspondence: Nov.-Dec.
Box 6 Folder 17
1889
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 7 Folder 1
1889
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 7 Folder 2
1889
Correspondence: Mar.
Box 7 Folder 3-4
1889
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 7 Folder 5-6
1889
Correspondence: May
Box 7 Folder 7
1889
Correspondence: June
Box 7 Folder 8-9
1889
Correspondence: July
Box 7 Folder 10
1889
Correspondence: Aug.
Box 7 Folder 11
1889
Correspondence: Sept.-Oct.
Box 7 Folder 12
1889
Correspondence: Nov.-Dec.
Box 7 Folder 13
1890
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 7 Folder 14
1890
Correspondence: Feb.-Mar.
Box 7 Folder 15
1890
Correspondence: Apr.-May
Box 7 Folder 16
1890
Correspondence: June-Aug.
Box 7 Folder 17
1890
Correspondence: Sept.-Oct.
Box 7 Folder 18
1890
Correspondence: Nov.-Dec.
Box 7 Folder 19
1891
Correspondence: Jan.-Feb.
Box 8 Folder 1
1891
Correspondence: Mar.-July
Box 8 Folder 2
1891
Correspondence: Aug.-Dec.
Box 8 Folder 3
1892
Correspondence: Jan.-Feb.
Box 8 Folder 4
1892
Correspondence: Mar.-Apr.
Box 8 Folder 5
1892
Correspondence: May-June
Box 8 Folder 6
1892
Correspondence: July-Nov.
Box 8 Folder 7
1892
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 8 Folder 8
1893
Correspondence: Jan.-May
Box 8 Folder 9
1893
Correspondence: June-Dec.
Box 8 Folder 10
1894
Correspondence: Jan.-Mar.
Box 8 Folder 11
1894
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 8 Folder 12
1894
Correspondence: May
Box 8 Folder 13
1894
Correspondence: June-Sept.
Box 8 Folder 14
1894
Correspondence: Oct.-Nov.
Box 8 Folder 15
1894
Correspondence: Dec.
Box 8 Folder 16
1895
Correspondence: Jan.
Box 8 Folder 17
1895
Correspondence: Feb.
Box 8 Folder 18
1895
Correspondence: Mar.
Box 8 Folder 19
1895
Correspondence: Apr.
Box 8 Folder 20
1895
Correspondence: May-June
Box 8 Folder 21
1895
Correspondence: July-Aug.
Box 8 Folder 22
1895
Correspondence: Sept.
Box 8 Folder 23
1895
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 8 Folder 24
1896
Correspondence: Jan.-June
Box 9 Folder 1
1896
Correspondence: July-Dec.
Box 9 Folder 2
1897
Correspondence: Feb.-Sept.
Box 9 Folder 3
1897
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 9 Folder 4
1898
Correspondence: Jan.-June
Box 9 Folder 5
1898
Correspondence: Aug.-Dec.
Box 9 Folder 6
1899
Correspondence: Jan.-Feb.
Box 9 Folder 7
1899
Correspondence: May-Sept.
Box 9 Folder 8
1899
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 9 Folder 9
1900
Correspondence: Jan.-Sept.
Box 9 Folder 10
1900
Correspondence: Oct.-Dec.
Box 9 Folder 11
1901
Correspondence: Jan.-Apr.
Box 9 Folder 12
1901
Correspondence: May-June
Box 9 Folder 13
1901
Correspondence: July
Box 9 Folder 14
1901
Correspondence: Aug.
Box 9 Folder 15
1901
Correspondence: Sept.
Box 9 Folder 16
1901
Correspondence: Oct.-Nov.
Box 9 Folder 17
1902
Correspondence
Box 9 Folder 18
1903
Correspondence
Box 9 Folder 19
1906
Correspondence: Apr.-May
Box 9 Folder 20
1906
Correspondence: June-Aug.
Box 9 Folder 21
1906
Correspondence: Sept.-Nov.
Box 9 Folder 22
1907
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 1
1908
Correspondence: Jan.-Apr.
Box 10 Folder 2
1908
Correspondence: May-Sept.
Box 10 Folder 3
1909
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 4
1910
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 5
1911-1916
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 6
1917-1939
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 7
undated
Correspondence
Box 10 Folder 8-19
Series III. Camp-Osborn family papers
1814-1853
John G. Camp Papers
Box 11 Folder 1
1880
"A Little History of Politics for the Past Twenty-five Years from 1855" manuscript and typescript by Jacob A. Camp
Box 11 Folder 2
1858-1897
Texas Lands
Box 11 Folder 3
1869, 1881
Presidential Inaugurations
Box 11 Folder 4
1876, 1884
Patents - Jacob Camp
Box 11 Folder 5
1878-1881
Office of Special Agent Jacob A. Camp Reports of Daily Employment
Box 11 Folder 6
1882-1883
Office of Special Agent Jacob A. Camp Reports of Daily Employment
Box 11 Folder 7
1893
Osborn - Executor's Accounts
Box 11 Folder 8
1894
Manuscript draft "Money - Silver - Notes" [?]
Box 11 Folder 9
1894, 1905-1915
William Wyatt Camp
Box 11 Folder 10
1896-1900
Gold
Box 11 Folder 11
1851, 1900-1902
Cemetery Papers
Box 11 Folder 12
1892, 1903, 1920, 1922
Legal Documents
Box 11 Folder 13
1907
Marshall Field and Company - Miss A. R. Camp
Box 11 Folder 14
1907-1914
Elizabeth F. Camp bank statements
Box 11 Folder 15
1953
"Out of Old Virginia and New England" the story of Jacob Andrus Camp, 1823-1900 and Elizabeth Osborn Camp, 1835-1929
Box 11 Folder 16
Camp family genealogy
Box 11 Folder 17
Francis-Whitmore families genealogy
Box 11 Folder 18
Travel miscellany
Box 11 Folder 19
1851-1873
Miscellany
Box 11 Folder 20
Miscellany
Box 11 Folder 21-24
1880's
Newspaper clippings - "History"
Box 11 Folder 25
1880's
Newspaper clippings - "Biographical"
Box 11 Folder 26
1880's
Newspaper clippings
Box 11 Folder 27
1880's
Newspaper clippings
Box 11 Folder 28
Newspaper clippings
Box 11 Folder 29-32
1893, 1895
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
Box 12 Folder 1
Picture postal cards of United States, Japan, Italy and Germany
Box 12 Folder 2
3 photograph albums
 Box 12
Photographs of Osborn and Camp family members, and others, also 2 silhouettes; calling cards
 Box 12
1852-1923
Journals, diaries, notebooks, day books
 Box 13
1812-1868
Commissions and appointments of John G. Camp, Jacob A. Camp, Erskine M. Camp
 Mapcase
1818, 1852
3 maps: Sandusky, Ohio
 Mapcase
1896
Certificate: Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
 Mapcase
1814
Indenture
 Mapcase
1817
Royal Arch Masons degree
 Mapcase
1856
Bounty Land Grant
 Mapcase
1889
Honorable Discharge
 Mapcase
Photo negatives of genealogical material re: Osborn, Camp, Francis, Whitmore families; lot map
 Mapcase
Series IV. Additional Camp family correspondence
Letters (5 items, 1828-1842) to Maj. John G. Camp
From O. Follett, Buffalo, Mar. 15, 1828, to JGC, Albany, NY
From Isaac Bell, New York, Oct. 24, 1836, to JGC, Sandusky
From brother, James, Weston, Lewis County, Aug. 18, 1837, to JGC, Sandusky
From son, Jacob A., Kenyon College, Mar. 24, 1842, to JGC, Tallahassee, Florida
From son, John, Jr., Sandusky, July 13, 1845, to JGC, Tallahassee
Letters (2 items, 1836, 1842) to Mrs. John G. Camp
From sister, Sophia [?], Buffalo, Nov. 12, 1836
From Jacob A., Gambier, Nov. 13, 1842
Letters (4 items, 1843-1844) to Jacob A. Camp, at Gambier, Ohio
From brother, John G., Jr., Sandusky, June 18, 1843
From sister, E.R.C.H. [?], Sandusky, Jan. 24, 1844
From brother, John, Sandusky, Mar. 18, [1844?]
From Charles H. Pitt, Baltimore, June 22, 1844, to JAC and John Boyd
Series V. Letters written by E. Francis Osborn from South America (originals of 7, transcripts of all 11)
Rio de Janeiro, July 27, 1825
Valaraiso, Nov. 6, 1825
Valparaiso, Nov. 6, 1825 (sent by different ship)
Lima, Jan. 27, 1826
Lima, Jan. 30, 1826
Valparaiso, Mar. 31, 1826
Valparaiso, Apr. 18, 1826
Arica, July 18, 1826
Valparaiso, Sept. 10, 1826
Lima, Nov. 13, 1826
Lima, Feb. 14, 1828