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Author: lacer123
Surnames: Cameron, Nolan, McKay
Classification: biography
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Article found in October 13, 1890 issue of Alger County Republican
newspaper. I am not related and have no more information. I am just
posting this to help others.
William Cameron was born near Lake Nipigon, Canada, March 15, 1804.
When two years of age he was taken by his uncle, John Cameron, of
Toronto, Canada, and received his educaton in that city. He lived
with his uncle until twenty-one years of age, and then entered the
employ of the American Fur Company as clerk, holding this position
for five years. At the end of that time he went to Sault Ste. Marie,
where he spent a number of years. It is there he married Miss Sophia
Nolan, an Ojibwa woman, and he at once adopted the customs of her
people. From the Soo he came to where is now the village of AuTrain,
where he camped for two years, being one of the first white men that
landed there. From there he went to Marquette, where he resided for
four years. He then came to Grand Island as keeper of the North
Light, which position he occupied for 16 years. While there his wife
was taken from him by that cruel destoyer, consumption. He is the
father of eleven children, of whom tw!
o are now living - Mrs. McKay of Munising, and Frank Cameron of
AuTrain. His two oldest sons were killed in the Civil War. When Mr.
Cameron's health began to fail about four years ago he went to the
Soldiers' home in Grand Rapids, and he is now drawing near the close
of a long and eventful life. As a voyageur he has traversed the
continent to the Pacific coast, and as a trapper he has explored the
great forests around Lake Superior as well as portions of the Hudson
Bay Territory, and as a soldier of the United States he served with
fidelity. He is a thoroughbred woodsman and an honest and most
unselfish man. His many friends will ever hold him in pleasant
remembrance as one of those eccentric and unspoiled children of
nature we occasionally meet with in the journey of life.
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