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Surnames: Cameron
Classification: Biography
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I don't know if he is any relation to Mary Cameron or not', but I
found this article about him published in 1939. He sound like an
interesting charecture.
JOHN CAMERON, WASHINGTON IOWA'S FIRST LIQUOR DEALER
John Cameron, a stout, burly gruff Scotschman, claiming to be
from the highlands of Scotland, came to Washington about the close of
the year 1840 and began business here as a liquor seller.
Not being able to build or find a more suitable location for his
business, he arranged with John Daugherty to let him have a little
space in the Daugherty store room in which to carry his trade.
His principal stock consisted of a single barrel of whiskey, but
with a strict economy and with a keen lookout for the main chance, he
was able to extend his business greatly and in a short period of time
was able to build the best business in town.
About the fall of 1842 he erected on the corner where now stands
the Washington State Bank, a good brick building, which he was able
to stock fully, and while he lived he had the largest stock of liquor
in the county.
The brick for the buldign was made in a brick plant a short
distance west of the town, located "a little distance west of
Jugenheimers brewery", and the brickmaker is sid to have gotten his
pay primarily in drinks.
The same is to be siad of the person who burned and furnished
the lime to be used in the building, and other work on the structure
is said to have been paid in the same manner.
Cameron was the bitter enemy of temperance societies and the
anti slavery party and was one of the chief instigators of the mobs
that were raised to interfere with their meetings and activities.
Before going into the liquor business, he is said to have been a
man of generous implulses. In speaking of him Dr George Vincent, the
first (Presbyterian) minister in town, said of him in his yoouth
Cameron had been taught the Westminster cathechism.
"When I first began to preach here he ame to hear me and it
seemed todo him good" the minister said, "to hear the old psalms
sung, as he had heard him in his youth in his native land".
But those days were of short duration. He soon lost his interest
in the psalm singing, and mocked everything sacred by religion.
Washington Evening Journal, Souvenir Edition, August 1939
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