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Connecticut Literary Institute of Suffield,
and chairman of the finance committee
of several other corporations. While
Mr. Spencer is progressive in his ideas
and practices, he is yet sufficiently con-
servative to make a careful and efficient
banking official. With frank and engag-
ing manners, he impresses all at once
with his sincerity and modesty. He is
widely known for his generous and charitable
nature, kindly disposition and
innate humanity.
Mr. Spencer was married. October 12,
1881, to Florence T. Smith, daughter of
Martin H. Smith, for many years judge
of probate in Suffield. They had chil-
dren :
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Julia Florence, now deceased, wife
of E. S. Goldthwaite ; Charles Luther,
teller in the Suffield Bank ; and Lillian
Clara.
CAMP, John Spencer,
Musician, Composer.
Mr. Camp's ancestors were among the
earliest settlers of Connecticut, the first
in this country being Nicholas Camp,
who was born about 1606, at Nasing,
England, son of John and Mary Camp, and
came from Nasing, County Essex, to this
country in 1638. He was at Watertown,
Massachusetts, for a time, then at Wethersfield,
Connecticut, and in 1639 appears
at Guilford, Connecticut. As early as
1646 he had a house lot of six acres, one
right and two parcels, in Milford, Con-
necticut ; his name is on the list of free
planters of Milford dated November 20,
1639, and he joined the Milford church,
November 2, 1643. His first wife, Sarah,
died September 6, 1645, an d was the first
adult buried in Milford. He married
(second) the widow of John Tilley, of
Windsor.
In 1670-71-72 his son, Nicholas (2)
Camp, born 1630, was representative;
was taxed on one hundred and ninety-
nine pounds of property at Milford; conducted
a store at the "West End ;" was
accepted an inhabitant of Derby in May,
1673, and died at Milford, June 10, 1706.
He married, July 14, 1652, Katherine
Thompson, widow of Anthony Thompson,
of New Haven.
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Joseph Camp, third son of Nicholas (2)
and Katherine (Thompson) Camp, was
born December 15, 1657, in Milford. graduated
from Harvard College in 1677, and
died May 20, 1750, in Milford. He mar-
ried Hannah Rogers, born 1664, died January
9, 1740, daughter of Eleazer Rogers,
who was a freeman at Milford in 1669.
The eldest son of Joseph and Hannah
(Rogers) Camp was Nathan Camp, born
1690, died February 27, 1767. He was an
early settler in Durham, Connecticut,
which town he represented in the General
Assembly fifteen years. He married, January
1, 1 71 7, Rhoda Parsons, born 1694,
in Northampton, Massachusetts, died July
1, 1767, in Durham, daughter of Samuel
and Rhoda (Taylor) Parsons, of Northampton,
and late in life of Durham.
Their third son, Elah Camp, born May
20, baptized May 29, 1729, died October
17, 1787, in Durham. He married, May
14, 1760, Phebe Baldwin, baptized October
1, 1732, in Milford, daughter of Ezra
and Ruth Baldwin, of that town, later of
Durham. Elah Camp and his wife were
members of the Durham church in 1804.
Their second son, Elias Camp, was
born August 28, 1765, in Durham, where
he made his home, and where he died.
He married, October 17, 1788, Elizabeth
Spencer, daughter of Stephen Spencer,
also a descendant of one of the oldest
Connecticut families. She was a descend-
ant of Ensign Jared Spencer, one of the
four brothers who came from England
before the middle of the seventeenth century
and settled in New England. They