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of John and Mary (Bates) Piatt. Jonathan
and Frances J. (Wood) Camp were
the parents of two children : Kate Elaine,
born January 18, 1866, and Jonathan,
mentioned below. The elder is the wife
of Robert F. Way, of Norwalk, Connecticut,
and they have a son, Donald Forbes
Way.
Jonathan Camp, son of Jonathan and
Frances J. (Wood) Camp, was born January
10, 1874, during a temporary residence
of his parents in Jersey City, New
Jersey. He was three months old when
the family removed to Norwalk, Connec-
ticut, and there he attended the public
schools. When fourteen years of age he
went to Hartford, where his sister was
residing, and there attended the high
school. His father having died when he
was an infant, he was early placed upon
his own resources, and while still a youth
entered the employ of C. G. Perkins, pro-
prietor of the Perkins Electric Switch
Manufacturing Company. His industry
and dilligent attention won him rapid
promotion, and for several years he rep-
resented the company as a salesman,
and went to England in its interest. In
1900 he founded the Franklin Electric
Manufacturing Company, was made
treasurer and general manager, and continued
in that capacity until 191 5, when
he was made president and general
manager. This establishment produces
incandescent lamps of every type, and
its product is used in all sections of the
United States. The business has pros-
pered, largely through the business capacity
and industry of its founder. Mr.
Camp is identified with the social life of
his home city, is a member of the Hartford
Club, Hartford Golf Club, Country
Club of Farmington, Dauntless Club of
Essex, and Sachem's Head Yacht Club.
With his wife he is affiliated with Trinity
Episcopal Church of Hartford, and his in-
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fluence is ever cast on the side of morali-
ty and good progress.
He married, April 29, 1896, Susan Mor-
rell, born May 2, 1869, in Hartford,
daughter of Daniel and Cornelia J.
(Silver) Morrell, descended from Thomas
Morrell, a native of England, who died
at Newtown, New York, about 1704. His
wife, Hannah, surname unknown, accompanied
him from England.
They were the parents of Jonathan
Morrell, born about 1670, in Newtown,
died about 1726. The family name of his
wife Judith is not known. Six of their
children were baptized at Newtown,
August 1, 1710, by the Rector of Grace
Church, Jamaica, Long Island.
Their fifth son, Daniel Morrell, born,
probably in 1710, at Newtown, lived at
Albany, New York. He married, March
3, 1734, Alida Doxie, daughter of Samuel
and Lysbeth (Bas) Doxie, of Long Is-
land, born 1710. The Doxie family is an
old one on Long Island, descended from
Thomas Doxsey, who purchased a plantation
lot at Gravesend, Long Island, Oc-
tober 19, 1650. Four of Daniel Morrell's
children were baptized at the First Dutch
Reformed Church in Albany.
The second son, Samuel Morrell, was
baptized December 11, 1748, in Albany,
and lived in that city, where he was ap-
pointed chimney viewer, November 3,
1786. On March 21 of that year his bill
of fourteen pounds and four shillings was
ordered paid by the City Council, indicat-
ing that he had been in the city service.
The census of 1790 shows that he was living
at Watervliet, a suburb of Albany. He
married, March 14, 1772, Rachel Garde-
nier, of Albany, a descendant of Jacob
Janse, a carpenter, who came from Campen,
in Holland, 1637, lived at New Amsterdam
until about 1666, when he remov-
ed to Beaverwyck, now Albany. He is said
to have been a skilled gardener, hence