Music Trade Review
Issue: 1896 Vol. 22 N. 26 - Page 13
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Isaac N. Camp.
IN MEMORIAM.
T
HE death of Isaac N. Camp, which oc-
curred at Lake Geneva, 111., last Sun-
day morning, came in the nature of a shock
to the members of the New York trade.
Mr. Camp had visited the East so recently,
and to all outward appearances .was in
magnificent health and his spirits never
more buoyant; it seemed indeed difficult to
realize that death had claimed him.
It was last Saturday while boating on the
lake he was taken suddenly ill, and com-
plained of severe pains. Returning to the
Congress Club House he retired, and at
three o'clock Sunday morning his daughter,
Mrs. Marvin Farr, who was anxious as to the
condition of her father, went to his bedside.
To all appearances he was sleeping, but it
was the sleep of death.
His remains were brought to Chicago
and conveyed to his late residence, 549 W.
Monroe street. The funeral occurred Tues-
day at the Union Park Congregational
Church, where Mr. Camp had attended
divine service for many years. The funeral
obsequies were conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Savage and Prof. Fisk. The members of
the Chicago Music Trade Association at-
tended in a body. The floral tributes were
many. Mr. Camp was buried in Oakwood
Cemetery.
In the death of Isaac N. Camp there
drops from the ranks of the active members
of the music trades of America a man, who,
by his personal worth and sterling qualities
of mind and body, had reflected credit upon
that industry with which for the past thirty-
six years he had been closely identified.
He was a man who possessed the qualities
of mind which enabled him.to at once grasp
the intricacies of a business situation and
to solve a problem with dispatch and cor-
rectness. He had large ideas of the future
expansion of our musico-industrial affairs,
and maintained up to the time of his death
not only an active oversight and manage-
ment of the varied extensions of his great
business, but he was also planning other
extensions which might have resulted in his
becoming interested in another manufac-
turing enterprise. .
No man in the entire list of employees
of the Estey & Camp establishment worked
harder or longer hours than did the es-
teemed head of the business. In the full-
est sense he was a successful business man,
and notwithstanding the fact that he de-
voted himself assiduously to the further-
ance of the Estey & Camp business, he lent
his energy and influence towards establish-
ing the success of other enterprises.
He occupied positions of trust and honor,
among which we may mention that of di-
rector of the World's Fair; director in the
Royal Trust Bank; president of the board
of trustees of the Union Park Congrega-
tional Church; president of the executive
committee of the Root Memorial Fund.
He was also a member of the Union League,
Illinois, and other clubs.
Mr. Camp leaves a widow, two sons,
Edward N. and William Carpenter Camp,
and one married daughter, Mrs. Marvin A.
Farr.
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*
*
*
*
*
Mr. Freeborn G. Smith, who wrote us last
Monday of the fact that he had received a
telegram from William Carpenter Camp
advising of the death of his father. Mr.
Smith adds:
"Mr. Camp, if you remember, and I,
paid our respects to you last Thursday
Isaac N. Camp was born sixty-five years week. Little did you and I think that was
ago in the little town of Elmore, a village the last time he would be in New York.
nestling under the protecting shade of the How very uncertain is life. He was my
Green Mountains of Vermont. In i860 he guest, and only the day of going we all
was instructor in an academy at Burling- thought how very well he looked and bid
fair to live a great many years. I think Mr.
ton in that State.
It was at this time when Mr. H. L. Story Camp was one of the best business men
first excited the interest of the young nd all round Christian gentlemen I ever
teacher in the business possibilities of the knew."
West. Mr. Story was then located in
firs. Mary Spillane.
Chicago.
It was some time before Mr. Camp con-
E regret to announce the death of
cluded to leave behind him his boyhood
Mrs. Mary Spillane, mother of
home with all its New England associations
Mr.
J.
B. Spillane, associate editor of
and carve for himself a path to fame and
THE
MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW, which oc-
fortune in the Great West. It was only
curred
at
her
late residence, 8 W. 66th
after long talks with Mr. Story that he at
street,
on
Saturday,
July nth. Mrs.
last concluded to make the Western move.
Spillane
had
been
ill
for
a long period and
When we cast a retrospective glance back
her
demise
was
not
unexpected
by the
and note the embryonic state of Chicago in
members
of
her
family.
the early sixties we must conclude that the
young New Englander could not have been
favorably impressed with his first introduc-
A. S. BOWMAN, piano and organ dealer,
tion to the later lusty giant of the West.
Philadelphia, Pa., is reported to have given
It was only a short time ago while visit- judgment for $4,300.
ing Chicago that we enjoyed a long remin-
THE partnership existing between Hur-
iscent chat with Mr. Camp as to the causes teau & Foucher, piano and organ dealers,
which first drew him West, and as to his Montreal, Quebec, has been dissolved.
first impressions.
M. M. DAUTZLER will shortly engage in
After his arrival, there followed many
the
piano, organ and musical merchandise
despondent days, and his mind would re-
business
in Kansas City, Mo.
vert to the peaceful academical shades of
Burlington. But he had a spirit uncon-
BOLTON JOYNES has purchased the piano
querable ; his purpose was as fixed as the and organ business of M. J. Benborn&Co.,
hills of his native State; he would con- who carried on business in Canton and
quer, and it was that very quality which Lenoir, Tex.
carried Isaac N. Camp, step by step, up
THE death is announced of the father of
the ladder of fame and wealth.
John J. Prince, of Prince & Son, which
After the withdrawal of Mr. Story from occurred last week in this city after a short
the firm of Story & Camp Mr. Camp then illness.
associated himself with the Esteys. The
THE Stein way & Sons corporation is
business continued to expand, until it
assessed
for $534,826 in the real,estate and
has extended over a vast territory, main-
personal
tax lists just issued for 1896.
taining branches in many of the great
cities.
In the accumulation of wealth—and Mr.
Camp could safely be rated, in this day of
vast individual estates, a wealthy man,
some estimate his property as approximat-
Is afforded the dealer and mu-
ing the two million mark—he never de-
sician who sells or plays that
parted from rigid adherence to the princi-
modern and artistic creation, the
ples of right. His commercial career was
untarnished. There was not a single blot
upon his business escutcheon, while his
private life was in perfect harmony
and accord with his life before the world.
Beneath his breast there beat a heart warm
and sympathetic and in thorough touch
It is one of the best examples of
with all mankind.
all that is latest and best in the
r e a l m of piano construction.
*
*
*
*
*
*
That's the reason wide-awake
dealers should handle it.
It seems as if it were but yesterday that
Isaac N. Camp sat in this office, the very
picture of mature health and vigor. It
seemed at that time as if the sands of life
had for him a long time to run.
BOSTON, MASS,
While in the city he was the guest of 88 BOVLSTON STREET
W
isf
Henry F. Hiller
Piano.
Henry F. miller^ Sons Piano Co.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
Isaac N. Camp.
IN MEMORIAM.
T
HE death of Isaac N. Camp, which oc-
curred at Lake Geneva, 111., last Sun-
day morning, came in the nature of a shock
to the members of the New York trade.
Mr. Camp had visited the East so recently,
and to all outward appearances .was in
magnificent health and his spirits never
more buoyant; it seemed indeed difficult to
realize that death had claimed him.
It was last Saturday while boating on the
lake he was taken suddenly ill, and com-
plained of severe pains. Returning to the
Congress Club House he retired, and at
three o'clock Sunday morning his daughter,
Mrs. Marvin Farr, who was anxious as to the
condition of her father, went to his bedside.
To all appearances he was sleeping, but it
was the sleep of death.
His remains were brought to Chicago
and conveyed to his late residence, 549 W.
Monroe street. The funeral occurred Tues-
day at the Union Park Congregational
Church, where Mr. Camp had attended
divine service for many years. The funeral
obsequies were conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Savage and Prof. Fisk. The members of
the Chicago Music Trade Association at-
tended in a body. The floral tributes were
many. Mr. Camp was buried in Oakwood
Cemetery.
In the death of Isaac N. Camp there
drops from the ranks of the active members
of the music trades of America a man, who,
by his personal worth and sterling qualities
of mind and body, had reflected credit upon
that industry with which for the past thirty-
six years he had been closely identified.
He was a man who possessed the qualities
of mind which enabled him.to at once grasp
the intricacies of a business situation and
to solve a problem with dispatch and cor-
rectness. He had large ideas of the future
expansion of our musico-industrial affairs,
and maintained up to the time of his death
not only an active oversight and manage-
ment of the varied extensions of his great
business, but he was also planning other
extensions which might have resulted in his
becoming interested in another manufac-
turing enterprise. .
No man in the entire list of employees
of the Estey & Camp establishment worked
harder or longer hours than did the es-
teemed head of the business. In the full-
est sense he was a successful business man,
and notwithstanding the fact that he de-
voted himself assiduously to the further-
ance of the Estey & Camp business, he lent
his energy and influence towards establish-
ing the success of other enterprises.
He occupied positions of trust and honor,
among which we may mention that of di-
rector of the World's Fair; director in the
Royal Trust Bank; president of the board
of trustees of the Union Park Congrega-
tional Church; president of the executive
committee of the Root Memorial Fund.
He was also a member of the Union League,
Illinois, and other clubs.
Mr. Camp leaves a widow, two sons,
Edward N. and William Carpenter Camp,
and one married daughter, Mrs. Marvin A.
Farr.
*
*
*
*
*
*
Mr. Freeborn G. Smith, who wrote us last
Monday of the fact that he had received a
telegram from William Carpenter Camp
advising of the death of his father. Mr.
Smith adds:
"Mr. Camp, if you remember, and I,
paid our respects to you last Thursday
Isaac N. Camp was born sixty-five years week. Little did you and I think that was
ago in the little town of Elmore, a village the last time he would be in New York.
nestling under the protecting shade of the How very uncertain is life. He was my
Green Mountains of Vermont. In i860 he guest, and only the day of going we all
was instructor in an academy at Burling- thought how very well he looked and bid
fair to live a great many years. I think Mr.
ton in that State.
It was at this time when Mr. H. L. Story Camp was one of the best business men
first excited the interest of the young nd all round Christian gentlemen I ever
teacher in the business possibilities of the knew."
West. Mr. Story was then located in
firs. Mary Spillane.
Chicago.
It was some time before Mr. Camp con-
E regret to announce the death of
cluded to leave behind him his boyhood
Mrs. Mary Spillane, mother of
home with all its New England associations
Mr.
J.
B. Spillane, associate editor of
and carve for himself a path to fame and
THE
MUSIC
TRADE REVIEW, which oc-
fortune in the Great West. It was only
curred
at
her
late residence, 8 W. 66th
after long talks with Mr. Story that he at
street,
on
Saturday,
July nth. Mrs.
last concluded to make the Western move.
Spillane
had
been
ill
for
a long period and
When we cast a retrospective glance back
her
demise
was
not
unexpected
by the
and note the embryonic state of Chicago in
members
of
her
family.
the early sixties we must conclude that the
young New Englander could not have been
favorably impressed with his first introduc-
A. S. BOWMAN, piano and organ dealer,
tion to the later lusty giant of the West.
Philadelphia, Pa., is reported to have given
It was only a short time ago while visit- judgment for $4,300.
ing Chicago that we enjoyed a long remin-
THE partnership existing between Hur-
iscent chat with Mr. Camp as to the causes teau & Foucher, piano and organ dealers,
which first drew him West, and as to his Montreal, Quebec, has been dissolved.
first impressions.
M. M. DAUTZLER will shortly engage in
After his arrival, there followed many
the
piano, organ and musical merchandise
despondent days, and his mind would re-
business
in Kansas City, Mo.
vert to the peaceful academical shades of
Burlington. But he had a spirit uncon-
BOLTON JOYNES has purchased the piano
querable ; his purpose was as fixed as the and organ business of M. J. Benborn&Co.,
hills of his native State; he would con- who carried on business in Canton and
quer, and it was that very quality which Lenoir, Tex.
carried Isaac N. Camp, step by step, up
THE death is announced of the father of
the ladder of fame and wealth.
John J. Prince, of Prince & Son, which
After the withdrawal of Mr. Story from occurred last week in this city after a short
the firm of Story & Camp Mr. Camp then illness.
associated himself with the Esteys. The
THE Stein way & Sons corporation is
business continued to expand, until it
assessed
for $534,826 in the real,estate and
has extended over a vast territory, main-
personal
tax lists just issued for 1896.
taining branches in many of the great
cities.
In the accumulation of wealth—and Mr.
Camp could safely be rated, in this day of
vast individual estates, a wealthy man,
some estimate his property as approximat-
Is afforded the dealer and mu-
ing the two million mark—he never de-
sician who sells or plays that
parted from rigid adherence to the princi-
modern and artistic creation, the
ples of right. His commercial career was
untarnished. There was not a single blot
upon his business escutcheon, while his
private life was in perfect harmony
and accord with his life before the world.
Beneath his breast there beat a heart warm
and sympathetic and in thorough touch
It is one of the best examples of
with all mankind.
all that is latest and best in the
r e a l m of piano construction.
*
*
*
*
*
*
That's the reason wide-awake
dealers should handle it.
It seems as if it were but yesterday that
Isaac N. Camp sat in this office, the very
picture of mature health and vigor. It
seemed at that time as if the sands of life
had for him a long time to run.
BOSTON, MASS,
While in the city he was the guest of 88 BOVLSTON STREET
W
isf
Henry F. Hiller
Piano.
Henry F. miller^ Sons Piano Co.
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