In 1SH3 he was ai)|)ointed by iNIayor Edson, of New York, a member of the Aqueduct Commission to determine as to the necessity of a new aqueduct and to decide upon the route and nuinner of building, a position of great importance and responsibility.

Mr. Camp married Elizabeth D., daughter of John McKesson, of New York, in 1854. They are the parents of eight children, seven of whom are still living, -- Edward B., Maria L. (wife of P. P. Williams), John McK., Frederick E., Alice, Emily, Hugh N., Jr., and William H.

In the social, financial and political society of New York the name of Mr. Camp is widely known and justly po[)ular. There are few who can boast of a more extensive acquaintance or a more intimate knowledge with the varied phases of life and manners as they are seen in the great city.

COLONKI; M. O. DAVIIISON.

Colonel Davidson was born in Plattsburg, ('lintoii County, N. Y., March 28, 1819, and at the time of his death, September 1, 1872, was nearly fifty-four years of age.

Me was a son of Dr. Oliver Davidson and Margaret !\I. Davidson, and was one of a gifted family, his sisters Margaret and Lucretia having attracted much attention from the literary world of their time by their brilliant poetical eflbrts.

His professional career and services began in his eighteenth year- One of his first appointments was on the Croton .\queduct, where he served some years. He was subseiiuently em[)loyed upon the Erie Railway, and after that upon a road in Canada. Thence he went to t/uba in 1842, remaining there nearly a year on the Coliseo Railroad. Upon his return to this country, in 1843, and for ten yeare after, he was engaged in the Cumberland coal region . of Maryland, which he was principally instrumental in developing.