When Calvin M Camp was born on 7 October 1819, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elijah Camp, was 30 and his mother, Sallie Wells, was 27. He married Betsey Elizabeth Biles on 12 December 1847, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Wyalusing, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 17 October 1887, at the age of 68, and was buried in Camptown Cemetery, Camptown, Wyalusing Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
"The United States law requiring full payment at the time of purchase and registration of any land. to help encourage sales and make land more affordable, Congress reduced the minimum price of dollar per acre and the minimum size that could be purchased. Most of this land for sale was located on the frontier which was then ""The West"". This Act was good for many Americans, but it was also over used by wealthy investors."
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Dutch (also Van de Camp) and North German: from camp ‘enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land, field’, from Latin campus ‘plain’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by such a field. Compare Kamp .
English: from Middle English kempe ‘warrior’; see Kemp . The spelling Camp may be due to the influence of Old English camp ‘battle’ and campian ‘to fight’, or of Old French campion ‘warrior, champion’.
French: mainly southern form of Champ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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