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CHARLES CAMP, grocer, Bloomington; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Feb. 5, 1832, where he was raised and schooled; he began mercantile life with his father in 1852, continuing the same until 1854, when he removed to Iowa, and there engaged in railroad contracting; in 1855, he removed to Tennessee and received an appointment as constructing superintendent of the Memphis & Charleston R. R., continuing such for a number of years; at the beginning of the late war, he was held in the service of this railroad until the evacuation of Memphis, when he joined the Union army and was post sutler for one year; he then came to Bloomington, Ill., and embarked in the grocery business, in which he has since continued, and is now located at 317 N. Centre st.; here he keeps a fine grocery, with a well-assorted stock of goods, and sold at bottom figures. He married Miss Isabel Keller, of Oneida Co., N. Y., in January, 1854; they have one child—Eva E., now Mrs. P. Pierce, of Chicago.