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Hugh N. Camp

Merchant (Sugar)/Real Estate

Centurion, 1860–1895

Full Name Hugh Nesbitt Camp

Born 14 October 1827 in Livingston, New Jersey

Died 21 September 1895 in New York (Bronx), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Not recorded

Elected 4 February 1860 at age thirty-two

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned in 1877 and was reinstated in November 1880 with a new set of proposers, Charles Comfort Tiffany and George F. Betts.

Century Memorial

Hugh N. Camp was an old-time merchant of New York, and afterwards one of the most prominent real estate agents and brokers of this city.

Active, energetic, public-spirited, conspicuous in charitable work, as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the Fund for Aged Ministers of this Episcopal Diocese, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Academy of Design, the Five Points House of Industry, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital, and St. Luke’s Hospital, he rendered valuable and unselfish service to the public, which brought him the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens.

Henry E. Howland
1896 Century Association Yearbook