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| | History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 2 by J.B. Mansfield, Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine Biographies, Surnames beginning with C |
 | | CAMERON J.A. Cameron, a young a popular engineer, having been identified with the lakes since boyhood, and now in the employ of the Norton Milling Company, was born in Rockford, Ill., in 1871, a son of J.B. and Mary (Burton) Cameron, the latter a native of the East. |
 | | Being an active, intelligent young man, he soon attracted the attention of his captain, who appointed him mate, in the spring of 1856, on the schooner Indiana, he continuing in that berth until September, 1857, when he was promoted to the command of the schooner Augustus Ford. |
 | | The father died while Robert was very young, and the children were left to the care of their mother, who passed to the better world June 2, 1882. |
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