David Nelson Camp, Recollections of a Long and Active Life: The Autobiographical Notes
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Camp's Higher Geography: Prepared to Accompany Mitchell's Series of Outline Maps and Designed for Grammar and High Schools, and for the Higher Classes of District Schools
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History Of New Britain: With Sketches Of Farmington And Berlin, Connecticut. 1640-1889 - Primary Source Edition
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History Of New Britain: With Sketches Of Farmington And Berlin, Connecticut. 1640-1889
David Nelson Camp
W. B. Thomson & company, 1889
History; United States; State & Local; New England; Berlin (Conn.); Berlin, Conn; Farmington (Conn.); Farmington, Conn; History / United States / State & Local / New England; New Britain (Conn.); New Britain, Conn; Reference / Genealogy
David Nelson Camp was an American educator, author and one of the organizers of the National Council of Education.
Background
David Nelson Camp was born on October 13, 1820 in Durham, Connecticut, United States. His father was Elah Camp, a descendant of settlers who came from Essex County, England, in 1630; his mother, Orit (Lee) Camp, was a descendant of Theophilus Eaton, governor of the New Haven colony.
Education
Life on the farm laid hard work and many responsibilities on young Camp's shoulders. His mother, "a devout Christian woman, " brought him up "in the Fear of the Lord" and taught him to read; but the Bible, Scott's Commentaries, psalm books, "a few religious books, " some school texts, and occasional newspapers constituted the range of his early reading. Beyond the home, his education was continued in the district school, the private school of Mrs. Goodwin, Durham Academy, Hartford Grammar School, Meriden Academy, and the temporary normal school instituted by Barnard at Hartford in 1839. His own ill health, and that of his father, hindered regular preparatory schooling and frustrated his plans for college. Nevertheless, with the aid of special masters, he studied Latin, bookkeeping, surveying, higher mathematics, poetry, history, natural, moral, and intellectual philosophy, astronomy, German and French.
Career
At eighteen, Camp first taught at North Guilford for thirty-nine dollars a quarter, with the privilege (and necessity) of "boarding 'round. " Other successful schools at Cromwell, Branford, and Meriden brought his work to the attention of Henry Barnard.
He began institute work in 1845, was made secretary of the State Teachers' Association in 1847, was called to a professorship in the State Normal School in 1849, and was made the associate principal in 1855. On Philbrick's resignation, in 1857, Camp became commissioner of common schools and principal of the Normal School. He resigned (1866) on account of ill health. While abroad he accepted a professorship in St. John's College, Annapolis, but resigned to become an assistant to Barnard (1867) in the United States Bureau of Education. He soon, however, retired from Washington and conducted the New Britain (Connecticut) Seminary till he discontinued active school work. Besides his teaching and administrative duties, Camp was editor of the Connecticut Common School Journal and the American Year Book, and was the author of a History of New Britain, Farmington, and Berlin (1889). For schools, he prepared the small Globe Manual (1864), Manual of Illustrative Teaching (1865), four different Geographies, with Outline Maps, and revised Mitchell's Outline Maps and the Government Instructor. His later life was given over to church, business, and municipal affairs. In New Britain he was councilman (1871), alderman for three years, and mayor 1887-89. He was elected to the legislature in 1889, being chairman of the Committee on Education.