Camden Township Early Settlers and Civil War Echoes
Obadiah Bowen, a Delaware County native, settled in Camden in 1839 and became first railroad ticket agent and hotel builder. Other early arrivals include Benjamin Root, Roswell Babcock, Moses Tennant, EM Bush, and Joseph Clark families. Notable centenarians and veterans are noted, with Camden’s 1835 name origin, election details, and early church and school histories including Baptist and Methodist formations and a fire-destroyed center church.
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Obadiah Bowen
Delaware County
N. Y
Ohio
Camden
Clantha Prentice
William
Hiram
Prentice
Wallace Campbell
Elyria
Benjamin Root
Samtown
N. Y. State
Ahira
Reuben
Lemuel
Addison
Adeline
Lydia
Sarah
Belinda
Roswell Babcock
Sarah Whitney
Colwell Cook
William W. Cook
Cook House
Avery
Mr. Babcock
Moses S. Tennant
Selden Tennant
Monroe County
Mary Jane Billings
Gibbs
William S
Celestia Minerva
EM Bush
Guthrie
Ira Hill
Mary Bush
Will Calkins
N.R. Hill
Joseph J. Clark
Diana
John Cark
Lucy
William Prentice
John Bettis
Mary
Will Betts
Kipton
Deacon Taylor
Charles
Minerva Kellogg
John Williams
Will Davidson
Camden Cemetery
Polly Hasking
John
Art Rowell
Norman Breckenridge, Jr
James A. Crandall
John If. Crandall
Rufus Hovey
Frederick Washburn
Luther Brown
Jaimnes N. Kingsbury
Romaine J. Kingsbury
Wesley Coykendall
John Coykendall
Madison Wells
Gideon Waugh
New York State
Waugh
Platt Squires
Solomon B. Clark
Robert Douglass
Israel D. Gager
John Cyrenius
Azel Washburn
Robert Douglaas
Obed Holcomb
David Wells
Thomas
Johnston
Call
Xenophon Betts
Wakeman
The
Baptists
Harrison Hurd
John F. Hovey
Wie
Margaret
David Morgan
Huldah
Chauncey Spencer
Morgan
Spencer
Elder Brown
Free Will Baptists
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Weeks
Hotory
Third St
F. M. Sponseller
Fay C¢ Company
Coats
Fay
O'Donnell Paint and Wall Paper Co
Court Street