Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691 - 1945 Series: Letters Received from Commissioned Officers Below the Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802 - 1886 File Unit: Volume 333-335, June 1-August 31, 1846 Item: Letter(s) received from Cam

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Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691 - 1945 Series: Letters Received from Commissioned Officers Below the Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802 - 1886 File Unit: Volume 333-335, June 1-August 31, 1846 Item: Letter(s) received from Cameron, Simon

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Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...