EDGAR J. CAMP

Sacramento County

Biographies

EDGAR J. CAMP

EDGAR J. CAMP.--An experienced executive, particularly familiar with horticultural conditions in California, Edgar J. Camp, manager of the Earl Fruit Company, of Florin, has done much to advance the interests not only of that enterprising and popular concern, but of a particular corner of the Californian agricultural field. He was born in Sacramento County, on a farm, on December 18, 1886, the son of James Edgar and Nettie M. (Taylor) Camp, who came to California in 1862, and were substantial farmer folk here. Mr. Camp, after having put in years in developing parts of the great Golden State, and having both earned and received the esteem and the good-will of his fellows, died in 1910, leaving a very desirable record for usefulness. The many friends of Mrs. Camp, on the other hand, are glad that she is still living, to add, by her company and winning personality, to their happiness.

Edgar J. Camp enjoyed both grammar school and high school educational advantages, and then he started at the bottom rung of the ladder, to learn the fruit business. Filling one position after another, he worked his way up, becoming sales manager, and then general district manager; and having been with the Pacific Fruit Exchange for four years, he has also been another four years in his present position, to the satisfaction of all who have dealings with him.

Mr. Camp is himself a successful grower of fruit and a vineyardist, and is also a shipper in a modest way, and as such he has done much to develop the Florin district, his experience as an individual assisting him also in his capacity as manager. He is therefore interested to a healthy degree in both the historic past and in the promising future of Sacramento County.

The marriage of Mr. Camp to Miss Mary D. Fairbairn, a native, gifted daughter of Sacramento County, took place at Mayhews, in the year 1907; and now four children gladden the hearth of the Camp household. They bear the names, Bruce, Doris, Frances, and Barbara; and they also have their circles of friends. Mr. Camp is an Odd Fellow and a Red Man; and in politics he is a Republican, although always a broad-minded non-partisan booster for Florin, Sacramento and California.

Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 956-957. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.