Age 79 yrs, 6 mos, 15 days
DUNCAN CAMERON, farmer, Secs. 8 and 17; P. 0. Vernon; was born in Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., March 26, 1817; is a son of Duncan A. and Sarah (McCall) Cameron; his father emigrated from Scotland about eighty years ago and his mother a few years later; they were married in Caledonia in 1812 and had ten children - Hugh, Duncan; Mary, Kate, Daniel, Angus, Dugal, Charles, Alexander and Margaret; Dugal and Daniel were both successful physicians in Wisconsin, while Hugh, Angus and Alexander, all lawyers, located at La Crosse, where Angus and Hugh still reside; Alexander and Dugal were both in the U. S., service during the war, Alexander dying at the old Caledonia home while Dugal was drowned in the Mississippi at LaCrosse; Angus has now nearly completed his term as U. S. Senate from Wisconsin. "Duncan, the only farmer in the family, was the first of three noted brothers to locate in Wisconsin; and was an early settler in Vernon, which he reached in October 1841; he was educated in Lima Seminary, "a good old Methodist school," as he says; his first night in Vernon was spent in Asa A. Flint's old log tavern, and ten days later he bought his homestead; building a log house he "bached it" until June 19, 1845, when he married Miss Mary, daughter of Porter Daniels, of Manchester, Conn.; she was a most worthy wife, and at her death, Aug. 4, 1879, left him three children - Charles, Jane and George; the eldest is a resident of Yankton, D. T., and ere this is printed will have married Miss Sarah Jakinson, now of Yankton, formerly of Coony; Jane is Mrs. L. Baldwin, a resident of Glendale, Monroe Co Wis; George is now on the old homestead of 180 acres, which is mainly under cultivation, Mr. Cameron is a Republican of Greenback proclivities, and has assessed the town fifteen times; perhaps no one in the county can equal this; he has also eared as Justice of the Peace a number of terms; was one of the founders and a leading member of the Vernon U. P. Church.