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Cameron, Paul Carrington

lawyer, financier, state senator, was born Sept. 25, 1808, in Stagville, N. C. He promoted the building of the North Carolina railroad, and served for one year as president. In 1856 Orange county sent him to the state senate. He died Jan. 6, 1891, in Hillsboro, N. C.

CAMERON, ROBERT ALEXANDER, physician, soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1828, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1860-61. He entered the national service as a captain in 1861, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1863. He was superintendent of the colony that founded the town of Greeley, Col., in 1870, and of the Colorado springs and Manitou colonies in 1871.

In 1885 he was made warden of the state penitentiary at Canon City, Col.