Pictorial History of America, The Fulton County Edition
by Elia Peattie - published in 1896
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JACOB CAMERER, one of the representative farmers of Fulton County, is a
native of Clermont County, Ohio, born Feb. 5, 1824, and is a son of Daniel and
Mary (Hill) Camerer, natives respectively of Fleming County, Ky., and
Westmoreland County, Pa. The father was born in 1797 and died in Ruch County,
Ind., in 1887. The mother was born in 1800 and died in the same Indiana county
in 1889. The Camerer family left Kentucky i 1807 and settled in Clermont County,
Ohio, and in 1812 the Hill family proceeded from the old Pennsylvania
commonwealth by way of the Ohio river, upon a flatboat to Clermont County, and
here the parents of Jacob Camerer were united in marriage. In 1826, they
emigrated to Rush County, Ind., and it can be truthfully stated that
representatives of the Camerer family have been pioneers of Kentucky, Ohio and
Indiana. Jacob Camerer, of this review, is of German descent and the third in a
family of nine children, of whom five are at this date (1896) still living. He
was raised upon the farm in Rush County, Ind., where he obtained a common school
education. He carried on farming in that county until 1857, when he came to
Fulton County and took up his residence, where he now lives, four miles
southeast of Rochester. His farm at that time was almost an unbroken forest, but
now it is a finely cultivated piece of land. In his neighborhood he at one time
owned 350 acres, but he has given to his children so much that now he has only
reserved eighty acres. Mr. Camerer was united in marriage in 1852 to Mrs. Olive
(Green) Priest, a native of Franklin County, Ind. To this marriage are these
four children, viz.: Henry E., Omer G. and Ada M. Politically Mr. Camerer is a
democrat, and cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Cass. His views upon
finance are to have both a gold and silver standard, and have both metals as
legal tenders in paying all debts, and upon the question of tariff, a revenue
sufficient to meet the needs of the government, if those needs are economically
administered to. He and wife are members of the M.E. church. Through a residence
of nearly forty years in Fulton County, Jacob Camerer has been known as an
honorable man and true citizen.