CLASS OF 1863

John Stark Cameron died at Woodstock, Vt., July 21. He was born at Ryegate, Vt., March 28, 1841, the son of John and Jane (Gray) - Cameron. His grandfather, also named John, came from the Highlands of Scotland in 1780, and .married a daughter of Gen. John Stark of Revolutionary fame. The graduate fitted at McIndoe Falls Academy and Newbury Seminary, and took in College the course of the Chandler Scientific Department. He was a member of Phi Zeta Mu, now Sigma Chi. From June to October, 1862, he served as corporal in Company B, Seventh Rhode Island Cavalry (the "College Cavaliers").

After graduation he entered the engineering corps of the old Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad, which later became the New England road and is now a part of the New Haven system. In 1865 he went West, and for twenty-five years was actively connected with the development of some of the great transcontinental lines. For two years he was locating and constructing engineer of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad. In 1867 he was appointed chief engineer of the Burlington and Cedar Rapids Railroad, completing the construction of that line. For several years he was secretary of the board of railroad commissioners of lowa. Later he became connected with the Union Pacific road, where he not only superintended the construction of new lines but arranged for the purchase of feeders to that great system. When he left this road he held the responsible position. of assistant to the president, Charles Francis Adams of Boston. In 1890 he turned his attention to the construction of street railways, building at Salt Lake City one of the first electric lines in the United States. .This afterwards became, the Salt Lake Rapid Transit Railroad, and when he sold this property in 1901 he was president and principal owner of the corporation.

He retired from active business at that time, taking up later his residence in Washington, D. C., and has since been an extensive traveler.

Mr. Cameron was married January 4, 1876, to Sarah M., daughter of Luke Palmer of Burlington, Iowa, who died in 1881. Two sons and a daughter survive their parents.