Introduction

Biography

Camp was the son of Hi­ram Sil­ves­ter Camp and Al­mi­ra Clark, and hus­band of Ju­lia Ade­laide Vail.

He at­tend­ed Ohio Wes­ley­an Uni­ver­si­ty, where he was a mem­ber of the Sig­ma Chi fra­ter­ni­ty (1866–68).

He pub­lished church and Sun­day school mu­sic, 1873–79, and be­came a deal­er of school and col­lege text books in 1879.

He served as or­gan­ist of Em­ma­nu­el Bap­tist Church in Brook­lyn, New York, and was a mu­sic and art cri­tic for the Chris­tian Ad­vo­cate in New York.

Works

• The Ma­son­ic Chor­al­ist (New York: H. C. Camp, 1878)
• Missionary Hymns, with Tunes (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: Am­eri­can Bap­tist Pub­li­ca­tion So­ci­ety, 1892)
• Primary Ex­er­cis­es for Sun­day Schools (New York: Ward & Drum­mond, 1891)