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Obituary

Mr. John Stark Cameron, formerly of this city, died on the night of July 21, at Woodstock, Vermont, of heart failure. Mr. Cameron had not been in good health the past few years and was accustomed to spending his summers at health resorts. He was a brother-in-law of Mr. Luke Palmer of Burlington, He married Miss Sarah Palmer in Burlington in January, 1874. Mrs. Cameron died in Denver in 1881, leaving three children, who survive their father and were present when he passed away. They are John, Donald and Sadie. Mr. Cameron was a graduate of Dartmouth college, where he studied civil engineering. He served in the Civil war and located in Burlington soon after the close of the war, and helped to build the Burlington railroad west from here. He was also employed in building what is now known as the "K" line, and survived, built and managed the Burlington and Northwestern, commonly known as the Narrow Gauge. He managed this line until he was appointed secretary of the railroad commission of the state of Iowa by Gov. Gear. From that position he went to be assistant to the general manager of the Burlington road under the late T.J. Potter. He later purchased and built the entrances into the city of Denver for the Burlington road. Mrs. Cameron died while he was thus employed. When Mr. Potter was made general manager of the Union Pacific, Mr. Cameron resigned from the Burlington and formed a corporation to build a system of street car lines for Salt Lake City. He managed the business for a number of years and then sold out to a rival corporation. Since that time he made his headquarters in New York City. Mr. Cameron was about seventy-four years old. He was born at McIndoe Falls, near Ryegate, Vermont. He was a direct descendant of Gen. John Stark of revolutionary fame.
The cremation of his body and a distribution of his ashs in the graves of his parents and his wife are directed by the will of John S. Cameron, who died July 21, last. The testament is dated November 25, 1913 and was filed yesterday in the probate division of the district supreme court in Washington. John S. Cameron Jr., and Donald P. Cameron, sons of the testator, are named executors to carry out the terms of the will. Half of the testator's ashes are to be interred in the grave of his father and mother in Ryegate burial ground, Ryegate, Vt., and the other half in the grave of his wife at Burlington, Iowa. Following that item are minute directions for the erection of monument in the Ryegate cemetery, The inscriptions on the various sides are to show the lineal descent of the family in Scotland from the eighteenth century.