From: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883; Page 455
J. C. Van Camp, the present Postmaster of Otranto, to which place he came in 1858, was born in Montgomery Co., N.Y. on Oct. 15, 1819, where he lived until 1844 when he removed to St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.
In 1851 he returned to his native place, and in 1854 he moved to Marquette Co., Wis. He married Catharine Zoller Feb. 18, 1841, by whom he had five children - Mary C., wife of Frank Wilder; Elizabeth J., wife of Ira T. Gray; William S., Abraham Z. and John F. They are members of the Universalist Church. In politics he is a radical Republican.
Transcribed by Gordon Felland, August 2004