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 HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 635 this capacity liis French blood came to his practical assistance, for his Hueut speech and persuasive manners made it difficult for anyone to long turn a deaf ear to the prop- ositions he laid before them. Although Mr. Schultz was defeated for circuit court clerk in the Democratic nominating caucus, Judge Walker appointed him to the office of court stenographer of the twenty-second district, in which capacity he is serving now. In every way he is one of the bright young men of this section, whose steady advance is taken as a matter of course. On the 8th day of December, 1908, the year after ]Mr. Schultz entered the insurance field, his marriage to Miss May McCluer was solemnized at her native town of Senath. Donald H. Cameron. Taking cognizance of the name of the able and popular editor of the Mining Herald, of Elvins, St. Francois county, there can be no measure of conjec- ture as to his ancestral lineage, for both his personal and family names bear unmistak- able evidence of the sturdy Scotch deriva- tion, and the family history gives record concerning the valiant deeds of the fine old Cameron elan of the Scottish highlands, within which oppression has been hurled back to keep the boon of liberty. Mr. Cam- eron, as editor and publisher of the Mining Herald, has made that paper an elfective ex- ponent of local interests, especially of the mining industry in the section of the state in which it is published, and it ranks as one of the vigorous and excellent weekly papers of southeastei'n ilissouri. Donald Hilliard Cameron was born at Woodville, Victoria county, province of On- tario, Canada, in 1878, and is a son of Dun- can and Lovisa (Irish) Cameron, whose mar- riage was there solemnized in the year 1862. The father was born in the staunch Scottish settlement in Glengarry county, province of Ontario, in the year 1841, and was reared to the sturdy discipline of the great basic industry of agriculture. He be- came a marine engineer, however, and for many years was identified with navigation interests on the Great Lakes. He continued to reside in Canada until his death, on the 17th of December, 1897, and his widow still maintains her home at Port Arthur, province of Ontario. Duncan Cameron well exempli- fied the canny traits of the race from which he was sprung, and his independence, ster- ling integrity and mature judgment made him a strong and noble character. He com- manded the respect of all with whom he came in contact and lived a life of signal honor and usefulness. He was a staunch Tory in his political allegiance and was a mepiber of the Presbyterian church, of which his widow also has long been a devoted adherent. Of the nine children Donald II., of this review, was the seventh in order of birth. The childhood and youth of Donald H. Cameron were passed in his native province, — principally at Woodville and Orillia — and his early educational discii^liue, secured in the public schools, was effectively supple- mented by a course of study in the collegiate institute in the village of Orillia. It has been consistently said that the training of a news- paper office is tantamount to a liberal educa- tion, and the consistency of this statement has been exemplified in the career of Mr. Cameron, who instituted his association with the "art preservative of all arts" when he was a lad of fifteen years. He entered, at the age noted, the office of the Orillia News Letter, in which he sex'ved a practical ap- prenticeship to the printer's trade and with which he continued to be identified for five years, after which he was employed at his trade and as a reporter on various papers in his native province, — principally in the city of Toronto. In the year 1902 Mr. Cameron came to Missouri and located in St. Louis, but in the following year he established his residence in Elvins, St. Francois county, where he as- sumed the position of editor of the Labor Herald. In March, 1910, was effected a reorganization of the controlling company and the name of the paper was changed to the Mining Herald, under which title it has since been effectively conducted, with Mr. Cameron as editor and manager. The Herald is staunchly aligned in support of the prin- ciples and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and with this party Mr. Cameron has been actively identified since he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, in 1908. He is a vigorous and resourceful writer and the editorial and news columns of the Herald amply indicate his ability in this line. As a citizen he is liberal and i^rogressive, and his personal popularity shows conclusively that he has measured up to the demands of the metewand of objective approbation. In April, 1911, there came