Camp, Henry Bates

Camp, Henry Bates, a Congregational minister, was born at Durham, Conn., Dec. 10,1809. After graduating from Yale College in 1831, he began the study of theology in the Yale Divinity School, and completed his course at the Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1834. In July, 1835, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at North Branford, Conn., but resigned this charge in August, 1836, on account of ill-health. In 1837 he became an instructor in the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, where he taught until 1864. The rest of his life was spent in retirement at Hartford, where he died, Feb. 16, 1880. See Obituary Record of Yale College, 1880.