An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 491-492

	ALLAN RICHFIELD CAMERON, resident of Seattle and manager of the whole-sale
market of A.J. Splawn & Co., was the first child born at Richfield, in the
celebrated mining district of Cariboo, British Columbia, this notable event
occurring on the 25th of October, 1862, his parents being of Scotch ancestry.
His primary education was conducted at Cariboo, and was followed by four years
of continuous study at the Catholic College at New Westminster. His first
business experience was in the employ of Benjamin Van Valkenburg, of Victoria,
British Columbia, a wholesale butcher. Our subject learned the business from the
first principles, and by due diligence ascended the scale until he became
bookkeeper and confidential clerk, remaining until 1890, when he came to Seattle
and engaged as bookkeeper of the Okanogan Live Stock & Dressed Beef Company,
subsequently becoming manager. He then operated the business until it was sold
out to A. J. Splawn & Company, wholesale and retail butchers, and, continuing as
manager of their market in Seattle, has built up a large and extended business.
A.J. Splawn is one of the pioneers of Washington Territory, who engaged in the
stock business, which he has continued in a very extensive and successful
manner, his reputation making him one of the best known stockmen of the
Northwest.
	Mr. Cameron was married in Victoria, British Columbia, to Miss Minnie
McPherson, niece of John A. Cameron, a California pioneer, who also passed
through the Fraser river gold excitement, and was one of the syndicate who owned
the Cameron claim at Cariboo. Because of his remarkable success at placer
mining, he became generally known as "Cariboo Cameron." He was a native of
Canada, and there took his fortune for investment, but after twenty years
absence, through unfortunate speculations, he was again reduced to penury, when
visions of the golden days at Cariboo returned to him, and, though an old man,
with inspired enthusiasm, he again visited Cariboo, where shortly after his
arrival he sickened and died, and now lies buried upon the site which made his
name popular and prominent.
	Mr. and Mrs. Cameron have one child, Allan and John Cameron.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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