The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1002 

CHARLES W. CAMP.

Charles W. Camp has been continuously engaged in the drug business in Yakima for
the past thirteen years, his present location being No. 302 West Yakima avenue.
He is a western man by birth, training and preference and is characterized by
the spirit of enterprise which has been the dominant factor in the development
and upbuilding of this section of the country. His birth occurred in Denier,
Colorado, in 1882, his parents being C. L. and Martha Camp. The latter died at
the birth of her son Charles. Mr. Camp was afterward married again and in 1890
removed to Seattle, Washington, where he successfully practiced law to the time
of his demise, which occurred in 1896.

Charles W. Camp, who was a lad of eight years when he accompanied his father to
Seattle, supplemented his early educational training by a course of study in the
Seattle Business College. He became identified with the drug business when a
youth of seventeen and has since remained in that line of activity. The year
1904 witnessed his arrival in Yakima and in July of the following year he opened
a drug store on West Yakima avenue, this being the first establishment of the
kind west of the tracks. In 1910 he removed to his present location at No. 302
West Yakima avenue, where he occupies a building twenty-five by one hundred feet
and carries an extensive general line of drugs and druggists' sundries. His
store is attractively appointed and the reliability and integrity of his
business methods have peon hint a constantly increasing patronage, so that well
merited prosperity has come to him.

Mr. Camp gives his political allegiance to the republican party and is a member
of the Commercial Club. He takes an active interest in everything that has to do
with the progress and advancement of the community, his influence being always
given on the side of right, reform and improvement. His fraternal relations are
with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is popular in both social and
business circles of Yakima, where his genuine personal worth is recognized and
appreciated by his many friends.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.