“E. I. Camm - Monmouth, Ill.” is a private label in Seth Thomas Model 2.

Edward Irving Camm was born on January 27, 1852, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He moved to Monmouth, Illinois in 1870. He was married to Harriet Richardson in 1876 and was a watchmaker and jeweler there from 1878 until approximately 1905. The 1903 Monmouth City Directory reports that his store was at 100 South Main Street and his home was at 314 South B Street, only a couple of blocks from the store. The store had previously been the location of the first National Banks in Monmouth, a very secure location for a jeweler to acquire. In approximately 1905 he moved to Petaluma, California where, after a short time of working of a painter, he resumed his career as a jeweler and his son eventually joined him in the business. Edward Irving Camm died on January 11, 1935. The 1910 postcard photograph below shows the location where the store had been on the right-hand corner of the street. The Monmouth Trust and Savings (see news article below) had taken over the building upon Mr. Camm’s departure.