[2] When he was an infant, his widowed mother moved with the family to a farm in Jefferson County, Ohio near Salineville.

Cameron attended public schools, and graduated from Iron City Business College of Pittsburgh.

He acted as bookkeeper for a Lisbon firm until 1874, then was a partner and then sole proprietor of a business from 1880 to 1893.

[2] He died October 11, 1930, and is interred at Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio[4] Cameron was a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the I.O.O.F., a Knights of Pythias, and an Elk.

In 1875, he married Laura A. Irwin of Cleveland, Ohio, and had a son, Roy MacDonald Cameron, born in 1883.