Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Wilbur Bacon Camp Albans Hotel and First National Bank in Charleston. While in West Virginia, Wilbur B. Camp died at the age of 57 on March 24, 1918, and was interned in Woodlawn Cemetery (Evergreen Cemetery) in Jacksonville. Wilbur Bacon Camp Wilbur Bacon Camp (1860-1918) was one of a number of out-of-town architects and builders attracted to Jacksonville, FL by the construction opportunities created by the disastrous Great Fire of 1901. Wilbur B. Camp was born July 29, 1860 in Herrick Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania where he spent most of his early years. The sources of his architectural training have not been determined,