Category: Historical Accounts
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John H. Dialogue – Shipbuilding Pioneer on the Delaware River
His father, Adam, had invented and manufactured the riveted leather fire hose found in pictures of horsedrawn firewagons racing through city streets.
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Former Lumber Yard Site in Camden, New Jersey Now An Historic Place
Initially, the vast amount of sawdust produced by the numerous Camden saw mills created logistical problems.
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Descendants
Dr. Paul Mecray was at the Mayo Clinic when my Mother was with Dr. John Stokes. If it is the same person, he married an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch fortune.
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Remembering Camden – Hotel Walt Whitman
Helen Keller said she felt the vibrations of my voice and knew what I looked like by feeling my face.
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Family
William S., Jr. worked in the bank, Mark became a lawyer and had his offices on Market Street. Paul was an engineer and worked at the Franklin Institute. The ejection seat for pilots in Army planes was his idea, although I don’t think he ever took (got) the credit.
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Since
Today, as I write in 1942, the Company is enlisted for the duration of the war producing Ordnance for the United States Army.
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His Great Hour
On the evening of June 23rd, the Organization tendered Warren Webster a testimonial dinner at the Walt Whitman Hotel. It was an exceptionally happy and impressive affair…;
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Thanks to Our Pilot
Thousands of buildings were surveyed in 1931-1932-1933 by Webster engineers…;and the business never stopped right through the depression.
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Kaleidoscope of Twenty Years
Today, as I write in 1942, the world is once again at war. What adventures lie before us or what will be the ultimate readjustment of the world…; time alone will show.
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First National Convention
I’ll never forget the look on his wife’s face as she said to him: ‘John, from now on you work!'”
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From Taft to Harding
William Howard Taft was one of the ablest men ever to occupy the presidency, but he was no politician. His administration was marked from first to last by a series of controversies.
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Adoption of “Sylphon” Bellows
This was the biggest order we ever got at one time anywhere—and the equipment was selected after world-wide investigation.