Category: Historical Accounts
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 6
G. W. QUINN, BARBER 1647 BROADWAY AMONG the best known tonsorial artists in this neighborhood may be mentioned Mr. G. W. Quinn. This talented and versatile gentleman has been here many years, coming in 1873. The business has since been most successful, as may be seen upon looking at the large array of cups and…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 5
WILLIAM R. BENNETT, MANUFACTURING JEWELER 544 FEDERAL STREET WILLIAM R. Bennett is the proprietor of the establishment so frequently mentioned by the people of Camden, and vicinity as “Bennett’s Jewelry Store,” It is situated at 544 Federal street, and was opened, in October, 1887, by Mr. Bennett. The salesroom is 18 x 34 feet in…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 4
S.S.E. Cowperthwaite, Sewing Machines, etc. 221 Federal Street ONE of the oldest business concerns in Camden is that of S.S. E. Cowperthwaite, located at No. 221 Federal St., and well known throughout the city and country. It was established by Mr. Cowperthwaite in 1840. The salesroom is 16 x 28 feet in size, has, of…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 3
SOCIETY MANUFACTURING COMPANY 28 MARKET STREET In the production of fine grocers’ specialties, no trade mark has become more familiar with the higher class of the trade than that which bears the trademark “Society,” which is practically synonymous with purity, high quality, and artistic make up, in the preparation of the goods placed upon the…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 2
J. B. VAN SCIVER & CO. This firm occupy a handsome building on the corner of Delaware avenue and Federal street. It is of mammoth proportions and is visible along the whole river front. Furniture of all descriptions, from the plain and substantial to the aesthetic, artistic and costly, are to be found in its…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 1
1890 Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey – Intro The Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey was commissioned and published by Camden’s Board of Trade, a forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce. NEW YORK: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1890 The Camden City Board of Trade In recognition of the serious detriment to…
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Regimental History – NJ 24th Infantry
REGIMENTAL HISTORY NEW JERSEY TWENTY-FOURTH INFANTRY (Nine Months) Twenty-fourth Infantry Colonel William B. Robertson Lieutenant Colonel Franklin L. Knight – Major Joel A. Fithian. This regiment was mustered into the U. S. service at Camp Cadwalader, Beverly, Sept. 16, 1862. Four companies of the regiment, B, F, G and H, were from the county of…
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History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
From The Centennial History of Camden Methodism, 1909 1809 was truly the “annus mirabilis.” That year chronicles the advent of the immortal Alfred Tennyson, the never-to-be-forgotten Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Grand Old Man, William Ewart Gladstone, and the best type of American manhood that ever lived — Abraham Lincoln. These facts alone would have made…
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John H. Dialogue – Shipbuilding Pioneer on the Delaware River
By Kenneth Kogan SKELETONS OF STEEL ARE ALL THAT REMAIN OF Camden’s shipbuilding industry, at one time a center of American maritime ingenuity, innovation, and design. A moving force in this industrial revolution on the Delaware River was John H. Dialogue, who was born in Philadelphia on May 13, 1828. His father, Adam, had invented…
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Former Lumber Yard Site in Camden, New Jersey Now An Historic Place
By Paul W. Schopp The remaining buildings and yard of the former Volney G. Bennett Lumber Company in Camden, New Jersey became a State and National Historic Place in 1993. Attaining approval for the State Register of Historic Places on June 28th and the National Register on August 5th, this former urban lumber yard stands…
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Descendants
Dear Mr. Cohen, I read the link you sent me Memories of Old Cooper Street by Will Paul. This man lived 50 years before I was born, but I recognized many of the names… some of whom had descendants I knew. The author mentioned some people in my family. Thomas E. French, of French, Richards,…
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Remembering Camden – Hotel Walt Whitman
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1942. You have a picture of the H. Genet Taylor residence on Cooper Street. I was friendly with both “Tottie”and Harry III and we were in and out of each other’s houses. My house was 301 North Second Street which would be…
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Family
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1941. Dear Mr. Cohen, I grew up in Camden at 301 North Second Street. Your history was sent to me by one of my former students whose parents, under 400 Line Street, the Gentiles, also are part of Camden’s history. I lived…
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Since
There is a legend that Peter the Great left a “secret will” which always guides the foreign policy of Russia, regardless of the internal changes in forms of government. Warren Webster left no written directions for the conduct of the business, but the principles and policies on which it was founded and developed are so…
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His Great Hour
The year 1938 was the fiftieth in the history of Warren Webster & Company and as the summer approached the Organization began laying plans to celebrate the Golden Jubilee and do honor to the Founder. In June all the representatives from district offices who could possibly do so assembled at the factory and several days…