Category: Historical Accounts
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 10
FRANK MESTER, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER 4th AND ARCH STREETS. This is one of the most widely known houses in the town, it having had an established reputation for the sale of unadulterated wines and liquors. The business was established may years ago by Mr. George Ooetz, who successfully ran the business until 1877,…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 9
HOWLAND CROFT, SONS & CO., LINDEN WORSTED MILLS BROADWAY AND JEFFERSON AVENUE. Among the worsted and woolen mills of Camden a conspicuous building is that belonging to Messrs. Howland Croft, Sons & Co., formerly Croft & Priestley, known as the Linden Worsted Mills, now located at Broadway and Jefferson Avenue. The factory was established in…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 8
WILLIAM BLEAKLY, WOOD-BURNT LIME, HAIR, PLASTER, ETC. N. W. COR. FRONT & FEDERAL STREETS A REPRESENTATIVE business man and public-spirited citizen is the subject of this too brief sketch; succeeding George Garrett, who established the above place about twenty years ago. Two places are occupied, one being on the N. W. corner of Front and…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 7
Chas. H. Ulbrich, Locksmith and Bell Hanger 322 Arch Street Among the best and most favorably known establishments of this character in this vicinity may be mentioned is that of Mr. Chas. H. Ulbrich. This gentleman established business about eight years ago. The premises are about 20 x 40 feet in dimensions. The store and…
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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,…