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Phone, 10195 G. VIGNOLA Federal Cleaners & Dyers LADIES' AND GENTS' TAILORING 2800 FEDERAL STREET CAMDEN, N. J. The Origin of St. Joseph's Parish—Continued spire, completed in 1888 under Dean Fitzimmons, and is the Cathedral Church of the Diocese. As there was no Catholic cemetery nearer than Gloucester or Philadelphia in 1863, Father Byrne set about obtaining one. He found a plot of approximately 9 acres at the junction of Westfield Avenue and Federal Street, which he purchased from William B. Cooper. This plot became St. Patrick's cemetery, the eastern end of which is now the site of St. Joseph's Church, School, and Rectory. A considerable number of German immigrants in Camden necessitated the erection of a German parish, which took place under Father Thurnes in 1867. The property of the Second Baptist Church at Fourth and Division Streets was secured, and became the Roman Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul, May 3, 1867. The church now known as Sts. Peter and Paul Church, on the corner of Spruce and St. John Streets was erected in 1888. The building at Fourth and Division was taken over in 1903 by the Italian Catholics when Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish began. St. Peter's parish in Merchantville also began in 1903. In 1872 a wooden mission church was put up at Eighth and Van Hook Streets to accommodate the Catholics of South Camden. This was the beginning of the Sacred Heart parish, though the parish COMPLIMENTS OF Thomas C. Schneider