St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943View transcription
RECAPPING VULCANIZING
U. S. Tire Service
920 MARKET STREET
Camden, N. J.
DISTRIBUTORS OF U. S. TIRES
The Origin of St. Joseph's Parish—Continued
In the middle part of the eighteenth century (1744) a celebrated Jesuit, the Reverend Theodore Schneider, D.D. was companion to Father Harding, S.J., at Old St. Joseph's, Fourth and Willings Alley, Philadelphia. Father Schneider acted as missionary to West Jersey, where he made regular stops at Bound Brook, Burlington, and Gloucester—which then included Camden. Thence he journeyed south to Cohansey (Bridgeton), and Salem, generally winding up at the glass house near Alloway, where he frequently said Mass and baptized at the house of Matthew Geiger. Upon his death in 1765 the Reverend Ferdinand Steynemeyer, better known as "Father Farmer," took up the labors. He paid frequent visits during English and American troops stationed along the east bank of the Delaware from the revolutionary period to both the Salem to Burlington. It is also quite certain that Bishop Carroll, on one occasion at least, passed through Camden, but there is no known record of his officiating at any religious services at that time.
After the death of Father Farmer in 1786, the West Jersey missions were visited for several years by priests from St. Joseph's, but on the organization of St. Augustine's, July, 1796, they seem to have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the priests of that church. After 1808 and the erection of the Cathedral parish the
Bell Phone, 102
Murphy Auto Body Works
BODY AND FENDERS STRAIGHTENED
WOOD WORK AND UPHOLSTERING
AUTO PAINTING—TOPS INSTALLED
TWENTY-SEVENTH ST. AND SHERMAN AVE., CAMDEN, N. J.
In the middle part of the eighteenth century (1744) a celebrated Jesuit, the Reverend Theodore Schneider, D.D. was companion to Father Harding, S.J., at Old St. Joseph's, Fourth and Willings Alley, Philadelphia. Father Schneider acted as missionary to West Jersey, where he made regular stops at Bound Brook, Burlington, and Gloucester—which then included Camden. Thence he journeyed south to Cohansey (Bridgeton), and Salem, generally winding up at the glass house near Alloway, where he frequently said Mass and baptized at the house of Matthew Geiger. Upon his death in 1765 the Reverend Ferdinand Steynemeyer, better known as "Father Farmer," took up the labors. He paid frequent visits during English and American troops stationed along the east bank of the Delaware from the revolutionary period to both the Salem to Burlington. It is also quite certain that Bishop Carroll, on one occasion at least, passed through Camden, but there is no known record of his officiating at any religious services at that time.
After the death of Father Farmer in 1786, the West Jersey missions were visited for several years by priests from St. Joseph's, but on the organization of St. Augustine's, July, 1796, they seem to have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the priests of that church. After 1808 and the erection of the Cathedral parish the
