Bartholomew A. Sheehan was born on December 18, 1907, to Jeremiah and Mary (McCarthy) Sheehan. The family lived at 882 Haddon Avenue in Camden, where Jeremiah worked as a mechanic in one of the city’s shipyards, along with four of Bart’s five older brothers by 1920. Bart also had an older sister and a younger brother.
Bart Sheehan attended Camden Catholic High School at Broadway and Federal Streets and then St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, where he was a star basketball player. His older brother Joseph was also a talented basketball player, playing professionally with the Cleveland Rosenblums and other early pro teams in the 1920s.
Trained as a lawyer, Bart A. Sheehan ran for the New Jersey Assembly as a Democrat in 1934. He was later appointed as a judge and was serving in this role by December 1940. In the early 1940s, he served as Chairman of the Housing Authority of the City of Camden, overseeing the construction of the William Stanley Ablett Village homes for defense workers in Cramer Hill.
The 1947 Camden City Directory shows that Bart lived with his wife Kathryn at 2359 Baird Boulevard in East Camden and was serving as a judge in the Camden Court of Common Pleas. As a judge, he presided over many cases, including the capital murder trial of Howard Auld, who was sentenced to New Jersey’s electric chair. By 1959, the Sheehan family had moved to 153 Hopkins Avenue in Haddonfield.
When Bart’s wife died in 1971, he became a Jesuit brother. Brother Sheehan passed away on November 12, 2001, in Philadelphia.
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