Harry Mailahn
Harry Mailahn was born on June 17, 1926 to William Harry Mailahn and his wife, the former Florence Cummiskey.
The 1927 and 1928 City Directories show the family residing at 1117 Lawrence Street. William Mailahn was working as a driver. The 1930 Census shows the family at 1015 Lawrence Street, with William Mailahn working as a driver for an ice company.
The 1940 Census shows the family, which included older siblings Anna and Louis, and a younger brother, Albert, living at 3108 River Avenue in Cramer Hill. William Mailahn was then working as a deckhand.
Harry Mailahn served in the United States Navy during World War II. He returned to Camden and married Evelyn Winner. A son, Harry Jr., was born in October of 1949. In May of 1950 Harry Mailahn took the Civil Service test for a position on the Camden Police Department. In October it was announced that he was one of seventy-seven who passed. He successfully tested for the Fire Department around the same time. The Mailahns were then living at 405 Beideman Avenue, in the Westfield Acres public housing project. They were still at that address when, on January 16, 1951 Harry Mailahn was appointed to the Camden Fire Department. He was soon assigned to Engine Company 9. They had moved to 243 South 32nd Street by April of 1953.
By 1956 the family had moved to 905 North 21st Street. By 1959 the Mailahn family had moved to a house at 2924 Royden Street in East Camden.
Harry Mailahn was still working for the Fire Department when he died of heart failure at his home, 2924 Royden Street, on February 1, 1971. He was survived by his wife, sons Harry Mailahn Jr. and Charles Mailahn, daughter Sandra Mailahn, and his mother, Mrs. Florence Mailahn.
After the Fire That Destroyed the Market Street Ferry Terminal
Named: Engine Company 9, October 6, 1954. Standing: Howard Harrington, Thomas McParland, Harry Mailahn, and Clarence McMullen. Seated: Daniel F. Jiannetto. Photo by Bob Bartosz.
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32nd Street
32nd Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to the city limits at Highland Avenue, with North and South addresses dividing at Federal Street. At Westfield Avenue an acre of cultivated land and an old house called the "Mansion" were razed for the Westfield Acres housing project, which was itself razed in 2000 and replaced by Baldwin's Run.
Mailahn (death notice)
Paid death notice for Camden fireman Harry Mailahn, 44, of 2924 Royden Street, who died February 1, 1971, listing his survivors and funeral arrangements.
Harry Mailahn, City Fireman, Rites Friday
Funeral services for Harry Mailahn, 44, a Camden fireman for 21 years, were set for Friday at the Harry Leonard Funeral Home, with burial in New Camden Cemetery.
Firemen ‘Visit’ Fireman’s Home To Battle Fire
Engine Co. 9 — the company Camden fireman Harry Mailahn was assigned to — was called to his own home at 2924 Royden Street while he was out on an errand, to put out a fire that began in a kitchen chair.
3 Fined $50 Each On Car Charges
Evelyn Mailahn of 243 South 32nd Street was fined $50 in Haddon Township municipal court for letting an unlicensed driver use her car; the driver, Hampton Williams of Runnemede, was fined the same amount after the car struck a truck.