Harry W. Horst
Harry W. Horst was born in Pennsylvania around 1873. He married wife Effie at the age of 21, and four children were born to them, Albert, Mabel, Nettie, and Florence. The Horst family resided in Pennsylvania as late as 1907.
After moving to New Jersey, Harry Horst began his hardwood floor contracting business in Camden in 1910. At the time of the 1920 census the Horst family resided in Laurel Springs, New Jersey. As America’s entry into World War I put a crimp into home construction, Harry Horst then was also working as a shop foreman at one of Camden’s shipyards. Ten years later, when the next census was taken, the family had moved to a home on the White Horse Pike in Magnolia, New Jersey. A few doors down resided a dentist, Dr. Alexander Picou. His son, Cecil Picou, would later become a member of the Camden Police Department.
By 1936 Harry W. Horst was living and doing business out of his home at 1240 North 19th Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden. He later moved to 1021 North 32nd Street, also in Cramer Hill, where he lived as late as 1947. He moved to Philadelphia to stay with his daughter, Mrs. Florence Yanko, shortly thereafter. On January 31, 1949, while visiting his son Albert at his home in Collingswood, Harry Horst passed away. He was buried at Locustwood Memorial Park in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey on February 3, 1949.
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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.
19th Street
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
Obituary of Harry W. Horst
Camden Courier-Post obituary for Harry W. Horst, 75, one of Camden's first hardwood floor contractors, who died January 31, 1949 while visiting his son in Collingswood.
Mrs. Harry W. Horst
Obituary of Mrs. Effie E. Horst of 1240 North Nineteenth Street, who died after a short illness in April 1937.