Category: People

  • Bernard Bertman

    Bernard Bertman lived at 941 Broadway as late as 1936 and had his law offices in the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street. In the mid-1920s, he played an active role in the fundraising campaign that led to the construction of the Walt Whitman Hotel at Broadway and Cooper Street. By 1928, Bertman had…

  • Augustus F. Werner

    Augustus F. Werner

    Augustus F. Werner was born around 1870. According to the 1920 Census, he was born in Texas to German-speaking parents who had emigrated from the Lorraine region, which was then part of France. He met and married his wife, Annie, around 1891. While his obituary states that he first arrived in Camden in 1882, his…

  • James J. Daly

    James J. Daly was born in Camden around 1881 and spent nearly his entire life there. He was the son of James P. Daly and his wife. His father entered the bar business as early as 1906, operating Daly’s Café at 800 Linden Street. He ran the establishment until his passing at the age of…

  • James F. “Soup” Campbell

    James F. “Soup” Campbell

    James Francis “Soup” Campbell was born on December 24, 1897, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He likely learned to play basketball at the Homestead YMCA under the guidance of Sandy Shields, a star of the 23rd Street Wanderers. Fellow Homestead natives Jackie Adams and Roy Steele were also trained by Shields, and together, they developed one of…

  • Augustus E. Gondolf Sr.

    Augustus E. Gondolf Sr.

    Augustus Edwin “Gus” Gondolf Sr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 8, 1892. His father, Edward Gondolff, was the son of Peter Gondolff Sr., who immigrated to the United States from the Alsace-Lorraine region of France. The family initially settled in Pennsylvania. Over time, most of the Gondolff sons dropped the second “f” from…

  • George Frost

    George Frost was the son of Andrew and Christiana Frost, both of whom were born in what is now Germany. The family name was originally Fraust, and his parents and siblings continued using that name into the 1870s. Shortly after the birth of George's older brother Henry in 1839, the family immigrated to the United…

  • Gloria Bonilla-Santiago

    Gloria Bonilla-Santiago

    Gloria Bonilla-Santiago is the founder of Camden’s LEAP Academy, a charter school that currently operates in the former Elks’ Lodge building at North 7th Street and Cooper Street.

  • Daniel M. Gallucci

    Daniel M. Gallucci was born in Camden, New Jersey, on July 11, 1939, to Dominick J. Gallucci and Marietta A. Paradise. The 1940 Census recorded the family living at 1315 Park Boulevard, along with Daniel's maternal aunt, Rose, and her husband, James Fullerton. His younger brother, Michael Gallucci, was born after the Census was taken.…

  • Cooper B. Hatch

    Cooper B. Hatch

    Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society. His father, Joseph Hatch, owned extensive land in what is now East Camden, and Cooper grew up in the…

  • Harry J. Burrichter

    Harry J. Burrichter

    Harry J. Burrichter was born in 1877 in New Jersey to Henry J. and Katherine Burrichter. In 1880, the family lived at 929 Broadway, where Henry Burrichter operated a grocery store. A few years later, he moved to 1727 Broadway and ran a feed and grain business through the late 1880s and 1890s. Around 1904,…

  • George H. Durar III

    George H. Durar III

    George H. Durar III was born in the Bronx, New York, to Jean and George Durar Jr. He was one of four siblings, along with his brother Brandon and sisters Daralyn and Deana. After serving in the U.S. military, George Durar III joined the Camden Fire Department on December 16, 1974. By 1994, he had…

  • Frederick Morse

    Frederick William Sheppard Morse was born in New Jersey on February 18, 1880, to Captain William and Annie Morse. His father, originally from Germany, immigrated to America in 1870 and eventually became a sea captain, while his mother was born in Nova Scotia. In the 1881-1882 City Directory, the Morse family was listed at 625…

  • Henry E. Zook

    Henry Evans Zook was born on March 29, 1888, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, to John Trimble Zook Sr. and Mary B. Evans. He was the youngest of seven siblings: Amos, Sarah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Anne, and John T. Zook Jr. In late 1893 or early 1894, J. Trimble Zook moved his family to Camden, settling…

  • Abraham Lincoln James

    Abraham Lincoln James, commonly known as A. L. James or A. Lincoln James, was a career officer with the Camden Police Department, serving for 40 years. He was a close friend of David Baird Sr., a prominent Camden County sheriff, U.S. senator, and Republican leader in South Jersey. Born on August 14, 1863, at 817…

  • Paul Cohen

    Dr. Paul Cohen was born in Moorestown, NJ, in 1903. He graduated from Moorestown High School in 1922, the University of Pennsylvania in 1926, and the University of Switzerland Medical School in 1934. He completed his internship at St. Luke’s and Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. During World War II, Dr. Cohen served as a captain…