Morgan Street

500 Block of Morgan Street

The 500 block of Morgan Street begins at Broadway, opposite the site of the former New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, and runs east toward South 6th Street.

600 Block of Morgan Street

All of the buildings on the 600 block of Morgan Street were either gone or were razed to make way for Interstate Route I-676 by 1970.

600 Morgan Street — Camden Resource Recovery Facility

675 Morgan Street — Frank Payton

689 Morgan Street — Jackie Hindle

700 Block of Morgan Street

A strip shopping center was built on the south side of the 700 block of Morgan Street in the 1950s. Several homes, vacant and occupied, were destroyed in a fire in 1995.

709 Morgan Street — The Mahoney Family

709 Morgan Street was the home of the Mahoney family. Kathryn Jeanette Mahoney, born in April 1933, was among the children of Camden's Fourteenth Ward offered a share of stock by the Kearsarge Building and Loan Association (see "Babies Born in April Get B. & L. Stock Shares," Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933). Aviation Chief Metalsmith's Mate Michael F. Mahoney also called 709 Morgan Street home.

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HOSPITAL CASES COOPER John Passarella, 7, of 433 Spruce street, lacerated scalp. Peter Chiodi, 14, of 337 Spruce street, lacerated hand. John Cool, Jr., 7, of 218 Burns street, lacerated thumb. Michael Bottalico, 19, of 816 South Fifth street, lacerated hand. Kenneth Bell, 40, of 754 Wright avenue, lacerated upper lip. Irving Yerks, 9, of 1134 Baring street, lacerated thumb. Theresa Joyce, 61, of 507 Haddon avenue, possible fractured hand. William Malloney, 15, of 709 Morgan street, possible fractured nose. Leonard Schaffer, 10, of 119 Dudley street, fractured wrist. Florence Melari, 60, of 808 Princeton avenue, dog bite. Theresa Tenovese, 7 months, of 221 Railroad avenue, Glassboro, burn, hand. Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick street, brush burns, hand. Howard Cannon, 30, of 751 Cherry street, nail wound, foot. Catherine Wolfer, 14, of Lindenwold, injured ankle. Alex Maloney, 29, of 425 South Fifth street, injured shoulder. WEST JERSEY James Brady, 7, of 1580 Minnesota road, lacerated wrist. Betty Antonow, 6, of 1038 street, puncture wound, foot. J. E. Walker, 46, of 222 Washington terrace, Audubon, near amputation, tip of finger. Arthur Davis, 10, of Nicholson road, West Collingswood, lacerated scalp. Ed Cachell, 35, of 612 Robert street, lacerated finger. Dolores Pfeffer, 7, of 548 Haddon avenue, Collingswood, abrasions of thigh; comminuted fracture of ankle. Ida Devlin, 40, of 1337 Morton street, contusion, wrist and possible fractured arm. Camden Courier-Post, February 26, 1938.

732 Morgan Street — Martin's Bar

Martin's Bar, operated by Martin Ginsburg, stood at 732 Morgan Street.

800 Block of Morgan Street

834 Morgan Street — Machinist's Mate First Class Charles W. Bush

900 Block of Morgan Street

901 Morgan Street — Walter Higgins

Power Lines Kill Boy, Camden Man

Farmhand Electrocuted In Salem County; Lineman Dies at Woodbury

A lineman was electrocuted at Woodbury and a farm hand at Woodstown yesterday. Walter Higgins, 40, of 901 Morgan street, Camden, survived two previous experiences only to lose his life at Woodbury. William B. Peterson, of Whig Lane, Pilesgrove, Salem County, lost his life while plowing a field.

Higgins came in contact with the wire shortly after the noon luncheon period ended, while working atop a 30-foot pole. Fellow workmen sought to revive him while the Underwood Hospital ambulance was speeding to the scene. After he was taken to the hospital, attendants tried for three and one-half hours to resuscitate him. Finally Dr. Ralph L. Moore pronounced the man dead. Higgins was employed by Public Service. Coroner W. J. Burkett, of Pitman, took the case.

Peterson was plowing a field when he noticed a wire hanging from a road light in his way. He stooped to pick it up and throw it over a fence. As he did the wire came in contact with a high voltage wire overhead and he fell. Elmer Evans and Paul Duffy, nearby farmers, ran to his aid but were powerless to help him as smoke was coming from his shoes. Dr. C. Walter Thomas, Woodstown, pronounced him dead. Coroner B. Noel Gross issued the death certificate. The youth was one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. Burr Peterson.

907 Morgan Street — John P. Bisinger & Family

John P. and Alice Scholl Bisinger and their son Carl John Bisinger lived at 907 Morgan Street from 1926 through the 1960s.

913–915 Morgan Street — John J. Homon & Sons

John J. Homon & Sons, plumbing and heating contractors, kept their shop at 913–915 Morgan Street, with an office at 2511 Morgan Boulevard.