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John Martin Peterson (1892-1971) served the Camden Fire Department for 36 years with Engine Company 11, from his appointment in 1919 to his retirement on pension in 1956. A veteran of the First Division in France, he was twice wounded in World War I and received the Order of the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster.
Thomas C. Blair Jr. (1925–2003) was a Camden firefighter who was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on December 30, 1950, rose from fireman to captain and then Battalion Chief in December 1969, and retired on February 1, 1981.
Charles Behrend of Camden, NJ served as a Private First Class in Company C, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on September 25, 1918 during the Battle of St. Mihiel and is buried at St. Mihiel American Cemetery in Thiaucourt, France.
William E. Hinch II (1941–1976) was a Camden firefighter. Born in Camden and living at 1113 North 18th Street in Cramer Hill, he was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in 1969 and served with Engine Company 7 on Kaighn Avenue and later Engine Company 9 in East Camden. He died on April 26, 1976 of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Harvey W. Blackwell Jr. of Camden, NJ served as a Private in the 13th Armored Regiment, 1st Armored Division. He was killed in action May 30, 1944 during the breakout from Anzio and is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Nettuno, Italy.
Thirtieth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue and on to Federal Street, and to the intersection of Line Street and Beacon Avenue, just above Waldorf Street. It is North 30th Street above Federal and South 30th below.
Eighteenth Street runs from River Avenue north to just beyond Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey. Originally called Dayton Avenue, it was renamed shortly after the 1900 Census.
The gas station, on the southwest corner of 18th and Federal , was razed sometime in the 1970s. The Dimedio Lime Company, which is across Federal Street , bought the property and erected a new building on the site. Oscar Gibbs' Sinclair Gas Station
ISRAEL BUTLER ADAMS JR. was born on October 23, 1859, one of twelve children born to Israel and Adeline Cox Adams. The elder Adams was a farmer.
Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.
Death notice for James P. Purden, 29, of 1217 North 18th Street, Camden, who died October 10, 1970. He was the husband of Joyce M. (nee Briggs) and was survived by a brother and two sisters.
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Bonnie Kelly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward V. Kelly of Collings Road, to Raymond J. Desrocher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Detwiler of 1150 North 18th Street, Camden.
Camden marriage license announcements from August 14, 1956, including William Coleman of Lawrence Street and Evelyn A. Bond of 1031 North 18th Street.
Fifty years ago, the old town of Stockton was annexed to the City of Camden over the protests of Democratic members of the town council.
Pfc. Bernard R. Blackwell, 22, of 1042 North 18th Street, Camden, received a Certificate of Merit for extraordinary service in removing a demolition charge from a bridge at Marburg, Germany, during the closing phases of World War II.
Death notice for Catherine W. Ward (nee Lante), 73, wife of the late James H. Ward, of 1110 North 18th Street, Camden. Funeral services were held at Grace Baptist Church, 27th and Cramer Streets.
Newspaper advertisement for Paul A. Eichfeld, plumbing and heating contractor at 1116 North 18th Street, Camden, published in the Camden Courier-Post on June 8, 1933.
Camden fireman John C. Voll of 1230 North Nineteenth Street was involved in two successive accidents that injured four people near River Road in June 1933.
Yuli Edelmeyer, 4, of 1222 North 18th Street, East Camden, died at Cooper Hospital after her dress caught fire while she played with her brothers at the open grate of a stove. Joseph Becker, an oil wagon driver, smothered the flames but the child's injuries proved fatal.
Nicholas Small was taken into custody by Special Officer Troncone on suspicion of maltreating Elsie Staley, the girl whose refusal had led William May to attempt suicide.
William May was locked up in the county jail on a charge of threatening the lives of Elsie Staley and William Rose after he found her in Rose's company.
William M. May, a young Indian living behind 1819 Federal Street, slashed his chest with a penknife after Elsie Staley, 14, refused his marriage proposal for a second time at Christmas.