People
Harry Mailahn
Harry Mailahn (1926–1971) was a Camden firefighter assigned to Engine Company 9 from his appointment in January 1951 until his death in 1971. A Navy veteran of World War II, he lived at 2924 Royden Street in East Camden.
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21st Street
People
John H. Vickers
John H. Vickers (1863–1939) served with the Camden Fire Department from 1904, rising to Captain of Engine Company 9 in 1924, and lived with his family at 202 North 27th Street from 1920.
Streets
Brown Street (South)
Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.
People
Allen Palmer
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.
People
Herman F. Niessner
Herman F. Niessner was born on March 8, 1891, in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents. His father, Frederick Niessner, worked as a machinist for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia and moved the family to the Cramer Hill section of Camden in 1894.
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Brown Street
Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was listed in the 1906 and 1924 directories but may never have been fully laid out; satellite images suggest it would have run through the Canterbury Apartments tract.
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21st Street
Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.
Historical Accounts
Fire at 2014 and 2016 Howell Street
On April 9, 2012, Camden firefighters responded to two arson fires set in the vacant, condemned row houses at 2014 and 2016 Howell Street.
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Boy, 3, Saved During Blaze by Baby Sitter
Bertha Reed, 18, of 928 North 21st Street carried three-year-old Michael Moran to safety when fire broke out at 1145 DuPont Street in Cramer Hill; Engines 9 and 11 and Truck 3 responded.
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Mrs. Fannie L. May Funeral Is Delayed
Funeral for Mrs. Fannie L. May of 1223 North 21st Street was delayed because her husband John was hospitalized from injuries in the automobile-train collision that killed her.
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30 Minutes Rail Delay At River Rd.
Mrs. Fannie May, 72, of 1223 North 21st Street was critically injured when her car skidded into a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at River Avenue and Federal Street; she died that afternoon.
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Mrs. Mary Carr Dies, Patrolman's Mother
Obituary of Mrs. Mary J. Carr, 63, of 128 North Twenty-first Street, mother of Motorcycle Patrolman Thomas J. Carr, who was employed at Howland Croft Sons & Co.
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Mrs. Mary D. McMillan
Obituary of Mrs. Mary D. McMillan, 80, of 105 North Twenty-first Street, who died at Lakeland Hospital after two years of illness; requiem Mass celebrated at St. Joseph's R.C. Church.
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Joseph Steer
Obituary notice for Joseph Steer, 66, of 1241 North Twenty-first Street; requiem Mass was rescheduled to 9 a.m. in St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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George W. Spicks
George W. Spicks, 85, who retired as a Camden hotel keeper in 1923, died at his home, 52 South Twenty-eighth Street. He had owned a hotel at Twenty-first and Federal Streets for 40 years. Survived by two daughters and one granddaughter.
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Births
Birth announcements for families at 1104 and 1102 North Twenty-first Street, February 1938.
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Cramer Hill Stores Praised by Officials
An open-air meeting of the Cramer Hill Businessmen's Association at Veterans Park praised local business, with Mayor Frederick von Nieda among the speakers; prizes were awarded including a vacuum cleaner to George Blanck of 1026 North Twenty-first Street.
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Head of Pyne Poynt Garden Group Says Relief Job Needs "More Heart"
Demand that Dr. Arthur L. Stone be retained as Camden city director of emergency relief was made by Walter S. Agin , president of the Pyne Poynt Garden Club, at a meeting of the Cox Garden Club at Twenty-first Street and Harrison Avenue .
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Painter Is Injured in Fall from Roof
George Brown, 62, of 1013 North Twenty-first Street was hospitalized at Cooper Hospital with a dislocated shoulder and head lacerations after falling from a roof at Twenty-first and River Avenue.
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Like a Ghost at the Feast
A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
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East Camden Family Flees from Fire in Night Clothes
The family of Richard Cox at 117 North Twenty-first Street was roused at 5 a.m. by smoke from a chimney fire; the roof briefly caught flame but damage was limited to $50.
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Sarah A. R. Cox
Obituary of Sarah A. R. Cox, wife of Richard D. Cox, who died October 26, 1921, at age 34; services at 117 North Twenty-first Street and burial at Bethel Cemetery.
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Boy's Brutal Murderer Collapses at Hearing
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
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Police Seek Writer of Note Found on Suicide
William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.