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River Avenue, more popularly known as River Road, runs north from Federal Street to the Camden city limits and became a Camden thoroughfare in 1899, when the town of Stockton was united with the city. It is the main artery of Cramer Hill and the location of many stores and small businesses.
John C. Voll Jr. (1900-1979) was born in Camden and served the Camden Fire Department for 40 years, entering the department on January 15, 1925 and retiring on December 1, 1965. He lived his later years at 2737 Garfield Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Joseph Xavier Voll (1925–1945) of Camden, NJ served as a Fireman First Class in the United States Navy and was one of the original crew of the USS Caswell (AKA-72). He was killed in an accident at Riverton, New Jersey on January 12, 1945, less than a week short of his 20th birthday, and is buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, NJ.
Howard Lambert Gick (1895–1968) joined the Camden Fire Department in 1923, served until his retirement as District Chief in 1956, and later worked as Fire Inspector at Garden State Racetrack.
Cambridge Avenue, also known as Cambridge Street, runs easterly from the Delaware River through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, crossing Harrison, Pierce, Wayne, and River avenues to North 27th Street.
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
CHARLES L." SHAD" ALCOTT was born in New Jersey around 1857. The Census indicates July of 1858. Sorting him out can be confusing as there was a Charles M. Alcott, born February of 1857, who lived in Camden at the same time.
ROBERT T. ABBOTT was born in Salem, New Jersey on March 21, 1869 to Benjamin P. Abbott and his wife, the former Beulah Horner.
George H. Williams, 49, a retired Army sergeant of 60 S. 26th St., Camden, died at Cooper Hospital; Mass of the resurrection at St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral, Federal Street, and burial with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
Paid death notice for George H. Williams, retired Army sergeant of 60 S. 26th St., Camden, who died suddenly on June 23, 1972, aged 49, after 22 years of active duty in World War II, Korea and Vietnam; funeral from the Alloway Funeral Home, Merchantville.
Obituary of Howard L. Gick, retired Camden fireman, who died June 4, 1968.
Death notice for Harold Vecander of 1039 N. 26th St., Camden, who died suddenly on September 6, 1967; notice of the funeral was to be given by the Gustav Roedel and Son Funeral Home, 804-06 N. 27th St.
The engagement of Miss Karren Andrus Johnson to Joseph Charles Saiia of 2411 Howell Street was announced in July 1960, with an April wedding planned.
Obituary of Mrs. Mary J. Love, 74, of 113 North 26th Street, an Irish-born Camden resident of 47 years and member of St. Joseph's Church.
Police arrested Roy Bond, 26, of 1238 North 26th Street, on numbers charges after a gambling raid turned up numbers slips.
A follow-up on the condemned junkyard at 26th Street and Pierce Avenue, owned by Michael Mazzilli, found the structure demolished but its ruins still strewn about.
William Edwards, 30, of 123 N. 26th Street, was fined $50 plus $4.50 costs on a disorderly conduct charge preferred by Jesse Keller, proprietor of the Bismarck Cafe, and was warned by Judge Dzick.
Marriage announcement of Charlotte Maureen Drummond and Robert Edward Dyer of 1301 North 26th Street, married July 20, 1954, by the pastor of Christus Evangelical Lutheran Church.
A condemned junkyard at 1147-49 North 26th Street, owned by Michael Mazzilli, was cited by a city inspector as a collapsing fire hazard.
Joseph J. Guetherman, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Rouh of 35 North 26th Street, and Lawrence A. Ragone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Ragone of 568 Pine Street, received Doctor of Optometry degrees from the Pennsylvania State College of Optometry in Philadelphia.
A Camden Courier-Post society item announcing the marriage of Miss Emily Jean Newton, of 121 North 26th Street, to James Stewart Troupe, of 2826 Stevens Street, in Rosedale Baptist Church on March 21.
Wilbert Moore, 64, a special officer of 54 South 26th Street, died of a heart attack at the wheel of his car at Baird Boulevard and Pfeiffer Avenue.
Mary Burke, 9, of 1241 North 26th Street, was scalded when a pan of hot water spilled in her lap and was held for observation at West Jersey Hospital.
Obituary of Howard Bean, 56, the Camden policeman and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41, who died June 8, 1950 at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, six days after retiring on pension.
Lt. Edward C. Hahn, a 22-year veteran of the Camden police department, collapsed and died of a heart attack outside a drugstore near his Third District station house on April 1, 1944.
Photo and notice of the death of George Smith, a retired Camden fireman, who died after an illness of nearly three years.
Page 24 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: Elwood Antrim started a modest hardware business at 15th and Federal in 1889, and under his family's management Antrim's grew into the largest Mill Supply House in South Jersey, supplying shipyards with materials essential to the war effort.
Page 44 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Schmid family's Inter-Urban Real Estate and Insurance Offices at 26th St. and River Ave., John Lynch's Boulevard Grille at 27th and Federal Streets, Mary Hinkson's Hinkson's Cafe at 27th St. and Marlton Pike, Pennsauken, and builder Joseph Munger & Son, around an installment of the parish history telling of the new rectory and convent of 1930-31 and the assistant priests who served under Father McCorristin.
Page 68 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Cartun wholesale wall paper, paint and hardware at 3507-09 Federal Street, H. Trautenberg's Federal Pharmacy at 35th and Federal Streets, Star Ice and Coal Service at 126 and 141 North 26th St., Barry's Clothes at 21st and Federal Sts., the Camden Welding Co. at 1301-1307 South Sixth St., funeral director Antonio Mecca at 819 South Fourth Street, the Federal Liquor Co. at 24th and Federal Streets, Parkview Stables on Route 40, Tiedeken Bros. at 429-31-33 Van Hook Street, and M. Barbell, P.T.
Page 69 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Walen's at 2609 Westfield Ave., Diamond Poultry Dealers at 2221 Federal Street, M. Bloom & Co. at 215-217 Kaighn Avenue, F. W. Woolworth Co. at 26th and Federal Streets, the Sanitary Barber Shop at 2709 Westfield Ave., Victory Dental Laboratories at 2603 Westfield Ave., the Shirldine Dress Shop at 2629 Westfield Ave., Gaudio Brothers at Second St. and Kaighn Ave., Gustav Schwoeri at 7th and Chestnut Sts., and Bigler's East End Flower Shop at 2628 Federal Street.
Page 66 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Gustav Roedel & Son funeral directors at 804-06 North 27th Street, Ernest Holcher's Crescent Bottling Co. at 25th St. and River Rd., The Farm Beer Garden near Haddonfield, Joe's Chateau, David V. Murray's Murray's Inn, Gus Saccomanno's Gus' Barber Shop at 26th Street and River Road, Kooker's at 2614 River Avenue, and Bantle's hardware at 513 N. 6th St. and 2318 River Ave.
Fireman William Getner, 51, of 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, a member of Engine Company No. 11, was overcome by heat on June 7, 1942, while fighting a dump fire on River Road between Federal and State Streets, and was admitted to West Jersey Hospital.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Obituary of Mrs. Sophie Buechler, 74, of 1130 North 26th Street, who came from Germany, lived in East Camden from 1902 and was an aunt of Mrs. Pauline F. Caperoon, assistant to City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus.
Harry Lipp, 84, an old age pensioner who had boarded seventeen years at the home of city fireman William Getner at 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, ended his life with a revolver shot in a garage behind the house. Coroner Harry Leonard issued a certificate of suicidal death.
Mrs. Elwood Antrim and her son, E. Hulings Antrim, watched fire sweep the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514-1516 Federal Street in June 1939; Mrs. Antrim declared it would be business as usual at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets.
A three-alarm fire swept the wholesale store of the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514 and 1516 Federal Street, damaging $100,000 in stock, injuring several firemen and menacing nearby homes and the Standard Oil plant across the street.
Letter to the editor from Walter Gais of 30 North Twenty-sixth Street, April 22, 1939, objecting to a proposed new Navy dirigible after the long list of airship crashes.
Letter to the editor from Walter Gais of 30 North Twenty-sixth Street, February 22, 1938, arguing for a compulsory educational course, at the motorist's own expense, for drivers who ignore safety rules.
Two hosemen of Engine Company No. 9, Harry Leigh and Albert Dukes, were injured fighting a slight grocery store basement fire at 2401 River Avenue, Camden Courier-Post, October 13, 1936.
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.
A Camden fire engine bound for the fire training school and a Public Service bus collided on wet pavement at River Road and Federal Street, injuring fireman Harry Hess and four bus passengers.
Mrs. Mabel Nutt of 107 North 26th Street had her sister, Mrs. Helen J. Andrews of Winslow, Arizona, as a house guest in February 1933.
Elwood T. Payne, 27, of 1116 North Twenty-sixth Street, Camden, took his own life by gas on the night of December 20, 1932, after a quarrel with his wife Mildred, whom he had recently remarried.
Camden firemen John M. Peterson and Herman Dreas, both of Engine Company No. 11 and members of Corp. Mathews-Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars, received the Order of the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in France.
Funeral notice for Benjamin F. Myrick, 83, of 1101 North Twenty-sixth Street, who died on a Monday in June 1932; services at 2 p.m. Thursday at 336 Carteret Street, with burial in Bethel Cemetery. He was the husband of the late Mary E. Myrick.