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William Stanley Ablett Village is a 306-unit public housing project at River Road and State Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, built by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden during World War II and named for a Camden soldier killed in action in France during World War I.
Alfred Cramer was born in 1844 on a farm in Blackwood. He lived there until he was sixteen, at which poin the began working as a book salesman. This early sales experience would later prove to be a valuable foundation for his success in business.
Frederick William Sheppard Morse was born in New Jersey on February 18, 1880, to Captain William and Annie Morse.
Jesse P. Johnson was born around 1873 in Des Moines, Iowa, and moved to Camden, New Jersey, around 1890. The 1890-1891 Camden City Directory lists him living at the corner of 9th and Pearl Streets and working as a salesman in Philadelphia.
Carman Street ran from Broadway through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at South 31st Street, named for William Carman whose home stood at the corner of Broadway and Federal Street until 1902.
Adams Avenue, in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was named after President John Quincy Adams, running northeast from North 28th Street to the site of the former Tucker shipyard.
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
29th Street extends from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, running from River Road to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
28th Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue, Federal Street and Washington Street. It is North 28th Street above Federal and South 28th below.
Leonard Avenue runs one block from Federal Street to Westfield Avenue in East Camden, built in 1915 on land that had been part of St. Patrick's Cemetery.
A remembrance shared by Charles Kocher III in April 2009 of his family's ice cream parlor at 72 South 28th Street, at the corner of Mickle Street.
An early morning fire engulfed a rowhouse at 900 North 28th Street on April 20, 1987, killing seven people including four young children and leaving another child in critical condition. Camden County Prosecutor Samuel Asbell blamed careless smoking; city fire officials disagreed with that finding.
Valerie Kalyta, 6, was killed and Jennifer Fustin, 5, critically injured in an intense fire at 906 North 28th Street. Valerie was pronounced dead on arrival at Cooper Hospital; Jennifer was transferred to St. Christopher's burn unit in Philadelphia.
Death notice of Joseph E. Desrocher Sr., 85, of 924 North 19th Street, Camden, who died April 26, 1970.
The death of Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, 68, of 924 North 28th Street, was ruled a suicide by Camden County Coroner Thomas Casey. Her husband William, 70, found her body in the cellar when he returned from work.
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
Frederick W. Morse, 77, a Camden Board of Education employee from 1919 to 1954, died at his home, 200 North 28th Street, where he had lived for 76 years. Survived by his wife Mary, a daughter, a grandson, and two great-grandchildren.
Camden Courier-Post - May 12, 1950 Jesse P. Johnson , 77, former vaudeville star, was stricken fatally Thursday while in bed at his home, 19 North Twenty-eighth street .
William L. Adams Sr., 61, of 553 North 28th Street, died at home. Born in South Camden, he was a longtime East Camden resident, former Standard Oil employee, and Holy Name Society member. Survived by widow Mary C., two sons, five daughters.
Camden Courier-Post notice of the solemn requiem Mass for Corporal John J. Gorman of 1040 North Nineteenth Street, killed at Aachen, Germany, held at St. Anthony of Padua Church in November 1947.
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.
PFC Allen Rudderow of 920 North 28th Street is credited with saving the life of a two-year-old Yugoslav child by swinging across a rooftop to reach the burning building in Pudolstadt, Germany, and passing the baby to safety.
Mrs. Anna E. McDermott, 80, wife of retired city fireman James H. McDermott of 23 North Twenty-eighth Street, died Tuesday after a long illness. Funeral at Harry Leonard Funeral Home; solemn requiem mass at St. Joseph's Church.
Fred Strahle of 1017 North 28th Street returned from a Pennsylvania mountain vacation to find his gas stove had exploded when he lit the pilot. He grabbed a rug and smothered the flames before firemen arrived.
On February 16, 1941, a fire and explosion at 28th Street and Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill killed a father and son and critically burned a third family member.
Miss Eleanor Marilyne Homan, daughter of Edward T. Homan of 1118 North 28th Street, married Dr. Montague A. Cashman of New York City in Washington, D.C. The couple will reside in Washington.
R. M. Hollingshead Jr. was fined $15 for driving 75 miles per hour on the Burlington Pike. Gordon Snyder, 23, of 709 North 28th Street, was fined $5 for having no driver's license.
Haig Kapigian of 1251 North 28th Street reported to police that eight steam radiators worth $25 had been stolen from a vacant building at 2210 Broadway since January 30.
Mrs. Madaline Muchler, 36, wife of Edward Muchler of 926 North 28th Street, died. Funeral Monday at 36th Street and Westfield Avenue. Burial in Arlington Cemetery.
John Williams, 82, of 860 North 28th Street, allegedly attempted suicide in August 1936 by tying a bed sheet about his neck and dropping from a second-story window. The sheet ripped and he fell to the ground, and was treated at Cooper Hospital.
The Cramer Parent-Teacher Association's Study Group meets at the home of Mrs. Samuel Smith, 327 Morse Street. The executive board meets the following day at 15 North Twenty-eighth Street to discuss the membership drive.
Margaret Payne of 811 North 28th Street, contestant for the "Miss Walt Whitman" contest sponsored by Walt Whitman Stores.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Venn of 1112 North 28th Street announced the engagement of Mrs. Venn's daughter, Miss Weldin, to A. Joseph Lillie, affiliated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Moorestown.
Funeral services announced for Mrs. Annie Morse, 88, widow of Captain William Morse, longtime East Camden resident. Services at the home of her son Frederick Morse, 200 North Twenty-eighth Street; burial at Arlington Cemetery.
Mrs. Florence Winstanley, 21, of 44 South Twenty-eighth Street attempted to end her life by taking poison following a quarrel with a boyfriend. She was found by her father and taken to Cooper Hospital; her condition was not serious.
Police searched for William Rue, 15, of 924 North 28th Street, who left home Saturday to attend a baseball game and had not been heard from since. He was described as five feet four inches, blue eyes and light hair.
Alfred Swindell of 8 North Twenty-eighth Street pleaded guilty to assault and battery on his wife Anna and was sentenced to six months.
After a March 1932 collision near Leonard Avenue and Federal Street, Basil P. Cook of 449 North Fifth Street and James Fenton of 834 North Sixth Street were arrested on charges including assault, threat to kill, and reckless driving, on complaint of C. N. Morrow of 7 North Twenty-eighth Street.
Two men were fined $25 each for interfering with Motorcycle Policeman Earl Wright's investigation of a 2:20 a.m. auto accident at Ninth Street and Kaighn Avenue.
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
Yearbook entry for George Edmund Duble of 213 North Twenty-eighth Street, Technical Course, Camden High School class of 1930. He transferred from Hayward High School in Wisconsin and served as President of the English Club.
Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.
James H. McDermott purchased one of the Lorigan-Hurley homes at 23 North Twenty-eighth Street.
George Laws and Edward Thomas, 22, of 413 North 28th Street, admitted ripping a water pipe from a vacant house at 22nd and Howell Streets and attempting to rob the home of Frederick Voigt at 222 North 32nd Street, where they were caught by a neighbor.
John Kennedy, a widely known grocer at 28th and High Streets in East Camden, died after three weeks of illness from a complication of diseases.