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John Joseph O'Neil (1909-1982) was born in Camden and grew up on North 22nd Street in East Camden. Appointed to the Camden Fire Department on July 27, 1938, he served 30 years - taking time away during World War II to serve in the United States Coast Guard - was promoted to District Chief on April 1, 1961, and retired on pension on November 1, 1968.
Henry Evans Zook was born on March 29, 1888, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, to John Trimble Zook Sr. and Mary B. Evans.
Bergen Avenue runs through the Cramer Hill section of Camden from Cleveland Avenue north to Farragut Avenue near the Delaware River, likely named for Martin V. Bergen or Christopher A. Bergen, prominent Camden legal figures in the late 1800s.
33rd Street runs from the Delaware River south to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border, interrupted by the Pavonia railroad switching yard and by a rail line at Rosedale Avenue. It is North 33rd Street above Federal Street and South 33rd below.
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.
Leon Edgar Todd Sr. was born in Camden NJ on November 22, 1893. He operated his real estate agency for many years in Camden at 2623 Westfield Avenue , a building designed by the Camden architectural firm of Lackey & Hettel .
I just reviewed the Bergen Avenue site again. Ok, so my parents bought 1021 Bergen from the Kennedy family in 1953. My parents lived in the white house, one house from Engles Lot.
We moved to Bergen "Avenue" in 1953. We lived at 1021 Bergen Avenue which is still there. There used to be a red house [1017 Bergen Avenue — ed.] next to the lot which was Engle's Bar. The lot belonged to the bar.
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her six children escaped a two-alarm fire that gutted their home at 832 North 3rd Street in August 1968; Acting Battalion Chief John Gryckiewicz and Hoseman Edmund Gorczynski were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns.
A 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages advertisement for Bearint Roofers of 950 North 33rd Street, Camden — roofing, heating, shingling, siding, spouting and jobbing.
Sarah V. Atkins (née Truitt), wife of the late Frank W. Atkins, of 221 South 33rd Street, age 77, died May 13, 1952. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at Mason E. Bradley Funeral Home, 3303 Federal Street. Interment at Arlington Cemetery.
Marriage licenses published in the Camden Courier-Post, November 17, 1949, including Russell E. Mattson of 333 North 38th Street and Ruth M. MacDonald of 46 North 33rd Street.
Mrs. Adelida Yeargle, 30, of 1107 North 33rd Street, admitted slashing her wrists and ankles in a suicide attempt, citing domestic troubles and her husband's refusal to take her out. Judge DiMona suspended a 30-day jail sentence after she agreed to return home.
A rookie patrolman and a district detective emptied their guns at two suspected gasoline-stamp thieves near Thirty-third and Saunders streets in East Camden; both men escaped. Camden Courier-Post, June 28, 1944.
The Laxton family column from the 1943 Camden City Directory, listing nine entries — among them Eric R. (Blanche P.) Laxton, a driver for the American Oil Company, at 137 North 33rd Street.
Services for Mrs. Florence C. Baragwanath, 80, of 53 North 33rd Street, who died after a months-long illness. A member of St. George's Methodist Church for 30 years and the Frances Willard Chapter of the WCTU. Burial in Bethel Memorial Park.
Corporal E. L. Coleman of Wheeler Field, Oahu, sent sketches to Dorothy K. Kelly of 141 North 33rd Street, employed by the Courier-Post, to promote his letter-writing campaign for soldiers. Coleman and fellow soldiers planned to circulate the appeal to organizations across the country.
Hospital admission report from West Jersey and Cooper hospitals, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940 — among those treated, Charles Neff of 39 North Thirty-third Street and May Davis of 1146 Clover Street.
George M. Fink, 72, an orthopedist of 1207 North 33rd Street, died Saturday following an operation. He had lived in Camden for 27 years. Funeral services Thursday; burial in Locustwood Memorial Park.
Mrs. Alice Germina, Mrs. Leona Kearns and Mrs. Lottie Albertson hosted a bridal shower at Mrs. Kearns' home, 43 South 33rd Street, honoring Miss Libby Hubbs of 820 Pine Street. Miss Hubbs and James Peluse of Wilkes-Barre will be married on April 23.
One of six divorces recommended before Advisory Masters William J. Kraft and William B. Knight on May 15, 1936 — among them that of Charles Piper of 910 North 33rd Street, whose wife left him after 31 years of marriage.
“Peggy,” a poodle owned by Camden city librarian William H. Ketler of 247 South 33rd Street, was one of three New Jersey dogs honored in New York on October 31, 1933 for rousing her deaf master when she detected escaping gas.
Joseph H. Fisher, 81, a lifelong Camden resident and former farmer of the Stockton section, died at the home of his son-in-law Albert Reed at 103 North 33rd Street. He had farmed land at 30th and Federal and the future site of Central Airport.
Mrs. William H. Ketler and her son Horace B. Ketler, of South 33rd Street, opened their Margate City shore home for the summer. Mr. Ketler joins them on weekends.
Mrs. Carrie Becker, 38, of 1245 North 33rd Street, paid a $100 fine after her home was raided by Third District police. Ten men were arrested there, including Edward Marshman, whose failure to recall the sale of liquor earned a jail sentence.
Police raided five alleged speakeasies over the weekend, seizing whisky in four South Camden places, including six jugs at Samuel Arnow's grocery at 534 Kaighn Avenue, and arresting ten men at Mrs. Carrie Becker's home on North 33rd Street.
Three East Camden youths were arrested on suspicion in the early morning hours of March 21, 1932 after police said they failed to explain why they were near Twenty-fourth and Howell Streets at 1:30 a.m.
Four men and two women, including Marco Reginelli and his wife, were arrested in East Camden by the police vice squad and indicted within seven hours on weapons and narcotics charges; victims of recent holdups were to try to identify them.
The new Camden police vice squad raids three East Camden dwellings and arrests four men and two women, including Marco Reginelli and his wife, as suspected members of a holdup gang.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post news photograph of a coupe driven by Stephen Jaross of 934 Thirty-third Street after it collided with a Camden-Gibbsboro bus at Third and Market Streets; Jaross was severely injured and ten bus passengers were thrown from their seats.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post report that ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and coupe driver Stephen Jaross was severely injured in a collision at Third and Market Streets; bus driver Harry Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
Thirteen-year-old Edward A. Mullen of 123 North 33rd Street was killed instantly when struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at Fish House. His skull was fractured, ribs crushed, and right arm and shoulder broken. Coroner Pratt ruled accidental death.
Frank Ahern, 22, of 416 Arch Street, drowned in the Delaware off Thirty-third Street, Camden, when he reached for an oar while in a rowboat; his companions were unable to save him.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob O. Grear of Thirty-third and Federal streets, East Camden, reported their 19-year-old son Howard missing for ten days, fearing he had met with an accident.