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Staff Sergeant Frank J. Blair (1921–1944) of 987 North 23rd Street in Cramer Hill was a June 1940 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who served as a B-24 crewman with the 374th Bomber Squadron, 308th Bomber Group, based at Kunming, China. He was killed in action on July 13, 1944, and is listed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
Ambrose Wesley "Wes" Faust served with the Camden Fire Department from 1951 to 1961, and later became a police sergeant with New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, where he died on duty in 1977.
Arthur Cuellen Batten (1904–1972), known to his fellow firefighters as Artie, joined the Camden Fire Department on March 4, 1927 and served until his retirement on February 28, 1969, rising to captain of Rescue Company 1 and acting battalion chief. He lived for many years at 1132 North 22nd Street in Cramer Hill and invented the un-patented ring cutter used by the rescue company to remove finger jewelry.
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.
Auburn Street is a small street that runs from Broadway to South Sixth Street between Benson and Washington Streets. All 26 homes were seized by eminent domain and demolished in 2001.
Sitley & Son was established by Arthur M. Sitley and his son, Frank Budd Sitley. Originally farmers, the Sitleys recognized a business opportunity in Camden and began selling grain, feed, and farm equipment.
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
Jesse D. Seybold was born in New Jersey in February 1892 to Charles and Lizzie Seybold, though records vary on the exact date, listing February 2, 7, or 8.
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.
Camden Terrace was a small street in Camden's Eighth Ward, running south from Fairview Street between South 6th Street and Master Street, obliterated when I-676 was built.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Grant Street is a street in Camden, New Jersey, named after Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States.
Basil Preston Cook was born in England. He entered the bar business during Prohibition and had several encounters with the law. By 1932, he was managing a bar at 939 South 5th Street .
Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
Branch Street is a one-block street running from 1460 Broadway east to South 6th Street; formerly known as Commerce Street until sometime between 1888–1889 and 1890–1891.
Birch Street once ran from Front Street through Ninth Street in North Camden. Over the years, the Delaware River Bridge, the Port Authority, and the Northgate Apartment Buildings took most of the street off the map.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
CAMDEN –- When Larry Miles came to Camden in the early 1970s, he wasn't sure how long he would stay.
Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. It first appears in the 1867 city directory, and once traversed a significant part of the city.
Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
Main Street is a diagonal street in North Camden running southeast from State and Point Streets. The 1878 city directory listed it as starting at the Vine Street Ferry.
Haddon Avenue is one of Camden's oldest roads, dating to at least 1792 as a bridle path and incorporated as the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike in 1839. It runs southeast from Federal Street to the city limits toward Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.
Sixth Street runs with few interruptions from the Delaware River to Morgan Street, virtually the length of the city, from North Camden south almost all the way to Gloucester City.
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
EUGENE F. ALSTON was born October 16, 1919 in Camden to Richard Alston and his wife, the former Dolly Robinson. His father had been born in 1891 in Henderson, North Carolina.
Berkley Street runs through South Camden from Buren Avenue to Haddon Avenue, named for Lord Berkeley, one of the original proprietors of colonial New Jersey. The section east of Broadway was once known as Hamilton Street until 1882.
DAVID ALLABAND was born in New Jersey on September 2, 1912. His father, David S. Allaband, died three months before his birth, and his mother Suzanne passed when he was only four years old.
William Abels was born in Pennsylvania around 1839 to Andrew and Sarah Abels. His family was living in Wilmington in 1850.
Regulars at The Tavern, a North Sixth Street bar, mourned Benjamin Shablack and John Barrett, two retired roommates bound, gagged, and left to die in a fire set in their North Camden rowhouse on Bailey Street. Fire Marshal Harold Pike found the fire was deliberately set in four locations.
March 30, 1970 Captain Maycott as last member removed from collapse is carried to waiting ambulance. Units at scene breached walls and performed tunneling and shoring operations to reach trapped members.
James Walker pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott of 1243 South 3rd Street, killed during an argument over a dice game at 211 Line Street in May 1961.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital admissions reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
Children on North 6th Street between Elm and Birch raised $80.20 for the emergency March of Dimes with a two-hour variety show directed by fireman Wesley Faust.
Public Safety Commissioner E. George Aaron promoted three hosemen to fire captain and announced six new firemen — including Henry J. Keating of 3316 Lemuel Avenue, transferred from the Police Department — and two new policemen. Camden Courier-Post, November 30, 1953.
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
A Camden Courier-Post hospital admissions list of November 20, 1949, recording injuries treated at Cooper and West Jersey hospitals, including Mary Dickinson, 74, of 57 North Twenty-second Street, with an injured hip.
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.
Joseph F. Hyde Jr., operator of Hyde's tavern at 1600 South Sixth Street, reported an armed masked bandit robbed him of $30. Sgt. Earl Wright investigated.
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.
The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.
The upward swing of contributions to the United Service Organizations continued yesterday, with Camden's total reaching $17,423.69 toward its $21,000 goal.
John G. Maxwell of Pennsauken topped the State Civil Service promotion examination for property supervisor of the Camden County Welfare Board; Fred L. Strong of 133 North Thirty-second Street placed second.
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 Senate Finally Approves Choice Announced by Edison 2 Months Ago Trenton, June 30.
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
At the first Camden Civil Service hearing in two years, fellow firemen testified that dismissed fireman George W. Garner was found in a saloon at Sixth and Kaighn and was too drunk to be roused from a fire truck; the commissioner reserved decision.