1890 Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey - Intro The Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey was commissioned and published by Camden's Board of Trade, a forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce.
Joseph F. Kobus and his brother Henry were the sons of Anthony Kobus , who established a shoe business at 943 South 4th Street in 1858, later relocating it to the corner of South 4th and Spruce Streets .
From George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey , 1886 Newton Friend's Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month, 1801, Joseph Kaighn gave them the lot of land-at the corner of the Mount Ephraim road and Mount Vernon Street , in the present city of Camden, on which, in the same year, they built the brick meetinghouse that now stands there.
Camden Courier-Post - September 17, 1941 The political boss of Camden is a motherly, gray-haired woman who wears hats like those effected by Queen Mary of England.