People
Dr. Henry H. Davis
Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.
Tag
Atlantic Avenue
Streets
Atlantic Avenue
Atlantic Avenue runs east–west through the heart of Camden, three blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, from Front Street to Haddon Avenue. East of 7th Street it was and remains a mix of homes and commercial properties; the street crosses under I-676 and the elevated rail between 7th and 9th Streets before becoming primarily residential toward Haddon Avenue.
People
Edward N. Cohn
Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.
Streets
8th Street
Eighth Street runs south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden — one of Camden's longest thoroughfares.
Bars and Clubs
Three-O-Three Bar
Three-O-Three Bar, a Camden tavern at 303 Kaighn Avenue operating from the 1930s through 1970, later the Togetherness Bar before the building was razed.
Streets
Baring Street
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.
Historical Accounts
A Camden Story: Reflections and Memories of Richard Brodowicz
Richard Brodowicz's personal memoir of growing up in South Camden in the 1960s and 1970s, covering Polish family life, St. Joseph's Church and School, neighborhood games, and childhood memories on Tioga and Mechanic Streets.
Historical Accounts
My Camden Heritage
By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice , January 5, 2005. I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.
Historical Accounts
Mad Hatter - Boston Corbett
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.
News Articles
St. Joseph's Church Keeps in Touch with Men and Women in Armed Forces
A 1944 Camden Courier-Post feature by Frank Sheridan on St. Joseph's Church (the Polish parish at Tenth and Mechanic Streets), whose 1,154 mothers gave sons and daughters to the war — four killed, two missing, one a prisoner — among them Joseph Piotrowski, lost when the cruiser Helena was sunk at Kula Gulf.
News Articles
1150 Camden Poles In Service Honored
A service flag honoring 1,150 St. Joseph's Parish men and women in the armed forces was unfurled at Tenth and Mechanic Streets, where Mayor Brunner pinned gold stars on the mothers and a brother of parishioners killed or missing in World War II. Courier-Post, August 31, 1943.
News Articles
Mrs. Kobus to Ask More Cops, Firemen for City Next Year
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.
News Articles
Who Socked Who With What Prop Debated in Court
Camden Courier-Post - February 18, 1938 The Monday morning washday blues yesterday landed three South Camden neighbors in Police Court in a futile effort to decide who hit who with what clothes prop.
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'Kid' Roller Skates Jolt Love Off Base
Camden Courier-Post - February 15, 1938 A roller-skating child bride who thought her 19 year old husband "too old" for her was well on her way to being divorced yesterday by Al Daidone, 29, of 424 Clinton street .
News Articles
Wife Biffed by Husband Wins Decree for Divorce
Camden Courier-Post - June 21, 1933 A husband who celebrated St. Patrick's Day, 1932, by singing I'll Give You Something to Remember Me By and handing his wife a swift left to the chin, lost a divorce action yesterday.
News Articles
Camden Man Injured as Car Turns Turtle
Harry Katz, 25, of 1100 Baring Street suffered cuts to his legs and hands when his car turned over in a collision at Eighth Street and Atlantic Avenue.
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Democrats to Stage Meetings Tonight
Camden Courier-Post - October 20, 1931 Six meetings, three in the city and three in the county, will be conducted by Democrats tonight in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local candidates on the Democratic ticket.
News Articles
Charged With Larceny
Grant Alston, employed by Louis Katz, a junk dealer at 1416 South Third Street, was held in $500 bail in Camden charged with the larceny of sixty pounds of brass.
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Real Estate Transfers
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of recorded real estate transfers for November 1914, including the sale of 845-847 and 849 South Third Street — the Travis Building — by G. Frank Travis to Joseph Palese for $13,000.
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Human Bones Found on Camden Meadows
Human bones found on the meadows near Fourth Street and Atlantic Avenue were traced by Detective Hart and Captain of Police Stanley to a medical student who had left them in a building.
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Strikers' Threats
Camden police were told of threats to burn the Wagner Glass Works at Atlantic and Ferry Avenues during a strike over a change from time work to piece work. Chief Foster sent Captain Stanley, who found no sign of lawlessness but posted an officer and arranged a reserve force.
News Articles
Camden News
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news, closing with Coroner H. H. Davis's inquest verdict of accidental death in the killing of Mrs. Matilda Scholl.
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The Day Inquest
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items, including the death of Mrs. Matilda Scholl on the West Jersey Railroad, of which Coroner H. H. Davis took charge.
News Articles
Killed on the Rail
The Camden Post's account of the death of Mrs. Matilda Scholl, struck and killed by a West Jersey Railroad train near the ferry; Coroner H. H. Davis took charge of the case.