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Corporal Isadore "Israel" Goldstein (1914–1945) of 2578 Baird Boulevard, Camden, served with Company D, 759th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945 at Nassau, Germany while saving 21 other soldiers, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Somerset Street is an East Camden thoroughfare running north from Admiral Wilson Boulevard to Raritan Street, serving primarily as an exit ramp for eastbound traffic rather than a residential street.
Maplewood Street is an East Camden street that was never developed for residential use, only partially paved, due to the Baird Avenue overpass and commercial development along Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
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.
Theodore T. Kausel was born in New York on October 25, 1885. By 1919, he resided in Camden, New Jersey, where he served as superintendent of the Castle Kid Company, one of the city's leather manufacturing businesses.
Daniel A. Gottlieb was born in Russia on August 18, 1882, and immigrated to America in 1890. After marrying Fannie, the couple lived for a time in Pennsylvania, where they welcomed daughter Essie in 1907 and son James in 1909.
Henrietta Terrace is an alley in East Camden, New Jersey, running behind the 2600 block of Baird Boulevard from Federal Street to Mickle Street. No houses or buildings carry a Henrietta Terrace address.
Bank Street runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, to Admiral Wilson Boulevard. Once the center of a notorious open-air drug market in the 1980s–90s, the street was redeveloped as part of the Peter J. McGuire Gardens housing project in the early 2000s.
Aaron Ward, born on November 26, 1834, in what was then Newton Township, Gloucester County, NJ (now within the borders of Camden), was the youngest of eight children born to Mason and Hannah Barton Ward.
Camden High School opened in 1918 at Park and Baird Boulevards in Camden, NJ, designed by architects Arthur Truscott and Paul A. Davis III.
Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
Admiral Wilson Boulevard (US Route 30) runs from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Airport Circle, named after World War I naval hero Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Jr. of Camden — originally designated as Bridge Boulevard when it opened.
EDWARD J. BORDEN SR. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 12, 1888 to John and Beatrice Borden, both of whom were born in Canada. The elder Borden was a boilermaker by trade.
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Royden Street , which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681-82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street .
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.
Death notice for John H. Heaton of 2556 Baird Boulevard, husband of the late Eda Thegen Heaton; funeral arrangements through Murray Funeral Home on Cooper Street.
Dr. S. Marvin Bell, 55, of 2411 Baird Boulevard, a Camden dentist for 22 years and past president of Congregation Beth Israel and the East Camden Lions Club, died at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.
Thieves took $100 from the home of Harry Schwartz at 2256 Baird Boulevard, gaining entrance by breaking in the rear door.
Obituary for Mrs. Josephine A. Doughten, 64, of 2606 Baird Avenue, who died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital after eight years as cashier at the Arlo Theatre in East Camden.
Obituary for Morris Bass, 65, of 2630 Baird Boulevard, retired operator of the Bass Food Market on Cooper Street, Camden resident for 45 years and member of Ahev Zedak Synagogue.
Copper piping and tools were stolen from Dan's Metal Products at 318 Kaighns Avenue, reported by proprietor Daniel Greenstein of 1504 Baird Avenue — Camden Courier-Post, November 11, 1958.
Camden fire captain George Fuscellaro of Engine Co. 11 suffered second-degree burns while fighting a garage fire in the rear of 2632 Baird Boulevard.
Samuel Rosen, 51, of 2597 Baird Boulevard, a leader in Jewish fraternal and charitable circles and one of the founders of Beth Israel synagogue, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia.
Aviation Cadet Burton L. Pearl, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Pearl of 1473 Baird Avenue, graduated from the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School at Fort Myers, Florida after nine months of service.
A runaway bakery horse at Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Baird Avenue triggered a chain-reaction crash injuring three people; Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third Street was among those treated at Cooper Hospital.
The Parkside auxiliary to Cooper Hospital was to meet with plans for a card party at the home of Mrs. Hiram E. Budd at 1407 Baird Avenue.
Classified advertisement from 2632 Baird Boulevard offering a Leonard ice box in perfect porcelain condition.
Homemakers Off Air 4th Annual Child Welfare Institute Being Planned for April Will Hold 4 Classes The desire to carry on toward the goal envisioned by founders of the Parent-Teacher Association will be emphasized throughout the country in honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
Three persons were injured in an automobile crash at Admiral Wilson and Baird Avenues; John Kaus Jr. of 1738 Tioga Street suffered the most serious injury, a severed tendon of the right hand.
Wedding of Miss Dorothy Schuler of 1412 Baird Avenue and Harold S. Haines of Gibbsboro at Parkside M.E. Church, with reception at the bride's mother's home.
Members Approve Proposal to Provide New Capital to Finish Building A Plan for refinancing of the City Athletic Club was approved by several hundred members who met Monday night in the building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards .
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel A. Pearl of 1473 Baird Avenue to hold open house honoring daughters Rosalie and Evelyn on their Camden High School graduation.
Miss Margaret Louise Sherwood, daughter of Carroll P. Sherwood of 2612 Baird Boulevard, to wed Arthur D. Pierce at Grace Church in Haddonfield.
Dr. Mildred F. DuBell, a recent graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy, will summer at Ocean City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles DuBell of 1415 Baird Avenue, and will open offices at her home in the fall.
Mrs. Charles DuBell, of 1415 Baird Avenue, entertained for the members of her D.T.A. Club.
Sheriff's sale notice for 1412 Baird Avenue, property of Yetta Norwitz, ordered by the Court of Chancery of New Jersey; debt of $1,437.70 owed to South Camden Building and Loan.
Paul Rothman, 11, of 2596 Baird Boulevard, donated his $5.20 vacation savings to buy toothpaste for veterans at the Camden bonus camp.
Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Budd of 1407 Baird Avenue opened their Wildwood apartment and planned to stay for the summer.
Baird Boulevard property owners protested being taxed for tree planting and traffic island grading while Cooper Street property owners challenged road-widening assessments before city commissioners.
George Hickman and Joseph Hand, arrested at Cape May Court House, were wanted in Camden for the theft of an automobile and a camping outfit from the garage of John H. Ohrens at 1393 Baird Avenue.
Two Camden boys, Harry Pinskey Jr. of 1525 Baird Avenue and William McGrath of 1500 Baird Avenue, fractured their skulls after jumping from an ice wagon into the path of an automobile and were taken to Cooper Hospital in serious condition.
A Camden Daily Courier building-permit notice for April 1913, recording Charles W. Austermuhl's eight dwellings on Baird Avenue, six on Florence Street, and a three-story brick building for S. Chew & Sons Company at 37-39 North Third Street.
A 1903 Philadelphia Inquirer news column noting incorporations, the probate of Assistant Tax Receiver Frank S. Jones's will, reopening services at Tabernacle Baptist Church, and contractor Aaron Ward's start of work on the approaches to the Baird Avenue bridge.