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313 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ The following is derived from George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey published in 1886. Memorial Methodist Protestant Church is situated on Liberty Street , above Third .
Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, the Union Army sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth in 1865, later lived in Camden, New Jersey and preached at local churches.
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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.
Honest Abe almost lost Camden City in 1864: 3332 to 2758 votes for McClellan. Abraham Lincoln in Camden on successive nights in June, 1862:—"President Lincoln passed through this city (Camden) on Tuesday night last on his way to West Point.
Stars and Stripes - November 23, 1964 TOPEKA, Kan. (UPI) - He shot and killed the assassin who shot the President. He was arrested. His sanity became a question. Jack Ruby ?
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.
Boston Corbett , Who Killed Wilkes Booth, Remembered by Many Old Residents of the City To the minds of many of Camden's older residents the birthday of Abraham Lincoln recalled the day's years ago when they had within their midst Boston Corbett , the man who bore the distinction of having laid low John Wilkes Booth, the murderer of the martyred President, when he was making a break for liberty from the burning barn in Virginia.
Harper's Weekly - May 13, 1865; page 294, column A and B This is a half-page excerpt of a multi-page article about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, published in Harper's Weekly.
April 29, 1865 HDQRS. DETACHMENT SIXTEENTH NEW YORK CAVALRY, Washington, D.C., April 29, 1865. Lieut. Col. J. H. TAYLOR, Asst. Adjt. Gets. and Chief of Staff, Dept. of Washington.