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Private First Class William Groome (1916–1944), a former New York Shipbuilding Company employee who had lived for six years at 119 North 23rd Street in East Camden, served with Company K, 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division. He was killed in action at Anzio, Italy on May 12, 1944 and was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in 1949.
Dr. Milton H. Gordon was a Camden physician specializing in internal medicine and cardiology who practiced at offices on North 27th Street and the Wilson Building.
Henry L. "Harry" Barroway was a prominent Camden attorney and founding president of Congregation Beth El. Last a resident of 458 South 27th Street, he died in November 1965.
David Tattersdill was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1873 and opened his first music store at 1002 North 27th Street in Cramer Hill in 1903, building a business on Broadway that his sons continued operating into the 1970s.
Camden aviator and Army Colonel; organized the South Jersey Aviation Club from his home at 106 South 27th Street and was instrumental in establishing Central Airport. Born May 25, 1884 in New Britain CT, he died in December 1961 in Ventura CA.
Leonard F. Garbrecht (1910–2000) was a Camden fire captain who served from 1941 until retiring on disability in 1960. He was the last remaining captain of that era and a charter member of Camden City Firefighters Local 788.
Harry L. Leonard was a Camden-born funeral director and World War I veteran who opened his own funeral parlor at 120 South 27th Street in 1927, later moving to 2850 Federal Street, and ran for Camden County Coroner in 1936.
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.
Robert Gess (1887-1950) was born in Pennsylvania and worked for many years at the Howland Croft Sons & Co. textile mill at Broadway and Jefferson Street in Camden, becoming a foreman there about 1918. He suffered a fatal heart attack at the plant on June 28, 1950.
Adelbert J. "Duke" Kirk Sr. (1918-1989) was a Camden firefighter who was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on November 16, 1956 and served with Engine Company 3 until his retirement on December 1, 1981.
Twelve soldiers from Camden County, NJ died when the troop transport HMT Rohna was struck by a German guided glider bomb and sank off the coast of North Africa on November 26, 1943 — one of the greatest maritime disasters of World War II.
Walter Dayton Eastlack (1889–1964) was a Camden firefighter who served 29 years with the Camden Fire Department, from his appointment on March 3, 1925 to his retirement on March 15, 1954.
Earl Wright joined the Camden police force in 1928, serving as a motorcycle patrolman and later Sergeant. He is best known as the officer who arrested mass murderer Howard Unruh on September 6, 1949.
Charles E. Watkin Jr. (1879-1954) was a Camden Fire Department captain who served over 34 years, from his appointment on January 1, 1915 until his retirement on May 1, 1949.
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.
Cammer's Court, also known as Dudley's Court and later Cramer's Court, was a half-block alley running south from Pine Street between 512 and 516 Pine Street; first listed in city directories in 1863 as Dudley's Court, it disappeared after 1917 when the Hurley Store expanded its warehouse.
Historical photos and news clippings of the intersection of Broadway and Federal Street in Camden — the heart of the city — from the 1850s through 2003, covering the courthouse, the Munger & Long Building, Lit Brothers, the Elks and YMCA, and surrounding landmarks.
Santo DiMaggio (1918–1973) was a Camden firefighter who joined the department in January 1951 and served with Engine Company 3.
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.
Dauphin Street runs south from Line Street across Pine Street to Division Street, between South 4th and South 5th Streets in South Camden. Originally called Kaighn Street, it was renamed in January 1882.
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Tiedeken Brother's Auto Body, founded in 1876 as a wagon and blacksmith shop on Van Hook Street, is the oldest business in Camden, New Jersey.
Coates Street is a one-block street in Camden's Bergen Square neighborhood, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
Bernard Bertman lived at 941 Broadway as late as 1936 and had his law offices in the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street .
James J. Daly was born in Camden around 1881 and spent nearly his entire life there. He was the son of James P. Daly and his wife. His father entered the bar business as early as 1906, operating Daly's Café at 800 Linden Street .
George Frost was the son of Andrew and Christiana Frost, both of whom were born in what is now Germany.
Harry J. Burrichter was born in 1877 in New Jersey to Henry J. and Katherine Burrichter. In 1880, the family lived at 929 Broadway , where Henry Burrichter operated a grocery store.
Dr. Dillwyn Parrish Pancoast was born on March 11, 1836, in Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, NJ, to Israel Pancoast, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah Ann Lippincott.
George Denniston Haley (1848-1923) was a Civil War veteran of the 116th New York Volunteers who lost an arm at Port Hudson and later settled in Camden, New Jersey.
George Birch was born on May 10, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father either passed away or abandoned the family, leaving George's mother, Katherine Halligan, an illiterate Irish immigrant, to raise him alone.
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.
Charles Miller Gladney was born in New Jersey on September 2, 1877, to George and Mary Gladney. In 1878, the family lived at 728 Mount Vernon Street , but by 1880, George, Mary, and their older son David had moved to 432 Liberty Street in Camden.
Jesse P. Johnson was born around 1873 in Des Moines, Iowa, and moved to Camden, New Jersey, around 1890. The 1890-1891 Camden City Directory lists him living at the corner of 9th and Pearl Streets and working as a salesman in Philadelphia.
John Atwood Ewing was born on July 7, 1845, in Delaware to parents John and May Ewing. In his early years, he lived in Penns Grove, Salem County, New Jersey.
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.
Isaac J. Hibbs was born on March 25, 1848, in Pennsylvania. He was the son of Isaac G. Hibbs, a carpenter, and his wife Mary. At the time of the 1850 Census, he was the youngest of the seven living Hibbs children.
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.
Sigmund "Sig" Schoenagle was born in Vienna, Austria, around 1875. As a young man, he immigrated to America and settled in Camden, NJ. In 1894, he established a haberdashery at the southwest corner of 3rd and Federal Streets .
Bartholomew A. Sheehan was born on December 18, 1907, to Jeremiah and Mary (McCarthy) Sheehan.
Grant Street is a street in Camden, New Jersey, named after Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States.
Church Place ran for a half block from Stevens Street north towards Mickle Street, west of Broadway in Camden, NJ. It was laid out between 1878 and 1885, alongside the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, and homes remained there into the 1940s. The church and Chapel Place were razed in July 2018.
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."
Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.
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.
Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.
Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Donges, born on May 5, 1868, in Donaldson, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, to Dr. John Washington Donges and Rose Marguerite Renaud Donges, was a distinguished legal and political figure in Camden, NJ.
A short alley between Liberty and Mechanic Streets in South Camden, named for shoemaker William A. Butcher who built a shoe factory on it in the 1890s.