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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.
J. B. VAN SCIVER & CO. This firm occupy a handsome building on the corner of Delaware avenue and Federal street . It is of mammoth proportions and is visible along the whole river front.
Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
Salem Street is a one-block street running from Ferry Avenue south to Viola Street. Homes at 1831 through 1841 Salem Street first appear in the 1890-1891 Camden City Directory.
French's Court, originally French Street, was a small court of frame houses running west from 1021 Broadway in Camden. It appeared by 1850 and was last listed around 1922; its buildings were gone by 1906.
Roy R. Stewart was born in Quakake, PA, a small mining town, in 1887. During his youth, he worked as a breaker boy in the mines.
Ninth Street is one of Camden's longest north–south thoroughfares, running from the Delaware River waterfront in North Camden, through the city's central corridor, and far south through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park. Block numbering begins at Federal Street.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.
The Sixth Ward Republican Club was active in Camden as early as the 1890s through at least 1947. Richard J. Richardson was the club president for several years around the turn of the century.
W.E. Tebbets' 1933 Walkathon Walkathons and Dance Marathons became popular during the Depression years. Promoter W.E. Tebbets set up many of these events all over the country, bringing his own bands and entertainers along to the event.
Line Street was named for the final division line between the Cooper and Kaighn properties. Laid out as a twenty-foot alley and widened to fifty feet in 1848, it became the boundary between the Middle and South Wards.
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
Leon Edgar Todd Sr. was born in Camden NJ on November 22, 1893. He operated his real estate agency for many years in Camden at 2623 Westfield Avenue , a building designed by the Camden architectural firm of Lackey & Hettel .
The Zuni Athletic Association sponsored semi-pro sports teams as early as the spring of 1930 and into the early 60s. It appears to have founded in that year.
1123 Broadway (Broadway and Sycamore Street), Camden, NJ Established in 1885, the Camden National Bank opened at 259 Kaighn Avenue on August 13, 1885. Zophar C. Howell was the first President.
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
Lewis Liberman (1894-1941) was a Camden, New Jersey attorney, World War I veteran, and Police Court judge who also served as assistant city solicitor.
Market Street in Camden was likely named because it linked via the ferry to Market Street in Philadelphia, which it follows on the map; no known market existed on it. Includes a circa 1893 photo looking east from N. 2nd Street.
Amber Street is a small street that runs parallel to Kaighn Avenue from South 4th Street to South 6th Street. Best known as the alley beside Triangle Liquor east of Broadway.
Liberty Street, listed in the 1850 Camden City Directory, was in the early 20th century a culturally diverse area west of Broadway, home to ethnic communities employed in nearby factories and stores.
The American National Bank, founded in the mid-1920s at 1213 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, merged with Camden Trust after 1936; its building is now demolished.
George B. Anderson was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on September 18, 1872, as a replacement extra man with Engine Company 2 . He filled the position left by William S. Davis , who had been promoted to Engineer.
Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.
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.
GEORGE ACKERLE was born December 14, 1920 in New Jersey. He was one of at least seven children born to Paul F. and Anna Ackerle. The Ackerles lived in Deptford NJ through at least April of 1930.
, where he worked as a clerk in a store. He was then a lodger in the home of Frederic Sohn, at 489 York Avenue. He married around 1881.
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
Dr. David E. Cooper and his family lived and worked at 919 Broadway from 1937 until the 1950s. Joseph S. Cooper’s memoir provides a detailed description of the house as it appeared in 1937, built in 1840 for a relative of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
By Phil Cohen One Postcard, Two Destinations, Three Continents, Six People, and One Hundred and Two Years The Mystery The postcard above was mailed on October 5, 1910 from Camden, New Jersey to Miss Ella Kremo at the Tivoli Theater in Sydney, Australia.
Camden Courier-Post - November 29, 2003 Cheap Chinese labor dooms family firm By Eileen Stilwell, Courier-Post Staff, Camden No more polyester beards on Broadway . No more plaited "wench wigs" for the Mummers on Broad Street.
Camden Courier-Post - November 25, 2003 By KEVIN RIORDAN, Courier-Post Staff Retired state Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Nardi Jr. , a shoemaker's son who became an attorney, a mayor and a member of the state judiciary, is dead.
Philadelphia Inquirer - November 25, 2003 The state Superior Court judge and former mayor was 71.
Camden Courier-Post - November 25, 2003 NARDI, HON. JOSEPH M., JR. — Suddenly on November 23, 2003, age 71 of Audubon, formerly of Voorhees and Camden.
By Erik Swartz, Courier-Post Staff Edward "Broadway Eddie" Warhoftig , a Cherry Hill resident and Camden businessman who won a Grammy Award as a music producer on one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, died Saturday. He was 69.
On the eve of his March 1980 retirement dinner, Camden fire captain John P. Gryckiewicz looked back on 40 years with the department — the rescues, the Garden State Race Track fire, 84-hour weeks and $60 paychecks, and a city he still loved.
An "Our Patrons" page of fifteen advertisements from the Spring 1977 Fire Watch Magazine, including Terry's Famous Pizza Box at 200 S. 27th St. at Benson St., Bruno's Restaurant, Crystal 1 Hr. Cleaners and the Trent Bar & Liquors.
Martin DiCarlo's Camden Courier-Post column on the Iannelli family: Camden firemen Frank Iannelli and his sons Leonard and Carmen all died of heart attacks on the job, in 1942, 1964 and 1975.
Death notice for Thomas J. Driscoll, 72, of 2030 Arlington Street, Camden, who died June 22, 1972. Survived by his wife Virginia, one son, two daughters, two sisters, and five grandchildren. Mass of the Resurrection at Sacred Heart R.C. Church.
Death notice for Harry F. Juckett, 81, of 15 North 35th Street — a World War I veteran and retired Public Service Gas & Electric employee — with Requiem Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and interment at Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill.
Death notice for Pauline U. Abate (nee Priola), 45, wife of Vincent Abate of 420 Viola Street, with her funeral from the Troncone Funeral Home and requiem Mass at Sacred Heart R.C. Church.
Death notice for Levi M. Jones, formerly of 1618 Ferry Avenue, who died September 6, 1967; funeral arrangements by the David F. Harrigan Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway, Camden.
Obituary for Mrs. Julia A. Galm, 75, of 2032 Arlington Street. Survived by five sons, two daughters, three sisters, 20 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Requiem Mass at Sacred Heart Church.
A general-alarm fire raged for four hours on March 7, 1967, destroying the L-shaped building at 613 Broadway that housed Anthony Corradetti Sales Enterprises, a distributor of toys, novelties and household goods, along with two nearby residences on Line Street, before almost 100 firemen brought it under control.
Obituary for Joseph A. Marks Jr., 27, of 320 Carteret Street, a carpenter electrocuted while installing a TV antenna in Allentown, Pa. Burial in New Camden Cemetery.