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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
A Camden Courier-Post retrospective on the origins of organized labor in Camden, centering on Peter J. McGuire and on the father-and-son cigarmakers Frank and Robert Hartmann, whose Third and Arch Streets factory housed the movement's earliest meetings. Robert Hartmann was elected first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union in 1908.
Camden Courier-Post - May 16, 1964 C. Hobart Corson , 62, of 117 N. 23rd st. , former president of the Ninth Ward Republican Club , was found dead yesterday on the second floor of the club's headquarters on Broadway near Royden st .
James Walker pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott of 1243 South 3rd Street, killed during an argument over a dice game at 211 Line Street in May 1961.
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.
Angelo Rago, 68, a retired Philadelphia Navy Yard employee and World War I veteran, died at his home at 1707 South 4th Street in December 1957.
The embezzlement trial of Camden attorney Charles F. Murray was expected to reach a jury, after testimony from his former secretary Mrs. Bernice Brown of 614 South 3rd Street.
Vincent DiPatri, 69, who lived 40 years at 1809 South 4th Street and retired as a PRSL maintenance-of-way worker after 36 years, died in March 1957.
Obituary of John Melfi Sr., 74, of 24 Ablett Village, Camden — born in Italy, Camden resident for 42 years, maintenance man for Eavenson and Levering. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
Gerald M. Miller, 24, of the 2100 block of Berwick Street was held on $250 bail on charges of passing a red light and drunken driving after being stopped by police at Carman Street.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital admissions for August 1956, including John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth Street.
Nuisance Eliminated, They Say, Praising Action by Police Camden City's police crackdown on the illegal operations of pretzel vendors and other type peddlers in the mid-city business area was hailed today by the merchants.
Death notice for Charles B. Lamon of 1233 South 4th Street, Camden, husband of the late Anna Davis Lamon (nee Hagerty), who died February 1, 1954.