Tag: Camden High School
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Ron “Itchy” Smith
Ron "Itchy" Smith, a standout basketball player and guard for Camden High School, graduated in 1960 after an exceptional basketball career. Over three seasons, he scored 1,276 points and led Camden to back-to-back Group 4 basketball championships in 1959 and 1960. Playing under basketball coach Tony Alfano, Smith and his teammates, Golden “Sonny” Sunkett and…
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Clara S. Burrough
Clara Stewart Burrough was born in December of 1869 to William and Sarah H. “Sallie” Burrough. Her early years were spent in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, where William Burrough had a farm. By 1880, the family had relocated to Camden, where William Burrough began a business as a milk dealer. They settled at…
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William Grover Wearshing
William Grover “Worm” Wearshing, born on August 20, 1906, in New Jersey to William and Nellie Wearshing, was known by his middle name from an early age. Growing up at 1231 South 3rd Street, near Kaighn Avenue, he was the middle child among his sisters Freda and Nellie. His father held a job as a…
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Thomas Yorke Smith
Thomas. Yorke Smith, more commonly known as T. Yorke Smith, born around 1873 in New Jersey, entered matrimony with Harriet A. Smith at the age of 21. Around the turn of the century, T. Yorke Smith, initially a banker, formed a business alliance with David Baird Sr. In 1902, at the dawn of Parkside’s development,…
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Theodore L. Primas
Theodore Primas was born on December 27, 1924, in Camden, New Jersey, to parents Edward and Hallie Primas. As of April 1930, the Primas family, comprising sisters Pauline, Gladys, and Garnet, and brothers Melvin and Edward Emmet, resided at 2823 Mitchell Street in East Camden. They continued to live there into the early 1940s. A…
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Charles H. Ellis, Jr.
Born on April 22, 1862, in Camden, Charles H. Ellis Jr. was deeply rooted in the city’s fabric. His grandfather, Samuel Ellis, notably served as Camden’s first City Clerk and initiated the city’s first newspaper. Charles’s father, a successful grocer, established a grocery store at 5th and Berkley Street, around the time Charles was born.…
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William S. Gimello
William Savera Gimello is the son of the late Rocco “Rox” Gimello and Caterina Scogna. His father, known locally as the coach of the Camden Collegians, a semi-pro baseball team in the 1930s and 1940s, was also active in VFW affairs and politics. Born on January 1, 1928, at 270 Mount Vernon Street in Camden,…
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Carl Kisselman
Introduction is sourced from South Jersey: A History, 1624-1924 CARL KISSELMAN — Among the younger members of the legal profession who are prepared to fill the ranks as the older and noted men of the legal fraternity come to years of retirement, is Carl Kisselman, who was admitted to the bar of the State of…
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Camden High School
1700 Park Boulevard, Camden, NJ Northwest Corner of Park Boulevard and Baird Boulevard Camden High School first welcomed students in 1918, occupying the intersection of Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue, a parcel of land originally within the bounds of Forest Hill Park, later renamed Farnham Park in 1927. The swift rise in population drove the…
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Family
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1941. Dear Mr. Cohen, I grew up in Camden at 301 North Second Street. Your history was sent to me by one of my former students whose parents, under 400 Line Street, the Gentiles, also are part of Camden’s history. I lived…
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1928 Camden High School Yearbook
Yearbook of the Class of 1928 of Camden High School. Text is searchable, with limitations in some of the fonts.
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Paul A. Kind
The below is excerpted from South Jersey: A History 1624-1924 PAUL ADOLF KIND—The youth of Paul Adolf Kind has been no bar in his career. He is now treasurer of the Kind and Knox concern of Camden, which is one of the largest manufacturers of edible gelatine, and he is very well known in the…
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Harry Gleason (via SABR)
by Jack Morris – Unknown date On the surface, Harry Gleason’s career wasn’t noteworthy. He played a total of 274 major-league games over five seasons with a career batting average of 0.218. He was an everyday starter in only one of those seasons. But there’s so much more to Gleason’s story. Gleason was almost killed…
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Leonard Iannelli
Leonard Iannelli, born into a family of dedicated firefighters, followed in the footsteps of his father, Frank Iannelli, who had lost his life while battling a fire as a member of Engine Company 9 on April 5, 1942. Leonard Iannelli, a graduate of Camden High School in June 1942, joined the esteemed ranks of the…
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Baird Boulevard
Baird Boulevard, also known as Baird Avenue and a major thoroughfare in the Parkside neighborhood of Camden, was named in honor of David Baird Sr., a prominent businessman, political leader, and former U.S. Senator from Camden. It was constructed in the early 1900s as part of the Parkside development plan and is one of the…