Tag: Camden Home for Friendless Children

..So she sat me down with a soup bowl full. Well, I just looked at the dish and upchucked all over. And she said,” You can go.

The following are excerpts from an oral interview conducted by Herbert’s daughter Anne Sampson Harrison.

A few times I have been asked by readers if a hospital ever existed next to the Ben Franklin Bridge and if so, what was its name.

THE CAMDEN HOME FOR CHILDREN is an institution located on Haddon Avenue, above Mount Vernon, the object and design of which is to afford a home, food, clothing and schooling for destitute friendless children, and, at a suitable age, to place them with respectable families to learn some useful trade or occupation. The home was established and is conducted by a corporation.

The Camden Home for Friendless Children was established in 1865. By the 1890’s the institution had located at 915 Haddon Avenue in Camden NJ.

Built by contributions of residents of the city, the pool was officially opened yesterday for the first time this season to the delight of the children.

Plans for the thirty-third anniversary of the Pyne Poynt Athletic Association to be observed with an all ­day program at Pyne Poynt Park.

The police ambulance removed residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon.

Philadelphia Inquirer – January 4, 1897
Camden’s generous citizens have responded to the Camden Home for Friendless Children.

The Camden Home for Friendless Children—The committee on collections for the Building Fund, have great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following contributions: