Tag: Camden Home for Friendless Children
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Camden County General Hospital
Besides Cooper, West Jersey, and Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden residents used other medical facilities over the years. Some, like the Municipal Hospital and Belleview Hospital, both long closed, were in the city limits. One in particular, the County Hospital at Lakeland, was not, and is worth writing about. In a wiser time, Camden County…
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Carol Sampson Feaster – Oral History
Q – Were you baptized and if so, in what religion? A – Protestant. It was a Presbyterian church. I was baptized in this church because I remember being dipped in the water. [First Presbyterian Church – Ed.] Q- So you were older? A – Yea, I was about 9 years old, that I remember…
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The Sampson Family Oral Interviews
With Herbert A. Sampson & Carol Sampson Feaster Herbert A. Sampson and Caroline Suzanne Sampson were born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William Allen Sampson (1860-1937) and Helen Ida Petty (1887-1931). Helen, a native of Newfoundland, immigrated to Massachusetts in the mid-1910s, while William hailed from Boston. In approximately 1924, the family, including older sister Lillian…
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Bellevue Hospital – Tracking History
By Thomas A. Bergbauer, Retired Courier-Post Editor A few times in the past two months I have received several phone calls from readers asking if a hospital ever existed in North Camden next to the Ben Franklin Bridge and if so, what was its name. The answer of course is, yes! The name of the…
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A Brief History of the Camden Home for Children & SPCC
In Service to Youth The Camden Home for Friendless Children, situated on Haddon Avenue above Mount Vernon, stands as an emblem of compassionate care for destitute and friendless children. Its inception, formalized through a charter granted by the State Legislature on April 6, 1865, brought together individuals committed to a noble cause. The charter incorporated…
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Camden Home for Friendless Children
Established in 1865, The Camden Home for Friendless Children found its roots at 915 Haddon Avenue in Camden, NJ, by the 1890s. Mrs. Lucretia Read, widow of prominent Camden realtor William T. Read Sr. and mother of New Jersey State Senator William T. Read Jr., played a vital role in the institution. Actively engaged in…
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Will of Charles S. Boyer Is Admitted to Probate
New Jersey Mirror – February 10, 1937 Contains Number of Bequests to Charities in Camden County The will of Charles S. Boyer, late of Moorestown, was admitted to probate by Surrogate George B. Bitting on Monday. It contains the following bequests: To his wife, Anna DeRousse, all moneys after payment of bequests, also all securities…
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Children at Camden Home Have Big Time in Wading Pool
Camden Courier-Post – June 30, 1933 Bathing Place, Given by Citizens Officially Opened Four Youthful Charges, Left Motherless, to Return to Father Bathing in the backyard is a privilege of the children of the Camden Home for Friendless Children that is enjoyed by few of the other youngsters in the city. Yesterday, 63 of the…
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Pyne Poynt Plans All-Day 4th Party
Camden Courier-Post – June 2, 1933 Program to Have ‘Something’ on Continuously, Day and Night Plans for the thirty-third anniversary of the Pyne Poynt Athletic Association to be observed with an all day program at Pyne Poynt Park July 4 were discussed last night at a meeting in the Pyne Poynt Social Club, 929 North…
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Removed to Hospitals
Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 1922 The police ambulance removed the following residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon: West Jersey Homeopathic– William Perry, aged 62 years, 1725 Fillmore Street; Albert Biron, 24 years old, 1108 Baring Street. Cooper Hospital– Mrs. Edna Rosenfelt, aged 23 years, 575 Washington Street; Margaret Radcliffe…
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Camden Looks After Friendless Children
Philadelphia Inquirer – January 4, 1897 Santa Visits Them Despite War, Many Churches Hold Christmas Services Camden’s generous spirited citizens have responded to the appeal that was made by the Camden Home for Friendless Children, whose youthful inmates were threatened with having a very lean sort of a visit from Santa Claus. There were so…
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Camden Home for Friendless Children Fund
Camden Democrat – July 18,1874 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: Wm. Groves, $50; sundries, by Wm. Curtiss, $20.15; Adams Express Co. by Thomas Fitzgerald, $20; B. F. Davis, $10; F. Bourquin, $10; Thos Fitzgerald, $5; Rufus…