People
Russell J. Anderson
Russell J. Anderson (1897–1958) served with the Camden Fire Department for over 27 years, from December 1930 until his death in June 1958, assigned to Ladder Company 1 and later the Electrical Bureau.
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Carman Street
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11th Street
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
Manufacturing and Hardware
Clan Manufacturing Company
The Clan Manufacturing Company, a janitorial supply firm, was founded in Camden in 1921 by brothers John T. Clancy and James Clancy. The business originally operated at 565 Carman Street.
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Morse Street
Morse Street in East Camden was named for Henry G. Morse, founder and president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, whose Camden shipyard led to the creation of Yorkship Village.
People
George D. Haley
George Denniston Haley (1848-1923) was a Civil War veteran of the 116th New York Volunteers who lost an arm at Port Hudson and later settled in Camden, New Jersey.
People
H. Roy Steele
Henry Roy Steele, widely recognized in Camden, New Jersey, for his basketball prowess and as a tavern owner, left a lasting legacy despite his passing in 1946.
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Carman Street
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
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Howell Street
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
Historical Accounts
A Kelly Family History
by William Roles Kelly My Paternal Grandparents My Maternal Grandparents: Milton A. Kelly and Charlotte R. Kelly I don't remember a great deal about my grandfather, for he died in '32 when I was barely 4 years old.
Historical Accounts
Milton Kelly Family
Before Camden The Milton Kelly family's Camden story is similar to many others, in that they came to Camden prior to World War I and left during the Vietnam years.
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Grant Street
Grant Street is a street in Camden, New Jersey, named after Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War hero and 18th President of the United States.
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Bridge Avenue
Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.
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Boyd Street
Boyd Street runs through East Camden parallel to Marlton Avenue, from Carman Street to the Pennsauken city limits. Originally named Pfeiffer Street before 1924, it gained notoriety in the late 1980s and 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley."
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Bank Street
Bank Street runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, to Admiral Wilson Boulevard. Once the center of a notorious open-air drug market in the 1980s–90s, the street was redeveloped as part of the Peter J. McGuire Gardens housing project in the early 2000s.
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31st Street
31st Street spans from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, with no addresses outside Cramer Hill since the early 1920s. It is North 31st Street above Federal and South 31st below.
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29th Street
29th Street runs from the Delaware River south across River Road to the Pavonia railroad yards, then from Pleasant Street to Westfield Avenue and from Federal Street to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
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Clare Street
Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
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20th Street
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
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19th Street
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
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18th Street
Eighteenth Street runs from River Avenue north to just beyond Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey. Originally called Dayton Avenue, it was renamed shortly after the 1900 Census.
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17th Street
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.
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Haddon Avenue
Haddon Avenue is one of Camden's oldest roads, dating to at least 1792 as a bridle path and incorporated as the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike in 1839. It runs southeast from Federal Street to the city limits toward Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.
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Cooper Street
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.
Banks
Broadway Trust
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.
Streets
Langham Avenue
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
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27th Street
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
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Federal Street
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.
Historical Accounts
East Camden Memories
Jill Petris Lamparella's memoir of growing up in East Camden in the 1950s — 139 North 32nd Street, Roles Court Apartments, Dudley Grange Park, the Henry H. Davis School, and the shops of 27th Street.
Historical Accounts
Doreen Kelly Schwingler
Doreen Kelly Schwingler was born and raised at 3007 Carman Street in East Camden, attended Cramer Elementary and Woodrow Wilson High School, then moved to 3081 Carman Street with her husband. She recalls Dudley Grange park, the library, and a neighborhood that has since been lost.
Historical Accounts
Richard Heimlich
The Heimlich Family lived at 2631 Carman Street from 1939 to 1967. Richard Heimlich recalls street hucksters, ice deliveries, walking to Garfield, Cramer, and Woodrow Wilson schools, and a childhood with very little crime in East Camden.
News Articles
Longtime Friends Still on Same Page
Daniel J. Cooperson and Barry Abrams, who met at Cramer School in East Camden in 1956, remained close friends for nearly a half-century — the subject of the book Barry and Dan, published in 2004.
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Probe Set In Blaze; Two Hurt
Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Batten requested an arson investigation after two fires damaged bedrooms at 223 Milton Street in North Camden and injured firemen Richard Francesconi and Truman Maples.
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Mrs. Marie E. Simon Dies at 68; Beloved 'Mayor of Fogarty Ave.'
Mrs. Marie E. Simon, 68, of 20 Fogarty Avenue, known to an earlier generation of Camden newspapermen as "Mame Kenney" and to her neighbors as the "Mayor of Fogarty Ave.," died at West Jersey Hospital in February 1959.
News Articles
Mrs. Stella M. Beach
Mrs. Stella M. Beach, 47, of 702 Carman Street, a lifelong Camden resident and charter member of Camden Aerie 065, FOE Auxiliary, died at her home in September 1958; services were held at the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway.
News Articles
Notice of Application
A June 1958 legal notice that Camden Post 980, Inc. V.F.W. applied to renew its club liquor license at 61 South 6th Street, listing Commander Frank Luczkiewicz of 704 Carman Street and the post's other officers and trustees.
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Two Suspects Held in Bail of $25,000 Each
William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.
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Notice of Application
A June 1957 legal notice that the Ninth Ward Republican Association applied for a club liquor license at 536 Broadway, listing President Hobart Corson, Vice President John K. Voll and the association's other officers and directors, including Lester Beach of 702 Carman Street.
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Motorist, 24, Held On Tipsy Charge
Gerald M. Miller, 24, of the 2100 block of Berwick Street was held in $250 bail on charges of passing a red traffic light, reckless driving and drunken driving after Patrolman John E. Taylor stopped him at Carman Street.
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Two Men Beaten And Car Stolen; One Is Robbed
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn St., and Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman St., were beaten in January 1954; Rodriguez's car was stolen and Reyes said he was robbed of $150.
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Midway Theatre Opened by Mayor
Mayor Brunner cut a ribbon to open the remodeled Midway Theatre at Broadway and Carman Street as Camden's newest first-run movie house, with the first showing of "The Wild Blue Yonder." The Midway is operated by Samuel and Joseph Varbalow's Savar Theatre Corp.
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George W. Spicks
George W. Spicks, 85, who retired as a Camden hotel keeper in 1923, died at his home, 52 South Twenty-eighth Street, after a long illness. He had owned a hotel at Twenty-first and Federal Streets for 40 years.
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Howard E. Gominger stationed at Aberdeen, Md
Howard E. Gominger, 23, son of Mrs. Myrtle Gominger of 3015 Carman Street, entered the service four months ago and is now stationed at Aberdeen, Md.
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Lt. Edward C. Hahn Stricken on Street
Lt. Edward C. Hahn, a 22-year veteran of the Camden police department, collapsed and died of a heart attack outside a drugstore near his Third District station house on April 1, 1944.
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Garden State Amusement Co.
Page 71 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Garden State Amusement Co. at 338 N. 7th St., Daly's, the Budget Plan Corporation at Broadway and Carman St., the East Side Italian Democratic Club at 2316 Mickle Street, the Quality Drug Company, Small's at 2750 Federal Street, J. M., Lou's Family Liquor Store at 2301 Federal St., Heller's Pharmacy at 3631 Westfield Avenue, and Haller's Bakery at 2940 Westfield Ave.
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Inter-Urban Real Estate and Insurance Offices
Page 44 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Schmid family's Inter-Urban Real Estate and Insurance Offices at 26th St. and River Ave., John Lynch's Boulevard Grille at 27th and Federal Streets, Mary Hinkson's Hinkson's Cafe at 27th St. and Marlton Pike, Pennsauken, and builder Joseph Munger & Son, around an installment of the parish history telling of the new rectory and convent of 1930-31 and the assistant priests who served under Father McCorristin.
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Arthur H. Holl
A 1943 yearbook page of advertisements for the Arthur H. Holl funeral service at 1401 Princess Avenue, Camden, and Haddonfield, the Sudler-Eichel Funeral Home, Daly's Grill and the Karr Novelty Company. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943.
News Articles
George B. Johnson, Ex-Patrolman, Dies
Obituary of George B. Johnson, 80, who retired as a patrolman in the Camden Police Department in 1920 after 21 years of service. Funeral services were to be held Wednesday at the home of his daughter on North Thirty-ninth Street, with burial at Harleigh Cemetery.
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City Schedules Sale of Garage Building
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
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Woman Shot 10 Times By No. Camden Suitor Spurned for 3 Years
Florence Gottwald, 26, of 1036 Segal Street, lay near death in Cooper Hospital after Emil Mascher, 46, a suitor she had spurned for three years, shot her 10 times in front of her home and then waited at Front and Erie streets to be arrested.