Tag: Carteret Street
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Charles Hobart Corson
Charles Hobart Corson, commonly known as Hobart Corson, was born in Camden, New Jersey, on July 23, 1902, to W. Penn Corson and his wife, the former Catherine Kronenwetter. He had an older brother, William Wallace Corson, and two younger brothers, Edward Mahlon and John Marvin Corson. Family and Early Life W. Penn Corson, a…
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Frank B. Hanna
Frank B. Hanna was born in New Jersey in 1894. He married Rachel Thomason around 1914, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth, the following year. By January 1920, the Hannas were residing at 5315 Locust Street in Philadelphia. At the age of 25, Frank had already become Chief Clerk at one of the shipyards in…
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Convention Hall
Locations: Camden has had two buildings known as Convention Hall, which can get a bit confusing, and the issue gets even more confusing when you add the fact that Camden had four different armories in the years between 1880 and 1960, and one of them was also called Convention Hall! It doesn’t help either that…