
Sycamore Street
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
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Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.

Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. First listed in the 1867 city directory, it lost blocks to the expansion of Rutgers University and the building of Route 676.

Charles Grant Garrison was born in Swedesboro, New Jersey, on August 3, 1849. He was the son of Rev. Joseph Fithian Garrison and had three younger brothers: Lindley, William, and Joseph.

LINDLEY MILLER GARRISON was born on November 28, 1864, in Camden, New Jersey, the son of the Rev. Jospeh Fithian Garrison. He had three older brothers, Charles G., William, and Joseph.

Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.

Immediately after the April term of the Camden county courts opened yesterday, Circuit Court Judge Lloyd, who presided with Common Pleas Judge Kates in the absence of Supreme Court Justice Garrison, called attention to the fact that Court Crier Charles MacCready had been associated with the administration of justice in the county for an even half century.

Sheriff Corson, of Camden, yesterday drew his grand jury, acting in conjunction with Jury Commissioner Lennox. From the list of thirty-five names drawn Supreme Court Justice Garrison will eliminate twelve, the balance to constitute the jury.

William C. Drew, handcuffed to County Detective John Cherry, bolted for the door of a crowded Market street trolley car in Camden after his capture at Twenty-third and Federal streets; the car was stopped while the detective subdued him and took him to the county jail.

A Camden County grand jury returned fifty-five true bills for alleged election irregularities in January 1911; John H. Carroll was among those accused of violations.

Francisco Abbatto, convicted of the murder of Genaro DeFeo near Blue Anchor, was hanged at the Camden County Jail on May 10, 1900, the first hanging conducted by Sheriff John Wesley Sell; the gallows stood in the loft at the Broadway and Federal streets corner of the building.

Supreme Court Justice Charles Garrison denied Lawyer John J. Crandall's suggestion that he understood the game of policy, during habeas corpus proceedings for Randolph Pollard, committed on Captain Stanley's complaint.

Nicholas Theodore Lambert was hanged in the Camden County Jail on December 19, 1895, for the murder of cracker baker William G. Kairer, protesting to the end that Josiah Stevens fired the fatal shot.