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Charles H. Truitt

Newspaper portrait of an older man with a mustache and bow tie, under the headline "P.R.R. Veteran Dies".
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Charles H. Truitt

Charles H. Truitt (1859-1936) was a Camden native who worked 53 years for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a tugboat fireman and ferry engineer on the Delaware River before retiring in 1929.

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1235 North 22nd Street, Camden NJ, built 1950, photographed 2011
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22nd Street

22nd Street spans the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, already laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published.

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Newspaper portrait of an older man with a mustache and bow tie, under the headline "P.R.R. Veteran Dies".
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Charles H. Truitt Dies Suddenly at 76

Charles H. Truitt, 76, retired by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1929 after 53 years of service, died suddenly at his home, 119 North Twenty-fourth Street. A Camden native, he began as a fireman on tugboats and later worked on the company's ferryboats and as an engineer in its power plants.

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