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It all begins in a little row house (they call them townhouses now) on Grant Street in Camden NJ. I remember my mother telling me once that she and my father paid $3,000 for that house somewhere around 1952, when they married.
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?
Vine Street in North Camden, NJ, one of the city's tree streets, once ran to the Delaware River and the Cooper's Point Ferry; home to Holy Name Church.
Joseph A. Alcorn (1919-1958) was a Camden, New Jersey native and US Marine Corps veteran who founded Alcorn Motor Sales on Federal Street in East Camden.
My father, Joseph A. Alcorn , had a used car dealership on the corner of 15th and Federal Streets . He started the business with Skip Gardner as his partner in the late 40's and bought Skip out during that same period.
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 7, 1921 Circuit Court Judge Frank T. Lloyd yesterday accepted chairmanship of the Camden Chamber of Commerce Committee which is to study the unemployment question and make suggestions for remedial measures.