People
Edward A. Preisendanz
Edward Adam Preisendanz was the son of Rudolph and Annie Preisendanz and was born in Camden, New Jersey, on November 14, 1883.
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City Hall
Streets
Columbia Avenue
Columbia Avenue was a short street that ran east from North 5th Street between Arch and Market Streets, terminating at the George Genge School. It was razed in the 1930s to make space for Roosevelt Plaza park.
Schools
George Genge School
The first school house known to have been erected within the present city limits of Camden appears to have been the one-story, red brick Camden Academy, built at 6th and Market Streets in 1804, on land donated by Jacob Cooper back in 1776.
Historical Accounts
The Clocks Atop City Hall
The first clock appeared above City Hall in 1876. Camden's new City Hall opened early that year, although the clock was not yet in place. The first town clock in the tower of the City Hall was placed in position in May of 1876.
People
Thomas J. Daley
Thomas J. Daley (born 1889) was a civil engineer who joined Camden's engineering department in 1913 and was appointed City Engineer in 1925, serving during construction of the new City Hall and marine terminal.
People
Biagio 'Benny' Acquaro
BIAGIO 'BENNY' ACQUARO was born in Philadelphia PA on March 22, 1906. His mother Nunziata passed away at the age 45 when Benny was only two years old, on August 22, 1908. His father Giuseppe took him and his two sisters, Mary and Catherine, to Italy.
People
Charles A. Aceto
Charles Angelo Aceto was born in Italy on April 16, 1891 and came to America with his father in 1900. He threw himself into his education and into becoming proficient in the English language.
Fire Department
Fire at 1227 North 28th Street
Camden Fire Department response to a fire at 1227 North 28th Street in Cramer Hill on September 19, 2011.
News Articles
Repairman Found Time For a Second Career
Camden Courier-Post - May 28, 2004 Former accountant is responsible for clocks atop Camden City Hall By Luis Puga If you are looking up at the skyline of the city, it's hard to miss one of the four clocks that grace the top of City Hall .
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Judge Joseph M. Nardi Jr. Dead at 71
Camden Courier-Post - November 25, 2003 By KEVIN RIORDAN, Courier-Post Staff Retired state Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Nardi Jr. , a shoemaker's son who became an attorney, a mayor and a member of the state judiciary, is dead.
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Officials Pocket Cash As Sewer Crumbles
Camden Courier-Post - October 22, 2000 By CLINT RILEY The brick sewer main running beneath Howard Archie's street is crumbling.
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Top Cop
Rowan Magazine - Summer 1999 Robert E. Allenbach '95, Camden's chief of police, is laying down the law in one of the country's most crime-ridden cities.
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Letter to Camden Residents
Mayor Milton Milan's 1998 letter to Camden residents reports a decline in crime, community policing, a Code Enforcement Task Force, the board-up and demolition of vacant houses and the city's recreation programs, and announces the 1998 slogan "Experience the Rebirth-I Believe."
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More Than Jail, Child Molesters Need Mental Help
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 4, 1986 By Claude Lewis, Inquirer Editorial Board Several years ago I covered a court case that involved a young man whose first name is Howard.
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An Ordinance Releasing and Extinguishing the Public Rights in Clay Street
The City of Camden ordinance releasing and extinguishing the public rights in Clay Street between South Second Street and Front Street, as part of the City Centre urban renewal project. Camden Courier-Post, October 12, 1974.
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Says Del Grande Party Was Tops
A letter to the editor from Frank Youker, an elevator operator at 344 Carteret Street, praising Peter DelGrande's Christmas open house at Camden City Hall.
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E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead
Camden Courier-Post - May 13, 1960 Public Safety Director for Nine Years E. George Aaron , former public safety director and an attorney active in Camden's public, civic and philanthropic affairs more than 30 years, is dead.
News Articles
Sgt. Wilkie Is Still Held in Jail, His Bail of $50,000 Unchanged
Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1953: Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remains in jail on $50,000 bail after admitting his "confession" to accidentally killing his son was invented to win Catholic burial rites for the youth.
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Wilkie Fails To Post Bail Of $50,000
Sgt. John V. Wilkie, Camden's "notebook cop," was moved to the county jail after failing to raise $50,000 bail during the investigation of the fatal shooting of his son James, 17, in their Princess Avenue home. Camden Courier-Post, December 24, 1953.
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Nine Safety Aides Sworn by Aaron
Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1950 Five recently-appointed policemen and four firemen were sworn in today by Public Safety Commissioner Aaron in his City Hall office.
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Tearful Scene at Detective Bureau
Iowa City, Iowa Press Citizen - February 10, 1950 Camden NJ, February 10 (AP) — Six detectives stood in their headquarters at Camden City Hall with tears streaming down their faces. A great tragedy? A frustrating crime? No, nothing like that.
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Support Your Church and Buy a Home in East Camden
Page 19 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for Edward J. Borden, real estate, insurance and mortgages, at 702 Market Street, a continued installment of "The Origin of St. Joseph's Parish," and an advertisement for Frank Quinn & Co., religious articles and church goods.
News Articles
Drinks, Even If Free, Break Sunday Law
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
News Articles
Dan McConnell's Scrapbook
Camden Courier-Post columnist Dan McConnell recalls the old Court House, the lunch wagon on the triangle at Federal, Arch and Hudson streets, Camden's first traffic cops, and other memories of old Camden.
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Broadcast in Afternoon
Homemakers Off Air 4th Annual Child Welfare Institute Being Planned for April Will Hold 4 Classes The desire to carry on toward the goal envisioned by founders of the Parent-Teacher Association will be emphasized throughout the country in honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
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Polish Hero Honored Here
More than 5,000 persons — the biggest Polish gathering in Camden's history — attended the October 11, 1936 unveiling of the Casimir Pulaski monument in Pulaski Square, with speeches by Mayor Frederick von Nieda, Monsignor Arthur B. Strenski, Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, and Polish consul Dr. Szygowski.
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Weccacoe Company Made Camden History As Leaders of Early Volunteer Fire Fighters
The second installment of Frank Sheridan's 1936 Courier-Post history of fire fighting in Camden traces the Weccacoe Fire Company, whose headquarters moved to the old City Hall lot on Federal Street, and the Mohawk, Independence and Shiffler volunteer companies.
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Pulaski Monument Will Be Dedicated Here on October 11
Announcement that a monument to Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski would be dedicated on October 11, 1936, in Pulaski Square, Camden — the site of the old City Hall — with a parade and ceremonies involving the 32 units of the United Polish Organizations.
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Question of Bar in City Hall Put up to Commission
Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1936 Veterans Offered Twelfth Floor, Want to Take Liquor Along BLEAKLY OPPOSES MOVE To drink or not to drink (over a bar) in City Hall — that is the question.
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Stage and Radio Send Stars To Aid Camden Stores
Jubilee Noted Entertainers Are Given Welcome by Mayor as Event Closes Co-Operation Days The "Co-operation Days" jubilee of the combined merchants of Camden ended Saturday with a visit to this city by stage and radio stars as guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the city.
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Old Stockton's Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump
Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.
News Articles
City Engineer Clerk Is Again Discharged
E. Allan Weinstein, chief clerk in the office of Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, received notice today from Frank B. Hanna, superintendent of streets, that he has been discharged.
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Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward
Joseph Cimini, 31, declared by police to be a Philadelphia gangster, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, 908 Broadway; Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven, who fired the shot, was held on a murder charge, declaring he had fired in self-defense.
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Ashbridge Caught in Chester Hotel Along with Wife
Captured at the Keystone Hotel in Chester, Pennsylvania, fugitive murderer Wilson Ashbridge waives extradition and is driven back to Camden by Captain of Detectives William Schregler, his wife beside him.
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Coursey Breaks Down While Story of Cold-Blooded Killing of Karl Kellmann Is Told by Detective
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
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Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
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Doings in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 13, 1906 ** The flag poles on all the fire houses need painting. ** City Hall . Cooper. Pyne Point and Forest Kill parks were thronged yesterday. ** Open-air services were held by several of the churches yesterday.
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Mystery of a Swamp
An 1899 newspaper account of Walter S. Jones, arrested in a Camden swamp near 17th and Mickle Streets after cries of murder were heard near Cooper's Creek.
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Bluecoats For East End
Camden Daily Courier - May 19, 1899 Eight of the New Guardians of the Peace Named Captain Albert will have charge of the new district - Former Chief Abbott among the Batch of new appointees.
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Drunks Were Scarce
Camden Daily Telegram - October 31, 1898 Drunks were scarce in this city Saturday and yesterday and as a result the police had little to do.
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Shot Her Husband
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
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Taylor Shot to Kill Him
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
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Funeral of Mrs. Moffett
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Moffett, wife of City Hall janitor Charles C. Moffett, was held from her son Henry Moffett's residence at 602 Broadway, with city officials serving as pall bearers and interment in Harleigh Cemetery.
News Articles
Camden News — July 28, 1887
Philadelphia Inquirer - July 28, 1887 Resignation of a Pastor, Meeting of a Council Committee and Other Items. Rev. E. V. Glover, for many years pastor of the Alloways Baptist Church, has resigned.
Historical Accounts
The Year 1830 - Camden, NJ
Benjamin Dugdale, son-in-law of James Kaighn, established a tannery on Cooper Street below Front, on the site of what became the Esterbrook Pen Company. In 1845 the place was used as a livery stable by Joseph Myers.