People
Cooper B. Hatch
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
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Clara Burrough Jr. High School
People
Clara S. Burrough
Clara Stewart Burrough was born in December of 1869 to William and Sarah H. "Sallie" Burrough. Her early years were spent in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, where William Burrough had a farm.
People
Rocco Palese
Rocco Palese, born on July 4, 1893, in Garaguso, Italy, to Domenico and Luicia Palese, immigrated to America with his family in 1898, settling in Camden by 1906.
People
Clarence Fuhrman
Clarence Fuhrman was born in New Jersey on June 18, 1895, as the second child among the six born to Abraham and Rose Fuhrman. His father made a living as a jeweler.
Schools
Camden High School
Camden High School opened in 1918 at Park and Baird Boulevards in Camden, NJ, designed by architects Arthur Truscott and Paul A. Davis III.
People
Walter J. Stanton, Jr.
Walter James Aloysius Stanton Jr. was born on September 27, 1893, to Walter Stanton and his wife, Elizabeth Kelly. Walter Sr., a prominent baseball player in Camden, lived with his family at 318 Berkley Street in 1900, where he worked as a butcher.
People
Walter P. Wolverton
Walter P. Wolverton was the son of Martha and Charles S. Wolverton , a lifelong resident of North Camden .
People
James E. Bryan
Dr. James Edmund Bryan, born on September 9, 1869, in Maryland, was the son of Reverend James Edmund Bryan and Anna Virginia Smith Bryan. He obtained his degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1890.
People
Herbert Anderson
Herbert Anderson was born in New Jersey in 1891 to George W. Anderson and his wife Lizzie Anderson, one of at least four children. His father served as a member of the Camden Police Department from the 1890s through at least 1916.
People
Samuel T. French, Sr.
Samuel Jones Tilden French Sr., born into the family of William Nelson and Mary Caroline Collins French on January 23, 1877, carried a significant historical legacy as a great-great-grandson of American naval Captain Micajah Smith.
People
Joseph A. Varbalow
Joseph A. Varbalow, born in Russia on January 15, 1896, alongside his twin sister Anna, emigrated to America with his family in either 1897 or 1898, initially settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
News Articles
Newsy, 14, Knows His Figures But They Are All 'Just Dates'
Camden Courier-Post - June 21, 1933 Learn First Day of Each Month, is His Explanation STARTED TRAINING ONLY 6 YEARS AGO By HENRY C. BECK Step up, Mr. Einstein, and meet Julian DiNicholas , Camden's young and unsung mathematical genius!