Tag: Clara Burrough Jr. High School
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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. His father, Joseph Hatch, owned extensive land in what is now East Camden, and Cooper grew up in the…
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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. By 1880, the family had relocated to Camden, where William Burrough began a business as a milk dealer. They settled at…
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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. Domenico Palese initially worked as a bartender, and the family resided at 318 Cherry Street. By 1910, they had moved to 266 Pine Street, where Domenico owned…
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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. In 1914, Clarence Fuhrman graduated from Camden Manual Training and High School located at Haddon and Newton Avenues. The 1920 Census indicates that…
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Camden High School
1700 Park Boulevard, Camden, NJ Northwest Corner of Park Boulevard and Baird Boulevard Camden High School first welcomed students in 1918, occupying the intersection of Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue, a parcel of land originally within the bounds of Forest Hill Park, later renamed Farnham Park in 1927. The swift rise in population drove the…
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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. However, by 1906, they moved to 522 South 2nd Street, as Walter…
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Walter P. Wolverton
Walter P. Wolverton was the son of Martha and Charles S. Wolverton, a lifelong resident of North Camden. Charles S. Wolverton spent almost 50 years working for the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving as a steamboat pilot, and later becoming the Superintendent of the Cooper’s Point Ferry until it ceased operations in 1926. In addition, he served…
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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. After graduating, he embarked on a career in education, working as a teacher and principal in Michigan and…
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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. In 1900 the family then lived at 711 Carman Street, in what was…
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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. Captain Smith, known for his valor during the American Revolutionary War, notably captured the British freighter Venus in August 1778,…
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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. The family moved to Camden, New Jersey, around 1905 and became involved in various enterprises, including construction, realty, movie theaters, and a shoe business.…
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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! Makers of calendars and teachers who dote on dates of civic and historic importance had better…