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Robert Hartmann (1876–1967), son of cigar manufacturer Frank J. Hartmann Sr., grew up in Camden's labor movement and was elected the first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union when it was formed in 1908. The 1920 Census found him and his family at 16 North 23rd Street in East Camden.
Russell J. Anderson (1897–1958) served with the Camden Fire Department for over 27 years, from December 1930 until his death in June 1958, assigned to Ladder Company 1 and later the Electrical Bureau.
Spring Street in South Camden dates to at least 1850 and was mapped by 1891 running north-south from Clinton Street, between Second and Front Streets; its planned extension south to Walnut Street was obstructed.
Jesse D. Seybold was born in New Jersey in February 1892 to Charles and Lizzie Seybold, though records vary on the exact date, listing February 2, 7, or 8.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Central School, named for Camden's Middle Ward, opened in 1877 near South 4th Street; its building was razed by 1965 after the school's long decline.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
29th Street extends from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, running from River Road to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
William Penn Corson, commonly known as W. Penn Corson, was born on February 27, 1873, in Camden, New Jersey. He was the son of Elias Lake Corson, a sea captain who had commanded a vessel during the Civil War.
Berkley Street runs through South Camden from Buren Avenue to Haddon Avenue, named for Lord Berkeley, one of the original proprietors of colonial New Jersey. The section east of Broadway was once known as Hamilton Street until 1882.
EDWIN FORREST ALLEN was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on October 9, 1872, as a replacement for David B. Sparks, who had resigned. He served as an extra man with the Hook and Ladder Company (present-day Ladder Company 1). He was resigned from his position with the Fire Department on June 30, 1873. He was replaced by John Gray. Edwin F. Allen was on occasion recorded as Edward F. Allen, however, Edwin was his given name.
Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.
Nine of Camden's newest firemen, including Wayne Kraft of 1052 North 35th Street, graduated at fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and received their company assignments.
A Camden Courier-Post hospital admissions list of November 20, 1949, recording injuries treated at Cooper and West Jersey hospitals, including Mary Dickinson, 74, of 57 North Twenty-second Street, with an injured hip.
Camden Courier-Post - February 15, 1938 A roller-skating child bride who thought her 19 year old husband "too old" for her was well on her way to being divorced yesterday by Al Daidone, 29, of 424 Clinton street .
Jobless Applicants Compelled To Wait Beside Garbage Cans In Court House Basement Dr. Stone Calls for Removal of Refuse After Complaint Stench Menaces Health of Tattered Relief Seekers; Custodian Denies Anything Wrong Charges that unsanitary conditions exist in the basement of the old court house building where hundreds of needy receive clothing and shoes were made yesterday by Clarence E. Moullette , secretary of the Unemployed Union.
Three Veterans of Central School Receive Gifts At Walt Whitman Event Three veteran teachers of the Central School , Fourth and Clinton Streets , who will retire this month were dinner guests last night of the faculty at Hotel Walt Whitman .
Mrs. Carrie Becker, 38, of 1245 North 33rd Street, paid a $100 fine after her home was raided by Third District police. Ten men were arrested there, including Edward Marshman, whose failure to recall the sale of liquor earned a jail sentence.
Pair Held With Camden Boxer Admit Landisville Robbery - Fifth Man Hunted With four suspects, including Roxie Allen , Camden welterweight boxer, still held without bail, the State Police today continued their search for the fifth bandit in the $200 holdup of a Landisville poolroom Sunday afternoon.
Roxie Allen, Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and Carmen Passarella of 1227 Broadway were arrested and identified by police as two of four men who held up a craps game at Landisville, where the loot was said to total between $150 and $200.
Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths were held without bail after being identified as four of the five bandits who robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom.
Marriage license notices from Camden and Media, Pennsylvania, including Michael Duffy of Philadelphia and Catherine Sharp of 1138 Thirty-first Street, Camden, October 1930.
Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.
Camden's new $2,000,000 marine terminal will rest on the strongest possible foundation, according to a preliminary report made today by Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, on the results of driving test piles for the project about 1,000 feet south of Clinton street.
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
Camden Courier - January 9, 1922 The many friends of Sergeant George W. Anderson of the Third District will be sorry indeed to learn that he is again seriously ill at his South Camde n home, 582 Clinton Street .
Harold S. Woodin, 15, of 632 Clinton Street was accidentally shot in the side in September 1914 by 14-year-old John C. Voll of 1143 Federal Street, while the two boys played with a revolver in the cellar of the Woodin home.
Camden briefs for July 15, 1907, opening with Captain Stanley's early-morning raid on 139 Chestnut Street and the arrest of alleged proprietresses Bessie Heisler and Emma Carll.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
A squad of policemen under Captain Stanley raided crap shooters along Camden's river front, capturing thirteen prisoners at the Arch Street lumber yards and Second and Clinton Streets before an accidental revolver shot let the rest escape.
A column of Camden news briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1895 — including fires at the homes of Albert Fleet and Samuel Harring, and the arrest of sneak thief Samuel Harmon, who tried to strip a clothes line in Policeman Schregler's own back yard.