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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 runs from the Delaware River south across River Road to the Pavonia railroad yards, then from Pleasant Street to Westfield Avenue and from Federal Street 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 was originally spelled Berkeley Street, named for Lord Berkeley, who co-owned the colony of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674. East of Broadway it was known as Hamilton Street until 1882. This page covers occupants from the 200 block through the 3000 block.
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 June 1957 legal notice that the Ninth Ward Republican Association applied for a club liquor license at 536 Broadway, listing President Hobart Corson, Vice President John K. Voll and the association's other officers and directors, including Lester Beach of 702 Carman Street.
Six Camden properties on Newton Avenue, Segal Street, Carpenter Street, 250 Burns Street, and Kaighn Avenue were ordered demolished as unfit for habitation and fire hazards.
Eight Camden marriage licenses published April 2, 1952, including Otto Souak of Clementon and Veneria Cinelli of 344 Dudley Street.
Three Camden marriage licenses, including Lorenzo C. Colangelo of Newton Avenue and Olga M. Di Ciano of 1343 Morton Street.
Four Camden police officers and four firemen won approval of pensions under the mandatory age-65 retirement law in July 1950, to retire Aug. 31; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, had died June 8.
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.
Two armed bandits robbed Briggs Cafe at Lansdowne Avenue and Louis Street of about $1000 in November 1947, then took a car, cash and a watch from two men who chased them; Camden police held three men for questioning.
George H. Ewing of 460 Liberty Street, president of the Sixth Ward Democratic Club, filed for re-election to the Democratic County Committee, while three others took out Republican nominating petitions.
Stanley Geda, 26, of 1273 Whitman Avenue, identified from a rogues gallery photograph as one of two men who robbed John Miller of $2046.49, was held without bail for the grand jury by Judge Gene R. Mariano. Camden Courier-Post, October 29, 1940.
Advisory Master Knight recommended divorce decrees for Al Daidone, whose roller-skating child bride thought him "too old," for Mrs. Clara Zoeller Wall Safford of Atlantic Avenue, and for Mrs. Edna N. Richards McNeece of 728 Woodland Avenue.
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
The Camden Housing Advisory Committee recommended that the city clear 20 blocks of sub-standard properties, 895 dwellings in two areas, to save on municipal service costs; Mayor Frederick von Nieda favored eliminating the areas but opposed spending city money without assurance of a return.
Roy A. Smith, 51, a pensioned city fireman living at 607 Carman Street, died after a lengthy illness from heart condition. He was brother to former County Detective Howard M. Smith and former City Detective Walter Smith.
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 .
Judge Samuel M. Shay sentenced four young men to seven to ten years in state prison for criminally assaulting an 18-year-old girl, and warned he would double the terms for future offenders.
A Criminal Court jury found four South Camden young men guilty of criminally assaulting a Pennsauken township girl; Judge Samuel M. Shay was to impose sentence the next day.
Martha Tomlinson, 18, of Delaware township, told Camden county court that four young Camden men beat and robbed her near the riverfront; the defendants denied the charge.
A man and woman were injured on a Saturday night in a collision of automobiles at Twenty-seventh Street and River Avenue; Cosmio Caprice of 310 Pine Street was treated at Cooper Hospital.
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.
Police raided five alleged speakeasies over the weekend, seizing whisky in four South Camden places, including six jugs at Samuel Arnow's grocery at 534 Kaighn Avenue, and arresting ten men at Mrs. Carrie Becker's home on North 33rd Street.
Camden Courier-Post reports of June 1932: Miss Eleanor M. Hillman, 20, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Hillman, 46, of 810 Howard Street were killed at Lansdale, Pa., when an electric train on the Philadelphia and Western Railroad struck the automobile they were riding in; a double funeral was planned, with burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
Two women, Mildred Russo of 425 Winslow Street and Mary Delfico of 348 Clinton Street, fought so fiercely in Camden police court in June 1932 that Judge Garfield Pancoast detained one of them an hour after dismissing the case.
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.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
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.
William Smith, 23, of 419 Clinton Street, fell on the sidewalk at Seventh and Benson Streets from an attack of heart disease and was taken to Cooper Hospital.