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Raymond H. "Mike" Stark Sr. served 27 years in the Camden Police Department, appointed April 11, 1917 and retired on pension May 15, 1944, serving as traffic officer, district detective, patrolman and sergeant, and as a sergeant of the Camden Bridge police during a 1926 leave of absence (his 1953 obituary says he organized that force).
Charles E. Watkin Jr. (1879-1954) was a Camden Fire Department captain who served over 34 years, from his appointment on January 1, 1915 until his retirement on May 1, 1949.
John H. Carroll (1861–1932) operated Carroll's Hotel and saloon at South 3rd and Cherry streets in Camden, ran a horse-and-wagon stable and an excavating business that graded Yorkship Village, and was a longtime Fifth Ward Republican committeeman.
Auburn Street is a small street that runs from Broadway to South Sixth Street between Benson and Washington Streets. All 26 homes were seized by eminent domain and demolished in 2001.
John Anthony Smith worked part-time at Mister Meat, a butcher shop at Federal Street and Route 130 , for many years. Known locally as a kind man with a serious drinking problem, he had no permanent address.
Dr. Dillwyn Parrish Pancoast was born on March 11, 1836, in Mullica Hill, Harrison Township, NJ, to Israel Pancoast, a farmer, and his wife, Sarah Ann Lippincott.
Hillside Avenue is a street in East Camden, New Jersey, running from Fremont Street to 6348 Highland Avenue and passing Eva Street, Ella Street, and Waldorf Avenue.
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
Besides Cooper , West Jersey , and Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Camden residents used other medical facilities over the years. Some, like the Municipal Hospital and Belleview Hospital, both long closed, were in the city limits.
Betty Jean Turner was born on August 12, 1944, in Metter, Georgia, to Willie Pearl and H.S. Turner. The Turner family eventually migrated north and settled in Penns Grove, New Jersey, where Betty received her formal education.
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.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced a 13-count indictment on June 17, 2024, charging George E. Norcross III and five associates — including former Camden Mayor Dana Redd — with first-degree racketeering over a criminal enterprise accused of acquiring Camden waterfront property and government tax credits through coercion and official misconduct.
Hale Street ran north-south from Central Avenue to Ferry Avenue in Camden; its four homes and the street itself were razed in the 1970s for the I-676 North-South Freeway.
Basil Preston Cook was born in England. He entered the bar business during Prohibition and had several encounters with the law. By 1932, he was managing a bar at 939 South 5th 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.
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.
Camden has two separate 12th Streets: North Twelfth, which once ran from Federal Street to the Cooper River before being largely erased by highway construction, and South Twelfth, which runs from Fairview Street to Lakeshore Drive and is lined with post-World War II rowhouses.
Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.
Augustus Reeve was born in Alloway, Salem County, NJ, in the year 1833. In 1866, he relocated to Camden and made a significant acquisition—the Pea Shore Brick Works, situated along the Delaware River's northern banks, just north of Camden.
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1941. Dear Mr. Cohen, I grew up in Camden at 301 North Second Street .
By Thomas A. Bergbauer , Retired Courier-Post Editor Dr. Richard M. Cooper always dreamed of a hospital for Camden, but he never lived to see his dream come true. Cooper and his twin brother, William D., were born on August 30, 1816.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
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.
Note: This content comes from the book Camden County Medical Society, 1846-1956 The founding of a hospital for the care of the sick and injured in the Camden area had long been a project in the mind of Dr. Richard M. Cooper, who practiced medicine in this vicinity for over thirty years.
Cooper's roots can be traced to the mid-1870s, when Richard M. Cooper, MD, and members of his extended family donated money and land bounded by Mickle Street (now Martin Luther King Boulevard ), Benson Street , 6th Street , and 7th Street for a new hospital.
On August 9th, 1887 Camden's Cooper Hospital opened, four patients arrived seeking to be admitted, but they were turned way.
HARRY C. ANDERSON was born in April of 1873 to Isaac Anderson and his wife, the former Sarah Madison. The family was living at 810 Kimber Street in North Camden when the census was taken in 1880.
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
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.
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
Benson Street, in South Camden, was named for John J. Benson, an agent of the Camden and Amboy Railroad who played a key role in developing the Stevens’ lands into building lots.
Three 2004 criminal cases connected to Howell Street: the murder of Diane Jackson, the fatal shooting of Zabdiel Cardona, and the jailhouse heroin-overdose death charged to Jose Maldonado.
Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi announced that Binh Thach, 40, was charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the March 10, 2003 shootings at a boarding home in the 2600 block of Cramer Street.
Two men were shot and killed and a woman critically wounded in a 2600 block Cramer Street boarding home on March 10, 2003. Binh Thach, 40, later surrendered to police and was charged with two counts of murder.
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP)- A suspicious fire swept through a motel and go-go lounge early Friday, forcing visitors to jump from windows and injuring 16 people, and a motel guest was arrested and charged with arson, officials said.
Valerie Kalyta, 6, was killed and Jennifer Fustin, 5, critically injured in an intense fire at 906 North 28th Street. Valerie was pronounced dead on arrival at Cooper Hospital; Jennifer was transferred to St. Christopher's burn unit in Philadelphia.
Camden Courier-Post - December 2, 1980 CAMDEN—The intense heat of a fire that killed four children here yesterday caused so much damage to their Erie Street row home that authorities are having trouble determining the cause of the blaze.
Obituary of Capt. Arthur C. Batten of 1132 North 22nd Street, retired Acting Battalion Chief of the Camden Fire Department and former captain of the department's Rescue Squad, who died at Cooper Hospital on April 18, 1972 after 42 years of service.
Five North Camden boys aged 11 to 14 were arrested after a general-alarm fire at the vacant former John R. Evans Co. leather tanning plant at Second and Erie Streets in December 1971; Fire Marshal Harold Pike estimated the loss at up to $200,000.
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her six children escaped a two-alarm fire that gutted their home at 832 North 3rd Street in August 1968; Acting Battalion Chief John Gryckiewicz and Hoseman Edmund Gorczynski were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns.
Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Batten requested an arson investigation after two fires damaged bedrooms at 223 Milton Street in North Camden and injured firemen Richard Francesconi and Truman Maples.
A rash of overnight fires in Camden during a February 1967 snowstorm destroyed Ray's Tavern at 5th and Mickle Streets and damaged four buildings; police and firemen rescued four elderly residents, and Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Batten's crew answered the second call for aid after fighting two North Camden blazes.
Obituary for Harry R. Smith, 59, of 406 North 40th Street, who died June 3, 1966 in Cooper Hospital after retiring from RCA Camden in 1959.
Fire Capt. John Gryckiewicz of Engine Company 6 carried Mrs. Emily Burns, a 40-year-old multiple sclerosis patient, from her burning second-floor apartment at 602 North 2nd Street in February 1965, after two civilian rescue attempts failed.
Camden Courier-Post - May 19, 1964 By C. William Duncan Cooper Hospital was incorporated the latter part of 1875, under the name of "The Camden Hospital," changed to The Cooper Hospital in 1877. The hospital actually opened August 11, 1887.
A two-alarm fire tore through the Cartun Hardware Store warehouse at 14 South 35th Street on the night of December 21, 1961, fed by an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 gallons of paint. One Engine Company 11 hoseman was hurt, and the alarm was sounded by a teenager who spotted the smoke while listening to Christmas carols outdoors.
William Corbett of 2513 Howell Street was among three people injured when a car struck a pole at 18th and Federal streets in June 1959.