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John Martin Schreiber, better known as Martin Schrieber, moved to New Jersey in 1903 to work for the Public Service Corporation, the state's largest public transit company and an early predecessor of today's Transport of New Jersey.
Another weapon to defeat the enemy was the establishment of City Farm Gardens in the country. They were urged by the Government and not only provided food for city residents, but abolished unsightly vacant lots.
Bailey Street appears to be named for real estate developer William T. Bailey, who was responsible for building rows of homes between North 5th and North 6th Streets on State, Grant, Bailey and York Streets.
Harry McConnell, originally Henry Francis McConnell, was born on May 12, 1899, in Camden. He had an older brother, Dan McConnell, who was a well-known journalist in Camden, writing for the Camden Post-Telegram and the Camden Courier-Post.
The Camden Chiselers Club was organized in 1930 by Camden County Chief of Detectives Larry Doran, attorney Rocco Palese, and several other members of Camden's political and business community.
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.
Tydeman & Dooley were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900s and 1910s. Vincent A. Tydeman grew up in Camden, and also had a long career as a minor league baseball player.
Camden's oldest radio station dates back to September 1925 when it signed on as WFBI at 1270 AM under the ownership of Robert Galvin. The city government became involved soon afterward.
The Towers Theatre on Broadway and Pine Street predated movies, and featured both film and live entertainment into the 1950s.
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
Dan McConnell (born c. 1873, Pennsylvania) was a Camden lightweight boxer of the 1890s and early 1900s, managed by Oscar A. Eastlack, who later ran an oyster house at 125 Main Street in North Camden.
Camden Courier-Post columnist Dan McConnell recalls the old courthouse, the Arch Street lunch wagon, Camden's first traffic cops, and other Camden memories from the 1900s–1930s.
A reunion-dinner of members of the old Aquinas Club, disbanded nearly 25 years ago, will be held during the latter part of June, Pasquale Iarossi, committee chairman, announced.
Vincent J. Gallaher, of Collingswood, a Camden attorney and chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee, will be elected county solicitor at tonight's regular meeting of the coalition-controlled Camden County Board of Freeholders.
Freeholder James L. Turnbull, Republican member of the coalition group in the Camden County Board of Freeholders, for the second time in a year has lost a position with the State Board of Public Utility Commissioners.
Those of us who knew and esteemed the late H. Bart McHugh, Sr., recall the many-fold fine attributes of the man who was the heart and spirit of the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia for so many years.
Captain Dan McConnell, who has run an oyster house for many years at 125 Main street, has sold the good will and fixtures and some oysters to Billy Dieffendorff, a young man who is well known in the Poynts.