Tag: East Camden
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Kotlikoff’s
25th & Federal Street, Camden, NJ Louis Jacob Kotlikoff was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1879. After immigrating to America, he married Clara Hager, another Jewish immigrant, around the turn of the 20th century. With $250, Louis opened his first store at 2511 Federal Street in Camden, New Jersey, and the couple lived in the…
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Allen Palmer
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden. Along with Allen, the family included his siblings William, Howard, George, and Leroy Palmer. An uncle,…
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Christian S. Stark
Christian Samuel Stark Sr. was born on September 1, 1857, in Philadelphia, to Henry A. and Rebecca Stark. In the 1870s, he married Eliza E. Leech, and their family expanded with the birth of their son William Leech Stark before the 1880 Census. Over time, they welcomed four more children: sons Harry A., Grover C.,…
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Berwick Street
Berwick Street is located in East Camden. Before 1954, when the McGuire Gardens public housing project was constructed, the street commenced at Rand Street. It featured a block of homes in the 2000 block between Boyd and Morse Streets, and another block of homes in the 2100 Block between Morse Street and Marlton Pike, where…
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Theodore L. Primas
Theodore Primas was born on December 27, 1924, in Camden, New Jersey, to parents Edward and Hallie Primas. As of April 1930, the Primas family, comprising sisters Pauline, Gladys, and Garnet, and brothers Melvin and Edward Emmet, resided at 2823 Mitchell Street in East Camden. They continued to live there into the early 1940s. A…
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East Camden and Pennsauken – Early 1900s
This map appears to have been created sometime between 1899 and 1920. Evidently, it was crafted after the merger of Stockton Township and the City of Camden, as the territory labeled as the “City of Camden” had formerly belonged to Stockton prior to the merger in 1899. J. Howard Kirkbride, a resident and real estate…
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Fremont Avenue
Fremont Avenue, sometimes denoted as Fremont Street, is situated in East Camden and extends southeastward from Garden Avenue to South 38th Street, running parallel to Federal Street. To the west of Garden Avenue, the thoroughfare transforms into Berkley Street, while to the west of South 38th Street, it adopts the name Myrtle Avenue.
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Jennie A. Craig
Jennie A. Craig was born around 1877 in New Jersey to her parents, Thomas B. and Margaret Craig. She grew up in the village of Greenwich in Cumberland County, along with her older brother, William. Thomas Craig worked as a baggage man on the railroad during this time. In the 1880 Census, the family was…
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Vincent Scola
Vincent Scola, born on June 16, 1911, according to Social Security records, was the oldest son of Domenico and Maria C. Scola. However, census records and newspaper accounts suggest that he was actually a year younger. Vincent’s parents were Italian immigrants, and the Scola family moved en masse to Camden’s Eighth Ward by 1930. They…
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James T. McGrory, Jr
James T. McGrory was born on July 25, 1927, to James T. McGrory and Marguerite McGrory (née unknown). In the 1930 Census, the McGrory family, including James’ younger siblings Doris and Joseph, resided at 527 Fairview Street. At that time, James’ father worked as a manager at an American Stores grocery. The 1940 Camden City…
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William H. Deitz
William Harry Deitz was born on May 16, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Frank C. Deitz and Caroline Deitz (née unknown). In June 1917, when William was just an infant, the family moved to 153 Maple Terrace in Merchantville, New Jersey, where they resided with William’s paternal grandfather, also named William H. Deitz. At that…
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Garfield S. Pancoast
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pancoast welcomed their son Garfield S. Pancoast into the world in December 1880. In 1900, Garfield was living at 323 Wood Street in Vineland NJ with his widowed father and younger brother Cleveland Pancoast, as recorded in the Census. Garfield Pancoast practiced law in Camden, and by January of 1920, he…
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Stockton Park
More or less the equivalent of the modern golf course and country club, The Stockton Rifle Range Association was organized by Samuel H. French and a group of Civil War veteran officers including General William Joyce Sewell in 1866. When first established it was laid out on 43 and one half acres in the Wrightsville…
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Martin W. Baskow
MAURICE WILLIAM “MARTY” BASKOW was born in Pennsylvania to Abraham and Rose Baskoff. The Social Security Death Index, shows a birthday of January 9, 1908. The 1910 Census shows the family as living at 244 North 2nd Street in Philadelphia, just off of Vine Street. Abraham Baskow then worked at a brush factory, while Rose…
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DuBell Lumber Company
18th & Federal Streets, Camden, NJ William C. DuBell moved from Northampton Township in Burlington County to Camden at some point between 1880 and 1887. Once in Camden he found work as a teamster for the Volney Bennett Lumber Company. His son, Charles G. DuBell followed him into the lumber business. In 1922 William, Charles,…