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Samuel M. Shay
Samuel M. Shay was a prominent figure in Camden County during the early 20th century. Born around 1885 in New Jersey, he was appointed as Judge of the Common Pleas Court in Camden County by Governor Edwards in 1922.
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Elwood H. Antrim
Manufacturing and Hardware
Antrim Hardware
The Antrim Hardware Company, founded by Elwood H. Antrim in 1889 on Federal Street in East Camden, NJ, operated nearly 100 years before closing.
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ANTRIM'S in 1889 at 15th and Federal
Page 24 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: Elwood Antrim started a modest hardware business at 15th and Federal in 1889, and under his family's management Antrim's grew into the largest Mill Supply House in South Jersey, supplying shipyards with materials essential to the war effort.
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Mother and Son Watch $100,000 Fire
Mrs. Elwood Antrim and her son, E. Hulings Antrim, watched fire sweep the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514-1516 Federal Street in June 1939; Mrs. Antrim declared it would be business as usual at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets.
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Alarm Chases Robber
A burglar trying to break into the Elwood Antrim hardware store at 1541 Federal Street was frightened off by a burglar alarm; District Detectives Schlamm and Donnolley arrested a suspect, Walter Gibbs, at Seventeenth and Federal streets.
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East Camden Bank
Organizers Announce Sale of 600 Shares of Stock Prominent East Camden citizens are forming the East End Trust Company and at a meeting of the organization committee yesterday secretary Leon Todd presented a report showing that 600 shares of the 1000 shares of stock have been subscribed for.