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F. Joseph Rouh

F. Joseph Rouh, Camden justice of the peace
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F. Joseph Rouh

F. Joseph Rouh was born in France around 1843 and came to America in the 1870s. He operated a saloon at 751 Ferry Avenue in Camden and served the Eighth Ward as a justice of the peace. He died on May 5, 1914.

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1909 and 1911 Kossuth Street, May 29, 2012
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Kossuth Street

Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, July 22, 1918 — Boys Find Charred Body in Fire Ruins
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Boys Find Charred Body in Fire Ruins

A lamp explosion in a barn behind 751 Ferry Avenue killed Michael Errieski; Patrolman Karl Quinton saved a horse and a family from the spreading fire, which gutted Mrs. Jennie Stevenson's home at 1848 Kossuth Street.

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Final Tribute to Squire F. J. Rouh

Justice F. Joseph Rouh was buried from his late residence on Ferry Avenue after high mass at Sacred Heart Church; hundreds visited to pay their respects to the veteran justice of the peace.

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Camden Daily Courier, August 31, 1899 - Doings in Realty
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Doings in Realty

Real estate transfers recorded in the Register of Deeds' office, including F. Joseph Rouh's purchase of the northeast corner of Broadway and Ferry Avenue from Wilhelmina Countiss for $7,250.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, April 16, 1899
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Camden News Notes (April 16, 1899)

A roundup of Camden news items, including Justice F. Joseph Rouh's planned trip to Europe and the re-election of officers at the West Jersey Orphanage for Destitute Colored Children.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 8, 1897
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Camden News Condensed

Mrs. F. Joseph Rouh, of Kossuth Street and Ferry Avenue, died from injuries received two weeks earlier when she fell down stairs.

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