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Plans were accepted for the new Catholic Lyceum Association Building to be erected at Broadway and Federal Streets by the members of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, with work to begin about May 1. Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1896.
The Philadelphia Inquirer profiles the Camden Y. M. C. A. in 1896: its history since organizing at a house at Front and Cooper streets, its new gymnasium and swimming pool at Broadway and Federal streets, physical instructor A. G. Villee's methods, and the association's officers.
Nicholas Theodore Lambert was hanged in the Camden County Jail on December 19, 1895, for the murder of cracker baker William G. Kairer, protesting to the end that Josiah Stevens fired the fatal shot.
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 122 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, October 9, 1895.
Judge Vroom of the Quarter Sessions Court gave policy sellers the full penalty of the law on May 24, 1895, sentencing Mrs. Harriet Smith of 750 Federal Street to one year in the penitentiary despite Lawyer Harry Scovel's appeal for clemency.
Eight special cars were to leave the Federal Street depot carrying members of the W. J. Sewell Association to Trenton, where Camden would honor General William J. Sewell after the caucus chose him as New Jersey's next United States Senator.
The First Ward Republican Club elected its officers, with Harry T. Walker as president, and announced its first annual masquerade ball and a silver pitcher to be presented on New Year's Day to the best dressed New Year's club passing its rooms at Keyser's Hall, Point and York streets.
Ex-policeman Samuel Collins was held in $300 bail for throwing a brick through the window of Peter Murphy's hotel at Seventeenth and Federal Streets in Camden.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, the first Catholic parish in East Camden, was founded in 1893 at 25th and Howell Street and celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1943. A new church built in 1952 at 2907 Federal Street became St. Joseph's Pro-Cathedral.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of September 2, 1893: the twentieth anniversary of free delivery at the Camden Postoffice, a dog that frightened burglars away from a men's furnishing goods store at Third and Federal streets, and weavers at Priestly's Woolen Mills still refusing reduced wages.
John Hill, in his 18th year, was hanged at the Camden County Jail for the murder of Joseph Dodson, the first execution on Camden County's new gallows, less than six months after he shot Dodson near Reed & Derrickson's saloon at Seventh and Sycamore streets.
Ella Ford, 22, of 809 Locust Street, was found murdered and buried in the cellar of her home; police sought George Morris, who was believed to have crossed the Delaware by the Federal Street ferry.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 26, 1892: Samuel B. F. Alcott held under bail on his wife's complaint that he removed shells from their child's grave, former comedian James Cullen before Justice Paul, and hotelkeeper Charles Ricker of Tenth and Federal streets recovering $170 his bartender had taken.
Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1890: Camden briefs, including a robbery at installment man Llewellen B. Jackson's place at 94 Federal Street, a coal-unloading accident that injured George Burton, and Minnie Aaron jailed by Mayor Pratt on a theft charge.
The Quarter Sessions Court trial of John F. Stratton and Henry Mellon, charged with the May 6, 1888 knife and blackjack attack on Joseph Logue near Starr's crossing, Tenth and Line streets, with testimony from Logue, Miss Sarah Lewine, Christopher Smith, Dr. Henry Jarrett, Charles R. Locke and Knight Haines.
A December 1881 Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news: the annual election of officers of Post No. 37, G. A. R., with Christopher J. Mines, Jr. as Quartermaster, a delay in paving Federal Street with Belgian blocks, a new bridge planned across Cooper's creek on State Street, and other local items.
A June 1880 Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news: the Decoration Day procession of G.A.R. Posts 5 and 37, the death of Lewis Werts, a runaway horse stopped on Federal Street near Broadway, and other local items.
During the Civil War, Camden purchased its first steam fire apparatus on June 4, 1864 the Independence Fire Company No. 3 purchased an Amoskeag steamer for $3250. This apparatus was a third class, single pump style with serial #92.
The Camden City Medical Society was organized June 2, 1853.
The drug store at Fifth and Federal Streets , which was still in existence in 1928, was opened by Dr. T.G. Rowand in 1851. This store was owned successively by A.P. Brown and Dr. George M. Beringer .
The West Jersey Hotel at Delaware Avenue and Market Street was built by the West Jersey Ferry Company in 1849. The name was changed to new Camden Hotel in 1909.
On March 12, 1841 the Camden Mutual Fire Insurance Company was chartered.
City Council authorized the construction of a market house on Market Street at the intersection of Third Street on March 13, 1837. This market house containing 8 stalls was erected at a cost of $250, and was ready for use December 28, 1837.
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.
Benjamin Dugdale, son-in-law of James Kaighn, established a tannery on Cooper Street below Front, on the site of what became the Esterbrook Pen Company. In 1845 the place was used as a livery stable by Joseph Myers.