People
Edward S. Hyde
Edward S. Hyde rose through the Camden Police Department from patrolman to acting chief, served as a Camden County Freeholder, and died in 1930.
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Frank G. Hitchner
Historical Accounts
Centennial Mirror 1828-1928
Centennial Mirror of the City of Camden, NJ Published in the interest of a growing city, nineteen twenty-eight.
Historical Accounts
Real Estate Safeguard to Purchasers Board Proves Property Here
The Camden County Real Estate Board is an organization composed or Realtors operating in and around Camden County. Organized March 8, 1916, it was incorporated May 10, 1916, with eight charter members.
Streets
Judson Place
Judson Place ran for half a block north from 437 Stevens Street between West Street and South 5th Street in South Camden. Its two homes, at 439 and 441 Judson Place, were occupied as late as 1947 but have long since been razed.
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Kausel Is Given $4000 Job Over Hot Protest by Rebel in G.O.P.
Not Fitted for Job and 20 of You Admitted it Declares Van Meter Collingswood Man's Insurgency Punished Vocational School Incident is Recalled as Democrats Join in Battle Joseph H. Van Meter, insurgent Republican freeholder from Collingswood, today declared that David Baird Jr. , Republican leader, had admitted that Theodore Kausel was not the man for the job to which he was appointed by the Board of Freeholders yesterday.
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Four Firemen Are Trapped in Collapse of Brick Wall
A Camden Evening Courier report of July 27, 1925 on a spectacular fire at the Bantivoglio & Son junk warehouse at 252 Division Street, in which a collapsing brick wall buried four firemen of Engine Company No. 7, including Captain Watkin.
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Chief of Camden Police Is Retired
Camden authorities retire Police Chief Edward S. Hyde and chief clerk Eldridge Benjamin McClong on pensions; Captain James E. Tatem is asked to become acting chief.
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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.
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14 Camden Firemen Overcome by Smoke
Fourteen firemen were overcome by smoke and roughly $20,000 in damage was done during a twelve-hour fire at the Frank G. Hitchner Wall Paper Manufacturing Company at Fifth and Mickle streets; water from the plant flooded nearby cellars, including John Orr's home at 441 Judson Street.
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Three Firemen Met Death in Camden Blaze
Three firemen — George Shields, William Hillman, and William Jobes — are killed and nine people injured when fire destroys the old Sixth Regiment Armory in Camden.