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Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.
Ben Courter's January 18, 1932 Camden Courier-Post column recalls D. Cooper Carman, Camden city clerk from 1884 until his death in 1889, and the "young syndicate" of Republicans that sent Maurice A. Rogers to the State Senate and beat back "Billy" Thompson's race-track faction.
The main court room was crowded with interested Third warders this morning, when the first of the criminal complaints growing out of the riots at Third and Beckett streets, on the night of July 28, last, during the Congressional primary, was taken up. It charged Charles Wagner with assault and battery on Policeman Harry Miller.
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.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden County roundup of April 2, 1889: Mrs. Rebecca Wright, mother-in-law of City Recorder Braker, dies at 255 Kaighn avenue aged 85, and Walter Kelly is committed as the burglar who stole $339 and a gold watch from John Dugan of Front and Pearl streets.