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Martin B. Carrigan, born in Pennsylvania in July 1872, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in 1904, rose to Captain, and died in the line of duty on January 19, 1922 of injuries sustained fighting the Kaighn Avenue fire.
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
Camden has two separate 12th Streets: North Twelfth, which once ran from Federal Street to the Cooper River before being largely erased by highway construction, and South Twelfth, which runs from Fairview Street to Lakeshore Drive and is lined with post-World War II rowhouses.
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.
Hundreds lined the streets and firehouse bells tolled as the cortege of Captain Martin B. Carrigan passed through Camden to Arlington Cemetery, escorted by ninety-two firemen under Chief Peter B. Carter.
Camden Post-Telegram - December 30, 1920 Double Shift System Becomes Effective at 8 O'clock on Saturday Morning Saturday morning at 8 o'clock the two-platoon system of the Fire Department becomes effective.
Camden Post-Telegram - May 3, 1916 Hurt in Truck-Trolley Crash He is Dangerously Ill at Cooper Hospital.
The monthly supper at Camden Fire Headquarters, Fifth and Arch streets, featured German sour krout served by Lieutenant Jim White, with Chief Charles Worthington and Assistant Chief John A. Stockton among the speakers.
A mixing-tank explosion touched off a disastrous fire that swept the N.Z. Graves Paint and Varnish Company plant on Twelfth Street, Camden, between Linden and Federal streets — destroying more than half a million dollars in property, injuring three, and driving families from their homes. (Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908.)