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George W. Garner

Map of Cramer Hill and East Camden, 1914
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Cambridge Street

Cambridge Avenue, also known as Cambridge Street, runs easterly from the Delaware River through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, crossing Harrison, Pierce, Wayne, and River avenues to North 27th Street.

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Camden Courier-Post headline Camden Protected During Big Blaze, July 11, 1933
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Camden Protected During Big Blaze

With all of Camden's apparatus at the Kaighn's Point conflagration, three off-duty firemen, Captain Clarence Madden and Firemen John Mulligan and George Garner, broke into the discontinued Fourth and Vine streets firehouse, drove its truck to headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets and stood by on call; Chief John H. Lennox commended them.

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Man Hurt in Car-Bus Crash — George W. Garner
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Man Hurt in Car-Bus Crash

A December 1932 Camden Courier-Post report on a head-on collision between a bus and an automobile at Eighth Street and Kaighn Avenue; city fireman George W. Garner suffered a fractured arm, and the bus was driven by J. S. Harrison of 311 North 38th Street.

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22 Firemen Assigned to New Stations, Camden Courier-Post, April 17, 1928
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22 Firemen Assigned to New Stations

Camden Courier-Post, April 17, 1928. Twelve new firemen and ten promoted men were assigned to their new stations by Chief Thomas J. Nicholas, completing the department's complement of 200 men.

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Courier-Post clipping, April 4, 1928: Promoted Firemen Take Posts Today, naming John H. Lennox deputy chief
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Promoted Firemen Take Posts Today

Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.

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