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Harry L. Leonard

Harry L. Leonard was a Camden-born funeral director and World War I veteran who opened his own funeral parlor at 120 South 27th Street in 1927, later moving to 2850 Federal Street, and ran for Camden County Coroner in 1936.

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Aerial view looking west from North 26th Street and Howell Street
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26th Street

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.

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Henry Magin Funeral

Camden Times - August 29, 1941 Funeral services for City Commissioner Henry Magin were held Tuesday, with many officials and colleagues in veteran's and fraternal circles participating.

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1205 N. 26th Street, William Getner, 1939
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Aged Man Ends His Life With Shot in Temple

Harry Lipp, 84, an old age pensioner who had boarded seventeen years at the home of city fireman William Getner at 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, ended his life with a revolver shot in a garage behind the house. Coroner Harry Leonard issued a certificate of suicidal death.

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