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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.
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
Printed Mass card for Louis G. Engel, Jr., who died September 26, 1955, issued by Harry Leonard and Edward P. Leonard, Jr., Funeral Directors, 2850 Federal Street, Camden.
Page 12 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for Harry Leonard, funeral director and embalmer, at his funeral home at 2850 Federal Street, Camden, opposite the parish rectory.
Mathews-Purnell Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars began collecting canned goods and other food for Camden's contingent of the Bonus Expeditionary Force in Washington.