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Charles Behrend of Camden, NJ served as a Private First Class in Company C, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on September 25, 1918 during the Battle of St. Mihiel and is buried at St. Mihiel American Cemetery in Thiaucourt, France.
Moore Street was a small street running east from North 9th Street toward the Cooper River, south of York Street. It appears in city directories as early as 1867, beside the Highland Worsted Mill.
Another plant that employed many people in North Camden , the history of Highland Worsted Mills dates back to the time of the Civil War.
Joseph A. Alcorn (1919-1958) was a Camden, New Jersey native and US Marine Corps veteran who founded Alcorn Motor Sales on Federal Street in East Camden.