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Max Frederick Reihmann (b. 1861, Germany) came to Camden in 1889 and founded a sheet metal-working shop that became one of the city's leading concerns. He retired in 1913, passing the business to his sons Max Jr., Frederick, and Paul, and was active in Camden Masonic and civic life.
Edward Adam Preisendanz was the son of Rudolph and Annie Preisendanz and was born in Camden, New Jersey, on November 14, 1883.
Tiedeken Brother's Auto Body, founded in 1876 as a wagon and blacksmith shop on Van Hook Street, is the oldest business in Camden, New Jersey.
Bernard Bertman lived at 941 Broadway as late as 1936 and had his law offices in the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street .
Sigmund "Sig" Schoenagle was born in Vienna, Austria, around 1875. As a young man, he immigrated to America and settled in Camden, NJ. In 1894, he established a haberdashery at the southwest corner of 3rd and Federal Streets .
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1942. You have a picture of the H. Genet Taylor residence on Cooper Street .
The year 1938 was the fiftieth in the history of Warren Webster & Company and as the summer approached the Organization began laying plans to celebrate the Golden Jubilee and do honor to the Founder.
Samuel M. Shay was a prominent figure in Camden County during the early 20th century. Born around 1885 in New Jersey, he was appointed as Judge of the Common Pleas Court in Camden County by Governor Edwards in 1922.
HERMAN Z. CUTLER is best remembered in Camden for the company he founded, Cutler Metal Products Company, which operated at 1021-1025 Line Street into the 1980s.
Camden Auto Radiator was an auto repair shop at 505-509 Arch Street in Camden, NJ, owned by Herman Z. Cutler in the 1920s and 1930s.
Centennial Mirror of the City of Camden, NJ Published in the interest of a growing city, nineteen twenty-eight.
The Camden Chamber of Commerce is the clearing house of civic activities. The offices are in the Hotel Walt Whitman Annex on Cooper Street near Broadway . It is supported by the business, professional and civic interests of Camden.
One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.
WALT WHITMAN, Camden's "Good Grey Poet," the life of whom a subject that has been written on at length by many.
Merchants Trust Company, a Camden bank organized in 1911 at 18 Broadway that was later absorbed into Broadway Merchants Trust and closed after 1930.
Leon Edgar Todd Sr. was born in Camden NJ on November 22, 1893. He operated his real estate agency for many years in Camden at 2623 Westfield Avenue , a building designed by the Camden architectural firm of Lackey & Hettel .
The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort.
Joseph A. Varbalow, born in Russia on January 15, 1896, alongside his twin sister Anna, emigrated to America with his family in either 1897 or 1898, initially settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New York Times - May 6, 2008 By Kareem Fahim Camden, N.J.—The old Plaza Hotel downtown is a tomb, sealed shut for more than 20 years now, it's windows shattered and its green marquee worn and stripped of letters.
Camden Courier-Post - May 13, 1960 Public Safety Director for Nine Years E. George Aaron , former public safety director and an attorney active in Camden's public, civic and philanthropic affairs more than 30 years, is dead.
Camden NJ, August 26 (AP) — Five automatic shotgun blasts from a speeding automobile felled Robert Francis Curran, 44, of Silver Spring MD, a race horse trainer at Garden State Park , as he left the Walt Whitman Hotel in downtown Camden Saturday.
Adolph Hitler and his "brown barbarians" were accused of aiming to make war the "be-all and end-all of human evolution" in an address by Walter Schoenstedt
30 Men Get Certificates as Leaders and Five Troops Receive Star Awards Trophy for Veteran Warren Webster, Jr., was elected president of the executive board of Camden County Council, Boy Scouts of America, at its annual dinner meeting last night.
Jewish Community to Fete Dr. Goldstein, President of Palestine Fund Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of New York, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, will speak tonight at a mass meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman , in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund.
Camden Courier-Post - February 28, 1936 The regular weekly luncheon of the American Legion Luncheon Club was held at the Hotel Walt Whitman last Monday with Townsend H. Boyer, chairman, presiding.
'Nedmac' (Spell It Backwards) Elected; Wife Retires as Vice President NEW WORDS PRESENTED By THOMAS O'HALLORAN Joseph F. Kobus , retired Camden merchant, was elected president of the National Puzzlers League, Inc. at the closing session yesterday of its 105th semi-annual convention.
Amateur Creators of Brain Twisters Open Three-Day Conclave Tomorrow Mrs. Kobus to Greet Delegates onArrival Puzzledom, that world of crypto-grams, psychology and pseudonyms, will have its capital in Camden beginning and continuing through Sunday.
Camden Courier-Post - February 20, 1936 City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus will deliver the principal address today at the Camden County Real Estate Board luncheon in Hotel Walt Whitman .
Resolution Denounces Borrowing of Funds for Projects Not Self-liquidating One of two resolutions adopted yesterday afternoon by the Taxation Committee of the Camden County Real Estate Board opposes the borrowing by Camden county or city of any funds for projects that are not self-liquidating.
Drive in Camden County Forges Ahead as More Firms Sign Camden Courier-Post - August 8, 1933 The N.R.A. recovery drive in the Camden area forged ahead on three fronts yesterday.
Dinner to Reesman and Mrs. Verga Packs Whitman Local Delegates Get High Praise Ex-Governor Denounces Roosevelt Program, Hits Inflation By Ransloe Boone Bitter criticism of the "horse trading" of the Legislature and the gubernatorial aspirations of Senate President Emerson L.Richards, were coupled with appeals for party loyalty and praise for Camden county's leaders at a dinner of the Camden County Republican Committee in Hotel Walt Whitman last night.
Camden Unit Makes Real Estate Broker Chairman of Advisory Boards Earl R. Lippincott, real estate broker, has been named chairman of the advisory board of the Camden unit of the Salvation Army, succeeding William D. Sayrs .
Jubilee Noted Entertainers Are Given Welcome by Mayor as Event Closes Co-Operation Days The "Co-operation Days" jubilee of the combined merchants of Camden ended Saturday with a visit to this city by stage and radio stars as guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the city.
Association Gives Banquet and Entertainment for 8 at Hotel Here Eight retiring school principals were honored last night at a banquet in the junior ballroom of Hotel Walt Whitman by the Camden Principals' Association.
Honor students and Athletes Hear Phil Lewis on 'Letter Day' Led by the boys' band of 37 pieces and the girls' fife and drum corps, the Camden Catholic High School student body paraded into the school auditorium at 10.30 a. m. yesterday to pay tribute to the athletes and other honor students who received awards at the annual "Letter Day" exercises.
195 Graduates to Receive Diplomas Tomorrow Afternoon at Convention Hall; 15 to Be Given Gold Medals Out of a class of 195 graduates to be presented diplomas tomorrow at the commencement exercises of Camden Catholic High School , 75 have finished with scholastic averages better than 85 percent.
Camden Courier-Post - June 14, 1933 The Alumni Associations of the Camden Catholic High School and the Moorestown High School are completing plans for their annual June dances to be held this weekend.
Camden Courier-Post - June 13, 1933 A reception and dance to 195 students of Camden Catholic High School will be held Friday night at the Walt Whitman Hotel . The event is the annual greeting of the school alumni association to the graduating class.
Executives of Organization Discuss Budget for Camden and Propose Drives Plans for a campaign to raise funds to cover the budget of the Salvation Army Corps here were discussed yesterday at a meeting of members of the executive board at Hotel Walt Whitman .
Three Veterans of Central School Receive Gifts At Walt Whitman Event Three veteran teachers of the Central School , Fourth and Clinton Streets , who will retire this month were dinner guests last night of the faculty at Hotel Walt Whitman .
Camden Courier-Post - June 1, 1933 Men and Women From Many Sections Visit Walt Whitman's Tomb and Old Mickle Street Home on His 114th Anniversary.
A June 1932 Camden Courier-Post report on a Camden Lions Club meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman, where speaker James O'Neill of Lakeview Memorial Park described the growing use of cemetery chapels for weddings. The club also announced the election of Dr. Thomas Lewis, I. D. Gindhart, Max Reihmann, and Harold Leach as directors.
Camden Courier-Post - June 10, 1932 Members of the Womans Board to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital have gathered their forces and are in readiness for their annual Tag Day tomorrow.
Shrine Club to Select Contest Winner at Convention Hall Show Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall .
Health Head Says It Gives False Sense of Security Fumigation as a method of preventing disease was discounted by Dr. Arthur L. Stone , city health director, in talk yesterday before the Y's men's Club at the Hotel Walt Whitman .
C. of C. Secretary Outlines Plan to Make Comprehensive Survey An industrial campaign for the purpose of inducing new business industries to locate in Camden will be part of the program of the Chamber of Commerce for this year, Loyal D. Odhner, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, told members of the Rotary Club at a luncheon today in the Hotel Walt Whitman .