
Howard Bean
Howard Bean (1893–1950) was a Camden police sergeant, WWI veteran of the 312th Engineer Regiment, and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41.
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Howard Bean (1893–1950) was a Camden police sergeant, WWI veteran of the 312th Engineer Regiment, and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41.

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.

Four Camden police officers and four firemen retired under the mandatory 65-year age law in 1950; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband Patrolman Howard Bean had died June 8.

Obituary of Howard Bean, 56, the Camden policeman and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41, who died June 8, 1950 at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, six days after retiring on pension.

A brief 1943 funeral notice for Miss Ethel H. Waters, 26, who died in Camden; the six pallbearers — Camden policemen among them, including Howard Bean — carried her to burial in Trenton.

As Camden opened its World War II drive to collect old aluminum for national defense, an unidentified South Camden resident of German birth was among the first donors, carrying his old pots and pans to Engine Company No. 8's firehouse.
Report of the February 4, 1938 Camden County Council meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which set the fourth annual military ball for Armistice night and pressed a county-wide membership drive; Howard Bean served as publicity officer of Corp. Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518.

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Corporal Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518, V.F.W., marked its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet at O'Donnell's Restaurant in February 1938; Mrs. Carrie R. Bean was among the guests.

Chigger Pup Tent No. 7, the Camden branch of the Military Order of the Cootie, prepared to initiate a class of 18 V.F.W. candidates in January 1938; Howard Bean served as an officer of the branch.

Mrs. Carrie R. Bean, first president of the Camden County Council of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and junior vice president of the Department of New Jersey, honored at a banquet in August 1936.

More than 30 veterans' organizations, including V.F.W. posts and the American Legion, gathered for a giant field mass at Maple Shade in June 1932; Howard Bean, past commander of Post 518, was among those attending.

John Cullen, 22, manager of the American Store at 1201 Lansdowne Avenue, died December 1, 1930 of a bullet wound suffered in a holdup; two Camden youths faced murder charges in his death.

A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.