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Louis Rodger Mote (1884–1939) owned a home at 1111 North 23rd Street in Cramer Hill and worked at one of Camden's shipyards before serving as Assistant Superintendent of Streets for the City of Camden under Mayor Winfield S. Price. He and his wife Louise were active in 11th Ward Republican politics.
Albert E. Collum Jr. (1936–2016) served the Camden Fire Department for over 26 years, rising to Captain of Engine Company 1. He lived at 2409 Howell Street when appointed in 1964, and was injured in the 1975 fire truck collision at 6th and Pine Streets that killed one person.
Laurence W. Newton (1896–1946) rose through the Camden Fire Department to Battalion Chief, saving a child from a burning building at Sixth and Van Hook Streets and shutting off a leaking gas main amid flames at Constitution and Argus Roads in 1942. He lived at 2816 Howell Street in East Camden.
John Francis Letts (1918–1984) served the Camden Fire Department from 1952 to 1981, rising to Battalion Chief. He grew up at 2208 Howell Street, was a founding officer of IAFF Local 2578, and took part in the Easter Monday rescue at North 6th and Penn Streets in 1970.
John D. Huelas, born John D. Hulasinski, joined the Camden Fire Department in 1942 and served over 35 years, retiring as Captain in 1978. He lived at 2834 Howell Street in East Camden when he was appointed.
Burkhardt Leodegar Buenzle (1857–1931), a Swiss immigrant who settled at 1144 North 24th Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was active in the German-American community of the former Stockton borough in the late 19th century.
Carman Street ran from Broadway through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at South 31st Street, named for William Carman whose home stood at the corner of Broadway and Federal Street until 1902.
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.
Thirtieth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue and on to Federal Street, and to the intersection of Line Street and Beacon Avenue, just above Waldorf Street. It is North 30th Street above Federal and South 30th below.
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.
23rd Street originates in the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, noted in the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. The James G. Blaine School stood at the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Wayne Avenue.
22nd Street spans the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, already laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published.
Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East 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.
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.
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
On April 9, 2012, Camden firefighters responded to two arson fires set in the vacant, condemned row houses at 2014 and 2016 Howell Street.
Three 2004 criminal cases connected to Howell Street: the murder of Diane Jackson, the fatal shooting of Zabdiel Cardona, and the jailhouse heroin-overdose death charged to Jose Maldonado.
Obituary of Martha A. Crossley, 66, of 2411 Howell Street, who died May 9, 1971.
Robert Olesiewicz, 47, was promoted from fireman to captain and assigned to Ladder Company 1 as Public Safety Director Keith Kauffman swore in seven new Camden firemen.
Camden Courier-Post, November 24, 1964. Six new members of the Camden Fire Department were sworn in, among them Albert E. Collum Jr., 28, of 2409 Howell Street. Department rolls then totalled 176.
The engagement of Miss Karren Andrus Johnson to Joseph Charles Saiia of 2411 Howell Street was announced in July 1960, with an April wedding planned.
William Corbett of 2513 Howell Street was among three people injured when a car struck a pole at 18th and Federal streets in June 1959.
Obituary of Bertram D. Zimmerman, 57, of 2412 Howell Street, a stationary fireman at the Camden Courthouse, who died at West Jersey Hospital in March 1959.
Obituary of Mrs. Sarah F. Southwell, 57, a lifelong Camden resident and widow of Malcolm Southwell, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Noden, at 2010 Howell Street.
Death notice for Agnes M. Neuman, 72, widow of Hugo Neuman, of 2216 Howell Street, who died November 14, 1948.
Three Camden men, including two residents of 2006 Howell Street, were arrested in connection with the $2 holdup and attempted murder of George Manning of Merchantville.
Angelo Forte's recollection of living at 2312 Howell Street, across from the Pavonia railroad yard, from December 1943 to July 1946 — the happiest years of his boyhood in East Camden.
Funeral notice for Elizabeth McBlain, wife of the late Robert Parks, from 2407 Howell Street, November 2, 1940.
A letter to the editor from Mrs. E. M. Fenton of 2407 Howell Street defending her half-brother David McBlain, whom she maintained was wrongly convicted.
A letter to the editor from Paul E. Pursch of 2000 Howell Street, backing Horace Dixon's opposition to New Jersey's automobile inspection program.
The will of Mrs. Katie M. Conner of 2407 Howell Street left a granddaughter a share of her estate at 25, provided she did not marry before 21.
A police probe failed to fix the cause of the Bell and Evans poultry warehouse fire near 27th and Pleasant streets, which drove 30 families from their Howell Street homes and killed more than 10,000 chickens in May 1934.
Camden fireman John C. Voll of 1230 North Nineteenth Street was involved in two successive accidents that injured four people near River Road in June 1933.
Charles H. Nelson, 86, a wood finisher of 2812 Howell Street, suffered a fatal heart attack while walking with his sister at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets in June 1933.
Three East Camden youths were arrested on suspicion in the early morning hours of March 21, 1932 after police said they failed to explain why they were near Twenty-fourth and Howell Streets at 1:30 a.m.
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
Camden Courier-Post - March 12, 1930 Found guilty of carrying a gun, Richard H. Morrow, 24, of 2319 Howell Street , as fined $150 by Judge Shay in Criminal Court yesterday. He will be permitted to pay the fine in installments.
Bus Kills Husband Returning Unexpectedly, From Distant Work Fate and the heavy wheels of a bus turned to tragedy a surprise planned by Arthur Hickman, 45, of 2021 Howell Street , for the wife he had not seen for five weeks.
Edwin Grimmer, 10, of 2204 Howell Street — the neighborhood's "broken arm champion" — fractured his left arm in two new places at Cooper Hospital after an earlier double fracture had healed.
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.
Mrs. Eliza C. Jackson of 2206 Howell Street sued the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for $50,000, alleging permanent injuries from a charged wire while rescuing three children.
Funeral notice for Caroline Laib, widow of John Laib Sr., who died in her 68th year at 2401 Howell Street in March 1918.
Camden police detained Herman Walters pending an autopsy after his 19-year-old bride, Florence Walters of 2010 Howell Street, died of gas inhalation following a quarrel in September 1916.
Camden Post-Telegram - July 18, 1916 Promises to Mend Erring Ways and Heartily Thanks Recorder.
Camden police investigated two fires that threatened four vacant dwellings at 2611–2617 Howell Street — the former Enterprise Hall — believing tramps sheltering there had started them in October 1915.