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Henry Houston "Harry" Franks served as Camden's Chief of Police from April 1, 1886 until his death on January 1, 1887. A Civil War veteran of the 25th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and a tobacconist, he served as constable of the Third Ward before his appointment as chief.
Josiah Matlack served as Chief of Police of Camden from 1880 to 1886. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1830, he came to Camden as a young man, served on City Council, and was appointed police chief by Mayor Claudius W. Bradshaw.
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
HOWLAND CROFT, SONS & CO. , LINDEN WORSTED MILLS BROADWAY AND JEFFERSON AVENUE . Among the worsted and woolen mills of Camden a conspicuous building is that belonging to Messrs.
Division Street runs across South Camden. In 1997, a portion of the street was renamed Ramona Gonzalez Street to honor a community leader; the remainder continues to be known as Division Street.
John Leighton Westcott, notable for his tenure as Mayor of Camden from 1892 to 1898, should not be mistaken for John W. Wescott , who served as a judge in Camden for many years starting in 1885.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
The Camden Mystery Was she or wasn't she? On January 26, 1889 nurse Annie Eisenhardt was found cut and bleeding in a restroom at Cooper Hospital .
Sixth Street runs with few interruptions from the Delaware River to Morgan Street, virtually the length of the city, from North Camden south almost all the way to Gloucester City.
The August 24, 1896 Camden Post obituary of ex-Chief of Police Josiah Matlack, who died at the home of City Council President Charles Ellis after being prostrated by heat at Ocean City. It recounts his Council service, Masonic and fraternal memberships, and his tenure as chief under Mayor Bradshaw.
Philadelphia Inquirer - July 28, 1890 Plenty of Liquor and As Faro Layout Secured by the Police A Murderous Negro Creates a Commotion Incendiaries and Work—Other News Across the Delaware The Camden police made another raid early yesterday morning.
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 28, 1889 Nurse Eisenhardt Describes the Murderous Assault. Doubt As to the Means of Escape The Night Watchman Gives His Statement, and the Police Admit That As Yet They Have No Clue.
A Woman Badly Cut and Beaten and the Watchman Arrested Philadelphia, Jan 26.— Annie Eisenhardt, a nurse in the Cooper Hospital, in Camden, N.J.
Two Camden lads, Howard Woolston and Lewis Rothkogle, were held in bail by the Mayor for the larceny of pigeons from fruit dealer L. W. Frome.
Saloon keeper John Meiler of Eleventh and Carpenter Streets, Camden, was tried and convicted for selling liquor to minors and sentenced to ten days in jail.
Obituary of Chief of Police Harry Houston Franks, who died January 1, 1887 at his home at Third and Royden Streets; a post-mortem attributed his death to cancer of the oesophagus.
At Mayor Pratt's direction, Chief of Police Franks had officers raid the policy shop of William 'Policy Bill' Smith at 14 South Eighth Street.
Harry H. Franks and six new patrolmen took the oath as retiring Chief Josiah Matlack bade the police department farewell and formally turned it over to his successor.
Three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, Camden citizens issued a resolution pledging loyalty to the Union on April 16, 1861, followed by a patriotic war meeting at the county courthouse on April 18 that organized the county's first Civil War volunteer companies.