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Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
Policeman James McTaggart, 54, of 3135 Waldorf Avenue, a World War I veteran appointed to the Camden police force in 1927, died in West Jersey Hospital. He was a brother of the late Policeman John McTaggart, who worked a beat on Broadway from Pine Street to Kaighn Avenue.
Patrolman John McTaggart, 53, died in Cooper Hospital after 31 years in the Department of Public Safety, 12 as a fireman and 19 as a policeman walking the same Broadway beat from Kaighn Avenue to Line Street. He was the guest of honor at the annual St. Patrick's night party "A Nite in Ireland."
More than 1000 persons attended a "Night in Ireland" party at Labor Temple, Broadway and Royden Street, in honor of Patrolman John McTaggart, "Broadway's Irish Cop," with former Governor Harold G. Hoffman and Acting Chief of Police Ralph Bakley among the guests.
Requiem mass was celebrated in Sacred Heart Church for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, of 915 Broadway, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, with burial in Calvary cemetery. Camden policemen formed a guard of honor and served as pallbearers.
Hundreds paid tribute to Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, at the funeral home of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. She died in Cooper Hospital while her husband's friends were honoring him at a St. Patrick's Day party in Eagles Hall.
Fellow officers of Policeman John McTaggart will form a guard of honor for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, at the Frank J. Leonard funeral home, 1451 Broadway. She died in West Jersey hospital while her husband's friends were holding their annual frolic in his honor at Eagles' Hall.
The Sixth Ward Republican Association's third annual "Night in Ireland" honoring Patrolman John S. McTaggart will be held March 16 in the Eagle's Hall, 415 Broadway, with more than 3000 tickets sold.
A testimonial dinner will be tendered Patrolman John S. McTaggart, well known member of the Camden police force, at the Sixth Ward Republican Club. He is particularly popular in the Sixth ward, where he distributes food and clothing to the poor.
Camden Courier-Post - July 6, 1932 Police Sergeant Frank Truax , who died Thursday night from a complication of diseases, was buried yesterday in Harleigh Cemetery.
Mrs. Anna McTaggart, wife of Camden policeman John McTaggart of 1710 Broadway, and Louis Lafferty were arrested together in a Philadelphia apartment and held in $500 bail each on charges of misconduct brought by the officer, who had already filed for divorce.
Loot Values at $2000 Taken from Broaday Shop; Second Visit of Thieves Climbing to the roof of a shed in the rear of the Greenetz & Pellicoff jewelry store , 833 Broadway , burglars entered the shop early today and carried away $2,000 in loot.
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.
Fireman John S. McTaggart, of 1709 Broadway, renewed his $10,000 suit against coal dealer Richard McAllister for injuries received when a trolley car collided with one of McAllister's auto coal trucks on June 14, 1917. The case had been tried once before, and the plaintiff lost.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
Seven Camden firemen, six of them from the Kaighn Avenue house, fought their way out back to back when flames surrounded them in a fire that gutted three stores at 1118-1122 Broadway; Mrs. Tillie Sackett saved two small girls whose clothing had caught fire.
City Council's Fire Committee named William Deno captain of the new fire company at Tenth Street and Kaighn Avenue, effective July 1, 1910, and sent John H. McTaggart to the Kaighn Avenue firehouse near Sixth Street.