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Joseph E. Roberts Sr.

Cox Street area — 1885 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map
Streets

Cox Street

Cox Street ran west from 1119 South 2nd Street for about half a block to a dead end, roughly opposite Sycamore Street; it first appeared in City Directories in 1890 and was renamed Sycamore Street around 1922, then erased after World War II as part of a redevelopment plan.

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Edward N Cohn
People

Edward N. Cohn

Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.

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William Penn Corson

William Penn Corson, commonly known as W. Penn Corson, was born on February 27, 1873, in Camden, New Jersey. He was the son of Elias Lake Corson, a sea captain who had commanded a vessel during the Civil War.

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Building Boom in Camden — Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888
News Articles

Building Boom in Camden

James Cox has begun six two-story brick houses on Cox Street, below Second, as part of a broader construction boom across Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 7, 1888.

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Petition

Residents and property owners of Camden's Fourth and Sixth wards petition City Council for an under-drainage culvert running from the Line Street culvert at Broadway out to Sixth Street and north to Sixth and Royden. Arthur Stanley, then of 929 Newton Avenue, signed among the petitioners.

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