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Wildwood Avenue runs through Camden's Parkside section from Haddon Avenue to Park Boulevard, west of Baird Avenue. Many prominent Camden citizens lived there, especially in the 1500 block near Camden High School and Forest Hill Park.
Walter Dayton Eastlack (1889–1964) was a Camden firefighter who served 29 years with the Camden Fire Department, from his appointment on March 3, 1925 to his retirement on March 15, 1954.
Edward Adam Preisendanz was the son of Rudolph and Annie Preisendanz and was born in Camden, New Jersey, on November 14, 1883.
EDWARD WIETT ELDRED III was a career officer in the Camden Police Department. His grandparents, Edward and Lydia Eldred, had come to Camden sometime after 1930 and had settled at 231 North 3rd Street by 1942.
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
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.
Nine of Camden's newest firemen, including Wayne Kraft of 1052 North 35th Street, graduated at fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and received their company assignments.
Two armed bandits robbed Briggs Cafe at Lansdowne Avenue and Louis Street of about $1000 in November 1947, then took a car, cash and a watch from two men who chased them; Camden police held three men for questioning.
Three Camden women and two Temple University students were arrested in a raid on an alleged disorderly house at 1450 Kenwood Avenue last night.
The American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, lists 40 Camden annual members with their addresses, including Lewis Liberman, 307 Market Street.
Amateur boxer Stanley Powelek, alias Powell, 21, of 1256 Whitman Avenue was given the choice of a $100 fine or four months in jail after Policeman John Wilkie arrested him for loitering in Whitman Park. Camden Courier-Post, March 23, 1929.
While members of the family of Frederick Reuling, of 1257 Kenwood avenue, Camden, were upstairs yesterday, they detected smoke. When they investigated they found a man in the living room before papers
Mrs. Katie Maney of Philadelphia was committed to jail in Camden on a charge of stealing $450 and three diamond rings from her aunt, Mrs. Mary Cassady of 515 Fairview Street, in a robbery at 1155 Kenwood Avenue.
Real estate transfers in Camden County, including 340 Division Street, Antonio Mecca to Lorenzo Del Fico, and 1449 Princess Avenue, Lewis F. Holl to Jeannette Bryant, $3300. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 18, 1915.