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Walter Edgerton (1854–1930), Camden professional boxer who fought as "Kentucky Rosebud." A featherweight who boxed professionally from 1886 to 1921, fought featherweight champion George Dixon, and won a bout past age 60.
Daniel Smith (b. July 4, 1872) was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in 1899 and served more than 40 years, rising to captain at Engine Company 9 in East Camden; he had retired by the end of 1943.
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden; large portions were demolished for the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers University and the toll plaza.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
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.
Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.
Wilson L. Bromley came into the world in New Jersey, around the year 1853, as the child of Joseph and Ann Eliza Bromley. His father, Joseph Bromley, earned his living as a boilermaker.
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.
Caesar Campana Sr. was born in Italy on May 13, 1903, to parents Peter and Theresa Campana.
A Camden Courier-Post report of August 6, 1971 on the United Mission Rescue Corps, founded by Camden resident Lewis T. Lewis in July 1969, which had raised more than $20,000 but spent only about 15 per cent of it on disaster victims, and which used $7,000 of an inheritance to buy an office building at 2411 Federal Street.
Herman O'Neal, 41, of 139 Spruce Street was seriously injured on Kaighns Avenue near Locust Street by a hit-and-run driver; Det. Sgt. Joseph Hooven of the accident division described the car sought.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of May 21, 1956, including Clarence Chapman, 65, of 739 Kaighns Avenue, treated for a cut head.
Caesar Campana, trading as A Bar Restaurant, applied for a plenary retail consumption license for premises at 826 Locust Street, Camden.
Camden Courier-Post — February 23, 1954 A Barrington man went to county jail for 30 days after Judge Dzick ruled him guilty of passing worthless check for rental of an auto.
Maurice Hertz, 90, former Camden liquor dealer, founder of the Camden Bottling Co. and the Mt. Ephraim Sand Co., and oldest member of the Camden Lodge of Elks, died at his home at 1316 Park Boulevard.
Anthony J. Lauria of 1008 Locust Street was honorably discharged from the Army after service with the engineer corps in Iceland and the signal corps in England, Normandy, France and Germany.
Ladislaus Kaminski, 21, of 1033 Locust Street, escaped injury when his car skidded and overturned on River Road in Pennsauken; WPA workers helped him right it.
Fires caused slight damage at the home of Percy DeRoche, 2937 Berkley Street, where Capt. Daniel Smith's Engine Co. 9 responded, and at the home of Etta Adams, 819 Locust Street, where an oil stove ignited a couch.
Mrs. Nettie Angelastro of 1122 Locust Street told Police Judge Mariano her husband Jack beat her; their two-year-old daughter's words "Papa hit Mama" settled the case.
Death notice for Seldon G. Chapman, 48, who died suddenly in New York City on February 19, 1938; funeral services were announced for Wednesday at 645 Locust Street, Camden, with interment at Mt. Peace Cemetery.
Camden marriage licenses, including Earl Matthews of 1007 Locust Street and Frances Martin of 1064 Ivins Street, and Thomas Bentley and Castina Braxton of 725 Chestnut Street.
Viola Lewis of 807 Locust Street was arrested as the alleged proprietor of a disorderly house, and Cleo Chacker and Hattie Green as inmates, after Patrolman James McTaggart was accosted on Locust Street.
Camden police under Chief Arthur Colsey opened a city-wide hunt for the bandits who shot Detective William T. Feitz four times in the back when he surprised a holdup of 20 persons in a house at 243 Sycamore Street.
The Third Ward Colored Democratic Club organized at 650 Locust Street with the election of Charles Johnson as president; Jury Commissioner Joseph Bennie was the principal speaker.
Five people were injured when a truck overturned after colliding with a car at 8th and Van Hook Streets; Fioranto Costanzo of 209 Beckett Street was among the injured.
Of 56 liquor law cases called in U. S. District Court, 19 defendants paid $1265 in fines, among them Benjamin Plevinsky of 852 Locust Street; the case against Freeholder C. Leonard Brehm was dismissed.
A jury deliberated 12 minutes before convicting William Pernier, former pal of slain gangster William "Shooey" Bonner, of carrying a revolver after he was shot at Locust Street and Kaighn Avenue; he faced three to seven years in prison.
Harvey Bryan, 28, of 3049 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, was struck at Collings Avenue and Alabama Road; driver Harry Cohen, 19, of 1134 Locust Street, took him to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
Investigators believed spontaneous combustion probably caused the explosion in the Public Service purifying plant at Locust and Cherry Streets that killed 14 workmen and burned four others.
Crowds Mill About Scene of Explosion Where Workers Died "They are in there- dead" That shrill scream from the chilled lips of a relative of two men trapped in the steel tomb of the purifying box at the Public Service gas plant at Locust and Cherry Streets today almost started a panic among 1,000 persons, gathered at the scene a few minutes after a mysterious explosion snuffed out the lives of more than a dozen men.
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin went to the scene of the fatal explosion at Locust and Cherry Streets and announced an investigation to fix responsibility, "if any."
Explosion at Locust and Cherry Traps Workers in Structure; Victims Mostly Temporary Employees Cleaning Metal Tank FOUR OTHERS INJURED, ONE MAY DIE; POISONOUS FUMES HAMPER RESCUE A terrific explosion in the purifying plant of the Public Service Gas and Electric Company at the Southeast corner of Locust and Cherry Streets killed 14 men today and injured four others, one of whom may die.
A weekend of raids on two disorderly houses at 818 and 1219 Locust Street and the Blue Hour Luncheonette on Liberty Street brought $1005 in fines; Pearl Williams of 818 Locust was jailed and Mary Young and Leona West were each fined $100.
City detectives questioned three youths believed responsible for a series of robberies; Francis Smith of 1120 Locust Street and Raymond Walker of 747 Woodland Avenue were arrested by Policeman James McTaggart at Broadway and Atlantic Avenue.
Thieves looted an East Camden chain store and three North Camden residences of more than $400 in cash and jewelry worth nearly $500 during the night.
The Camden vice squad raided nine alleged disorderly houses in South Camden in February 1927. The largest raid hit the home of former prize fighter Walter 'Kentucky Rosebud' Edgerton; Unity Hall at 318 Joint Alley was among the places raided.
Mrs. Frances Waters sued Jacob Barag, a grocer at 1121 Louis Street, Camden, for $10,000 in April 1922 over head injuries from a boiler that fell from a hook; her husband William sued for $5000.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
Former city detective George Murry (printed Murray), 52, of 649 Locust Street, was found dead in a snow drift at Locust and Beckett Streets after a fatal heart attack while taking an after-dinner walk.
Thomas Sparks, 28, of 652 Locust Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital with a pistol wound of the knee after being held up and robbed at Second and Pine Streets; James Wilson was arrested on suspicion.
Four Camden accidents reported January 20, 1919, including Emma Steck of 905 Point Street, hurt in a fall from a trolley car and taken to Cooper Hospital.
Captain Stehr and a detail of officers raided 817 Clare Street, where Edward Brown, 25, was charged with keeping a disorderly house; seven cases of beer, a quart of gin and a quart of whisky were seized.
On Mayor Ellis's orders Camden police raided two alleged speakeasies, holding Catherine Mooney of 850 Locust Street and Hezekiah Allen of 800 South Second Street for a hearing before Recorder Stackhouse.
John Kennedy, 16, of 1117 Locust Street, suffered severe scalp lacerations and probable fractures of both knees in a fall at the New York Shipyard and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Henry Thomas and "Brownie" Jones were arrested at 636 Locust Street by Detectives Moffett and Murry as suspects in the highway murder of Francis Martin Hageney at Twenty-seventh Street and Marlton Avenue.
August Marino, 27, of 808 Locust Street, was arrested by Detective Troncone as one of a gang of "black handers" accused of blackmailing John Piligro.
The body of Mrs. Maggie Donnelly, 40, was found in a vacant house at 844 Locust Street among four men stupid with drink; Detectives Painter and Brothers arrested the men pending a hearing.
Ebenezer Phipps, 33, of 920 Locust Street, was arrested by Detectives Brothers and Troncone on a charge of firing three shots into Annibel Williams of 208 Spruce Street.