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Harry L. Leonard was a Camden-born funeral director and World War I veteran who opened his own funeral parlor at 120 South 27th Street in 1927, later moving to 2850 Federal Street, and ran for Camden County Coroner in 1936.
John Martin Peterson (1892-1971) served the Camden Fire Department for 36 years with Engine Company 11, from his appointment in 1919 to his retirement on pension in 1956. A veteran of the First Division in France, he was twice wounded in World War I and received the Order of the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster.
Howard Bean (1893–1950) was a Camden police sergeant, WWI veteran of the 312th Engineer Regiment, and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41.
Obituary of Howard Bean, 56, the Camden policeman and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41, who died June 8, 1950 at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, six days after retiring on pension.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Corporal Mathews-Purnell Post No. 518, V.F.W., marked its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet at O'Donnell's Restaurant in February 1938; Mrs. Carrie R. Bean was among the guests.
Camden firemen John M. Peterson and Herman Dreas, both of Engine Company No. 11 and members of Corp. Mathews-Purnell Post 518, Veterans of Foreign Wars, received the Order of the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in France.