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313 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ The following is derived from George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey published in 1886. Memorial Methodist Protestant Church is situated on Liberty Street , above Third .
Thomas P. "Boston" Corbett, the Union Army sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth in 1865, later lived in Camden, New Jersey and preached at local churches.
From George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey , 1886 Newton Friend's Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month, 1801, Joseph Kaighn gave them the lot of land-at the corner of the Mount Ephraim road and Mount Vernon Street , in the present city of Camden, on which, in the same year, they built the brick meetinghouse that now stands there.
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.