Tag: Memorial Methodist Protestant Church

Born Thomas P. Corbett, Boston Corbett is known for killing John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin. Less known is that he lived in Camden, NJ.

The religious history of Camden, NJ, from George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886

The year was 1870 at 308 Mechanic Street. Camden, NJ. The occupant of the house was a mad hatter — a man who shot the man who shot Abraham Lincoln.