Tag: Morris Odell
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William Van Pfefferle
William Van Pfefferle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 17, 1891. William Van Pfefferle married Elsie Maxwell. Her father, Joseph Maxwell, was a career Camden Fire Department fire fighter. The couple lived with Maxwell’s at 620 North 3rd Street. By June of 1917 there were two children in the family. William Van Pfefferle then…
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Camden Elks Hope to Get Convention
Camden Courier-Post – June 2, 1933 Advisory Committee Will Present Formal Invitation for State Meet The twenty-first annual reunion and the convention of the New Jersey State Elks Association will be held in Camden next June if efforts of the advisory board of Camden Lodge of Elks are successful at the state meeting in Newark…
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Knights of the Golden Eagle (Excerpt)
Excerpted from George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886 The Knights of the Golden Eagle is a secret benevolent institution, founded in Baltimore, Md., February 6, 1873, and is now in successful operation in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, New Jersey, California, Ohio, New York, Iowa, Georgia, Connecticut, West Virginia,…