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John C. Voll Jr. (1900-1979) was born in Camden and served the Camden Fire Department for 40 years, entering the department on January 15, 1925 and retiring on December 1, 1965. He lived his later years at 2737 Garfield Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Charles H. Truitt (1859-1936) was a Camden native who worked 53 years for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a tugboat fireman and ferry engineer on the Delaware River before retiring in 1929.
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
Main Street is a diagonal street in North Camden running southeast from State and Point Streets. The 1878 city directory listed it as starting at the Vine Street Ferry.
Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.
Three Becker cousins were fined $75 each for attempting to steal copper cable from a Pennsylvania Railroad lot at 15th and Federal Streets. Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1963.
Mrs. Fannie May of 1223 North 21st Street was critically injured when the couple's 1937 Packard skidded past a crossing watchman and collided with a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train on River Avenue north of Federal Street; she died later that day in Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. George Beitzel of 124 North 32nd Street shot her husband, a Pennsylvania Railroad policeman, in the arm and fired at their 15-year-old son, who ducked and escaped. Judge Benjamin Dzick refused her guilty plea and held her for the grand jury.
Death notice for Aldo M. Pucci, 27, of 605 Avon Street, beloved son of Vincent and Felcia Garamone Pucci; funeral at the family home Monday with Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel.
Obituary for Carmine DeLuca, of 607 Avon Street, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad employee and member of Italian mutual aid societies; survived by his widow Maria and four sons.
John W. Kmicic, 56, a Pennsylvania Railroad machinist, was fatally injured when a beer keg exploded during a Christmas party at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, on December 22, 1949.
The body of John Lozowski, 20, a Camden member of the U.S. Marine flying corps killed in a training-flight plane crash at Atlantic Field, N.C., was returned to Camden; a Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's church and burial in St. Joseph's cemetery were planned.
The Laxton family column from the 1943 Camden City Directory, listing nine entries — among them Eric R. (Blanche P.) Laxton, a driver for the American Oil Company, at 137 North 33rd Street.
A 20-ton truck and trailer owned by Ralph Cornell, Inc., of Woodbury, loaded with ventilators for the Campbell's Soup plant, was jammed for two hours under the P.R.R. bridge over Fifth Street south of Federal until the tires were deflated.
Two men escaped serious injury when their 10-ton truck, loaded with paper rolls, was struck by a freight train at Front and Spruce streets.
Junior Fire Captain Eli Hunt of Engine Company No. 3, 1813 Broadway, retired March 1 for disability, took formal leave of his comrades as Battalion Chief Charles Erickson and Commissioner Mary W. Kobus praised his service since 1918.
Charles H. Truitt, 76, retired by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1929 after 53 years of service, died suddenly at his home, 119 North Twenty-fourth Street. A Camden native, he began as a fireman on tugboats and later worked on the company's ferryboats and as an engineer in its power plants.
Funeral services were set for James Lennox, 82, a retired Pennsylvania Railroad man and father of acting Camden fire chief John H. Lennox, who died at his home at 517 Newton Avenue while his son was called away to fight a blaze at 27 Broadway.
Ben Courter's June 3, 1932 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Robert "Bob" Turner, 58, proprietor of the Federal Street oyster restaurant his father Fred Turner started in 1886, who helped get Camden's Moose lodge under way.
Funeral services for Charles H. Valentine, 67, for 42 years an engineer on Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboats, held at 319 North 38th Street. He was survived by his widow Martha A. Valentine and three sons. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery.
Coroner David Bentley blamed jitney driver Vincenzo Strattoni of 332 Viola Street for the Camden grade-crossing wreck in which a Pennsylvania Railroad express struck his motor bus, killing ten and injuring five; Mayor Ellis ordered an investigation.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of May 29, 1917: a woman jailed for breaking a bottle over another's head, a railroad engineer's funeral, a German-American flag raising at Fourth and Viola Streets with an address by William Sangtinette, and a patriotic meeting.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
The Whitman Park Improvement Association called a mass meeting at the Thirteenth Ward Republican Club to plan how to prevent the Pennsylvania Railroad from closing Whitman Avenue or Everett Street. Camden Post-Telegram, January 25, 1915.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
A Philadelphia Inquirer "Camden News Notes" column of September 2, 1904, reporting the deaths of Annie Smith of 308 Mechanic Street and Daniel Bromley of 1500 South Tenth Street, and the injury of 12-year-old Benjamin Eppinger of 1159 Federal Street, jolted from a brewery wagon at Twelfth and Federal Streets.
Andrew Rabeau, 71, a longtime Second Street and Bridge Avenue cigar dealer, former Third ward councilman and retired Pennsylvania Railroad foreman of car inspectors, died suddenly of paralysis at the home of jeweler F. W. Fuller, 217 Federal Street.
Nothing has yet been learned as to the whereabouts of John H. Coffin, the eleven-year-old son of William Coffin, division agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, fourteen years old, son of Joseph Jennings, leader of the Third Regiment Band, the two Camden boys who disappeared on Wednesday when they left, it is presumed, for the Trenton fair.
John Coffin, 11 years old, son of William Coffin, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, 14 years, son of Leader Joseph Jennings, of the Third Regiment Band, are missing from their homes and the Camden police have been asked to locate them.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 12, 1891: saloonkeeper William Gallagher of 106 Kaighn avenue pays his Sunday-selling fine, the Rev. J. Livingston Allen of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church marks his silver anniversary, and Thomas Guthridge sues the West Jersey Railroad Company for $10,000.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news, led by the failure of builder George Matthews, with notes including the disappearance of Henry Cox of 306 Locust Street.
A freight locomotive of the Pennsylvania Railroad exploded inside the Camden round house; watchman Richard Rourke was fatally injured and died at his home on South Second Street.