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Arthur Cuellen Batten (1904–1972), known to his fellow firefighters as Artie, joined the Camden Fire Department on March 4, 1927 and served until his retirement on February 28, 1969, rising to captain of Rescue Company 1 and acting battalion chief. He lived for many years at 1132 North 22nd Street in Cramer Hill and invented the un-patented ring cutter used by the rescue company to remove finger jewelry.
Edwin Stanley Wirtz (1914–1975), son of Camden policeman Stanley R. Wirtz and grandson of Camden fireman James McDade, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in October 1943 and served 22 years, retiring in October 1965 as an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office.
Charles E. Watkin Jr. (1879-1954) was a Camden Fire Department captain who served over 34 years, from his appointment on January 1, 1915 until his retirement on May 1, 1949.
James McDade was born in Pennsylvania in September 1860 and had moved to Camden by 1884. His wife, Emma Ferkler, was seven years older than him.
Point Street in North Camden was laid out in 1804 as Cooper's Point Road, giving access along the riverbank to sawmills, planing mills and shipyards; its current name comes from that road.
Charles Miller Gladney was born in New Jersey on September 2, 1877, to George and Mary Gladney. In 1878, the family lived at 728 Mount Vernon Street , but by 1880, George, Mary, and their older son David had moved to 432 Liberty Street in Camden.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Beach Street was a short North Camden street that ran from York to Erie Street, made impassable around 2000 when Delaware Avenue was extended. Only three houses were ever listed on the street: 930, 932, and 934.
James Court was a brief, six-house street running east from 114 Point Street between Pearl and Birch Streets, erased in the early 1920s by the construction of the Delaware River Bridge.
Samuel Patton stood among the original members of the Camden Fire Department, commencing his service on December 7, 1869, assuming the role of an extra man with Engine Company 2 .
Caesar Campana Sr. was born in Italy on May 13, 1903, to parents Peter and Theresa Campana.
Francis Hull Rittenhouse came into the world on June 29, 1923, in the vibrant city of Camden, New Jersey. He was the cherished child of John F. and Madeline "Nell" Rittenhouse.
John F. Rittenhouse came into the world around 1880, tracing his origins to Maryland. In the heart of Camden, he established a thriving enterprise situated at 941 Point Street .
In THAT busy, pushing, turbulent year of 1888, Warren Webster was doing well with his profitable ventilator and brass casting business, but on every hand new enterprises were on the way and he, like all his world, was on the lookout for Opportunity.
State Street, established in 1856, runs from the Delaware River to the Cooper River in North Camden. Citizens petitioned for it to shorten the trip to markets and the ferry.
York Street in North Camden stretches from Delaware Avenue to 10th Street, crossing Beach, Point, Front and Howard Streets. The page includes 2004 photographs looking east and west along the street.
In the directories of Camden City from 1887-1888, 1888-1889, and 1890-1891, Charles G. Berry is listed as a resident of 226 Point Street , working as a shoemaker in Philadelphia.
Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.
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.
by Howard M. Cooper A revision and amplification of a paper read before the Camden County Historical Society, June 13, 1899.
Baker's Bar & Grill at 45 York Street in Camden, a corner tavern dating to the 1880s and known mid-century as Joe's and Sloppy Joe's.
Market Street in Camden was likely named because it linked via the ferry to Market Street in Philadelphia, which it follows on the map; no known market existed on it. Includes a circa 1893 photo looking east from N. 2nd Street.
George B. Anderson was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on September 18, 1872, as a replacement extra man with Engine Company 2 . He filled the position left by William S. Davis , who had been promoted to Engineer.
My grandmother and grandfather were the owners of the store at 941 Point Street . My father was his son… his name was Francis Hull Rittenhouse . He worked at Mathis Shipyard and so did my uncle John Rittenhouse .
Four Camden firemen were injured when their engine collided with a tractor-trailer at 2nd and Market streets while answering a false alarm; the truck driver was charged with failure to yield to a fire apparatus.
John J. Moore's advertisement in the 1956 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory for 600 Point, Camden, under the line "Where Old Friends Meet," offering steak sandwiches and food and liquors.
John J. Moore's establishment at 600 Point Street, Camden, advertised steak sandwiches and food and liquors in the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory, under the line "Where Old Friends Meet."
Fire alarm log for Camden, midnight Saturday to midnight Sunday, February 1, 1954, including a call at 1069 Diamond Street for a possible careless smoker.
Leonard Buffetta, 32, of 604 Point Street, a World War II veteran and supermarket checker, was found dead in a field near Timber creek in Bellmawr; police listed the death as suicide, the Camden Courier-Post reported on August 25, 1951.
Camden Courier-Post - July 8, 1950 By Wilbur Morse Jr. Petitions for highway safety measures or improvements usually come from adult individuals or organizations.
Air war hero Staff Sgt. William "Bill" Kelly was honored by more than 200 friends and neighbors at the First Ward Republican Club, 47 York Street, March 1944.
Harry Crothers, 45, of 705 Pearl Street, told Police Judge Lewis Liberman he was sitting peacefully in a taproom at Seventh and Birch Streets when John Albert Waite, of 318 Point Street, walked in.
Camden Courier-Post - February 4, 1933 John F. Rittenhouse , 53, store proprietor, of 941 Point Street , who died Thursday, will be buried Monday.
A one-year-old baby at 320 Point Street was treated at Cooper Hospital for second degree burns after upsetting a cup of hot coffee, the Camden Courier-Post reported on February 11, 1928.
Mayor Van Hart's June 1922 proclamation for a safe and sane Fourth of July, with Camden news of the ferryboat Millville, a Masonic funeral for William P. Weiser, and a divorce advised for Mrs. Margaret Jenkins of 1418 Louis Street.
Four Camden accidents reported January 20, 1919, including Emma Steck of 905 Point Street, hurt in a fall from a trolley car and taken to Cooper Hospital.
Philadelphia Public Ledger - October 31, 1918 GLADNEY - Oct. 30, GEORGE J. B. GLADNEY, aged 71. Relatives and friends invited to funeral services, Sat., 2 p. m., son's residence, Charles M. Gladney , 618 Point st. , Camden, N. J. Int. Harleigh Cem.
World War I service record card for Albert Chas. Thompson of 943 Point Street, Camden, inducted February 23, 1918, who served overseas with Co D 309 Infantry from May 20 to October 19, 1918, the date of his death.
Three men said to be employed at the Mathis shipyard were charged with stealing brass fittings from the houseboat Chieftain, built for Mr. Armour of Chicago.
1915 Patriotic Sons of America program advertisement for the Charles Stockham Lumber Co., a steam saw mill, planing mill and lumber yard at the Vine Street Ferry in Camden, established 1852.
Blaze discovered on the ill-fated steamboat General Slocum, by then a barge, at the John H. Mathis Shipbuilding Company wharf at the head of Point Street, Camden. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 10, 1910.
Billhead of The Fay Manilla Roofing Company, 516-18-20 Point Street, Camden, dated December 17, 1901, for 250 feet of Red Rope Roofing.
Charles Thomas of 1872 Milton Street and Patrick Hayes of 3 James Court, laborers for the Vulcanite Paving Company, were struck by a trolley car at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue but not seriously injured.
1896 advertisement for Fay's Manilla Roofing, established 1866, by W. H. Fay & Co. of Camden, N. J., offering a "No Tar" roofing also sold as a substitute for plaster.
A column of Camden news briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1895 — including fires at the homes of Albert Fleet and Samuel Harring, and the arrest of sneak thief Samuel Harmon, who tried to strip a clothes line in Policeman Schregler's own back yard.
![Envelope of The Fay Manilla Roofing Co., Camden, N.J., 1895, addressed to Mr. H. R. Van [?]uren, Fredon, New Jersey](https://assets.camdenhistory.com/2026/10/1793084589439-3e438170-point-0516-faymanilaroofing-1895-1b.jpg)
1895 business envelope of The Fay Manilla Roofing Co. of Camden, N.J., makers of building papers, made of Fay's Ceiling Manilla and addressed to Mr. H. R. Van [?]uren, Fredon, New Jersey.
The First Ward Republican Club elected its officers, with Harry T. Walker as president, and announced its first annual masquerade ball and a silver pitcher to be presented on New Year's Day to the best dressed New Year's club passing its rooms at Keyser's Hall, Point and York streets.
Camden Daily Courier, March 24, 1893: the funeral of fireman Charles G. Berry from his residence at 226 Point Street, with the mourners, floral tributes and pall bearers.
Camden Daily Courier, May 8, 1888: Policemen Peters and Anderson arrest John Stratton and Henry Mellon on suspicion of assaulting Joseph Logue near the city hall.
The 1872 edition of the Camden City Directory, published by Sinnickson Chew, contained 1,200 more names due to city growth and expansion, reflecting Camden';s increasing metropolitan character.