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Edward S. Hyde
Edward S. Hyde rose through the Camden Police Department from patrolman to acting chief, served as a Camden County Freeholder, and died in 1930.
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Samuel S. Elfreth
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Samuel S. Elfreth
Samuel S. Elfreth came into the world on August 13, 1845, born at 109 North 2nd Street in Camden, NJ, into the family of Samuel D. and Martha Elfreth.
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Charles Elfreth
Charles Elfreth, born in May 1849 in Camden, New Jersey, emerged as the third son of Samuel D. and Martha Elfreth, following elder brothers Jeremiah and Samuel Elfreth.
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Penn Street
Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. First listed in the 1867 city directory, it lost blocks to the expansion of Rutgers University and the building of Route 676.
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Railroad Avenue
Railroad Avenue ran from Kaighn Avenue to Jefferson Street in Camden. The page includes a 1906 Sanborn Map of its west side from Chelton Avenue to Bulson Street.
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First City Fire House Located at 5th and Arch
Fourth installment of Frank Sheridan's history of fire fighting in Camden, covering the Hook and Ladder and Steam Fire Engine companies organized in 1869, their equipment, 1886 rosters and pay, and the early chiefs of the paid department.
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On Keeping Chimneys Clean
First Act of Camden City Council, Over Century Ago, Was to Cut Down Fire Hazard By Way of Ordinance for 'Sweeps' By Ben Courter COMPARING Camden's fire-fighting equipment of today with what the city had when it was incorporated, 103 years ago, the wonder is that some of the fires did not wipe out the tiny community.
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Wright Cox Dies in His 66th Year
Wright Cox, a Camden fireman and policeman for more than 40 years, died in Homeopathic Hospital in his 66th year. His funeral was set for the Schroeder Funeral Chapel at 538 Broadway, with interment in Bethel Cemetery.
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Firemen of Long Service Receive Good Promotion
Fire Chief John A. Stockton resigned after thirty-one years of service and City Council chose Deputy Chief Peter B. Carter as his successor, setting off a general move up in the Camden Fire Department.
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North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked
Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.
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Firemen Trapped in Burning Store
Seven Camden firemen, six of them from the Kaighn Avenue house, fought their way out back to back when flames surrounded them in a fire that gutted three stores at 1118-1122 Broadway; Mrs. Tillie Sackett saved two small girls whose clothing had caught fire.
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Camden Justly Proud of Splendid Fire Department
A Philadelphia Inquirer feature of November 7, 1909 recounts Camden's fire companies from the volunteer Perseverance Fire Company of 1810 to the paid department of 1869, and describes its chiefs, equipment and houses.
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Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
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Plenty of Mix Ups Caused by Blaze
A slight fire at the Dunn Oil Cloth Works in South Camden badly burned Charles Hampton, and Fire Chief Elfreth's runaway carriage horse wrecked the Story Furniture Company awning and ran over Harry Haines, a blind fife player, in August 1906.
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Fireman in a Mix-Up
Charles Worthington Accuses Edgar Bolton of Assault Fireman Edgar Bolton , former foreman Engine Company No. 5 , of Camden, was arrested by Captain of Police Albert yesterday, on a charge of atrocious assault and battery preferred by Charles Worthington , a member of the same company.
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Eighteen New Firemen Named
City Council's Fire Committee named eighteen new firemen — Martin Carrigan among them — sixteen of whom would not report for duty until the new fire house was ready the following July.
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First Ward Club Had a Jolly Time
Annual Election and Feast of Fun Held Last Night Camden Courier-Post - January 12, 1904 Hospitality was rampant at the First Ward Young Republican Club last night. The occasion was the annual meeting.
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Camden's Pride Parades Before City's People
Camden's policemen and firemen make their first formal turnout in review, drilled to a military carriage; the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the procession, its officers, and the growth of the departments since 1862.
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Boys Playing With Matches Started a Big Fire
Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.
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Firemen Own Stockton
Gallant Laddies Celebrated Thanksgiving With a Parade Representative firemen from New Jersey and Pennsylvania owned the Town of Stockton yesterday and the Knights of the Golden Eagle joined them in the annual Thanksgiving demonstration of the Volunteer Fire Department of the town.
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Charles Berry's Funeral
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.