Tag: Sarah D. Wolverton
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Charles A. Wolverton
Charles Anderson Wolverton was born in Camden, NJ in 1880 to Charles S. Wolverton and Martha Anderson Wolverton. In 1880, Charles S. Wolverton worked as a steamboat pilot, and the family lived at 313 Birch Street in North Camden. By the mid-1880s, the family had moved to 66 Vine Street, and Charles’ brother Walter P.…
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Walt Whitman Acclaimed as ‘International Prophet’
Camden Courier-Post – June 1, 1939 Wescott Recalls Friendship with Poet at Ceremonies Here Marking 120th Anniversary of his birth; Donaldson Tells of Buggy Gift Acknowledged by the world as the poet of democracy, Camden’s own Walt Whitman was acclaimed here yesterday on the 120th anniversary of his birth as the “prophet of a new…
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Salvation Army Names Lippincott
Camden Courier-Post – June 24, 1933 Camden Unit Makes Real Estate Broker Chairman of Advisory Boards Earl R. Lippincott, real estate broker, has been named chairman of the advisory board of the Camden unit of the Salvation Army, succeeding William D. Sayrs. Elections of officers for the group were held yesterday following a luncheon meeting…
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400 Friends Pay Homage to ‘Good Gray Poet’
Camden Courier-Post – June 1, 1933 Men and Women From Many Sections Visit Walt Whitman’s Tomb and Old Mickle Street Home on His 114th Anniversary. By Frank Sheridan “It’s just a little street where old friends meet.” That’s Mickle Street where Walt Whitman, the “Good Gray Poet,” once lived, and old friends came back here…