People
George E. Schultz Jr.
Officer George E. Schultz Jr. (1942–1969) joined the Camden Police Department in November 1968 and was killed by a gunman on July 5, 1969 at the age of 26, alongside his Academy classmate Officer Charles Sutman.
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Sycamore Street
People
Walter Edgerton
Walter Edgerton (1854–1930), Camden professional boxer who fought as "Kentucky Rosebud." A featherweight who boxed professionally from 1886 to 1921, fought featherweight champion George Dixon, and won a bout past age 60.
Streets
11th Street
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
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Rose Street
Rose Street is a small street in the Whitman Park neighborhood that runs parallel to Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Sycamore Street south to Everett Street.
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10th Street
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
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Clover Street
Clover Street is a one-block street running from Sycamore Street to Kaighn Avenue, parallel to South 8th Street.
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Kaighn Avenue
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
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Linden Street
Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden; large portions were demolished for the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers University and the toll plaza.
People
Alexander Wilson
Alexander Wilson was born in Pennsylvania in 1847, according to the 1870 Census. By that time, he lived in Camden's South Ward, worked as a hotel waiter, and boarded with Eliza Williams. He was single at the time.
People
Charles M. Gladney
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.
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Erie Street
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.
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Boyer Street
Boyer Street, also known as Boyer Court, was a half-block dead-end street running east from Nelson Street in South Camden. Eight brick homes on the north side were built in the early 1890s and demolished after World War II for industrial development.
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Baxter Street
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
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Maurice Street
Maurice Street, formerly Ann Street, runs south from Mount Vernon Street to Kaighn Avenue in Camden, site of the Wesley A.M.E. Church at Sycamore Street.
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Alder Street
Alder Street, also known as Ann Street, was a small street in South Camden between South 9th and South 10th Streets. Both blocks were obliterated by the construction of Interstate Route I-676.
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Sycamore Street
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
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Albert Court
Albert Court, also called Albert Place, ran west from Haddon Avenue below Sycamore Street and has no listings in the 1924 or 1947 city directories. Includes a 1932 Courier-Post article on little-known city streets.
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Kossuth Street
Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.
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Cox Street
Cox Street ran west from 1119 South 2nd Street for about half a block to a dead end, roughly opposite Sycamore Street; it first appeared in City Directories in 1890 and was renamed Sycamore Street around 1922, then erased after World War II as part of a redevelopment plan.
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State Street
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.
Banks
Camden National Bank
1123 Broadway (Broadway and Sycamore Street), Camden, NJ Established in 1885, the Camden National Bank opened at 259 Kaighn Avenue on August 13, 1885. Zophar C. Howell was the first President.
People
Rabbi Naftoly Riff
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
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Royden Street
Royden Street , which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681-82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street .
People
George O. Addison
GEORGE OWENS ADDISON , the son of William H. Addison and his wife, the former Pheobe Ann Drew, was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey on December 4, 1853.
People
Vincent Ariel Tydeman
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
News Articles
Camden Reaches Deadly Milestone
A 41-year-old city man was found dead near Sycamore and Clover streets, making him the 11th homicide victim of the month and matching a deadly milestone last seen in July 2004.
Fire Department
Busy 24 Hours in Camden NJ
Camden firefighters worked four all-hands fires and two second alarms over a 24-hour tour in June 2006, culminating in an explosion and collapse at 620 Sycamore Street where a badly burned woman was rescued from the second floor.
Historical Accounts
My Camden Heritage
I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.
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Funeral Rites Held For Cops Killed By Gunman
Funeral services for two rookie Camden policemen gunned down in a senseless killing early last Saturday morning, July 5, were held for one Wednesday and the other will be held today.
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2 Men Given 6 Months on Theft Counts
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an auto battery and $5 of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright testified in the gasoline case.
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Police Investigate 3 Fires in 4 Hours In One Section
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
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Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses published in the Camden Courier-Post, November 17, 1949, including Russell E. Mattson of 333 North 38th Street and Ruth M. MacDonald of 46 North 33rd Street.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital admission report from West Jersey and Cooper hospitals, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940 — among those treated, Charles Neff of 39 North Thirty-third Street and May Davis of 1146 Clover Street.
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Elkton Marriage Licenses — Shannon and Dyer
Marriage license notice for Philip Shannon of 137 North 11th Street and Genevieve Dyer of 139 North 11th Street, Camden, published February 22, 1938.
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Man Gets 4 Months for Saloon Entry
John H. Fagen was sentenced to four months for breaking into a South Second Street saloon "just to buy a drink." In the same court session Policeman Earl Wright testified against Earl Bundy in a liquor case.
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Bathtub Gin Maker Is Held for Court
Police Judge Lewis Liberman held Earl Bundy without bail after detectives testified he was making bathtub gin in his home at 824 Sycamore Street. The court also dismissed charges against two youths accused of coat theft, and fined Francis Murtagh of 117 North 34th Street for reckless driving.
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12 Questioned, 2 Men Held in Murder Probe
Camden police under Chief Arthur Colsey opened a city-wide hunt for the bandits who shot Detective William T. Feitz four times in the back when he surprised a holdup of 20 persons in a house at 243 Sycamore Street.
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First Camden National Bank & Trust Co. (advertisement)
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 18, 1932 listing the directors and officers of the First Camden National Bank & Trust Co., with F. Morse Archer as president, and its offices at Broadway & Sycamore, Broadway & Cooper, and 223 Market Street in Philadelphia.
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Man Hurt, Driver Held
George Cassidy of 216 Sycamore Street was cut about the head, lip and wrist in a collision at Second and Penn streets. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton arrested the driver, Marshall Reinheimer, for failing to show a registration card.
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Records Altered, Court Rebukes Cop
Police Judge Pancoast rebuked Patrolman Charles Smith for altering a complaint and warrant, striking a youth's name from the record, and found the two remaining defendants not guilty.
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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2 Boys Nabbed Here for Carrying Pistols
Two boys were held by police and charged with carrying concealed .38 calibre revolvers after detectives found them loitering near the Sears-Roebuck Company on Bridge Entrance road.
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Cases Treated at Homeopathic
Cases treated at the Homeopathic Hospital in Camden on October 28, 1922, including William May, 48, of 2110 Berwick Street, treated for lacerations of the elbow.
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Herbert Lamb Charged With Assault and Battery
Herbert Lamb of 741 Baxter Street held under $500 bail by Recorder Stackhouse on a charge of assault and battery on James Buck of 716 Sycamore Street.
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Stole to Buy Funeral Garb
Harry Cross and Herbert Lamb of 741 Baxter Street admit stealing iron pipe from Charles W. Moore to afford clothes for a sister's funeral.
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Hit by Thrown Brick, Camden Youth May Die
Meyer Pinsky, 16, of 1415 Kaighn Avenue, was struck on the head by a brick thrown in a street fight at Ann and Sycamore streets and taken to Cooper Hospital in critical condition.
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Camden House Raided
A squad of Camden policemen in charge of Captain Stanley raided 768 Sycamore Street, taking alleged proprietress Ada Stevenson and four witnesses into custody and confiscating a quantity of beverages.
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Seven Raids Disturb Camden Churchgoers
Camden police made seven simultaneous raids in the Tenderloin district on a Sunday morning, arresting twenty-three persons accused of selling liquor without a license. The raids were directed by Police Captain Arthur Stanley.
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Four Young Men Said to Have Confessed Thefts
Four men, including Charles Young of 233 Beckett Street, were arrested for confessing to robbing the S. C. Childs Company warehouse at the foot of Walnut Street.
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Defends His Shooting Man
Roland Taylor, alias Evans, is held without bail on a murder charge preferred by Detective Schregler after fatally shooting David Green on Sycamore Street.