People
A. Wesley Faust
Ambrose Wesley "Wes" Faust served with the Camden Fire Department from 1951 to 1961, and later became a police sergeant with New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, where he died on duty in 1977.
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People
Walter D. Eastlack
Walter Dayton Eastlack (1889–1964) was a Camden firefighter who served 29 years with the Camden Fire Department, from his appointment on March 3, 1925 to his retirement on March 15, 1954.
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Point Street
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.
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Carman Street
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
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Larch Street
A small street running from 708 North 2nd Street east to North 8th Street, between State and Vine Streets, in Camden, New Jersey.
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29th Street
29th Street runs from the Delaware River south across River Road to the Pavonia railroad yards, then from Pleasant Street to Westfield Avenue and from Federal Street to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
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Bailey Street
Bailey Street appears to be named for real estate developer William T. Bailey, who was responsible for building rows of homes between North 5th and North 6th Streets on State, Grant, Bailey and York Streets.
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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.
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Front Street
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
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Main Street
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.
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4th Street
Fourth Street, one of Camden's original streets, ran with few interruptions from Chelton Avenue in South Camden north to Pyne Point in North Camden. City-directory records, photographs, advertisements and newspaper clippings for every block from the 2000 block of South 4th Street to the 1000 block of North 4th Street.
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2nd Street
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
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Vine Street
Vine Street in North Camden, NJ, one of the city's tree streets, once ran to the Delaware River and the Cooper's Point Ferry; home to Holy Name Church.
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5th Street
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
People
Dan McConnell
Dan McConnell (born c. 1873, Pennsylvania) was a Camden lightweight boxer of the 1890s and early 1900s, managed by Oscar A. Eastlack, who later ran an oyster house at 125 Main Street in North Camden.
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Hospital Cases
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
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Man Hangs Self in North Camden
Raymond J. Kuntz, 35, a Standard Tank and Seat Co. worker who lived at 78 Vine Street, was found hanging in the cellar of his home by Mrs. Alice Martz of 603 North Front Street and his mother; Coroner Robert Blake listed his death as suicide.
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Life Hereabouts
Charley Humes's "Life Hereabouts" column of March 19, 1949, recalling Camden and Gloucester City's fight days — bouts at the Armory on Haddon Avenue and the ball park at Twelfth and Federal Streets — and the boxers, promoters and referees of the era.
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3 Bros. Markets
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
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Aged Man Ends His Life With Shot in Temple
Harry Lipp, 84, an old age pensioner who had boarded seventeen years at the home of city fireman William Getner at 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, ended his life with a revolver shot in a garage behind the house. Coroner Harry Leonard issued a certificate of suicidal death.
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Mrs. Annie M. Johnston
The Camden Courier-Post funeral notice of February 18, 1938 for Mrs. Annie M. Johnston, wife of Daniel A. Johnston, who died at her home at 904 Howard Street; requiem high mass at the Church of the Holy Name and burial in Calvary Cemetery.
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Leo P. Bridgeman
Funeral services for Leo P. Bridgeman, 32, of 425 Bailey Street, who died yesterday following a long illness, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Church of the Holy Name, Fifth and Vine streets.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
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3 Youths Jailed
Three youths, including Vincent St. John of 843 Grant Street, received suspended sentences for larceny of copper from the Highland Worsted Company.
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Camden Incorporations
Incorporation notice for the North Camden Young Republican Association, with principal office at 940 Linden Street and Sidney Liss as agent, February 1938.
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Reaches for 'Gun,' Two 'Bandits' Flee
Francis Drury, 66, scared off two youths who tried to hold him up on Eighth Street between Vine and State Streets by pretending to reach for a gun. Camden Courier-Post, October 27, 1936.
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Mrs. Rebbecca Leach Dies at Home Here
Mrs. Rebecca Leach, widow of former Fire Captain Daniel W. Leach, died at her home, 624 Bailey Street, less than two months after her husband.
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43 Camden Recruits Thrive In Chill Conservation Camp
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
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Camden Protected During Big Blaze
With all of Camden's apparatus at the Kaighn's Point conflagration, three off-duty firemen, Captain Clarence Madden and Firemen John Mulligan and George Garner, broke into the discontinued Fourth and Vine streets firehouse, drove its truck to headquarters at Fifth and Arch streets and stood by on call; Chief John H. Lennox commended them.
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Pensions Awarded 6 Cops, 17 Firemen
Pensions for six Camden policemen and 17 firemen took effect January 1, 1933, as proposed salary cuts prompted the requests; Inspector Charles T. Humes refused to withdraw his application.
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Murphy and Pedigree To End Long Service With Camden Police
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.
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Horses Bolt, Trample Three During School Pupils' Parade
Two horses pulling the Camden Catholic High School float bolted during the 1932 Flag Day school children's parade, plunging into spectators at Broadway and Federal street and injuring two women and a boy. More than 6000 school children marched before an estimated 75,000 persons.
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Camden Sleuths Nab Man for State Police
Camden Detectives Vernon Jones and Thomas Cheesman arrested Phillip Attardi of 320 Vine Street at Broadway and Line Streets on a charge of "on suspicion" after state police asked Camden police to look for him.
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Democrats to Hold Meetings Tonight
The campaign for A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local Democratic candidates, will be carried into six wards of the city and in seven communities of the county tonight.
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Charles Stockham Lumber Co.
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.
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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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Their Life's Work Ended
Death notices for two Camden octogenarians — Peter Wolverton, 80, of 615 North Front Street, father of former state senator Charles A. Wolverton, and John W. Cotner, 81, of Vine Street.
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Over in Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
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Death Lurked on a Camden Street
Harry J. Schaefer, a 22-year-old silk spinner, was shocked to death by a broken live wire on Tenth street above Market in Camden while spectators were afraid to free him.
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Licenses Transferred
A January 1897 Philadelphia Inquirer report of liquor license transfers granted by the Camden board, including Caroline Hoelzle's to John S. Smith, and Commissioner Cooper's complaint about Xavier Schnurr's fine before Mayor Westcott.
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New Buildings Going Up
Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.
Historical Accounts
The Year 1836 - Camden, NJ
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.