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Walter James Aloysius Stanton Jr. was born on September 27, 1893, to Walter Stanton and his wife, Elizabeth Kelly. Walter Sr., a prominent baseball player in Camden, lived with his family at 318 Berkley Street in 1900, where he worked as a butcher.
Walter James Aloysius Stanton Sr. was born in March of 1867 to James and Emma Stanton. The 1870 Census shows the family residing in what was then Camden's South Ward, providing a glimpse of their early life in the city.
Nearly 2,500 costumed revelers attended the Ambassador Club's annual masked Halloween dance at Convention Hall, where more than 200 newsboys dressed as "Popeye" and vaudeville star Walter J. A. Stanton served as master of the fete. Camden Courier-Post, October 31, 1931.