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Sheridan Street
Sheridan Street is a residential street in Camden, NJ named for Civil War General Philip Sheridan. It originally ran from Warsaw Street east to Davis Street, later extended to South 10th Street.
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Abraham Lincoln James
Abraham Lincoln James, commonly known as A. L. James or A. Lincoln James, was a career officer with the Camden Police Department, serving for 40 years.
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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.
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George Birch
George Birch was born on May 10, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father either passed away or abandoned the family, leaving George's mother, Katherine Halligan, an illiterate Irish immigrant, to raise him alone.
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Howell Street
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
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Camden County General Hospital
Besides Cooper , West Jersey , and Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Camden residents used other medical facilities over the years. Some, like the Municipal Hospital and Belleview Hospital, both long closed, were in the city limits.
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Marlton Avenue
Marlton Avenue in East Camden begins at Federal Street as an extension of State Street and runs east to the city limits; nearby houses were razed around 2006 for the new Thomas Dudley Elementary School.
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Riley Street
Riley Street ran south from Washington Street for one block to Berkley Street, with ten two-story brick rowhouses. City directories list residents from 1875, and by 1947 only four houses remained.
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Charles A. Reynolds - South Jersey: A History
This passage is excerpted from South Jersey: A History, 1624-1924 Charles Augustus Reynolds was born at Portsmouth, Virginia May 18, 1870, the son of George C. Washington and Augusta Ann Reynolds.
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Charles A. Reynolds
Charles Augustus Reynolds was a prominent figure in Camden, deeply involved in both business and civic affairs until his untimely death at the age of 54 in 1924.
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Beckett Street
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
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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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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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19th Street
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
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Remembering Camden - Casselman Family
A collection of remembrances by Catherine Casselman Greenhart, Camden High School Class of 1941. Dear Mr. Cohen, I grew up in Camden at 301 North Second Street .
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Ramona Gonzalez Street
Division Street runs across South Camden. In 1997, a portion of the street was renamed Ramona Gonzalez Street to honor a community leader; the remainder continues to be known as Division Street.
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Harry Gleason (via SABR)
by Jack Morris - Unknown date On the surface, Harry Gleason's career wasn't noteworthy. He played a total of 274 major-league games over five seasons with a career batting average of 0.218. He was an everyday starter in only one of those seasons.
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Baird Boulevard
Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
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West Jersey Hospital
Mount Ephraim Avenue at Atlantic Avenue This text is primarily from Camden County Medical Society 1846 - 1956 , published by the Camden County Medical Society, 1957.
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Charles T. Humes, Jr.
Charles Taylor Humes Jr. was born in Camden, New Jersey, to parents Charles T. and Mary Humes. At the age of four during the 1880 Census, he was the eldest child in the family, with his younger brother George born in 1879.
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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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Mickle Street
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
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Admiral Wilson Boulevard
Admiral Wilson Boulevard (US Route 30) runs from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Airport Circle, named after World War I naval hero Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Jr. of Camden — originally designated as Bridge Boulevard when it opened.
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Baring Street
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
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Arch Street
Arch Street ran from Delaware Avenue to North 5th Street between Federal and Market Streets in downtown Camden. Formerly known as Plum Street, it was home to Oetzel's Saloon, the Genova Cafe, the Collings Carriage Company, and the Camden Fire Department headquarters at 5th and Arch.
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Robert T. Abbott
ROBERT T. ABBOTT was born in Salem, New Jersey on March 21, 1869 to Benjamin P. Abbott and his wife, the former Beulah Horner.
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Kathryn H. Trado, Singer in Vaudeville
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 24, 1998 By S. Joseph Hagenmayer, Inquirer Correspondent. Kathryn Hamilton Trado , 88, a 1930s and 1940s vaudeville singer heralded as "Camden's own," died Wednesday at West Jersey Hospital-Camden .
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Seven People Killed, 2 Injured in Camden Row House Blaze
An early morning fire engulfed a rowhouse at 900 North 28th Street on April 20, 1987, killing seven people including four young children and leaving another child in critical condition. Camden County Prosecutor Samuel Asbell blamed careless smoking; city fire officials disagreed with that finding.
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Fire Rips E. Camden Home, Leaving 4 Youngsters Dead
Four children of Mrs. Geraldine Binder died in a 20-minute fire at 433 Garden Avenue in East Camden; Battalion Chief Thomas Blair said all four appeared to have died of smoke inhalation and that the blaze likely started near the living room couch.
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An interim report: 16,422 dinners to go
Alonzo Gristle's "Eating Out" column in the Camden Courier-Post, May 5, 1973, written as an open letter to Zenon Bubnoski, proprietor of Bruno's Cafe and Restaurant at 1421 Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
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Camden Man Dies After Car Injury
John Ramotowski, 59, of 1145 Whitman Avenue died of a cerebral hemorrhage in West Jersey Hospital after being struck by a car at Tenth and Atlantic Avenues. Camden Courier-Post, January 24, 1972.
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Mrs. Julia A. Galm
Obituary for Mrs. Julia A. Galm, 75, of 2032 Arlington Street. Survived by five sons, two daughters, three sisters, 20 grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Requiem Mass at Sacred Heart Church.
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Mrs. Mary E. Dukes
Obituary of Mrs. Mary E. Dukes, 76, of 1149 North 22nd Street, who died at West Jersey Hospital; burial at National Cemetery, Beverly.
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West Jersey Hospital Opened in City in 1885
Camden Courier-Post - May 14, 165 The recorded history of West Jersey Hospital dates from the opening of a small hospital at the northeast corner of 4th and Arch Streets , Camden, in the spring of 1885.
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Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office
A Camden fire pumper from Engine 1, answering a mattress fire, collided with an automobile and crashed through the front of an insurance office at Broadway and Pine Streets, injuring firemen, a passerby and the car's occupants and leaving the building condemned.
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Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto
A Camden fire engine driven by Fireman Isaac Muns collided with a car at Broadway and Pine Street and plunged into an insurance office on the corner, injuring two firemen, a woman waiting for a bus, the car's two occupants and a city worker shoring up the building.
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V. Raczykowski Dies at 78
Camden Courier-Post - January 1964 Vincent Raczykowski, 78, founder and owner of the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton Street, died Wednesday in West Jersey Hospital.
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Tetrachloride Fumes Sicken 3 Firemen
Three Engine Company 8 hosemen, including Clarence Hawkins of 1570 Park Boulevard, were sickened by fumes after police used a carbon tetrachloride extinguisher on a mattress fire on Walnut Street.
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Mrs. Mary Kroecker
Obituary for Mrs. Mary Kroecker of 1120 South Front Street, wife of Fred Kroecker, who died at West Jersey Hospital.
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Mrs. Helen L. Brewin
Obituary of Mrs. Helen L. Brewin, 64, of 613 Bailey Street, a lifelong Camden resident, Camden Courier-Post, May 1959.
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Bertram D. Zimmerman
Obituary of Bertram D. Zimmerman, 57, of 2412 Howell Street, a stationary fireman at the Camden Courthouse, who died at West Jersey Hospital in March 1959.
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Mrs. Marie E. Simon Dies at 68; Beloved 'Mayor of Fogarty Ave.'
Mrs. Marie E. Simon, 68, of 20 Fogarty Avenue, known to an earlier generation of Camden newspapermen as "Mame Kenney" and to her neighbors as the "Mayor of Fogarty Ave.," died at West Jersey Hospital in February 1959.
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Cleaner Plant Blast Injures Fire Captain
Fire Capt. Leonard Garbrecht of Engine Company 3 was hospitalized with head injuries when the door of a dry cleaning tumbler blew off during a fire at the Mechanics Overall Service plant, 2201 S. 8th Street. Camden Courier-Post, December 23, 1958.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
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Mrs. Anna Kennedy
Mrs. Anna Kennedy, 41, of 537 Birch Street, died in West Jersey Hospital. She had been a resident of Camden for 30 years. Services at the LeRoy R. Wooster Funeral Home, Atco.
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Two N. Camden Men Attacked by Thugs
Two North Camden men, including Joseph Packer of 621 Grant Street, reported being attacked in separate street assaults in December 1957.
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S. Camden Man Hurt By Hit-Run Driver
Herman O'Neal, 41, of 139 Spruce Street was seriously injured on Kaighns Avenue near Locust Street by a hit-and-run driver; Det. Sgt. Joseph Hooven of the accident division described the car sought.
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Boy, Girl Struck on Trestle
John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14, and his sister Karen, 9, of 1121 Orchard Street were killed in December 1957 by a Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines train on the trestle over Mechanic and Louis streets; witnesses said the boy died trying to pull his sister off the tracks.
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Hospital Cases
West Jersey and Cooper hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of May 21, 1956, including Clarence Chapman, 65, of 739 Kaighns Avenue, treated for a cut head.
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Hospital Cases
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 15, 1956, including Christine Whye of 1017 Kaighns Avenue, treated for dog bites of the face.