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Barton Lane was born in Camden in November 1840 to James S. and Mary Lane. His father was a bookbinder. The Lane family moved to Camden shortly after the birth of Barton's older brother, James M. Lane, and they were in town for the 1840 Census.
Frank S. Van Hart was born in 1875 in Pennsylvania but relocated to Camden during his youth. Renowned as an athlete from a young age, he gained widespread recognition as one of the finest second basemen in South Jersey.
Harry Gilbert Gleason was born on March 28, 1875, in Camden, New Jersey, to William Gleason and Ellen Mars Ivins, making him the eighth child among ten siblings in the Gleason family.
CHARLES L." SHAD" ALCOTT was born in New Jersey around 1857. The Census indicates July of 1858. Sorting him out can be confusing as there was a Charles M. Alcott, born February of 1857, who lived in Camden at the same time.
Camden Courier-Post - October 1, 1930 'Grandfather of Baseball in Camden' Stricken With Indigestion Camden's "Grand Old Man of Baseball" is dead.
The Springfield Republican tells its readers that Edward Danny Green, a favorite of the old Eastern league Springfield team, is now an inmate of the Camden county hospital at Blackwood, his condition traced to a pitched ball that struck him in 1912.
The Washington Evening Star reports that Edward Danny Green, once among the leading outfielders in the major leagues, is an inmate of the Camden County Hospital at Blackwood, and recounts how Jim Callahan and two Camden policemen, Wright Cox and Al Keaser, arranged his care.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Camden's 1906 season will run longer than ever, closing Saturday with the regular Camden team against a picked team of major leaguers. Receipts go to a benefit fund for Ike Toy, and an exhibition of association football will also be played.
The Philadelphia Inquirer previews the Ike Toy benefit game at the Camden grounds, where the regular Camden team will face a picked team of the "prides of Camden" then playing in the big leagues, including Conroy, the Gleasons, Green, Lennox, Steelman, Verga, Fischman and Bob Black.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Camden will close its 1906 season with a benefit game for Ike Toy, a popular Camden ball player of the early 1890s who is seriously ill. The Camden players will be opposed by a team of local men then playing in the various leagues, among them Wid Conroy, Kid Gleason, Danny Green and "Farmer" Steelman.