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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.
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.
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.
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.
Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. First listed in the 1867 city directory, it lost blocks to the expansion of Rutgers University and the building of Route 676.
Camden Courier-Post - June 16, 1942 Institution Started Business at Second and Market Streets in 1812—16 Years before City Was Incorporated By Oscar Magnuson First Camden National Bank and Trust Co . is celebrating its 130th anniversary today.
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.
Camden Trenton Bureau Trenton, Jan. 31 - The name of Judge Samuel M. Shay , of the Camden County Court of Common Pleas, has been handed to Governor Moore as the choice of the Camden Democratic organization for prosecutor, succeeding Ethan Wescott .
Patrons and patronesses for the first military ball of the Camden Post No. 960, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to be held on Friday evening February 3 in the Elks auditorium, Seventh and Cooper Streets, are announced today.
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 27, 1918 F. Morse Archer , president of the National State Bank , is to direct the Camden drive for the war work fund.
John Walk, 21, of Philadelphia, was sentenced by Judge Boyle to fifteen months to seven years in State Prison for stealing a valuable lens from the Pelouze & Campbell store on Broadway; Detective Brothers captured him in Philadelphia.
John Topkins, alias Price, brought from Pittsburgh on requisition, pleaded guilty in Camden county court to aiding John Miller in burglarizing homes on Linden and Penn streets.
Captain Peter Carter of Engine Company No. 1 was named Deputy Chief after John A. Stockton's elevation to Fire Chief, and Kim Lee was sentenced for the burglary of Sig Schoenagle's store at 424 Federal Street.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
The Court of Chancery dismissed Mary E. Shaw's divorce suit against Policeman Albert Shaw and refused a divorce to Mrs. William Sand, wife of a Haddon avenue saloon keeper, on a charge of brutality.