Introduction
Calvary Presbyterian Church — southeast corner of North 2nd & Pearl Streets. Illustration published in 1886; the building was then the North Baptist Church.
The church building at 2nd & Pearl Street was built by the North Baptist Church, which was organized on November 15, 1859. This building at North 2nd and Pearl Streets was dedicated on February 25, 1865. It was sold to the newly-organized Calvary Presbyterian Church, a split from the old First Presbyterian Church, in the summer of 1895, for $18,000. Calvary Presbyterian Church occupied this site until June of 1924, when the building was acquired for use in the construction of the Delaware River Bridge, later renamed as the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. This building is still in use as a church today.
Spooner
Philadelphia Inquirer —
SPOONER.—On the evening of March 17, 1899. Hattie Melissa, wife of the Rev. A. W. Spooner, D. D., pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church, aged 40 years. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, on Monday afternoon, March 20, at 2 o’clock, at her husband’s residence. 414 North Second Street, Camden, N. J. Interment private.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
CAMDEN NEWS NOTES
Local Hebrews are asking for contributions for the erection of a synagogue.
County Clerk Patterson and Justice Barr yesterday swore into office the newly elected Freeholders.
Charles Thompson, aged 67 years, died at his home, 323 Market Street, yesterday.
The congregation of the Calvary Presbyterian Church will hold a meeting to-night when in all probability a pastor will be selected to succeed Rev. Arthur W. Spooner, resigned.
Rev. James Winchester, of St. Louis, Mo., who was invited to become the rector of St. Paul’s P. E. Church, has advised the vestry that he cannot accept.
Praise Motion Picture Censorship
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden men of prominence are sending letters commending Prosecutor Boyle and Mayor Ellis in their expressed intention of exercising some censorship over the moving pictures which came about as a result of Frederick Coursey, recently convicted of the murder of Karl Kellman, declaring a Wild West picture was the incentive for his crime. Yesterday Rev. Samuel D. Price, pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church, and one of the most prominent of that denomination in South Jersey, sent a letter to the Mayor expressing his gratification over the proposed censorship. He urges that City Council adopt an ordinance prohibiting the showing of such pictures as show crime in any way. See also: Carl F. Kellman. Click image for full article PDF.
Church Building at 2nd & Pearl Street — 1943
Church building at 2nd & Pearl Street, 1943. The building was then the home of the Faith Baptist Church.