CHARLES C. "CHAUNCEY" MOFFETT was in the restaurant business in Camden as early as 1869 then became involved in politics. He was a member of City Council in 1878, a Camden County Freeholder, and in his last years was the janitor at Camden's City Hall.

Charles Moffett lived in Philadelphia in the 1850s. His son, Henry C. Moffett, who would serve as a detective with the Camden Police Department for 15 years, was born in 1858.  Charles Moffett brought the family to Camden by 1869, settling in a two-story frame home in the 300 block of Liberty Street, a few doors away from Memorial Methodist Protestant Church, where Boston Corbett had been pastor in 1867. City Directories state that Charles C. Moffett ran an "eating saloon". He was also politically active, and was elected to the Camden City Council in 1871 and to the Camden County Board of Freeholders in 1878.

After his term as Freeholder expired, Charles C. Moffett  took his family to Kansas and tried farming. The 1880 Census shows the Charles C. Moffett, wife Susan and children Henry C., Ida, Clara, Walter, and Rachel Moffett living in Kirwin, Kansas. He brought his family back to New Jersey shortly after the Census was taken, and by the time the 1881 City Directory was compiled, the family was back on Liberty Street. Charles C. Moffett and family are shown at 306 Liberty Street up to 1878, in Kansas in the 1880 Census, and at 304 Liberty Street from 1881 through 1887. This may have been the same house, as Sanford maps show that the house numbering was irregular in the 1870s and 1880s.

Charles C. Moffett was appointed by City Council to the position of Janitor at Camden's City Hall in December of 1887. He began work on February 1, 1888. Susan Moffett passed away in 1896, and joined her on July 11, 1897. Sadly, daughter Clara Moffett took her own life on December 7, 1897. The Moffets were still living at 304 Liberty Street as late as 1910, when daughter Rachel Moffett Tomlin passed away.