Introduction
DANIEL H. SHARP was a builder who was active in Camden in the 1900s and early 1910s. He is most noted for building Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church on South 4th Street and several school buildings outside of the city, including Oaklyn, Palmyra, and Gloucester City.
Daniel Sharp was born in Pennsylvania in December 1875. He came to Camden in the 1890s, working as a carpenter. The 1898 and 1899 City Directory and the 1900 Census shows him following that trade, and residing at 1250 Locust Street. At the time of the Census three siblings, Grace, John, and Maggie, also lived at the Locust Street address.
The 1906 Camden City Directory lists Daniel H. Sharp living at 223 North 8th Street, and conducting his business at 225 Market Street.
The April, 1910 Federal Census reveals that Daniel Sharp had married Rose Turner around 1903. The family, which included children Daniel Jr., 11 months, and Geraldine, 2 years, lived at 223 North 8th Street. Also residing at that address were his in-laws, Thomas and Ellen Turner, and their two unmarried daughters, Katherine and Sarah Turner. The 1910–1911 City Directory shows his place of business to have then been at 39 North 3rd Street.
In 1913 Daniel Sharp’s business appears to have failed. Troubles included a lawsuit filed by an injured employee, which resulted in a large judgment. He was in bankruptcy court in 1914, by which time he appears to have moved from Camden.
Ad from 1906 Telephone Directory
Named: Advertisement from the 1906 Telephone Directory: Daniel H. Sharp, General Millwrighting, Contractor and Builder, 225 Market Street, Camden, New Jersey, Eastern Phone 1182A, and Estimates Furnished..
Palmyra School Cornerstone Laid
Woodbury Daily Times —
The corner stone for Palmyra’s new public school house was laid Monday. The new school was designed by Charles R. Peddle, of Woodbury, and is being built by Daniel H. Sharp, of Camden. The cost, including the lot, will be about $33,500, for which bonds will be issued, payable $1000 each year. The building will be of Holmesburg granite up to the first floor and the upper stories of brick. There will be a large auditorium, on the third floor, and 11 class rooms, a principal’s room, 2 teachers’ rooms and library on the main floors. The basement will have 2 lunch rooms, 2 locker rooms, a storage room and boiler room.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
** Announcement was made yesterday that Bishop McFaul had assigned Rev. Father Gibelin, of Cleveland, as an assistant to Rev. Dean B. J. Mulligan, pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, to succeed Rev. P. J. Morrissey, who has gone to Pittsfield, Mass.
** Attacked by a dog while on her way to school, Laura Toomey, 10 years old, of 1632 South Sixth street, had one of her legs lacerated by the canine’s teeth.
** A contract was filed with County Clerk Patterson yesterday by Daniel Sharp for the erection of a two-story brick school for Oaklyn. It will cost $16,690.
** Frank Hall, 63 years old, of Lawnside, was found dead in bed yesterday. Coroner Litchfield giving a certificate of death as being due to heart disease.
** Apparently fatally stricken with paralysis, George Rogers, 68 years old, of Kirkwood, fell unconscious on a trolley car on Market street, yesterday. He was rushed to the Cooper Hospital and placed in the receiving ward. He was left temporarily by the nurse, who went to summon a physician. When they returned Rogers had disappeared.
Big Damages for Laborer
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Bringing suit under the Employers’ Liability act against Daniel Sharp, a Camden contractor and builder, Edward K. Wagner, of Haddonfield, was yesterday given an order by Judge Boyle in Camden for $10 a week for a period of 400 weeks. While working for Sharp on a building operation on January 2 Wagner was jammed in an elevator, sustaining injuries which confined him to the hospital for fifty-three days. His skull, nose and jaws were fractured, his face crushed in and one eye driven back into his brain, and his recovery amazed the hospital surgeons.
Watches Differed, Suit May Result
Philadelphia Inquirer —
GLOUCESTER CITY, N. J., Jan. 8.—Losing out by a minute after a wild rush in an automobile from Camden to this city this afternoon, Garfield Pancoast, a Camden attorney and Assemblyman-elect, threatens to enter contempt proceedings against John T. Wright, the sergeant-at-arms of the Camden District Court, for conducting a sale at the new Broadway Schoolhouse today. Pancoast claims that he arrived on the ground at a minute of two o’clock. Wright claims that it was a minute after two and that the sale, which consumed a minute, had taken place. The courts may decide which watch was right and whether the sergeant-at-arms was in contempt of court in holding the sale a minute ahead of time and not recognizing a writ staying the proceedings issued by S. C. Ott, referee in bankruptcy.
Attorney William F. Kelly, of the firm of Kelly & McDonald, of Camden, this afternoon at 1.30 filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy proceedings in Trenton for Daniel Sharp, a Camden contractor, who has just finished the new school. The sale was under this proceeding. The petition in bankruptcy sets forth that the liabilities of Sharp are about $38,000 and the assets about $10,000.
Garfield S. Pancoast – William F. Kelly – Daniel Sharp
Camden News in Brief
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Members of Council’s Fire Commission are satisfied with the test given the new motor fire engine.
Referee in Bankruptcy S. Conrad Ott yesterday discharged Wesley Gredmore as trustee for the National Envelope Company. The creditors received a total dividend of 26 per cent. of their claims.
Charged with kicking 12 year-old Sarah Watson in the stomach, necessitating the child’s removal to Cooper Hospital, Mrs. Emma Watson, her sister-in-law, of 1220 Broadway, was committed to jail by the Recorder.
Rather an unusual condition of affairs confronted Referee in Bankruptcy S. Conrad Ott in Camden yesterday when the proposition came up for searching for assets in connection with the business of Daniel Sharp, a builder. Creditors representing claims amounting in the aggregate to $26,000 were asked to guarantee the cost of such an examination. When this was made known just $5 was guaranteed, the cost will amount to fifty times that much.
Demanding 45 per cent. of what her husband’s weekly wage would have been for 400 weeks, Mrs. Abbie Baxter, of 3755 Old York road, Philadelphia, yesterday began suit in the Camden Circuit Court against the Atlantic City Railroad Company. Herbert Baxter, her husband, was employed as a brakeman. On August 25 last he was crushed to death at Atlantic City.
Responding to an alarm of fire at the home of Allan Palmer, 1205 Sewell avenue, the East Side truck company yesterday collided with the team of George Dunlap at Twenty-fourth and Federal streets. The fire, caused by a match being thrown into a hamper, caused damage of about $400.