Frank J. Carver
Rank: Corporal, U.S. Army
Service Number: 1177177
Unit: 40th Aero Squadron
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Buried at: Calvary Cemetery, Route 70, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Corporal Frank J. Carver was born in 1886 to John and Eleanor “Ella” Carver Jr. He grew up on Federal Street in what was the town of Stockton, which became East Camden in 1899. The Carvers lived with grandfather John Carver Sr., who came from Philadelphia and founded a packing box manufacturing business in Stockton in the 1870s. The family was living at 1542 Federal Street as early as 1887.
When the census was taken in 1910, John Carver had retired, sons Frank and Barnard worked as morocco finishers in Camden’s leather industry, while daughter Kate was a church organist, and Marie, the youngest, worked as a saleslady in a shoe store. When the 1914 City Directory was compiled the Carver family still lived at 1542 Federal Street in East Camden, and they were still there as late as June of 1917. Not long afterwards, the Carvers moved to 67 South 29th Street.
Frank J. Carver enlisted in the Army Aviation Corps at the age of 31 on December 1, 1917. He was sent to Fort Slocum, NY, where he was assigned to the 30th Aero Squadron on December 20. After training there he was sent to Camp Greene, NC, after which he was again transferred, this time to the 40th Aero Squadron at Hempstead, NY, on Long Island, on August 1, 1918.
Corporal Frank J. Carver died of pneumonia at Hempstead, NY on October 21, 1918. He was survived by his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Carver, and siblings.
Camden Athlete Badly Wounded in France
Philadelphia Inquirer —
CAMDEN ATHLETE BADLY WOUNDED IN FRANCE
One of eight orphan children, William Gooch, an East Camden boy widely known in athletic circles, has been severely wounded in France, a dispatch to that effect being received yesterday by a relative, Mrs. Mary Hart, of 209 North Ninth street. Private Gooch lived at 67 South Twenty-ninth street and enlisted in the heavy field artillery last December. He trained at Camp Greene, N. C., and has been in France several months with Bern and Frank Carver, East Camden chums.
Gooch was with the Sixteenth Field Artillery. He is a football and basketball player of local prominence and was widely known in East Camden.
New Jersey State Archives Record
New Jersey State Archives records for Frank J. Carver.
Honor Roll Card
Camden County World War I Honor Roll card for Frank J. Carver.