Introduction
George Harold Williams worked as a pharmacist in Camden for well over 40 years. Born in Pennsylvania on May 6, 1871 in Berwyn, Chester County, Pennsylvania, he appears in Camden in the 1900 Census, living at 331 North 4th Street, the corner of North 4th and Linden Street, where he boarded with his employer, the pharmacist Lewis H. Wilson Sr.
By 1904 George H. Williams had gone to work elsewhere, and made his home at 300 Kaighn Avenue, where he most likely also worked. He married Bertie Grace Stevenson 1906 or 1907, and with wife Bertie had two children, Grace and Flora. The 1908 Camden City Directory shows that 1908 Dr. Grant E. Kirk had hired George H. Williams to work as a pharmacist at 1801 Broadway. George Williams moved from 300 Kaighn Avenue to a house that Dr. Kirk apparently had an interest in at 1715 Broadway. The 1908 City Directory indicates that he had moved to 1715 Broadway, and was working as a “drug clerk.” This property appears to have been owned by Dr. Kirk, who was the son-in-law of noted Camden physician Dr. John Donges. Dr. Donges had began practicing medicine at 1801 Broadway around 1871, and his son-in-law made his home and practice at that site as early as 1897.
The 1911 City Directory shows George H. Williams as the manager of the pharmacy at 1801 Broadway. Dr. Kirk appears to have sold 1801 Broadway to George H. Williams in time for publication in the 1914 Directory. Dr. Kirk appears to have moved his offices, and perhaps his residence, to 1715 Broadway, where George H. Williams had lived, before later moving to Collingswood NJ.
George H. Williams would live at and conduct his pharmacy there until his death on December 21, 1941, his wife having preceded him in death in March of that year.
1801 Broadway
1801 Broadway — Where George H. Williams lived and worked from the 1910s through the early 1940s
Bus Hits Store, Hurls 4 Persons From Beds
Camden Courier-Post —
Window Hit by Bus and Girls Hurled from Beds
Wrecked bulk window in drug store of George H. Williams, 1801 Broadway, is shown in the above photo taken shortly after a Public Service bus, hit by an automobile, crashed into the building on the corner of Broadway and Ferry avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Williams and their daughters, Grace, 20 years old (in the upper oval), and Flora, 17 years old (in lower oval), were thrown from their beds by the force of the crash.
$2000 Damage to Building Estimated by Druggist; Driver Blames Accident on Another Automobile; Same Window Smashed Twice Before
Four persons were tossed from their beds shortly before 5 o’clock this morning when a Public Service bus caromed from a collision, tore its way across a sidewalk and buried its nose in the bulk windows of a Broadway drug store.
Damage of $2000 to the drug store of George H. Williams, located at 1801 Broadway, resulted from the crash. The Williams family live in an apartment on the second floor of the building on the southwest corner of Broadway and Ferry avenue. Williams, his wife, Elizabeth, and his two daughters, Grace, 20 years old, and Flora, 17 years old, simultaneously heard the crash of glass and experienced the sensation of being pitched onto the floors of their bedrooms.
The drug store proprietor said it was the third time his property has been damaged in collisions.
Earl Bogard, 24 years old, of 3175 Westfield Avenue, driver of the bus, which was bound for Woodbury, was alone in the vehicle. Although glass from two windows in the store and the windshield flew in all directions, Bogard escaped injury. He told detectives that he was driving south on Broadway and was about to cross Ferry avenue when an automobile proceeding west on the latter street struck the left side of the bus. Bogard said he lost control of the bus, which leaped across the sidewalk and into the store window. The car which had struck him continued on its way down Ferry avenue, Bogard declared.
Policeman Maurice DeNicoli, standing on the northeast corner of the intersection, witnessed the crash and remembered the license number of the car which disappeared down Ferry avenue. He communicated with detective headquarters and City Detective Rox Saponare later telephoned the Motor Vehicle department at the State House, Trenton.
Saponare said that the automobile was owned by John Salomi, of 221 Clementon road, Blenheim, who would be notified to appear at detective headquarters as soon as possible. Wrecking equipment of the Public Service company pulled the bus which was badly damaged from the storefront. Williams said that the entire front of the store was wrecked, as was also a row of telephone booths inside the store, which was torn from its fastenings. Workmen were making repairs this morning.
The store proprietor today recalled the wrecking of the same bulk window when a runaway horse crashed into it. A few months ago, a motorcycle, skidding on a slippery paving, leaped the sidewalk and smashed through the window.
Miss Grace Williams
Camden Courier-Post —
MISS GRACE WILLIAMS, of this city, whose marriage to Parker Long, of New York and Camden, will take place on Saturday, June 18, at Valley Forge, Pa., is the guest of honor at a shower and tea being given this afternoon by Mrs. W. Leonard Johnston at her home, Wedgewood Walk, Merchantville. Miss Flora Williams, the bride-elect’s sister, and Mrs. Herbert Tushingham, are assisting Mrs. Johnston.
Additional guests are Miss Norma Bachman, Miss Lorraine Houck, Miss Kathryn Mutzer, Miss Evelyn O’Neil, Miss Helen Rudolph, Miss Louise Sheaffer, Miss Edna Smith, Miss Adele Williams, Mrs. Robert Long, Mrs. Robert Miller, Mrs. John Richardson and Mrs. George Williams, of Camden; Miss Jessie Roach, of Collingswood; Mrs. William Hinchman, of Palmyra; Miss Harriet Serembus, Miss Frances Taylor, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary Ward, of Yeadon, Pa.; Miss Marion Baugh, of Paoli; Miss Alice and Miss Frances Graham, of Bar Harbor, Me.
Long-Williams
Camden Courier-Post —
The Long-Williams wedding at eleven o’clock will be followed by a reception at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Williams, 1801 Broadway. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Marion E. Long, of 1071 Langham avenue, and for the last few months has been making his home in New York.
Miss Williams, given in marriage by her father, is wearing a lovely pearl d’ange lace gown in ivory made entrain and with long tight-fitting sleeves. With it she wears a cap of seed pearls and a brief nose veil and carries a shower bouquet of white roses, lilies of the valley and baby’s breath.
Miss Flora W. Williams is her sister’s only attendant. She has chosen a light blue crepe frock with matching jacket, ribbon hat and slippers and carries pink roses and delphinium in an arm bouquet.
William Long is best man for the bridegroom.
Mr. Long and his bride will leave following the reception for Boston and after July 15 will be at home at 3432 “Ninety-first street, Jackson Heights, Long Island.