Henry B. Hanford
HENRY B. HANFORD was born in Connecticut around 1846. He was living in Beverly NJ as early as 1870, and engaged in the shoe business. He appears to have come to Camden around 1889, and is listed in the 1890–1891 City Directory as living at 517 Penn Street and being in the shoe business in Philadelphia. He later went into the rubber trade. Whatever line of business he was endeavoring in, he certainly was successful, and by 1900 and until his death in the 1910s, he lived in a fine mansion at 633 Cooper Street, adjacent to that of insurance executive J. Lynn Truscott. This house had previously been the residence of prominent Camden attorney Howard M. Cooper. The 1914 Camden City Directory shows that he was president of a freight delivery company known as Potter Express Company. Funeral director Bernhard F. Schroeder was vice-president of this firm, which was located on Delaware Avenue at Cooper Street.
H.B. Hanford married around 1887. His wife, New Jersey-born Alice B. Hanford, was quite active in the Camden Day Nursery, serving as that organization’s president in the late 1920s.
627 & 633 Cooper Street
627 Cooper Street, designed by Arthur Truscott, for his brother, J. Lynn Truscott. Lawyer Howard M. Cooper lived at 633 Cooper Street in the 1890s, prior to H.B. & Alice Hanford.
Central Y.M.C.A. Directors Elected
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Directors for the reorganized Central Y. M. C. A., have been elected as follows: F. Wayland Ayer, H. B. Hanford, B. C. Reeve, T. I. Gifford, Schuyler C. Woodhull, James E. Taylor, Edward H. Seymour, Elmer E. Morton and G. Walter Preston. The board will soon elect permanent officers.
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Philadelphia Inquirer —
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** Judge Joline yesterday dismissed the petition of Judge Bergen in the assigned estate of Browning Brothers, in which he asked that the orders in the case be expunged from the records of the New Jersey courts. H. B. Hanford, the assignee, was ordered to hold the $60,000.
Judge Joline yesterday dismissed the petition of Judge Bergen in the assigned estate of Browning Brothers, in which he asked that the orders in the case be expunged from the records of the New Jersey courts. H. B. Hanford, the assignee, was ordered to hold the $60,000.
Grand Jury Drawn
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Grand Jury Drawn
Sheriff Corson, of Camden, yesterday drew his grand jury, acting in conjunction with Jury Commissioner Lennor. From the list of thirty-five names drawn Supreme Court Justice Garrison will eliminate twelve, the balance to constitute the jury. The list follows: William H. Fish, George H. Garland, Alonzo Wood, H. B. Hanford, Thomas W. Leeson, Conrad G. Hoell, Albert Austermuhl, John Allen, R. A. Rockhill, Hugo Koehler, F. Ketterer, Smith S. Fogg, Reuben H. Gaskill, W. B. M. Burrell, Charles S. Boyer, Ralph Williams, Chas. H. Laird, Jr., Raymond L. Warren, Charles Brower, Thomas J. McLaren, B. H. Brace, Samuel Bakley, Irvine Deakyne, Lemuel D. Horner, F. W. Ayer, Walter S. Wolf, George S. Dallas, John T. Blandy, Samuel Withers, Franklin Hawksworth, John K. Bennett, Frederick Lange, Ben Lawton, William A. Stewart and William D. Brown.
Day Nursery Managers To Be Tea Hostesses
Camden Courier-Post —
The annual June Tea at the Camden Day Nursery, 327 Stevens street, with the members of the Board of Managers, as hostesses, will be held on Wednesday afternoon, June 8. Mrs. Henry B. Hanford, the president of the board, will receive with the officers.
Mrs. George Taylor and Mrs. Eleanor Baylie are joint chairmen of the refreshment committee and Miss Emma MacNichol has charge of the decorations.