Jacob Naden

Mary Naden and her family operated a furniture and home furnishings business on Kaighn Avenue at Clover Street in Camden NJ for the better part of five decades. One son, Jacob Naden, also operated a second shop in East Camden on Federal Street at 24th Street in the 1930s and 1940s.

Born in Russia in 1900, Jacob Naden came to America in 1913. He married Mollie Visor in the early 1920s; however the marriage did not last, and he remarried. In 1924 he was living at 1025 Princess Avenue in Camden’s Parkside section. He wed shortly before the April 1930 census, and with wife Doris was living in a home at 3728 Terrace Avenue in Pennsauken NJ. He later returned to the Parkside section of Camden NJ, living at 1503 Baird Boulevard, near many other members of the Camden business community and Congregation Beth El. Jacob Naden was very learned in Jewish matters, and was active in civic affairs within the Jewish community. He was an active member of the Camden lodge of B’nai B’rith. By the mid-1960s he had moved his business to Riverside NJ.

The East Camden store was sold to the Hurley department store chain in the late 1940s. The Naden store on Kaighn Avenue remained in business as late as 1977. Jacob Naden passed away in 1972.

The building at 773–775–777 Kaighn Avenue was later occupied by South Jersey Store Fixtures.