James T. Dougherty
Private, U.S. Army
32078590
Medical Department
Oaklyn, New Jersey
Died: February 7, 1943
Missing in Action — Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing
East Coast Memorial
New York City, New York
Awards: Purple Heart
Introduction
Private James T. Dougherty was born in 1911 to Dennis and Catherine Dougherty. His father worked as a farm laborer, and the family lived in Cinnaminson, New Jersey before moving to 832 Cinnaminson Avenue, Palmyra, New Jersey. He attended Palmyra High School. In 1927 he started working for the Union News Company’s news stand at the ferry terminal in Camden, where he was well known to the commuters who used the ferry. He had wed, and with his wife Marion, lived at 70 Harding Avenue in Oaklyn, New Jersey. Marian Dougherty worked as a teacher at Collingswood Junior High School.
James Dougherty was inducted into the United States Army in August of 1942. He was listed as missing in action on February 7, 1943, and this was reported in the March 12, 1943 edition of the Camden Courier-Post. He was declared dead by the Army in August of 1943. James Dougherty was survived by his wife, parents, four sisters, and two brothers.