John Holland
JOHN HOLLAND was born in Pennsylvania in June of 1840 to John W. and Ann Holland. The Holland family was living in Camden’s Middle Ward when the Census was taken in 1860.
John Holland married during the 1860s. When the Census was taken he was living in the Middle Ward of Camden with his wife, Mary and two children, George and Ella. He was then working at the local railroad depot.
John Holland was appointed to the Camden Fire Department as an extra man with Engine Company 2 on April 8, 1877. He was living at 423 Senate Street and was still in the employ of the railroad, as a driller. He was working as a flagman by the time the census was taken in 1880. At that time there were three children at home, Ella, 17; William, 10; and John W. Holland Jr., 5. The family was still living at 423 Senate Street and John Holland was working for the Pennsylvania railroad as a switch tender when he left the Fire Department in the spring of 1882. The Hollands stayed at 423 Senate Street through at least the beginning of 1888. Sadly, Mary Holland passed during the 1880s. John Holland remarried around 1890.
City Directories from 1890 through 1894 John W. Holland is recorded living at 420 Evans Street. The Hollands had moved to 442 Berkley Street by 1896. The 1897 City Directory shows John and Rebecca Holland at 531 West Street.
The 1900 Census lists John W. Holland working as a railroad switchman, living at 531 West Street with his second wife, Rebecca and his 19 year-old stepson, August Gethner.
Apparently again a widower, John W. Holland had moved to 448 Royden Street by 1906, living with his son William Holland. When the Census was taken in 1910, John W. Holland was living at 452 Royden Street, the home of his son William Holland, his wife Harriet, and her son from a previous marriage, Nathan Petit. John W. Holland was no longer working at this time. He was still living with his son when the 1914 City Directory was compiled. The Hollands had moved to 449 Royden Street by April of 1915 and to 416 Royden Street by the middle of 1918.
When the Census was taken on January 13, 1920 John W. Holland was not listed at his son William’s home at 416 Royden Street. William and Harriet Holland and stepson Nathan Petit, by this time a Camden police officer, were living at the Royden Street address. It would appear that John W. Holland had passed away in late 1918 or in 1919.
News Notes from Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Prohibitionists of Camden last night named their delegates to the State Convention to nominate a Governor.
The City Board of Assessors of Camden will meet every day this week and allow claims and soldiers’ redemptions.
John Holland has been committed for trial by Justice Stults, of Camden, yesterday, for assault and battery on Hannah Hartwell.
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union, of Dudley, filed articles of incorporation in the Camden county clerk’s office yesterday.
A number of leading citizens of Camden will be at the Hotel at 106 Market street tonight for the purpose of securing public parks for that city.
The will of Sarah Jane Brown, of Camden, was admitted to probate by Surrogate West yesterday. Letters testamentary were granted Ann Broadwater.
Peter O’Connor, an attache of the Circus Barnum, exhibiting in Camden, had his wrist broken yesterday while endeavoring to stop a runaway horse.
Magistrate Cassady, of Camden, yesterday held little 11-year-old Eddie Clark, of Mount Ephraim, in $1,000 bail on the charge of firing shots at James S. Cordery, of that place, with a toy rifle. The injured man was riding along the road in his wagon, when a bullet struck him in the head, causing a flesh wound. The complaint was made by the daughter, several witnesses testified at the hearing that they heard young Clark say he was going to shoot at the wagon.
Frank Wilson, a colored man, was convicted of stealing a coat and vest and sentenced to three months in the county jail. As the prisoner was being taken down to the jail he met Mr. Hancock, the principal witness against him, and said: “You need a good slugging and I’ll give it to you when I get out.” At this he was ordered back to court and resentenced to six months instead of three. Robert Johnson was convicted of assaulting an officer, consequently he will spend the next year at the State Prison.
In the General Court yesterday the following cases were disposed of: Julius Fronhagen, plead guilty to selling liquor on Sunday at Gloucester City, and was fined $60 and costs; James Niertha, on a similar charge, received a like sentence. John B. Genesha, who was indicted for the same offense, entered a special written plea. Joseph Walter plead guilty to a charge of petty larceny and was sentenced to two months in the county jail; Philip Coleman, for assault and battery on his wife, was sentenced to three months in the county jail.
Grand Council, Legion of the Red Cross
Philadelphia Inquirer —
At the close of the annual session of the Grand Council, Legion of the Red Cross, in Camden yesterday, these officers were elected: Grand Commander, W. I. Weaver; grand vice commander, Charles J. Koch; grand treasurer, Edmund Osmund; grand prelate, John Corson; grand marshal, John Fox; grand warden, John Ward; grand sentinel, John Holland; supreme representative, Charles J. Koch; alternative, H. C. Walton, grand trustees, N. J. Justice, G. W. Ottinger, W. C. Jones, William O’Brien and B. F. Schroeder; grand correspondent, W. L. Tushingham.
Camden at a Glance
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Charles Bell, a negro convicted of breaking into the saloon of Louis Bantiroglio, 824 South Third street, was given from three to seven years in State Prison by Judge Boyle in the Criminal Court yesterday.
By a fall into a sewer opening, John W. Holland, aged 76 years, of 449 Royden street, broke a rib and received contusions which required medical attention at Cooper Hospital.
Before Circuit Court Judge Lloyd yesterday a jury gave William Williamson a verdict of $725 against the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad for injuries received when he fell from a faulty carstep at Grassy Sound on October 12, 1913.
Frank Zaulski yesterday admitted before Judge Boyle that he had assaulted John Wright, sergeant at arms of the District Court, when the latter went to the Zaulski home to seize a piano. Sentence was deferred.