Joseph Green
JOSEPH GREEN was appointed to the Camden Fire Department as an extra man with Engine Company 1 on April 8, 1877, taking the place of George Middleton. He served until the spring of 1882, when he was replaced in turn by Michael McCaffrey. Joseph Green lived at 700 South 4th Street during his time with the Fire Department. His occupation prior to his appointment was laborer.
Joseph Green was born in New Jersey in November of 1853 to Joseph B. and Matilda Green. He grew up in Camden’s South Ward. At the time of the 1860 Census his family lived next door to that of Robert Subers, whose son, Samuel Subers, was several months older than Joseph Green. Both would become Camden firefighters as adults.
When the Census was taken in 1870, Joseph Green’s mother had passed away. He lived with his father, Joseph B. Green, and siblings Kate, Harry, and William Green. The household also included housekeeper Julia Cook and her daughters Clara and Mary. Joseph B. Green and Julia Cook married during the 1870s.
Joseph Green had four brothers-in-law who at one time or another were members of the Camden Fire Department. Joseph Green married Amelia Tenner around 1873. Amelia was the sister of G. Rudolph Tenner, George Adam Tenner, and Christian Tenner. Stepsister Clara Cook married Camden Fire Department member George S. Hunt in the 1870s.
When the Census was taken in 1880 Joseph and Amelia Green were living with her parents, Casper and Settonia Tenner, at 700 South 4th Street. They had by this time three children, Matilda “Tillie,” William, and Kate. The Greens had moved to 702 South 4th Street by the latter half of 1882 and were still there in 1887. The 1888–1889 City Directory reveals that Joseph and Amelia Green and their two daughters were living at 704 South 4th Street, next door to Amelia’s brother George Adam Tenner, who lived at 702 and who kept a tobacconists’ shop at 700 South 4th Street. Joseph Green worked as a sexton at one of the nearby churches. Joseph B. Green was still residing at 704 South 4th Street when the 1906 City Directory was compiled.
Amelia Green appears to have passed away during the 1900s. Around 1908 Joseph Green remarried. The 1910 Census shows him living at 301 Line Street with his wife Louisa Mary Arnold Mayer and her son, seventeen year-old Oliver Sterling Mayer. Joseph and Louisa Mary Green were living at 219 Chestnut Street in January of 1920 and were still there when the 1927 City Directory was being put together.
Extra Firemen Appointed
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Commissioners of the Camden Paid Fire Department, in addition to the regular, have appointed the following extra men on the force: Amadon Middleton, Charles Benton, George Tracey, John Stephens, Elijah Moorehouse, Francis Miller, Joseph B. Green, Jr., Charles Sawyer, Charles M. Lane, Christian Tenner, John Toy, Jacob App, William Deith, Amos Osler, Archie Clark, H. Sharp, Richard Cooper, James Hunt, Charles H. Reed, Richard Deitz, Benjamin Marshall, P. Brown, John Grav [sic], Isaac O. Randolph, Josiah Davis, Francis Boardman, Charles Elfreth, Alexander Watson, Howard Cuney, Francis Tamer. Nine of the above were members of the Fire Department a few years ago, under the now newly appointed Chief, R. S., Bender.
The First New Jersey District.
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Election of Congressional Delegates in Robeson’s Old District.
The Republican primaries in Camden for the election of delegates to the Congressional Convention in the First New Jersey district passed off very quietly last evening, there being no trouble anywhere except in the Third ward, where Dudley delegates were elected and the two inspectors of the election boards, Frank Turner and William Parker, both Hires men, refused to sign the credentials and left the polls without doing so. It is said they will be arrested to-morrow.
The three candidates for the Congressional nomination are George Hires, of Salem, Thomas H. Dudley, of Camden, and John W. Newlin, of Millville. In Camden city Hires got 23 delegates; Dudley, 16; Newlin, 1.
Taken by wards the result is as follows:
First Ward.—All for Hires—Jacob Leon, Isaac C. Githens, J. Eugene Troth, Charles Woolverton, Joseph Baymore.
Second Ward.—All for Dudley—J. Willard Morgan, Frederick A. Rex, Joseph Wells, Daniel Johntra, John Bowyer.
Third Ward.—All for Dudley—Louis D. McDowell, Henry B. Twoes, William S. McCabe, Samuel R. Murray, William H. Chandler.
Fourth Ward.—Four for Hires and one (Fackler) for J. W. Newlin—Mifflin Long, R. H. Lee, Charles Fackler, William Holland, George Doughten.
Fifth.—All for Hires—Septimus Knight, John Stevens, William Lockman, Samuel W. Roach, Harry Moffett.
Sixth Ward.—All for Hires—Joseph B. Green, Richard Dease, Robert Gilmore, Jacob Woodside, John Corbitt.
Seventh Ward.—Four for Hires and one (Stone) for Dudley—Edward Martin, Henry Peters, Jeffrey Blanchard, John Stone, Jacob Derry.
Eighth Ward.—All for Dudley—Jesse Pratt, William J. Thompson, Thomas B. Wood, Richard J. Chandler, Lawrence Rhoades.
Other returns are incomplete, but it is known that the Second ward of Gloucester City gave five delegates to Dudley; Delaware township five to Dudley, and Merchantville two to Dudley and three to Hires, thus making totals, as far as returns are received, as follows: Hires, 26; Dudley, 23; Newlin, 1.