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Sixth Street

Camden Street
Page Contents

Introduction

Sixth Street runs with few interruptions from the Delaware River to Morgan Street, virtually the length of the city, from North Camden south almost all the way to Gloucester City.

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Funeral of Mrs. Harriet Smith

Camden Daily Courier —

Funeral of Mrs. Harriet Smith - Camden Daily Courier, February 10, 1908

At 2 o’clock this afternoon, from her late residence, 609 North Sixth street, the funeral services of Mrs. Harriet Smith, aged 62 years, were held. An opportunity was given to view the remains yesterday. Interment was made in Harleigh Cemetery.

1000 Block of North 6th Street

Camden Family Wash Laundry, 1037–1039 North 6th Street, 1920s–1930s

Camden Family Wash Laundry, 1037–1039 North 6th Street, 1920s–1930s. Isaac J. Rhodes, proprietor.

1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1920s–1980.

1001 North 6th Street

1001 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947William J. McDade
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

1001-1011 North 6th Street

1001-1011 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910Real Estate Booklet Ad

1003 North 6th Street

1003 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947Mrs. Seley G. Hamlin
1947Jeanette Hickey
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

1005 North 6th Street

1005 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947Richard C. Barry
1980M. Rios

1007 North 6th Street

1007 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1930–1931Preston Baum
1932Betty Emons
1947Carmen Passerelli (coal)
1947Carmen Passerelli
1980David Coar

1009 North 6th Street

1009 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947James G. Geiger
1947Claude B. Gauntt
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

1011 North 6th Street

1011 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947Charles E. Packer
1947Henry Otting
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

1037–1039 North 6th Street

1037–1039 North 6th Street — 1000 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1920s–1930sCamden Family Wash Laundry — Isaac J. Rhodes
1950sCrescent Laundry Company1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

License Changes In Camden.

Philadelphia Inquirer —

License Changes In Camden. - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 14, 1894 License Changes In Camden. - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 14, 1894

The Camden City Excise Board last night passed a resolution that all licenses which remained unpaid for on Monday should be revoked. Retail licenses were granted Henry Felden, 634 North Sixth street; Samuel Fenner, 625 Ferry avenue, and William F. Sands, Haddon avenue and Line street. The applications of John Ross, West and Clinton streets and Herman Meier, 825 Market street, which had been refused at a previous meeting, were reconsidered and granted. Gustav Schwoeri was granted a wholesale license at 707 Chestnut street. William Brown’s license at 400 Jasper street was transferred to James P. Croker.

Passed to Eternity’s Shores

Camden Courier —

Passed to Eternity’s Shores - Camden Courier, October 23, 1894

Age and Youth Falls Before the Grim Reaper’s Sickle.

The funeral of John Haas, aged 55 years, the proprietor of the Junction Hotel, takes place this afternoon from his late residence, Sixth and Bridge avenue. He belonged to nearly all the German societies in the city. These are invited to attend the funeral, as well as Cyrene Castle, No. 27, K. G. E.

Slot Machine Arrests

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Slot Machine Arrests - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 1899

The Camden police yesterday arrested Joseph Dole, Broadway and Atlantic avenue; Joseph Hyde, Sixth and Jackson streets; Adam T. Davis, Second street and Kaighn avenue, and A. B. C. Smith, Broadway and Ferry avenue. They will have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey to-day on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places. The machines were confiscated.

Personal Notices

Camden Post-Telegram —

Personal Notices - Camden Post-Telegram, August 9, 1921

Mrs. John Hunt and children, George and Ruth, of 1009 South Sixth street, are spending the month of August with Mrs. Hunt’s mother in Atlantic City.

Fireman Benny Waters [sic], of No. 1 engine house, Fourth and Pine streets, leaves to-day for a vacation at the seashore.

William Taylor and Captain Lennox, both of No. 8 Engine Company, are spending their vacation at Atlantic City.

Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods

Camden Courier-Post —

Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods - Camden Courier-Post, April 5, 1952 Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods - Camden Courier-Post, April 5, 1952

Display at City Hall Rivals Oriental Bazaar In Variety Shown

Loot valued at $4360 by detectives was returned to its owners in detective headquarters in city hall Tuesday night.

Headquarters resembled an Oriental bazaar as the stolen articles were spread over seven tables, two large desks, and hung on clothing racks.

Detectives are holding George Wilmer, 30, of 521 Liberty street, a parolee, whom they suspect of being Camden’s daytime “phantom burglar” who has been plaguing the department for the last three months. To date police say they have charged Wilmer with 29 counts of breaking and entering and two counts of attempting to break and enter.

Captain of Detectives Thomas Murphy said that Tuesday night’s display was only a portion of the loot and that police believe Wilmer pawned a quantity of the goods in Philadelphia. They also suspect he sold some to secondhand and antique dealers, Murphy said.

The display that met the claimants when they went to headquarters looked like a mail order catalog come to life. There were women’s dresses, men’s suits and top coats, several types of radios, an oil space heater, binoculars, cameras; costume jewelry, empty wallets and even a clothes chest with the clothing still in it.

Missing from the collection were two parakeets which detectives returned to their owner Thursday because—unlike the other items—the birds had to be fed.

Assisting Capt. Murphy in the identification and return of the stolen items were: Detective Sergeants Earl Quinton, William Neal, William Kelly and Clifford Carr, and Detectives William O’Brien, John Huston, August Pfleiderer, George Ellis and Marshall Thompson.

Crowd Views Articles

According to Capt. Murphy the claimants, their addresses, the stolen objects and their estimated value are:

Mrs. Waid Young, 526 Washington street, electric sewing machine, woman’s jewelry, $358; Miss Catherine Sparks, 110 South Fourth street, table model radio, $19; Mrs. Ethel Kelly, 1068 Princess avenue, jewelry, $155; Mrs. Leo Jekel, 548 Haddon avenue, table model radio, portable typewriter, woman’s ring, $85; William Snyder, 1304 Park boulevard, table model radio, $55; Milfred Layser, 416 Chambers avenue, carpenter’s tools, a dress coat, $175; James Glennon, 802 Mt. Ephraim avenue, jewelry, $300; Mrs. Williams Cogswell, 914 Linden street, clothing and jewelry, $1242.50.

Mrs. Lena Bruns, 772 Line street, metal clothes chest with clothes, tool chest, jewelry, $125; Mrs. Anna Halliwell, 870 Haddon avenue, foreign money, no value given; Mrs. Martha Oehlert, 643 Mt. Vernon street, oil space heater, jewelry, $138; Mrs. William J. McCaffrey, 1030 Spruce street, antique clock, $400; Mrs. Lillian Simons, 412 Taylor avenue, clothing and jewelry, $20.

Veteran Boxers’ association, 868 Mt. Ephraim avenue, record player, amplifier and recorder, $100; John McNutt, 1620 Ferry avenue, jewelry and clothing, $300; Romeo Simonelli, 404 Haddon avenue, men’s and women’s clothing, $94; Mrs. Theresa Auletto, 929 South Third street, jewels, $405; Mrs. Vera Doughton, 1023 South Sixth street, table model radio, $16; Emidio Giorgi, 1353 Princess avenue, clarinet and man’s suit, $125.

Intersection of North 6th Street & Erie Street

Looking north on 6th Street from Erie Street, February 7, 2012 Looking south on 6th Street from Erie Street, February 7, 2012 Looking south on 6th Street from Erie Street, February 7, 2012

North 6th Street at Erie Street — February 7, 2012.

900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1924–1980.

939 North 6th Street

939 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924–1947Urban Baymore
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

937 North 6th Street

937 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924H.T.W. Schwanke
1947John J. Pycek
1950sPaul Filon & Family (Paul & Mary Filon, Paul Jr., James, Michael)
1980S. Salas

935 North 6th Street

935 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1922–1924S. Russell Greene & Family
1922–1924Dorothy Adams Greene
1947Mrs. Carmella Raniolo
1950sThe Hesbecker Family (Chick & June Hesbecker, Louise, Lou Ann, David)
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

934 North 6th Street

934 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924Frederick Allen
1947Charles R. Hunter
1950sJohn Gannon & Son (electrical contractor)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
1980G.M. Santiago

933 North 6th Street

933 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924Harry States
1947Emil Kornberger
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

932 North 6th Street

932 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924W. Taylor
1924–1947Josiah Mann
1947Ida M. Mann

931 North 6th Street

931 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924William H. Rabeau
1940–1947Andrew W. Rabeau
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

928 North 6th Street

928 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Warren M. Stone
1940–1945Isaac J. Rhodes & Family
1940–1945Isaac J. & Sarah Rhodes
1947Raymond A. Pierce
1980H. Perez

926 North 6th Street

926 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1947Harry Lawlor
1980J.J. Datil

924 North 6th Street

924 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924–1947No ListingNo listing in directory
1950sCatherine Collins (piano teacher)
1950sCatherine Collins
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

922 North 6th Street

922 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924Lafayette Sauble
1947Joseph Cimino
1950sRaymond Cimino & Family (Ray & Stella Cimino, Joseph, Karen)
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

920 North 6th Street

920 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Mrs. Sarah Samuels (varieties)
1924Mrs. Sarah Samuels
1946–1960Lou Syl's Luncheonette — Leon & Sylvia Snyder, Bernard Snyder, Myra Ann Snyder
1980No listing in directory

916 North 6th Street

916 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924John Becker
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1980No Listing1980 No listing in directory

914 North 6th Street

914 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1932 Max Reihmann Jr. & Family
1924–1932Max & Rose Reimann Jr.
1924–1932Rose Reihmann
1924–1932Kathyn Reihmann
1924–1932Marie Reihmann
1924 Max Reihmann Jr
1940–1941Flora Virginia Goodall

912 North 6th Street

912 North 6th Street — 900 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1901–1933Jacob Raymond & Family
1901–1933Jacob & Mary Ridgway Raymond
1901–1933Carrie Raymond

800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1893–2018.

837 North 6th Street

837 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929Oliver L. Ryder
1929–1933Glendening Ice & Coal Company — Jesse Ryder, Proprietor
1947Mrs. Daisy O. Jones
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing
2017Gone

836 North 6th Street

836 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929Harry Norwitz (grocery)
1929Harry Norwitz
1938Lewis Raupp
1947Harry Schwartz (grocery)
1947Harry Schwartz
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

834 North 6th Street

834 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932James Fenton

832 North 6th Street

832 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
2018No information available

830 North 6th Street

830 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
2018No information available

829 North 6th Street

829 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940–1948J. Calvin Spencer & Family

828 North 6th Street

828 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914–1920sClinton Benner & Family
1914–1920sClinton & Carrie Benner
1914–1920sNorman Benner
1914–1920sHubert Benner
1914–1920sEmma Benner
1914–1920sVerna Benner
1914–1920s Ralph Benner
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
2018Gone

827 North 6th Street

827 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938 Gerald Harter
1947No listing in directory

826 North 6th Street

826 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
2018No information available

825 North 6th Street

825 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912–1918Foster E. Willis & Family
1912–1918Foster E. & Elva C. Willis
1912–1918Charles Willis

824 North 6th Street

824 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
2018No information available

822 North 6th Street

822 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
2009No information available

820 North 6th Street

820 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933–1947John Weiss — Weiss Meat Market
1933–1947John Weiss
2017Gone

819 North 6th Street

819 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1941William Baker
1947William H. McCormick

812 North 6th Street

812 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1969A. Torres
2011Gone

810 North 6th Street

810 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1893–1895 S. Conrad Ott (journalist)
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
2011Gone

808 North 6th Street

808 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
2011Gone

806 North 6th Street

806 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1943–1960sJames P. Lynch & Family (James P. & Phyllis Leggieri Lynch, Mrs. Lucia Leggieri)
1947No listing in directory
1969A. Clayton
2011Abandoned — damaged by fire March 23, 2012
2011Abandoned

904 North 6th Street

904 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904–1913 Oscar Weidenhammer
1904–1913 Oscar Wiedenahmmer
1924John B. Welch Jr.
1929No listing in directory
1932Patrick Flanigan & Family
1932Patrick & Mary E. Flanigan
1947No listing in directory
1980H. Ford

902 North 6th Street

902 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924James L. Blackwood
1930Robert L. Warren & Family
1930Robert & Annie Warren
1930William Warren
1930Leonard Warren
1930George Warren
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

900 North 6th Street

900 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Harry S. Faust
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

910 North 6th Street

910 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924James B. Morris
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

912 North 6th Street (later records)

912 North 6th Street (later records) — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947No listing in directory
1975George Sullivan
1980C. Ingram

906 North 6th Street

906 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Benjamin F. Kyler
1929No listing in directory
1945–1948Frank Luggi Sr. & Family
1945–1948Frank & Rose Luggi
1945–1948Elda Luggi
1945–1948Frank Luggi Jr.
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

908 North 6th Street

908 North 6th Street — 800 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Frank S. Dillabey
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1980No listing in directory
1980No Listing

700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1908–1947.

713 North 6th Street

713 North 6th Street — 700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

710 North 6th Street

710 North 6th Street — 700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1908–1965Michael Burke & Family
1908–1965Michael & Mary Burke
1908–1965 William J. Burke
1908–1965Edward Burke
1908–1965Harry Burke
1908–1965Joseph Burke
1908–1965Estella Burke
1908–1965Marie Burke

704 North 6th Street

704 North 6th Street — 700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1941A. Harry Moore Democratic Club

702 North 6th Street

702 North 6th Street — 700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Martha Jones

700 North 6th Street

700 North 6th Street — 700 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1890–1959.

639 North 6th Street

639 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933–1938Louis Passero
1947No listing in directory

637 North 6th Street

637 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938Elizabeth Chapman
1947No listing in directory

635 North 6th Street

635 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938Harry Ross
1947No listing in directory

634 North 6th Street

634 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933H.M. & H.R. Alward
1933Morris Kamensky
1947No listing in directory

633 North 6th Street

633 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938Joseph Edwards
1947No listing in directory

632 North 6th Street

632 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894 J. William Simpson & Family
1894J. William & Louisa F. Simpson
1894Horace Simpson

631 North 6th Street

631 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938Frank Pecosca
1947No listing in directory

630 North 6th Street

630 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916Samuel H. Kasson & Family

624 North 6th Street

624 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1895–1896Henry Felden's Saloon
1904William Eckenhoff's Saloon

621 North 6th Street

621 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Reliable Meat Market

620 North 6th Street

620 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1958William G. Randles & Family
1919–1958William G. & Alice Randles
1919–1958Helen Randles
1919–1958Marion Randles
1919–1958Edna Randles
1919–1958Violet Randles
1919–1958Alice Randles
1919–1958Marjorie Randles

619 North 6th Street

619 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Harry Winer
1947No listing in directory

618 North 6th Street

618 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

617 North 6th Street

617 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1949Nancy L. Bellshot

616 North 6th Street

616 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1913William Rapine
1913Ellen Cantwell

614 North 6th Street

614 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1900Edward R. Saunders

613 North 6th Street

613 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940J. Frederick Laxton & Family
1940J. Frederick & Mae Laxton
1940Fred Laxton
1940Kenneth C. Laxton
1940Shirley M. Laxton

611 North 6th Street

611 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1932Richard Funke & Family
1930–1932Richard & Elise Funke
1930–1932Ella Funke
1930–1932Ruth Funke
1930–1932Betty H. Funke
1930–1932Camden Courier-Post

610 North 6th Street

610 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1892 Thomas S. Reed & Family
1892Thomas S. & Jennie L. Reed
1892Esther Reed
1892Martha Reed

609 North 6th Street

609 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904–1908 Clarence S. Smith & Family
1904–1908Clarence S. & Mary Smith
1904–1908Harriet F. Smith
1904–1908 Harriet Smith (mother)
1904–1908 Crawford Smith (brother)
1904–1908Walter Smith (brother)
1904–1908 Roy A. Smith (brother)
1904–1908William H. Smith Jr. (brother)
1904–1907Clarence S. & Mary Smith
1904–1907Harriet F. Smith
1904–1907 Harriet Smith (mother)
1904–1907 Crawford Smith (brother)
1904–1907 Walter Smith (brother)
1904–1907 Roy A. Smith (brother)
1904–1907William H. Smith Jr. (brother)

604 North 6th Street

604 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916–1940s J. William Simpson & Family
1916–1940sJ. William & Louisa F. Simpson
1916–1940sHorace Simpson

603 North 6th Street

603 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1900 Edward S. Powell & Family
1890–1900Edward S. & Mary Powell
1890–1900Sallie Powell
1894, 1899–1900s Amedee S. Middleton & Family
—Amedee & Mary Middleton
—Rena Middleton
1899–1956Smith's Shop — Mrs. Theresa Bond Smith & Family (dry goods)
— Albert E. Smith
—Florence Smith

601 North 6th Street

601 North 6th Street — 600 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1899–1956Smith's Shop — Mrs. Theresa Bond Smith & Family (dry goods)
— Albert E. Smith
—Florence Smith
1955Roy C. Adams Company1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1907–1960.

538 North 6th Street

538 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Samuel Molotsky
1947No listing in directory

532 North 6th Street

532 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1907Jeannette Dempster

530 North 6th Street

530 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1855New Jersey Bell Telephone
1915John Todd
1955William F. Sing

525 North 6th Street

525 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Ellen J. Frame

523 North 6th Street

523 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1952William E. Hilbmann Sr. & Family (William & Irene Hilbmann, Edith, Dorothy, Sarah, Marie, Elizabeth, Fred, William C. Jr.)

522 North 6th Street

522 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1956Mrs. Mabel Sparks

517 North 6th Street

517 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Agnes G. Barnet
1947No listing in directory

515 North 6th Street

515 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933R.A. Gabriel
1947No listing in directory

513 North 6th Street

513 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1855New Jersey Bell Telephone
1955Bantle's Hardware

507 North 6th Street

507 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1920sCharles Daniels & Family
1910s–1920sCharles & Nellie Ross Daniels
1910s–1920s Charles T. Daniels
1910s–1920sMrs. Florence Daniels
1910s–1920sGeorge Daniels
1910s–1920sSamuel Daniels
1910s–1920sElizabeth Daniels Morris
1910s–1920sGeorge Morris Sr.
1910s–1920sGeorge Morris Jr.
1910s–1920sClarence Ross

505 North 6th Street

505 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Jean's Beauty Shop
1947No listing in directory

501 North 6th Street

501 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1960Morris Ross & Family (grocery)
1918–1960Morris & Rose R. Ross
1918–1960Pauline Ross Kolan
1918–1960Edward Ross
1918–1960Martin Ross
1918–1960Irvin Ross

600 North 6th Street

600 North 6th Street — 500 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s–1890sFrederick H. Vollmer (baker)
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Joseph Nussbaum
1947No listing in directory

400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1904–1947.

427 North 6th Street

427 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

425 North 6th Street

425 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

424–426 North 6th Street

424–426 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

423 North 6th Street

423 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1960sJohn J. Gaffney & Family (John J. & Sarah Kenny Gaffney, John F. Gaffney, Joseph, Madeline, Margaret Gaffney, Thomas Kenny, Kieran Kenny)
1910s–1960sJoseph Gaffney
1910s–1960sMargaret Gaffney

422 North 6th Street

422 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1930sRFeal Estate Photo
1947No listing in directory

421 North 6th Street

421 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

420 North 6th Street

420 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

418 North 6th Street

418 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

416 North 6th Street

416 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904Grace R. Titus

402 North 6th Street

402 North 6th Street — 400 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1938Ira C. Saurman
1947No listing in directory

300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1880s–1947.

332 North 6th Street

332 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894Carrol Reeves

326 North 6th Street

326 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890Mrs. Sara Flick
1890s–1921 Louis T. DeRousse & Family

321 North 6th Street

321 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894–1895C. Carroll Reeves & Family (C. Carroll & Elizabeth Rex Reeves, Charles, Frederick Reeves)

319 North 6th Street

319 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917Richard Callahan

310 North 6th Street

310 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s–1890s Volney Bennett Sr. & Family
1880s–1890sVolney Bennett Jr.
1880s–1890s Killam Bennett
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

309 North 6th Street

309 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Mildred Edna Beauty Shop
1947No listing in directory

307 North 6th Street

307 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930s–1940sMaison de Paris Beauty College
1940Camden High School

306 North 6th Street

306 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894Fred Borden & Family

305 North 6th Street

305 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Rubens & Messey
1947No listing in directory

301 North 6th Street

301 North 6th Street — 300 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1899–1965.

225 North 6th Street

225 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947Michael J. Jubanyik (contractor)
1947Raymond J. Jubanyik (lawyer)
1947–1955Michael J. Jubanyik, Inc. (contractor)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

224 North 6th Street

224 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

222 North 6th Street

222 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

220 North 6th Street

220 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

219 North 6th Street

219 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919Walter Danford
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1945–1968Philip H. Farrow
1947Josephus J. Frost (optician)
1947Charles G. Frost (photo finishing)
1947Charles B. Shelley
1947Josephus J. Frost
1947Charles G. Frost

217 North 6th Street

217 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1938Mechanics & Workingmen's Building & Loan Association
1938People's Building & Loan Association
1947–1955Deering Milliken & Company, Inc.1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

216 North 6th Street

216 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1900Charles Janke & Family
1899–1900Charles & Emily Janke
1899–1900Norman Janke
1899–1900Mildred Janke

213 North 6th Street

213 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1927–1931The Grille — William Yohn (at 203, moved here in 1930s)
1931–1936The Grille — Albert Ballantine & John Holt
1959–1971The Grille — Dick and Dorothy Large
1959–1971Dick and Dorothy Large
1971–1978The Grille — four Rutgers graduates
1971–1978Four (4) Rutgers graduates
1978–1980sThe Grille — Tom O'Malley
1978–1980sTom O'Malley
1990The Grille (aka Appy's Tappy)
2003Razed for LEAP Academy High School

212 North 6th Street

212 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955W.A. Clarke Company (real estate & insurance)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

211 North 6th Street

211 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955Greyhound Lines
1955Camden Travel Service1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

210 North 6th Street

210 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1947Market Street Title Abstract Company1947 Camden City Directory Ad
1955Edelstein-Gaston Agency
1955W.B. Schreiber Agency
1955Damen's Private Business School1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
1965South Jersey Business Machine School

209 North 6th Street

209 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929Plaza Realty
1930sRazed to make way for the Finance Building (201–209 North 6th)

208 North 6th Street

208 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928–1955Vinal A. Johnson (insurance)

207 North 6th Street

207 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929Vacant
1930sRazed to make way for the Finance Building (201–209 North 6th)

206 North 6th Street

206 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1900–1922 Cooper B. Hatch
1955Maternity Apparel Shop1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

205 North 6th Street

205 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929Sutherland Sales Company
1930sRazed to make way for the Finance Building (201–209 North 6th)

204 North 6th Street

204 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947No listing in directory

203 North 6th Street

203 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Samuel G. Tarbottom (grocery)
1924Willis DeUnger
1924Samuel G. Tarbottom
1927–1931The Grille — William Yohn (moved to 213 N. 6th in 1930s)
1927–1931The Grill

202 North 6th Street

202 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947No listing in directory

201 North 6th Street

201 North 6th Street — 200 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924Walton Gerhard
1924William H. Seybold
1924–1929Mrs. Helen Carll
1927–1955Lawyer's Title Company
1929Mrs. Essie Carll
1929Spencer-Braislin Real Estate Co.
1929Thurston Caton
1930s–1955The Finance Building — Lawyers Title Insurance Corp.
1955Grenloch Park Manor Homes Inc.1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1880s–2009.

114 North 6th Street

114 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s–1890s Jesse Pratt

113 North 6th Street

113 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

111 North 6th Street

111 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1926 Christian Tenner
1942 Raymond F. 'Little Ray' Smith

109 North 6th Street

109 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1926–1932Estate of Amos R. Dease (painters)
1926–1932Harry M. Dease
1926–1932Walter Dease
1926–1932William Dease
1929Mrs. Emma R. Dease
1936–1939Charles F. Sattler's Bar
1940–2003 The Tavern
2003–2009 6th Street Lounge

107 North 6th Street

107 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

105 North 6th Street

105 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

104 North 6th Street

104 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1907Joseph H. Sweeten

103 North 6th Street

103 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

101 North 6th Street

101 North 6th Street — 100 Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1919Lee King Laundry1919 Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad
1921No listing in directory
1924No listing in directory
1933Frank Mark Laundry
1947No listing in directory

Unit Block of North 6th Street — Occupants

Notable buildings, 1930s–2010s.

West Side, Unit Block North 6th Street

West Side, Unit Block North 6th Street — Unit Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931–1950sRoosevelt Plaza
1950s–2010Parkade Building

East Side, Unit Block North 6th Street

East Side, Unit Block North 6th Street — Unit Block of North 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931–2010sCamden City Hall

Unit Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1890–1947.

39 South 6th Street

39 South 6th Street — Unit Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890–1893New Junction Hotel — Mrs. Katie Zimmerman
1890–1893Mrs. Katie Zimmerman
1893–1894New Junction Hotel — John Haas
1893–1894John Haas
1894–1895New Junction Hotel — Mrs. Fannie Haas
1894–1895Mrs. Fannie Haas
1896–1921 Hotel Dubosq — J. Carrow DuBosq & Katie Zimmerman Dubosq
1921–1924Aldine Hotel — Charles Nixos
1925–1940 Camden Lime Company — Frank J. Hineline
1947American Red Cross (Production Department)
1947American Red Cross

61 South 6th Street

61 South 6th Street — Unit Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1948Electrolux Corporation
1948Obus Insurance Agency
1951–1965 VFW Post No. 980

200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1891–1968.

201–207 South 6th Street

201–207 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s–1970sGarden Hotel

209 South 6th Street

209 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1925–1940 Camden Lime Company — Frank J. Hineline
1929Camden Lime Company

211 South 6th Street

211 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910Charles Austin & Family
1910Charles G. & Eleanor Austin
1910Marguerite Austin
1910Clara Austin

214 South 6th Street

214 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1891–1892S. Conrad Ott

215 South 6th Street

215 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912–1956Mary Evangeline Davis

217 South 6th Street

217 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1897 Wesley J. Barrett

219 South 6th Street

219 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909Harry C. Archer
1945–1968Philip H. Farrow
1945 Philip Farrow

223 South 6th Street

223 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919–1932James B. Goff & Family
1919–1932James B. & Jeanette Goff
1919–1932Evelyn Goff
1919–1932Eleanor Goff

227 South 6th Street

227 South 6th Street — 200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1947 Joshua C. Haines

300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1893–2005.

301 South 6th Street

301 South 6th Street — 300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1893–2005First Methodist Episcopal Church

309 South 6th Street

309 South 6th Street — 300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905–1920Church parsonage — Rev. Holmes F. Gravatt
1952–1956Church parsonage — Rev. F. Cooper Nace

311 South 6th Street

311 South 6th Street — 300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1991Ronald McDonald House
2000sDemolished

313 South 6th Street

313 South 6th Street — 300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1920sPaul Mathis & Family
1910s–1920sMrs. Cornelia Ivins

400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1888–2000s.

410 South 6th Street

410 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1892–1897William W. Wood
1892–1897William & Sarah Wood
1892–1897Etta Wood
1892–1897Sarah Wood
1892–1897Anna D. Wood Crawford
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

411–412 South 6th Street

411–412 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

416 South 6th Street

416 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900 Levi E. Farnham
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

417 South 6th Street

417 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1923 Esther Purdy Baker
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

418 South 6th Street

418 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1903George H. Rudolph & Family
1903George H. & Maria Rudolph
1903Kathryn Kurz Rudolph
1903Elsie Rudolph
1903Edna Rudolph

422 South 6th Street

422 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930John J. Conley & Family

423 South 6th Street

423 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905Samuel Robinson
1924No listing in directory
1929–1933Harry Marritz
1933Harry Marritz
1947No listing in directory

425 South 6th Street

425 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929–1933Harry Marritz
1933Harry Marritz
1947No listing in directory

426–428 South 6th Street

426–428 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1940Joseph Tabot Barnett
1955The Elena Shoppe
1955–1956Joseph Paul Seltzer

428 South 6th Street

428 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1955New Jersey Bell Telephone

430 South 6th Street

430 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929–1933William J. Vander Straeten
1933William J. Vander Straeten
1947No listing in directory

432 South 6th Street

432 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1930sAngelo Nigro & Family
1920s–1930sAngelo & Maria Nigro
1920s–1930sGeraldina Nigro
1920s–1930sNunziata Nigron
1920s–1930sVincenzo Nigron
1920s–1930sClara Nigro
1920s–1930sAmerico Nigto
1920s–1930s Alfred Nigro
1947No listing in directory

434 South 6th Street

434 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888–1903Frank S. Jones
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

436 South 6th Street

436 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

444 South 6th Street

444 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910Mrs. Sara Taylor

449 South 6th Street

449 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929–1930William Reilly
1930William Reilly
1947No listing in directory

451–453 South 6th Street

451–453 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1947Melvin Cain (Funeral Director)

453 South 6th Street

453 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Benjamin R. Denny
1990s–2000sE.J. Flippen

455 South 6th Street

455 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929–1933D. Albright
1933D. Albright
1947No listing in directory
1955Robbie's TV Service1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

457 South 6th Street

457 South 6th Street — 400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1906–1911Ernest A. Fryer (druggist)
1917–1956Richard O'Neill & Family (real estate)1924 No listing in directory; 1929 No listing in directory; 1947 No listing in directory
1917–1956Richard & Anne O'Neill
1917–1956Evelyn O'Neill
1917–1956Richard O'Neill Jr.

500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1879–1974.

501 South 6th Street

501 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

503 South 6th Street

503 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920–1950Charles H. Smith Sr. & Family
1920–1950Charles H. & Sarah Smith
1920–1950Charles H. Smith Jr.
1920–1950William R. Smith
1920–1950Sarah Smith Lawrence

505 South 6th Street

505 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Lawrence Wiggle

507 South 6th Street

507 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1969Richard P. Williams

511 South 6th Street

511 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894–1900Charles Parker & Family (letter carrier)
1894–1900Charles & Martha Parker
1894–1900John Parker C.
1894–1900Mary F. Parker
1894–1900Harry Parker C.
1894–1900Charles E. Parker
1894–1900Amelia D. Parker
1894–1900Benjamin D. Parler

512 South 6th Street

512 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910David Bakley & Family
1910David & Mary Bakley
1910John Rushworth (father-in-law)
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

513 South 6th Federal Street

513 South 6th Federal Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Parker Electric Company
1924Franklin Pierce Alloway & Family
1924Franklin P. & Sarah L. Alloway
1924Sarah L. Alloway
1924Eleanor J. Alloway
1924Florence M. Alloway
1924Franklin C. Alloway

513 South 6th Street

513 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924Franklin Pierce Alloway & Family
1929No listing in directory
1933–1937Parker Electric Company
1947–1956Jacob Hirshorn & Family

514 South 6th Street

514 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

518 South 6th Street

518 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1967Mrs. Fronnie Verdell Madison

521 South 6th Street

521 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906–1920Ridgway Bakley & Family
1906–1920Ridgway & Clara Bakley
1906–1920Lewis Bakley
1906–1920 David Bakley
1906–1920 Ralph Bakley

523 South 6th Street

523 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920Lewis Bakley & Family

525 South 6th Street

525 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1879–1883Charles Hagerman

527 South 6th Street

527 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1896Jacob Pross Saloon
1896Jacob Pross
1905E.S. Moore (grocery)
1905E.S. Moore
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

529 South 6th Street

529 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1893Charles Parker & Family (cigar store; letter carrier)
1887–1893Charles & Martha Parker
1887–1893John Parker
1887–1893Mary F. Parker
1887–1893Harry Parker
1887–1893Charles E. Parker
1887–1893Amelia D. Parker
1887–1893Benjamin D. Parle
1896Thomas P. Sullivan
1904Ferdinand Roth
1906Frederick Roth
1918–1921Fred W. Roth Jr.
1924William Sanders
1926–1927Cesare Capriotti
1928Galbraith & Huhn
1929–1931Kemmerle & Galbraith
1939John Grzybowski
1940John Bush
1943–1974 Tony's Grill
1943Anthony Iacovelli
early 1960sAnthony "Tony Patch" Patragnonio & Marco DiGiamberardino

536 South 6th Street

536 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916Mrs. Carrie String
1916Clarence V. Walsingham

538 South 6th Street

538 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916Mrs. Carrie String
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

540 South 6th Street

540 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885–1918Frederick T. L'Esperance & Family
1885–1918Frederick & Elizabeth L'Esperance
1885–1918 Frank F. L'Esperance
1896 Albert C. Jones

541 South 6th Street

541 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1921–1922Dorothy Corey
1924No listing in directory
1929Mrs. Mary Kirkpatrick
1947No listing in directory

542 South 6th Street

542 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1897–1899 Albert C. Jones
1900William H. Moore & Family
1900William H. & Martha Moore

545 South 6th Street

545 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906 Frank F. L'Esperance & Family
1906Frank & Jennie L'Esperance
1906Leroy L'Esperance
1906Wendell L'Esperance

546 South 6th Street

546 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1884–1885John Hagerman & Family
1884–1885John & Keturah Hagerman
1887–1910 Charles Hagerman
1938–1940William Ellis & Family
1938–1940William & Edith Ellis

548 South 6th Street

548 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1884–1885Charles Hagerman

554 South 6th Street

554 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1929–1958David Smith & Family
1929–1958Davis & Emma Smith
1929–1958David Smith Jr.
1929–1958John Smith
1929–1958Leon Smith
1929–1958Horace Smith
1929–1958Earl Smith
1929–1958Anna Smith
1961–1962James Walker

556 South 6th Street

556 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904George Walther
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

583 South 6th Street

583 South 6th Street — 500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890s–1900sRidgway Bakley & Family
1890s–1900sRidgway & Clara Bakley
1890s–1900sLewis Bakley
1890s–1900s David Bakley
1890s–1900s Ralph Bakley

600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1880–1990.

589 Pine Street (NW Corner, 6th & Pine)

589 Pine Street (NW Corner, 6th & Pine) — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1921Max Roth
1939–1940Pine Street Tavern
1947–1958Nora's Cafe
1958–1977Vince & Fred's Tavern
1987–1990Dreamer's Lounge

600 South 6th Street

600 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1896D. Frank Garrison
1900s–1910s John J. Keefe
1918–1919John Monaghan
1924Mrs. Nora Monaghan
1926–1931William K. Horey
1939–1959 600 Club (aka 600 Cafe)
1967My Girls Inc.

602 South 6th Street

602 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1892–1900John Smith & Family
1892–1900John & Margaret Smith
1892–1900John Smith Jr.
1892–1900Robert Smith

604 South 6th Street

604 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1902Michael Kelly

606 South 6th Street

606 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1944Mrs. Florence Kane Bach

608 South 6th Street

608 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887John Smith
1902Paul Haag & Family
1902Paul & Katie Haag
1902Anna K. Haag

611 South 6th Street

611 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
195520th Century Neon Sign Company1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

614 South 6th Street

614 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

627 South 6th Street

627 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880 Isaac B. Kay & Family
1880Isaac & Rebecca Kay
1880Harry Kay
1880 Charles Jefferson "Jeff" Kay
1880Mary Kay
1880Violetta Kay

639 South 6th Street

639 South 6th Street — 600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Frank Salvo

700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1916–1947.

701 South 6th Street

701 South 6th Street — 700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

703 South 6th Street

703 South 6th Street — 700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916Anna Nelson

709 South 6th Street

709 South 6th Street — 700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1892–1954.

800 South 6th Street

800 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933A.J. Parsons
1947Hazel's Luncheonette & Frank Germanotta
1947Hazel's Lunceonette
1947Frank Germanotta

805 South 6th Street

805 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Joseph Weitzen

806 South 6th Street

806 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947James Ferranto (plumber)

812 South 6th Street

812 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1910s–1930sJames Conaghy1929 No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

813 South 6th Street

813 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1904Esten W. Clark & Family
1899–1904Esten W. & Anna R. Clark
1899–1904Esten W. Clark Jr.

814 South 6th Street

814 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1942Joseph Conaghy & Family
1910s–1942 Joseph & Theodosia Hunt Conaghy
1910s–1942 Eli E. Conaghy Sr.
1930–1942Eli M. Hunt

815 South 6th Street

815 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1892–1894Benjamin Cavanaugh
1929Eli E. Conaghy Sr1929 No listing in directory

818 South 6th Street

818 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1933Edward Farley
1955Diamanti Commercial Printing1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Ad

823 South 6th Street

823 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1921George C. Hennessey Sr. & Family
1918–1921George C. & Wilhelmina Ley Hennessey
1918–1921George Calvin "Cal" Hennessey Jr.

826 South 6th Street

826 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880–1930sHenry Kelley & Family
1880–1930sHenry & Margaret Kelley
1880–1930sSylvester Kelley
1880–1930sRobert H. Kelly
1880–1930sSarah "Sallie" Kelley
1880–1930sIsabella Kelley
1880–1930sJohn S. Kelley
1880–1930sRichard Kelley
1880–1930sJames Kelley
1950George Ballantine

830 South 6th Street

830 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1955Scotty's Television Service1955 Scotty's Television Service & New Jersey Bell Telephone; 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

833 South 6th Street

833 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1930Louis Hartman & Family
1924–1930Louis & Elsie Brothers Hartman
1924–1930Lois Hartman
1924–1930Lena Brothers Fountain (sister-in-law)
1924–1930Andrew Fountain (brother-in-law)

836 South 6th Street

836 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1943–1954William J. Taylor Sr. & Family
1943–1954William J & Mary Taylor
1943–1954William J. & Mary Hammond Taylor
1943–1954Charles Taylor
1943–1954William J. Taylor Jr.

837 South 6th Street

837 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

840 South 6th Street

840 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1951William J. Taylor Jr. (Camden Fire Department)

842 South 6th Street

842 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904James Morris
1918–1919David J. Duffy
1924–1927Andrew J. McGuire
1933Richard Baumiller

843 South 6th Street

843 South 6th Street — 800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1885–2000s.

908 South 6th Street

908 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

910 South 6th Street

910 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1927William E. Laird
1931–1941Frank R. Crim & Family
1931–1941Frank & Mary Crim
1931–1941William Crim

912 South 6th Street

912 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906No listing in directory
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

914 South 6th Street

914 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1913–1915Oliver S. Guthrie & Family (Pennsylvania Railroad Police Detective — Oliver & Mary Eva Guthrie, Oliver S. 'Ollie' Guthrie III, Clara, Theodore Norman 'Norm' Guthrie)
1913–1915Oliver & Mary Eva Guthrie
1913–1915Oliver S. "Ollie" Guthrie III
1913–1915Clara Guthrie
1913–1915 Theodore Norman "Norm" Guthrie

915 South 6th Street

915 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910–1914Daniel Considine & Family
1910–1914Daniel & Margaret O'Donnell Considine
1910–1914Thomas Considine
1910–1914George Considine
1910–1914Julia McDonald (sister-in-law)
1910–1914John McDonald (brother-in-law)

916 South 6th Street

916 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

917 South 6th Street

917 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Charles E. Pearson & Family
1940Charles E. & Clara E.P. Gauntt Pearson

924 South 6th Street

924 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885 Anthony J. Oberst
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

928 South 6th Street

928 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899John C. Edwards & Family
1899John C. & Martha Ann Edwards
1899James Edwards
1899Lydia Edwards
2000sRebuilt

929–935 South 6th Street

929–935 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947No listing in directory

930 South 6th Street

930 South 6th Street — 900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900Thomas Paul

1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1917–2019.

1004–1006 South 6th Street

1004–1006 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Bell Moving & Storage — Leslie W. Bell
1947Arthur's Second Hand Store — Mrs. Laura V. Edwards Arthur Power, proprietress
1947Richard Power & Family (Camden Police Department)
1948–1958Furniture Outlet
1968–1969James & Lula Crawley (used furniture)

1005 South 6th Street

1005 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1951William H. Tatem Sr. & Family (retired Captain, Camden Fire Dept. — William H. & Sarah Tatem, William H. Tatem Jr., Edwin Tatem)
1951William H. & Sarah Tatem
1951William H. Tatem Jr.
1951Edwin Tatem

1007 South 6th Street

1007 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Charles Watkins & Family
1947Charles & Rose Watkins
2011Gone

1008 South 6th Street

1008 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900–1911Charles C. Myers & Family (civil war vet)
1900–1911Charles C. & Cornelia Myers
1900–1911Charles Myers
1900–1911Carrie Myers Nolan

1009 South 6th Street

1009 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1947Anthony J. Pace
1919–1930John A.S. Hunt
1919–1930John & Henrietta Hunt
1919–1930George Hunt
1919–1930Ruth Hunt
1935–1937Charles F. Gauntt & Family
1935–1937Charles F. & Clara E. Peterson Gauntt
1937Charles E. Pearson & Family
1937Charles E. & Clara E. Peterson Gauntt Pearson

1010 South 6th Street

1010 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

1012 South 6th Street

1012 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1015–1019 South 6th Street

1015–1019 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1016 South 6th Street

1016 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Earl Foy
2011Gone

1018 South 6th Street

1018 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

1020 South 6th Street

1020 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1023 South 6th Street

1023 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917–1920Theodore Guthrie & Family
1917–1920Theodore & Mary Giuthrie
1917–1920Frank Guthrie
1917–1920Samuel Guthrie
1917–1920Mrs. Mary M. Guthrie (mother)
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1952Mrs. Vera Doughten

1024 South 6th Street

1024 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1026 South 6th Street

1026 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1027 South 6th Street

1027 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
1941Lillie Sutton

1029 South 6th Street

1029 South 6th Street — 1000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1009 South 6th Street — Charles F. Gauntt

Charles Franklin Gauntt, 58, died of a heart attack on February 17, 1935 while working as a watchman for the American Dredging Company at the foot of Division Street.

In Memoriam

Camden Courier-Post —

GAUNTT—In loving memory of Charles F. Gauntt, who passed away February, 17, 1935.
Just a line of sweet remembrance,
Just a memory fond and true,
Just a token of sweet devotion,
That our hearts still long for you.
Gone but not forgotten by Clara and Family, Mr. and Mrs. Wood and Children

1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1870s–2013.

1106 South 6th Street

1106 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1108 South 6th Street

1108 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
2013Vacant

1110 South 6th Street

1110 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1112 South 6th Street

1112 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1114 South 6th Street

1114 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1130 South 6th Street

1130 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899John G. Henshaw

1134 South 6th Street

1134 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943Albert Arcinese & Family (Albert & Lillian Arcinese)

1138 South 6th Street

1138 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900John Henson

1140 South 6th Street

1140 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–1920Henry Heineman Sr. & Family (Henry & Catherine Heineman, Henry Jr., William, George, Mary, Julia Heineman)
1883–1888, 1896William Heineman

1142 South 6th Street

1142 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1147 South 6th Street

1147 South 6th Street — 1100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Mrs. R. Collins

1200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1924–1947.

1211 South 6th Street

1211 South 6th Street — 1200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1215–1217 South 6th Street

1215–1217 South 6th Street — 1200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1216 South 6th Street

1216 South 6th Street — 1200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930General Drug Supply Company — Alexander Lederer & Morris Lederer

1220 South 6th Street

1220 South 6th Street — 1200 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

Notable institutions, 1874–1970s.

1301–1307 South 6th Street

1301–1307 South 6th Street — 1300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955Camden Welding Company1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

1306–1310 South 6th Street

1306–1310 South 6th Street — 1300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1874–1920s West Jersey Orphanage
1920s–1940sHunton Branch, YMCA
1950–1970s South Camden Branch, YMCA

1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1924–1960s.

1406 South 6th Street

1406 South 6th Street — 1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1955Fuller Brush Company Distributing Station

1407 South 6th Street

1407 South 6th Street — 1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955L. Merochnik Sons, Inc.1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

1416 South 6th Street

1416 South 6th Street — 1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955–1960sModern Hard Chrome Service Company1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

1425 South 6th Street

1425 South 6th Street — 1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1426 South 6th Street

1426 South 6th Street — 1400 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932–1933Kerr Chickeries, Inc.

1500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1924–2010s.

1500 South 6th Street

1500 South 6th Street — 1500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1930s–2010sCamden Iron & Metal Company (aka Camden Iron & Metal, Inc.)1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone; 1991 FireWatch Magazine Ad
1930s–2010sCamden Iron & Metal, Inc.

1508 South 6th Street

1508 South 6th Street — 1500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1512 South 6th Street

1512 South 6th Street — 1500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1595 South 6th Street

1595 South 6th Street — 1500 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1975George Kifferley (Camden Fire Department — Warehouse Fire, May 27, 1975)

1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1892–2019.

1600 South 6th Street

1600 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1892–1956Hyde's Cafe — Joseph Hyde & Elizabeth Hyde, Frank Hyde, Joseph Hyde Jr.
1954Peeples Bar
1958–1966Sam's Bar
1967Sam's Bar — Fred Wyatt
2011Gone

1601 South 6th Street

1601 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1919Samuel Shaen

1602 South 6th Street

1602 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2011Gone

1604 South 6th Street

1604 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Juan Perez

1606 South 6th Street

1606 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Vacant

1608 South 6th Street

1608 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Vacant

1609 South 6th Street

1609 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1959–1977Eleanor Dunbar & Family (private nurse)

1610 South 6th Street

1610 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Vacant

1612 South 6th Street

1612 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Gone

1614 South 6th Street

1614 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
1918Collapsed August 1, 1918
2018Vacant

1618 South 6th Street

1618 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912–1914William Anderson & Family
1912–1914William & Mary Anderson
1912–1914 John S. Anderson
1912–1914Hazel Anderson
1912–1914Charles Anderson
1912–1914Madeline Anderson
1912–1914Kate Anderson
1912–1914 Lester R. Anderson
2012Vacant

1630 South 6th Street

1630 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
1905Ocea Dolan

1631 South 6th Street

1631 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1897Peter Kaufman

1632 South 6th Street

1632 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
1947–1950sDavid Smith Allaband & Family
1947–1950s David & Hazel Flanagan Allaband

1634 South 6th Street

1634 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
1943–1969Benjamin F. 'Frank' Livingston & Family
1943–1969Benjamin F. Livingston Jr.
1943–1969Iris Livingston
1943–1969Dorothy Livingston
1943–1969Margaret "Maggie" Livingston (sister)

1638 South 6th Street

1638 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
19001900 Census
1900Census
1927–1940Margaret 'Maggie' Livingston
1927–1940Benjamin F. "Frank" Livingston (brother)
1927–1940Benjamin F. Livingston Jr. (nephew)
1927–1940Margaret (niece)
2019Maureen P. Campbell

1640 South 6th Street

1640 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1906William H. Corson & Family
1899–1906William & Ella Corson
19001900 Census
1900Census
2012Vacant, to be demolished

1643 South 6th Street

1643 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890John W. Helmbold Sr. & Family
1890John W. & Maggie Helmbold
1890John W. Helmbold Jr.

1644 South 6th Street

1644 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917–1920William Anderson & Family
1917–1920William & Mary Anderson
1917–1920 John S. Anderson
1917–1920Hazel Anderson
1917–1920Charles Anderson
1917–1920Madeline Anderson
1917–1920Kate Anderson
1917–1920 Lester R. Anderson
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933William Whalen
1947No listing in directory

1652 South 6th Street

1652 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1654 South 6th Street

1654 South 6th Street — 1600 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929Patrick Eagan (grocery)
1929Patrick Eagan
1947No listing in directory

1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1882–1947.

1700 South 6th Street

1700 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1701–1711 South 6th Street

1701–1711 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1876–1970sJohn W. Mickle School

1706 South 8th Street

1706 South 8th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931Fred H. Berardi & Family (laborer)
1931Fred H. & Elizabeth G. Berardi

1713 South 6th Street

1713 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1906James A. Ware Jr. & Family
1887–1906James A. & Harriet Ware
1887–1906 Joseph A. Ware
1887–1906Rebecca Ware
1887–1906Jesse Ware
1887–1906Emma Ware
1887–1906Fredrick Motronia (step-son)
1919–1933Richard Thiede

1715 South 6th Street

1715 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1939Ferdinand F. Larkin Sr.

1722 South 6th Street

1722 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1882–1887John W. Helmbold Sr. & Family
1882–1887John W. & Maggie Helmbold
1882–1887John W. Helmbold Jr.
1888–1891William H. Corson

1723 South 6th Street

1723 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1947August F. Haverkampf

1725 South 6th Street

1725 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888, 1893–1910Henry Bunting & Family (Henry & Clara Taylor Bunting, LeRoy, Ralph H., Edna, Blanche Bunting)

1731 South 6th Street

1731 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1734 South 6th Street

1734 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1942Grzegorz Torgun & Family
1942Grzegorz & Marja Torgun
1942 George Torgun
1942Nicholas Torgun
1947No listing in directory

1737 South 6th Street

1737 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1956Anna Kropski

1740 South 6th Street

1740 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1949Richard Mascio

1744 South 6th Street

1744 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Mary E. Tillman

1750 South 6th Street

1750 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1891–1892Albert E. James & Family
1891–1892Albert E. & Katherine James
1910s–1930sFrank Moss & Family
1910s–1930sFrank and Mary Gotchel Moss

1759 South 6th Street

1759 South 6th Street — 1700 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1923 Timothy J. Collins
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory

1800 Block of South 6th Street

1823 South 6th Street, July 30, 2011

1823 South 6th Street, July 30, 2011. Home of the Cesare Dolente family, 1920–1947.

1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1900–1947.

1812 South 6th Street

1812 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1814 South 6th Street

1814 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1815 South 6th Street

1815 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory
2011Gone

1816 South 6th Street

1816 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1817 South 6th Street

1817 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1818 South 6th Street

1818 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Roland Bradford

1819 South 6th Street

1819 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1820 South 6th Street

1820 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1821 South 6th Street

1821 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1822 South 6th Street

1822 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1823 South 6th Street

1823 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920–1947Cesare Dolente & Family
1920–1947Camden Courier-Post
1920–1947Cesare & Elizabeth Bellini Dolente
1920–1947Carlo Dolente
1920–1947Domenica "Dorothy" "Minnie" Dolente
1920–1947Frank Dolente
1920–1947Anna Dolente

1824 South 6th Street

1824 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1825 South 6th Street

1825 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1826 South 6th Street

1826 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1827 South 6th Street

1827 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1828 South 6th Street

1828 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1829 South 6th Street

1829 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1830 South 6th Street

1830 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1831 South 6th Street

1831 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900August Flood
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1832 South 6th Street

1832 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1833 South 6th Street

1833 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1834 South 6th Street

1834 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1835 South 6th Street

1835 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1947No listing in directory

1836 South 6th Street

1836 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1916–1918Solomon Rubin & Family (grocery)
1916–1918Solomon & Bessie Rubin
1916–1918Harry Rubin

1837 South 6th Street

1837 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
2011Gone

1839 South 6th Street

1839 South 6th Street — 1800 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1960sJoseph Gotchel & Family (grocery)
1924–1960sStella Gotchel
1924–1960sPaul Gotchel
1924–1960sJoseph & Anna Gotchel
1924–1960sRose Gotchel
1924–1960sLena Gotchel
1924–1960sPeter Gotchel
2011Gone

Joseph Gotchel & Family

Joseph Gotchel's grocery store at 1839 South 6th Street Left: Joseph Gotchel, 1839 South 6th Street Gotchel family at 1839 South 6th Street

Joseph Gotchel & Family, 1839 South 6th Street, 1924–1960s. Grocery store. Joseph & Anna Gotchel; Stella, Paul, Rose, Lena, Peter Gotchel.

Corner of South 6th Street and Viola Street, looking east, May 13, 1951

Looking east on Viola Street from South 6th Street, May 13, 1951. The Gotchel store at 1839 is at left. Photographed during the May Day Procession at the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart.

Games Wanted

Camden Courier-Post —

Games Wanted - Camden Courier-Post, June 3, 1932

Chelton A. C. is anxious to arrange home games for Tuesdays and Thursdays and away games for Saturdays and Sundays with teams such as Almonesson, Glendora, Barrington and other clubs of similar calibre. Roland Bradford, 1818 South Sixth street.

Danica A. C. wishes to schedule games with second class teams in South Jersey. George Suleta, 1815 Salem street, Camden.

Tenth Ward Republican Club, a first class team, playing home on Wednesdays and away over the weekend, is anxious to arrange games with clubs in South Jersey. The club is fully uniformed. Ray Dolan, Tenth Ward Republican Club, Fifth and Pearl streets.

Mohawk is anxious to book tilts either at home or away with second class uniformed teams in Camden and South Jersey. Perry Stubbs, 416 Hunter street, Gloucester.

Sterling A. C. desires to arrange home and away games with 14-16-year-old clubs in this locality. Albert Flacco, 332 Viola street.

Walt Whitman, of the Camden Minor League, wishes to arrange away games for Saturday and Sunday with first class taems [sic] in South Jersey. Ed Scheflen, Camden 8557.

Haddonfield of the Lower Camden County League desires to arrange an away game Sunday with any first-class club in South Jersey offering a fair guarantee. Hubert Connell, 628 Elm street, Camden. Call C2431-R. after 9 p. m.

‘POYNTERS’ SEEK TILTS

The Pyne Poynt A. A., of the Reesman Twilight League, is anxious to obtain games for Saturdays and Sundays either at home or away. For games call Ed Myers, 1881-W.

SHAMROCKS SIGN ONE

The Shamrock club of the Camden Amateur League added Joseph McDermott to its roster last night, while at the same time turned in the release for George Perks.

1900 Block of South 6th Street

Sam's Tavern, 1903 South 6th Street, 1951–1963

Sam's Tavern, 1903 South 6th Street — Camden Courier-Post, June 5, 1963. Samuel M. and Margaret A. Cameron, proprietors.

1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1900s–1964.

1900 South 6th Street

1900 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910s–1920sWilliam H. Tansky & Family
1910s–1920sWilliam & Wanda Tansky
1910s–1920s William H. Tansky Jr.
1910s–1920sBenjamin Tansky
1910s–1920sEdmond Tansky
1910s–1920sLaura Tansky
1910s–1920sBertha Tansky
1910s–1920sMary Tansky
1940–1941Grzegorz Torgun & Family
1940–1941Grzegorz & Marja Torgun
1940–1941 George Torgun
1940–1941Nicholas Torgun

1901 South 6th Street

1901 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s–1910sJoseph Gotchel & Family
1900s–1910sJoseph & Anna Gotchel
1900s–1910sMary Gotchel
1900s–1910sStella (Sarah) Gotchel
1900s–1910sPaul (Harry) Gotchel
1900s–1910sRose Gotchel
1900s–1910sLena Gotchel
1910s–1947Tony DiCamillo & Family (shoe repair)

1903 South 6th Street

1903 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1943Tansky's Cafe — William & Wanda Tansky, William H. Tansky Jr., Benjamin Tansky
—Benjamin Tansky
1946–1948Dominik's Cafe
1948Lou's Cafe — Louis Zaleski
1948Pup's Cafe — Mary Stypinski
1949–1951Val's Cafe — Walenty Soltys
1951–1963Sam's Tavern — Samuel M. & Margaret A. Cameron
1963–1964Gay's Tavern — Pedro J. Gay
1963–1964Gays Tavern Pedro J. Gay
1964Lillian Yeager

1906 South 6th Street

1906 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900s–1920sCamden Ice Company
1918–1920Joseph Gotchel & Family (Joseph & Anna Gotchel, Stella, Paul, Rose, Lena, Peter Gotchel)

1908 South 6th Street

1908 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Camden Ice Company

1910–1916 South 6th Street

1910–1916 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909No listing in directory
1911–1913Camden Ice Company (Calvin L. Sigle, George W. Burris, Laura M. Sigle)
1911–1913Camden Ice Company
1912City DirectoryJuly 19, 1911

1913 South 6th Street

1913 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940sFrank Youker & Family
1940sFrank & Rose Gotchel Youker

1930 South 6th Street

1930 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s–1960sSamuel M. Langston Company

1939 South 6th Street

1939 South 6th Street — 1900 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924No listing in directory
1929No listing in directory
1933Mrs. Anna Jaspan
1947No listing in directory

2000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

Historical records.

2000 Block of South 6th Street

2000 Block of South 6th Street — 2000 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

Camden Brewery

Camden Brewery, August 27, 1936 Camden Brewery, 1950s — intersection of South 6th Street and Bulson Street

Camden Brewery, 2100 Block of South 6th Street, 1930s–1960s. The brewery occupied the west side of South 6th Street from Bulson Street north to Chelton Avenue.

2100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

Historical records, 1936–1964.

2100 Block South 6th Street

2100 Block South 6th Street — 2100 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930s–1960s Camden Brewery

2300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants

Historical records.

2300 Block of South 6th Street

2300 Block of South 6th Street — 2300 Block of South 6th Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade

Camden Courier-Post —

Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934 Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934, part 2 Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934, part 3 Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934, part 4 Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934, part 5 Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934, part 6

Youth Cut in Chest by Bullet; Bystander Cut on Head

POLITICAL LEADERS PUT TO QUIZ BY DETECTIVES

At least one person was shot and many were hurt in a street battle last night that was the aftermath of a bitter political contest at the primary election between rival Republicans [sic] factions in the Eighth ward.

When nearly a score of police arrived in response to a riot call from Sixth and Viola streets a crowd of 1000 excited residents of the ward had gathered there and a dozen or more individual combats were in progress.

Bullet Hits Boy

Nicholas Sustich, 15, of 1804 Hale street, was treated at Cooper hospital for a flesh wound of the chest, which police said was caused by a ricocheting bullet.

Joseph Samenick, 1005 South Sixth street, was treated at the West Jersey Homeopathic hospital for cuts on the forehead. He claimed to be an innocent bystander.

Others were treated for minor injuries by local or family physicians, having been taken away from the scene of the riot by friends before the arrival of the police.

Detectives investigated a report that Isaac D. Shute, former city detective and former county committeeman from the Eighth Ward, had been shot in the leg. According to Detective George Zietz, he learned from a member of Shute’s family that he had received treatment by a physician for cuts of the right hand resulting from a fall.

After questioning a score of persons at detective headquarters last night, including leaders of each of the rival Republican factions, John Hess, 34, of 1825 South Sixth street, was arrested on the charge of illegal possession of firearms and held in $1000 bail for a hearing in police court this morning.

Parade Starts Melee

According to Zeitz, the melee started when a parade led by Nicholas Scarduzio, of 1863 South Fourth street, a former summer policeman, stopped in front of the saloon of William Tansky, Jr., 1903 South Sixth street, two doors below Viola street.

Tansky was unsuccesful [sic] candidate for the post of county committeeman in the Tuesday primaries. He was reputed to be backed by the Woodruff-Verga faction.

The parade was in celebration of the victory of Dr. Orris W. Saunders, who won the Republican nomination for freeholder, defeating Walter Sekula, the incumbent, of Edmund A. Walsh, who defeated Tansky, and of Maime F. Piraine, re-elected county committeewoman over Theresa Malony Di Lello. The successful candidates were of the Baird-Baker faction.

Walsh and Miss Piraine were in the parade, according to Zeitz. The celebration of victory had started the night before and centered largely throughout the day in the saloon of Celie Ellis, across the street from that of Tansky.

More than 100 persons were in the procession, which was led by an improvised band of accordians [sic], fifes, drums and bugles.

When it stopped in front of the Tansky place, according to the police, Benjamin Tansky, 30, a brother of the proprietor, came to the door of the saloon and objected to the political jibes that were hurled by the parading factionalists.

Bloody Free-For-All

When the paraders remained, the police said, hot words were exchanged, a dozen or more others who were in the Tansky place came out, and the battle started.

Eye-witnesses described it later as a bloody free-for-all in which fists and “billies” were used. The riot call was sent to police at 7.30.

Motorcycle policemen converged to the scene and a squad of detectives arrived led by Zietz and including Leon Branch, Fiore Troncone and Richard Donnelly. Many of the combatants fled, but hundreds remained as police and detectives strove to locate the injured, most of whom had been removed.

Scarduzio Beaten Badly

They learned that Scarduzio had been badly beaten on the head and that two shots had been fired in the melee.

According to Zietz, Hess admitted at detective headquarters that he had fired the shots from a revolver which he had procured from back of the Tansky bar, and that he had aimed the shots at the pavement for the purpose of “scaring” the parade crowd away.

Benjamin Tansky told police that when he remonstrated with the rival political group about 15 of them attacked him. They knocked him down, he said, and poked him in the eye with a pole. He exhibited a black eye to substantiate his story.

Zietz said he found a loaded revolver, with two shells fired, in a radio cabinet in the living room behind Tansky’s barroom.

Shipyard Wages Lure to Firemen

Camden Post-Telegram —

Shipyard Wages Lure to Firemen - Camden Post-Telegram, March 22, 1918

Chief Presents Six Resignations at Meeting of Council Commission.

MERTZ IS CAPTAIN IN WHITSELL’S PLACE

Camden’s Fire Department has been hard hit by the call of the shipyards and death. The report of Fire Chief Peter B. Carter presented last night at the meeting of the Fire Committee of City Council showed six resignations, two deaths and one vacancy from the draft.

The resignations follows [sic]: Louis Neuman, No. 3 Truck Company; George H. Pursglove, No. 7 Engine Company; Roy De Haven, Julius Hubert and Harry W. Stone, No. 3 Truck Company, and Lieutenant Joseph Sparks, No. 7 Engine Company.

Deaths reported were Captain Samuel Whitzell, of No. 1 Engine Company, and William Elberson, of Headquarters. William Schucher, of No. 4, was drafted into the Army.

To take the place of Captain Whitzell, Lieutenant Walter Mertz, of the same company, was appointed captain, and Horace Kerns was made lieutenant. The following appointments were made by the Fire Committee: Robert L. Knox, 822 Division street, to fill place of Julius Hunbert [sic]; Allen Palmer, 120 North Eleventh street, for vacancy of Louis Neuman; Clarence Pursglove, 751 Mt. Vernon street, taking place of his brother George; Anthony Paradise, 658 South Second street, filling place of Roy De Haven; Harry B. Maxwell, 422 North Sixth street, for vacancy of Harry W. Stone; Robert Welsh, 512 Borton street, vacancy of William Schucher, and William Vile, 570 Carman street, to fill place of Captain Whitzell.

The American La France Company was awarder [sic] the contract to furnish a new two-in-one motor apparatus for $10,000.

A petition from members of the Firemen’s Pension Fund asked that the rule of ten years’ apprenticeship be abolished in view of the wages paid men employed in other industries. The petition requests that all men in the department be placed on full salary at once. The petition will be presented to City Council.

Dismissed as Tipsy, Fireman Is Heard in Civil Service Plea

Camden Courier-Post —

Dismissed as Tipsy, Fireman Is Heard in Civil Service Plea - Camden Courier-Post, May 25, 1934

‘Drunk on Duty’, Former Associates Testify at Garner’s Hearing

DECISION IS RESERVED

Testimony by fellow firemen that he “was so drunk he had to be lifted off a fire truck” marked the hearing of George W. Garner, a city fireman of 1266 Kenwood avenue, before Civil Service Commissioner William S. Etiles [sic] yesterday.

The case was the first Civil Service hearing in Camden in two years. Commissioner Stiles reserved decision.

Garner was dismissed on May 4, 1934, by Mayor Stewart in his capacity of director of public safety. The charge was “continued disobedience of orders and intoxication while on duty.” The defendant is married and has two children, one four years and one only three days old.

Capt. James Young, Garner’s superior officer at Engine Company No. 2, 619 Kaighn avenue, testified that he found Garner in a saloon with a woman on the evening of April 30 last.

Ignored Orders

“Garner had asked permission to go out about 7 o’clock and get coffee for the men,” said Captain Young. “Two hours later he went out without permission.

“Senior Captain Lawrence Newton and I went looking for him and found him in a saloon operated by Umberto DiClaudio at Sixth and Kaighn avenue. He was sitting at a table with a woman.

“I asked him what he was doing and he said the woman had a toothache.

“At 2.29 a. m. an alarm sounded, and when we went to take out the fire truck Garner was on the running board unconscious. We couldn’t rouse him and I had to assign two men, Chester Price and Irving Bishop, to carry him off. He was too intoxicated to move.”

Price and Bishop corroborated the testimony of their captain, as also did James A. Creato and William Cummerford. Battalion Chief Leonard Magee, of Engine Company No. 3, testified he saw Garner after the fire and “the man was in a stupor.”

Looked Bad Next Day

Acting Fire Chief John H. Lennox said the next morning when he saw Garner, “He looked to me as if he had had a bad night.”

DiClaudio, the saloon proprietor, denied that Garner had bought anything to drink, saying he sold him 12 boiled eggs to eat.

Garner, on the stand, entered a general denial of the charges. He was represented by Morris Tartar.

Assistant City Solicitor Lewis Lieberman showed the court a resignation signed by Garner and dated March 10.

Fatal fire truck crash is blamed on their sirens

Camden Courier-Post —

By TONY DAVIS
Courier-Post Staff

A Camden fire official said he believes Saturday’s collision of two fire trucks that killed one person and injured 14 others was caused by the inability of the drivers to hear each other’s vehicle over their own sirens.

However, Acting First Battalion Chief Joseph Anderson stressed that he was only “theorizing” and that a full investigation of the crash would begin today. The two trucks, Engines One and Eight, collided at 6th and Pine Streets at about 5:15 pm, Saturday, Anderson said.

The impact of the crash sent Engine Eight, which was heading north on 6th Street, into the Livecchi grocery store while Engine One, which was heading east on Pine Street, stopped safely about one block north on 6th Street, Anderson said.

The two vehicles were en route to the scene of a minor fire in a vacant house about two blocks from the scene of the collision. Anderson said another truck was called to extinguish the blaze.

Dead was 65-year-old Wilkins Tisdale, of 583 Line Street, Camden, according to Blair M. Murphy, an investigator for the Camden County Medical Examiner’s office. Murphy said the causes of death were internal injuries and a severed arm.

Tisdale, a retired construction worker who had just walked out of the grocery store, was pinned for 90 minutes under a large freezer in the store, Anderson said.

Juanita Dorsey, 34, 704 Pine Street Camden, who had been standing inside the store, was pinned under the freezer when it was hit by the truck, Anderson said. The woman was listed in satisfactory condition in Cooper Hospital with back injuries.

Richard Sorenson, a hoseman for Engine Eight, was in critical condition at Cooper with a punctured lung, broken ribs and a broken nose, right shoulder and right arm.

Paul Delfing, driver of Engine One, and James Peterson, driver of Engine Eight, were both pinned inside the cabs of their vehicles for 20 minutes, and later treated and released from Cooper for head and facial injuries, Anderson said.

Sorenson and five other firemen on the two trucks were all thrown from them by the crash. The other firemen injured were Joseph Chelhowski, captain of Engine Eight, who was in satisfactory condition in West Jersey Hospital, Northern Division with ankle injuries and bruises.

Albert Collum, captain of Engine One, who was in stable condition at Cooper with a concussion, a broken finger, contusions and bruises.

William Smith, a hoseman for Engine Eight, who was being held for observation at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital with head and facial cuts and bruises.

John Asher, a hoseman for Engine One, and Paul Capazola, a hoseman for Engine Eight, who were treated and released from Cooper for cuts and bruises.

Five other persons were injured, none seriously, in the crash. One, Leonard Medford, of 611 Line Street, Camden, was in satisfactory condition at Cooper Hospital with leg injuries. The others were all treated and released from Cooper and Lourdes hospitals.

Anderson said the diesel engines of the two trucks both received “extensive” damage and that he did not know if the eight-year-old trucks, which he said usually last 15 years, could be used again.

Chief Edward V. Michalak said the department has pressed two of its older, auxiliary pumpers into service to keep the city’s nine engine companies and three ladder companies at full strength.

Michalak said, however, that the two trucks damaged were among the newest the City owned.

Although he would put no dollar estimate on the damages, he said they were “excessive” and that it would not be known until at least Tuesday whether they could be repaired.

The city will not be receiving any new fire trucks until next April, when delivery of four pumpers is expected.

Although the city has experienced fire truck mishaps before, the chief, a 33-year veteran of the force, said this was the most serious.

He would not comment on the cause of the accident pending completion of the department’s investigation.

Marriage Licenses

Camden Courier-Post —

Marriage Licenses - Camden Courier-Post, November 17, 1949

Clarence Reed, 41, of 258 Sycamore street, and Rebecca Herbert, 32, of 532 Liberty street.

James Ford, 22, of 333 Berkley street, and Maybell Robinson, 21, of 1934 Kossuth street.

Clair M. Purdy, 51, of 180 Edgewood avenue, Audubon, and Henrietta M. Trautman, 48, of 1468 Crestmont terrace.

Elwood F. Laird, 38, of 2303 South Seventh street, and Margaret M. Toy, 41, of 2310 South Seventh street.

Richard H. Krieg, 22, of 227 North Forty-second street, and Jacqueline M. Tobin, 19, same address.

Homer D. Hoffa Jr., 22, of 39 East Collings avenue, Collingswood, and Nancy L. Bellshot, 18, of 617 North Sixth street.

Alveston Gary, 31, of 1504 Mt. Vernon street, Philadelphia, and Lorraine Harris, 19, of 637 Bailey street.

Owen Bellamy, 25, of 715 North American street, and Irene Smith, 23, of 629 North Tenth street, both of Philadelphia.

Russell E. Mattson, 28, of 333 North Thirty-eighth street, and Ruth M. MacDonald, of 46 North Thirty-third street.

At Philadelphia

Arthur Kees, 21, Audubon, and Joan Joyce, 18, 607 South Forty-second street, Philadelphia

At Elkton, Md.

Samuel B. Seeney Jr., 34, and Nettie L. Slembach, 36, Camden.

William E. Hickman, 21, Elmer, and Loretta Thompson, 17, Glassboro.

Rocco J. Nasuti, 24, and Lillian C. Baker, 21, Camden.

Camden’s Big Fire

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden’s Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 1890

THE DYE WORKS OF JOHN J. HAYES COMPLETELY DESTROYED.

Two Firemen’ [sic] Injured and an Engine Badly Damaged—Other News from Across the River.

A fire at Sixth and Mechanic streets, Camden, yesterday afternoon, destroyed the dye works of John J. Hayes. About 5 o’clock workmen were startled by the cry of “Fire!” from an outsider. The drying room, which was in the main building, was found to be in flames. The workmen rushed through the building to close down the windows to cut off the draught, but soon had to cease, owing to the rapid spread of the flames. The men had hardly got out before the whole building was enveloped in flames. The two adjoining buildings soon caught, and within fifteen minutes the whole establishment was on fire. The entire fire department was out, but only three engines could get into service. No. 3 engine, while attempting to round the corner at Sixth and Mechanic streets, got in a hole, was upset and so badly damaged that it was totally unfit for use. Driver Samuel Lodge leaped from his feat [sic] in time to escape being injured.

At 6 o’clock the front of the main building fell in. Foreman Mortimer Wilson, of No. 3; Hoseman William Bogia, of No. 1, and Ladderman Charles Robinson were at this point and had a close call. Foreman Wilson was badly burned about the face and hands and sustained a scalp wound. He was conveyed to the Cooper Hospital. Hoseman Bogia had his leg injured, Robinson escaped uninjured.

The buildings and stock were all destroyed. Mr. Hayes, who operates the dye works, places his loss at $15,000. He is unable to tell how much insurance he has, as all his papers and books were burned up. Daniel Scofield, the owner of the building, puts his loss at $10,000, making a total loss of $25,000.

3-Alarm Fire Rakes Building

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3-Alarm Fire Rakes Building - Camden Courier-Post, April 28, 1962 3-Alarm Fire Rakes Building - Camden Courier-Post, April 28, 1962 3-Alarm Fire Rakes Building - Camden Courier-Post, April 28, 1962

Courier-Post Photo by Sam Kuchner

HEAVY BLACK SMOKE pours from a vacant factory and warehouse building formerly owned by the Fuller Brush Co. at 6th st. and Atlantic ave. this morning as a three-alarm fire destroyed the structure. The amount of the loss has not been determined.

Fire early today razed a condemned two-story brick vacant factory and warehouse formerly owned by the Fuller Brush Co. at 6th st. and Atlantic ave. There was no estimate of the loss.

Deputy Fire Marshal John Gaffney said a man who declined to identify himself reported seeing two boys about 14 years of age, running from the building only minutes before the fire was discovered. Gaffney said he has begun an investigation into the cause of the blaze and to locate the youths.

There were no injuries reported but members of Engine Company 8 at 6th st. and Kaighns ave., who were among the first on the scene, escaped being burned seriously and losing a 1,000-gallon pumper after they were engulfed in a ball of flame that shot from the north wall of the structure.

Heavy black smoke could be seen over a wide area.

Spotted Smoke

The first of three alarms was reported at 6:10 a.m. when Donald Fuhrer, an employe of Modern Hard Chrome, located across the street from the building, spotted smoke over the roof of the warehouse.

Two more alarms were reported at 6:15 and 6:18 a.m. as the fire raged out of control, endangering Modern Hard Chrome and Modern Auto Body plants, both of which are adjacent to the factory building.

Capt. Philip Farrow, 46, of 219 N. 6th st., with Engine Company 8, reported that he had never seen a building go “so fast in all my 21 years on the fire department.”

Ball of Flame

Farrow said when he first arrived fire was burning on the south side of the building near the roof. He said the pumper went to Atlantic ave. and firemen were hooking up to a hydrant when a ball of flame shot out and engulfed the men and truck. He said Robert Thomas, driver of the pumper, was forced to put his heavy coat over his head to protect himself so that he could drive the pumper out of the area. Farrow said the men didn’t have time to unhook the hoses.

Fire Chief Edward MacDowell said the building was condemned by the city last summer after a section of the roof collapsed spilling bricks and wooden timbers to the street and sidewalk.

Licks Utility Poles

Mild warm air fanned the blaze and kept heavy black smoke close to the ground and for long periods of time firemen worked in total blackness shifting two-and-a-half-inch water lines from one area of the building to another.

During the early minutes of the blaze, fire licked at utility poles on Atlantic ave. and burned electric wires carrying the only source of power to West Jersey Hospital about six blocks away. The power to the hospital was not cut off.

Before the blaze was declared under control at about 7 o’clock, flames shot 125 feet out from the east side of the building setting small grass fires on vacant land near S. 7th st.

Firemen used two aerial ladders along with 10 other pieces of equipment and 50 men to fight the blaze. The rescue squad also stood by as a precautionary measure.

Chief MacDowell said the building was more than 50 years old. It once was the site of the city’s first supermarket known as the Giant Tiger.

The fire chief said the city has been trying to get the building demolished but was having difficulty because of the number of owners involved.

Club Endorsement Denied in 8th Ward

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Club Endorsement Denied in 8th Ward - Camden Courier-Post, May 8, 1934 Club Endorsement Denied in 8th Ward - Camden Courier-Post, May 8, 1934 Club Endorsement Denied in 8th Ward - Camden Courier-Post, May 8, 1934

Action Rescinded Due to Choice of Running Mates, Candidate Says

Denial was made yesterday by three Eighth ward candidates, Walter Sekula, William Tansky, Jr., and Mrs. Theresa Maloney Die [sic] Lello, that their opponents have the endorsement of two political clubs.

Sekula is candidate for re-election as freeholder; Tansky is a candidate for Republican county committeeman, and Mrs. Di Lello is running with them for county committeewoman.

All three are “Regular Organization Republican” candidates, and announce their endorsement by the Baird-Baker faction.

Opposing them are Mrs. Mamie F. Piraine, for committeewoman; Dr. Oris W. Saunders, for freeholder, and Edmund A. Welsh [sic], for committeeman. Their designation is “Regular Republican.”

The Regular Organization Republican candidates deny their rivals have the support of the Eighth Ward Republican Club, 1718 Broadway, and the William Jones Republican Club, 707 Ferry avenue.

“Mrs. Piraine,” said Tansky, “was endorsed by the Eighth Ward Republican Club with the understanding she would run with two other candidates. After secret meetings, she picked up two candidates who were not members of the club, Walsh and Dr. Saunders.

“As a result, the club held a special meeting and rescinded its motion endorsing Mrs. Piraine.”

“Dr. Saunders cannot rightfully claim affiliation as a Regular Republican by virtue of his candidacy in 1927 on a Non-Partisan ticket,” Tansky said.

Tansky has served in the United States Army and Navy with three overseas enlistments. He has resided 24 years in the Eighth ward, is married and has two children. He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post No. 980.

Sekula has been in the trucking business for 15 years at 1635 South Sixth street, while Mrs. Di Lello conducts a confectionery store at Kossuth street and Ferry avenue. She was born and reared in the Eighth

Shooting Suspect in 8th Ward Riot Held in $1000 Bail

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Shooting Suspect in 8th Ward Riot Held in $1000 Bail - Camden Courier-Post, May 18, 1934 Shooting Suspect in 8th Ward Riot Held in $1000 Bail - Camden Courier-Post, May 18, 1934 Shooting Suspect in 8th Ward Riot Held in $1000 Bail - Camden Courier-Post, May 18, 1934

John Hess Accused of Firing Two Shots; Denies Illegal Possession of Pistol

FACTION SPITE REVEALED

The man who allegedly fired two shots during Wednesday’s Eighth Ward rioting, John Hess, 34, of 1825 South Sixth street, is shown at the left in police court yesterday. To the right is his counsil [sic], Edward V. Martino. Hess pleaded not guilty to illegal possession of firearms and was held for the grand jury.

Alleged to have fired two shots in a riot at Sixth and Viola streets Wednesday night, staged by groups of political factions in the Eighth Ward, John Hess, 34, of 1825 South Sixth street, was held in $1000 bail for the grand jury yesterday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

Hess pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal possession of firearms. A 15-year-old boy was slightly wounded by a ricochetting bullet and several persons were badly beaten in factional melees.

It was learned yesterday that among the injured was a 14-year-old girl, Stella Wojiechowski [sic], of 1907 South Sixth street, who said that someone punched her on the mouth. She and the boy who was shot, Nicholas Sustich, of 1804 Hale street, were bystanders.

The disorder was over the ward contest between Republicans in the primary contest, it was stated yesterday by Walter Sekula, defeated candidate for the freeholder nomination, who said he arrived at the scene of the riot at the time the police patrol appeared in response to a riot call.

Sekula asserted that candidates on both local tickets had worked on behalf of the Bard-Baker [sic] county slate, but that he had been accused of working for the Woodruff-Verga ticket, and that he had confronted his accuser with David Baird, Jr., and forced the admission that the accusation was without foundation.

During that conversation, Sekula revealed, William Tansky, defeated candidate for county committeeman, asserted there had been “cutting of the head of the Baird-Baker ticket.” It was in front of Tansky’s saloon, near Eighth and Viola streets, that the riot occurred when an impromptu parade in celebration of the victory of the opposing faction halted there.

Banquet to Honor John S. M’Taggart

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Banquet to Honor John S. M’Taggart - Camden Courier-Post, March 10, 1934

Popular Patrolman Will Be Guest at G.O.P. Club in Sixth Ward

To Be Feted

JOHN S. M’TAGGART

A testimonial dinner will be tendered Patrolman John S. McTaggart, well known member of the Camden police force, at 8 p. m. next Friday at the Sixth Ward Republican Club.

Officer McTaggart, who resides at 806 South Sixth street, is particularly popular in the Sixth ward. He has worked there a number of years and distributes a large quantity of food and clothing to the poor throughout the year. His charitable activities have made him innumerable friends. He was a member of the city fire department before becoming a policeman. He was working in William Mills’ butcher shop, at Broadway and Jackson street, in 1910 when he was appointed to the fire department by Monte Bessor, then a city councilman. McTaggart was the youngest man to have ever won appointment to the fire department.

Acting Mayor Frank S. Van Hart transferred McTaggart to the police department in 1922.

Among the invited dinner guests will be former U. S. Senator David Baird, Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, State Senator Albert S. Woodruff, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Verga, the five city commissioners and a large group of Sixth ward Republicans.

The committee in charge of the dinner comprises Michael Durkin, former City Detective Theodore Guthrie, George Chambers, Joseph Leonard, Howard B. Dyer, John Breslin, Miss Mary Hartung and Miss Marie Doyle.

Camden News Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden News Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 1910

This morning 168 enumerators will begin taking the census for Uncle Sam in the First Congressional district of New Jersey, Camden, Gloucester and Salem counties. Supervisor William D. Brown in Camden yesterday gave final instructions to the corps of workers and he appointed Sidney P. McCord and Morris Odell to oversee the work in Camden City proper.

With the view of gathering information for future use, Mayor Charles H. Ellis, City Solicitor Bleakley, Senator William J. Bradley and members of City Council accompanied by the State Riparian Commission went along Camden’s river front yesterday. Camden intends developing its river front as rapidly as possible.

In a new market basket, with several changes of clothing and a bottle filled with milk by his side, a baby boy, apparently about six weeks old, was found early yesterday morning on a step on South Sixth street. Pinned to the youngster was this unsigned note: “To whoever finds this little dear: Will you kindly see that this baby is taken to the Homeopathic Hospital, where I know it will be properly cared for.”

Mayor Ellis yesterday received a letter from Louis Kennedy, of New Orleans, inquiring about Mrs. Ida S. Kennedy, whose whereabouts he desires to know.

A struck panel of forty-eight jurors was drawn yesterday by Sheriff Hatch to be used in the trial of former City Treasurer Ira S. Champion, of Ocean City, who is under indictment for forging a $7000 promissory note. The trial will take place next Wednesday.

Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire

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Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942 Lester Store Razed By $100,000 Fire - Camden Courier-Post, March 16, 1942

Flames on Broadway Are Subdued After Seven-Hour Battle

The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester, at 713 Broadway, was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin following an explosion late Saturday night.

Eight companies fought the two-alarm fire for seven hours and succeeded in saving adjoining buildings in the block which were threatened by the roaring flames. An invalid woman was carried to safety. Two other persons fled to the street. One fireman was injured.

Damage was estimated at $100,000 by A. Lee Newman, manager. S. Lester, proprietor, returned from Florida yesterday to learn of the misfortune.

Fire Chief John H. Lennox today said the cause of the fire probably never will be known.

“All we know is that it started on the first floor,” Chief Lennox said. “The basement was all right so it was not the heating system that caused it.

“The store was closed at 10.25 p. m. What happened between then and 11.24, when the first alarm came in, we’ll probably never know, except that there was an explosion. So aflame was the building when firemen arrived that it was impossible to trace the fire’s origin.”

Three Explosions

The fire started in the building at 11.18 p.m., the time being fixed by an automatic alarm system. Sheets of flame shot through the first and second floor windows just as the audience was leaving the last show of the Towers Theatre across the street.

Alarms were turned in by three persons. A boy ran into the drug store of Theodore Ellis, at Broadway and Pine street; a pedestrian ran to the firehouse of Engine Company No. 1, at Fourth and Pine streets, and an alarm was sounded by an employe of a private watchman service summoned by breaking of an electric circuit by the explosion.

Engine Co. 1, 2 and 8 and Truck Co. No. 1 answered the first alarm under Acting Deputy Fire Chief William Van Pfefferle, who turned in the second alarm, bringing Engine Co. 3, 6 and 7 and Truck Co. No. 2, together with Fire Chief Lennox and Police Chief George Frost.

Part of the roof fell in shortly after 2 a.m., according to the report of Acting Battalion Chief Laurence Newton.

It was 6.30 a.m. yesterday before the last of the firemen pulled away. During the seven hours traffic was routed off Broadway. Southbound traffic was sent down Fifth street, northbound traffic up Sixth street, diversion points being Royden and Spruce streets.

Some damage was done to the roof and smoke and water did other damage to the Gray Hat Shop at 717 Broadway. Carl Schwartz and his wife, Fay, proprietor of the hat shop, were forced to flee from their apartment above their store.

Mrs. Catherine Burrichter, an invalid living in a two-story house at 711 Broadway, was carried out by firemen. The roof of the Burrichter home was slightly damaged by fire, while smoke and water poured through the house.

Hoseman Stephan Szwack, 37, of 1234 Dayton street, attached to Engine Co. No. 8, suffered a cut on the left hand while fighting the fire. He was treated at West Jersey Hospital.

Crowds were attracted to the scene by the explosions and the flames.

Lester was met in Philadelphia by Newman as he returned from Florida yesterday, and told what had happened.

To Open Temporary Store

Lester said a temporary store will be opened within a few days while a new store is being built. Collection records and account books were saved by their steel containers, Lester explained, and were moved to the office of Dr. Benjamin W. Kauffman at 706 Broadway.

“I am glad the explosions and fire did not occur until after 11 o’clock,” Lester said. “At that time the store was closed, so no customers or employees could be injured.”

Lester had been in business at 713 Broadway since 1935. His first Broadway store was opened at 936 Broadway in 1928.

The proprietor immediately took charge of salvaging unharmed merchandise, moving of records, search for a temporary store location and outlining plans for a new building with an architect.

“We shall start at once to construct the finest store in South Jersey,” Lester said. “Our temporary store will be open with new merchandise for the Easter season.”

Thieves Foiled in Attempt to Rob Sears, Roebuck Store

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Thieves Foiled in Attempt to Rob Sears, Roebuck Store - Camden Courier-Post, November 3, 1932

Two Youths Believed to Have Plunged in River to Escape Police; Shots Fired as They Elude Pursuers

Surprised in the act of forcing their way into the Sears-Roebuck store at Bridge boulevard and Federal street, two youths escaped last night amid a burst of bullets.

Chased by an attendant of a nearby service station, the pair fled across the boulevard and were lost in the swamp along the Cooper river. Police believe they swam the river to escape.

Humphrey Toomey, 60, of 1640 South Sixth street, outside watchman of the Sears store, discovered the youths attempting to pry open a window on the north side of the building—the same window through which entrance was gained several months ago when several hundred dollars worth of merchandise was stolen.

The window is ten feet above ground. One youth was standing on the shoulders of the other, and had succeeded in removing the wire screen.

Toomey blew his police whistle, attracting the attention of Frank McClernan, of Clementon, a gas station attendant, who ran to the scene as Toomey fired one shot after the disappearing marauders.

Handing his revolver to McClernan, Toomey asked him to chase the youths. McClernan fired all four remaining bullets in the weapon after the rapidly disappearing pair, and chased them to the bank of the river where he lost them.

Meanwhile, an alarm had been sounded by Toomey, and a detail of police, headed by Lieut. Herbert Anderson, arrived and joined McClernan in the search.

McClernan said he did not think he had wounded either of the youths, who were described by Toomey as being between 16 and 20 years old. Darkness, Toomey added, made it impossible for him to describe them any further.

Although there is no electrically operated burglar alarm system in the Sear’s [sic] store, there are two watchmen—one inside and the other outside.

The detectives who aided in the vain search are Robert Ashenfelter, Walter Smith, John Trout and Harry Kyler.

Notice of Application

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Notice of Application - Camden Courier-Post, June 21, 1958

Take notice that the Camden Post 980, Inc. V.F.W. has applied to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Camden for renewal of a Club License for premises situated at 61 South 6th St., Camden, N. J.

The names and addresses of the officers of this Post and the offices they fill respectively are:

Frank Luczkiewicz, 704 Carman St., Camden, N. J., Commander.

Albert J. Otto, Sr., 820 Grant St., Camden, N.J., Adjutant.

Edward F. Link, 532 York St., Camden, N. J., Quartermaster.

The names and addresses of the Trustees of this Post are:

Nathan N. Wolpert, 1432 Broadway, Camden, N. J.

William R. Pine, 1553 Greenwood Ave., Camden, N. J.

William E. Kucker, 205 Morse St., Camden, N. J.

Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to John T. Odorisio, City Clerk of Camden, N. J.

(Signed) CAMDEN POST 980, INC. V.F.W., 61 South 6th Street, Camden 3, N. J., Frank Luczkiewicz, Commander, 704 Carman Street, Camden, N. J. ($19.98)

Death Car Driver Held in $1000 Bail

Camden Morning Post —

Death Car Driver Held in $1000 Bail - Camden Morning Post, January 3, 1928 Death Car Driver Held in $1000 Bail - Camden Morning Post, January 3, 1928

Grand Jury to Probe Manslaughter Charge Against Oaklyn Man

Bail which had been furnished after his arrest last night, was accepted this morning for security as Thomas Atkins, 110 East Clinton avenue, Oaklyn, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter.

The hearing in traffic court before Judge Bertman was the aftermath of the fatal accident at Ninth street and Morgan boulevard last night.

Atkins was driver of the automobile which struck Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67 years old, 694 Tulip street. Mrs. Scholl died as she was being carried into West Jersey Hospital a few minutes later

Walter Keown appeared as counsel for Atkins. Keown said he was satisfied that the grand jury, after investigating the accident, would exonerate the defendant.

William Menhenick, 50 years old, of Parry, was fined $15 on a charge of reckless driving. He was arrested after William Lamarcus, 1827 Gallingham street, Philadelphia, said Menhenick’s car struck his auto at Eighth and Linden streets.

Arrested on complaint of Policeman William Brickner, a Public Service taxicab driver, Jubulam Gandy, 26 years old, 103 North Seventh street, was fined $10 for speeding. Brickner said he chased Gandy’s cab from Broadway and Benson to Sixth and Penn. He said Gandy exceeded the speed limit the entire distance.

U.S.O. Drive Here Reports $17,423

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U.S.O. Drive Here Reports $17,423 - Camden Courier-Post, July 30, 1941

Upward Swing of Contributions Continues; Goal Is $21,000

The upward swing of contributions to the United Service Organizations continued yesterday.

It was announced by Ralph Vasso, chairman of the general committee which is conducting the free will offering campaign, that the total to date is $17,423.69. Camden’s goal in the nation-wide appeal is $21,000.

The money will be used by the United Service Organizations, which is made up of six national organizations, in providing recreational programs for men in the armed services of the nation, Vasso pointed out.

“Each day we are approaching the $21,000 goal,” said Vasso, “and the committee is hopeful that the total will be realized within a short while. Contributions are coming into the offices of the United Service Organizations in the Camden County Chamber of Commerce building, Sixth and Penn streets.” Sidney P. McCord, city comptroller, is the treasurer of the committee.

Today’s contributors are: Volney G. Bennett Lumber Company, $25; Dr. J. S. Shipman, $25; Mabel M. Craig, $3; Sabba Verdiglione, $2; L. Merochnik Sons, $10; John A. Shortell, $2; Camden City Lodge No. 11, Independent Order of Beth Shone, $10; Diamond Coal Company, $2; Camden Window Shade Company, $1; additional from employes of the Camden Fire Insurance Association, $1; J. Alpheus Harker, $1, and Thomas F. Gibson Company, $25.

Smoke Overcomes Two Firemen

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Smoke Overcomes Two Firemen - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1913

In a $4000 fire at the plant of the West Jersey Carriage Works, 15 to 21 Market street, Camden, early yesterday morning, two firemen were overcome by smoke. They were James McDae [sic], of 415 North Front street, an [sic] William Simpson, of 604 North Sixth street, they being taken to the Cooper an [sic] Homeopathic Hospitals, respectively. The blaze was a stubborn one for awhile and at one time threatened to communicate with the plant of the Victor Talking Machine Company.

Double murder shocks Camden

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Double murder shocks Camden - Camden Courier-Post, September 23, 1979 Double murder shocks Camden - Camden Courier-Post, September 23, 1979

By KEN SHUTTLEWORTH, Of the Courier-Post

CAMDEN — The murder of two elderly men, whose bodies were found bound and gagged in their two-story brick home early yesterday, has renewed calls by area residents for better police protection.

The victims, Benjamin Shablock and John Barrett, died of smoke inhalation in a deliberately set fire that broke out around 2 a.m. in the house the men shared at 834 Bailey St. in North Camden, homicide detectives said.

Shablock was believed to be in his late 60s, and Barrett was said to be near age 70.

Detective Sgt. Albert Handy said the two men were found in separate bedrooms on the second floor. He said police have no suspects and have not established a motive in the slayings.

HANDY SAID one of the bedrooms in the house appeared ransacked, but police could not tell whether anything had been stolen.

Residents of the predominantly Hispanic and black section remember their two white neighbors as quiet men who passed time sitting on the porch and working at odd jobs.

“They didn’t bother anybody,” said Eifonio Lopez, who lives a few doors away.

Several homes on the street are boarded up and abandoned, including the two on either side of the Barrett property. Lopez said one of Barrett’s former next-door neighbors moved away some time ago because of a number of break-ins.

A LONGTIME friend of Barrett, Councilwoman Helen McHugh, said he worked many years for the city’s Department of Public Works before retiring several years ago. She said he worked at the now-defunct city dump on State Street, a few blocks from his home. The councilwoman said he helped her with various political chores during his retirement.

Handy said that Shablock worked part-time as a cleaner at The Tavern on 6th Street, near Cooper, about two blocks from the house.

Samuel Benson, president of Concerned Citizens of North Camden, said word of the murders has sent shock waves through the community. His organization was formed about a year ago to improve the quality of life in the most rundown section of the economically depressed city.

As a result of the murders, Benson said he expects to renew efforts to pressure the police department into stepping up its protection commitment to the community.

DEMANDS FOR more officers have been relayed by the organization and others to Police Chief Harold Melleby but, so far, Benson says the response has been unsatisfactory.

Melleby could not be reached for comment, but in the past he has blamed union work rules requiring two-man patrols for a lack of citywide police coverage.

He has expressed confidence that a new agreement due to take effect later this year will enable the department to more adequately deal with the complaints by Benson and other citizens groups.

3 Hurt in Boulevard Accident Caused by Runaway Bakery Horse

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3 Hurt in Boulevard Accident Caused by Runaway Bakery Horse - Camden Courier-Post, May 27, 1942

Animal Rams Car Stopped for Traffic Light; Passengers in Two Other Automobiles Injured in Crash

A runaway horse was the indirect cause of three persons being slightly injured last night at Admiral Wilson boulevard and Baird avenue.

According to Detective Thomas Murphy, the horse, which had broken loose from a tether in the yard of Ralph Marchione, operator of a bakery at 3939 Marlton pike, rammed into the rear of an automobile driven by Jack Silverman, of 506 Beideman avenue. Silverman was stopped on Baird avenue for the traffic light at the intersection.

Charles Bleyer, 57, of 905 Atlantic avenue, Atlantic City, was driving north on the boulevard when he saw the runaway horse. He stopped and got out to lead the horse from the highway.

He left Mrs. Lillian McNamara, 44, of 419 Trenton avenue, in his car when he got out. Another automobile, driven by Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third street, crashed into the rear of Bleyer’s car, police said.

Mrs. McNamara, Ash and John F. Dease, 20, of 109 North Sixth street, a passenger in Ash’s car, suffered lacerations. Ash and Mrs. McNamara were treated at Cooper Hospital for minor cuts, while Dease was treated by his physician.

Police reported the horse also was hurt when he rammed Silverman’s car.

Cooper Hospital Cases

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Cooper Hospital Cases - Camden Courier-Post, October 14, 1933

Sarah Clair, 35, of 316 Cole street; injured back in collision with car.

Mrs. Jennie Willis, 40, of 222 Mickle street; nail puncture of hand.

Edith Price, 10, of 329 Warren avenue; injured arm in fall at school.

Mary Downey, 10, of 312 Warren avenue; injured arm in fall from bicycle.

Helen Nicholson, 4, of 819 South Sixth street; dog bite on hand.

Jennie Thomas, 54, of 326 North Second street; burned hand with matches.

Benjamin Branch, 14, of 1021 Francis street; injured knee in collision with car.

Alexander Ellis, 27, of 715 South Eighth street; stabbed in chest with ice-pick.

A Night Alarm

Philadelphia Inquirer —

A Night Alarm - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 1887 A Night Alarm - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 1887

Disastrous Fire Spreading From a Stable In Camden.

A fire that originated in the two-story frame stable, at Sixth and Mill streets, in Camden, last night, spread to the factory of Philadelphia and Camden Soap Works, and finally to a number of dwelling houses, resulting in a loss of about $16,000.

Shortly after 11 o’clock a lady residing in the rear of the structure heard the horses making an unusual noise, and on going to the door saw flames coming from the roof. She immediately summoned help and an alarm was struck.

Before the fire department arrived on the scene willing hands secured axes and broke open the doors leading to the different stalls with the intention of liberating the horses. This was found to be difficult work, as the animals were so frightened by the flames that they reared and had become almost unmanageable. Finally, however, the halters holding the twenty two horses were cut and they were led to a place of safety.

When the firemen arrived the building was a mass of flames and their energies were directed towards saving the property in the neighborhood. Notwithstanding their efforts to prevent the spread of the flames three houses on the north side of the stable were badly scorched by the fire and damaged by water. While the conflagration was at its height several of the rafters fell in the centre of the stable and Fireman Lovatt, of the truck company, who was in charge of one of the lines of hose, was slightly injured by the timbers.

The fire at this time spread to the adjoining soap works, Nos. 511 and 513 Main street, damaging the place to the extent of $1500. After the flames had died out somewhat in the stable it was found that eight horses had been lost.

The front portions of the dwellings on Branch street, Nos 529, 531, 533 and 635 [sic], caught on fire and were damaged to a considerable extent. It caused great excitement in the vicinity, women and children running from the houses in their night clothes. The house No. 533, occupied by Mrs. Vaureman, was damaged to the extent of $500.

About an hour after the alarm was struck the fire was under control, and nothing was left of the stable except a mass of smouldering wood. Mr. Baird recently made several important additions to the structure, and Tuesday a ton of hay was stored away in the upper portion. The fire is supposed to have originated in the loft, and it is believed it was caused by rats and matches.

Cooper Hospital Cases

Camden Courier-Post —

Cooper Hospital Cases - Camden Courier-Post, December 28, 1931

Frances Burk, 21, of 604 North Sixth street, dog bite of arm.

Jacob Martin, 17, of 1113 Cooper street; dog bite of arm.

Lloyd Small, 18, of 84 South Dudley street; crushed finger between two cars.

Mrs. Mary Blub, 53, of 525 Kaighn avenue; injured back in fall at home.

William May, 48, of 2118 Berwick street; bruises of chest and ribs; fell down stairs.

A Camden Den Raided

Philadelphia Inquirer —

A Camden Den Raided - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 28, 1890

PLENTY OF LIQUOR AND A FARO LAY-OUT SECURED BY THE POLICE.

A Murderous Negro Creates a Commotion—Incendiaries at Work—Other News Across the Delaware.

The Camden police made another raid early yesterday morning. About 1 o’clock a detail consisting of Officers Pederick, Lee, Anderson, Horner, Baker and Chief Dodd raided a “speak-easy” and gambling den in a boathouse at the end of North Second street. When the policemen arrived a quiet little game of faro was in progress in the second story.

The proprietor, William Parker, Maurice Hinchman, Charles Mead and Mabel Gray were captured and taken to the City Hall. Sixteen boxes of beer, three gallons of whisky and a home-made faro lay-out were also captured. All of the men arrested were released yesterday but Parker, who was held on the charge of keeping a disorderly house and selling liquor without a license.

A funny incident occurred after the raid had been made. While the patrol was making its first trip to the City Hall previous to the removal of the liquor and gambling implements, Officer Pederick was detailed to watch the place. The policeman had only been in charge a few moments when a gang of men came in and called for a drink. “I can’t sell you anything,” said Pederick. “Why?” asked one of the thirsty men. “I got no license,” answered the officer. “That’s all right; Billy had no license, but we got the ‘booz’ just the same,” said one of the would-be purchasers. Pederick pulled back the flap of his coat and showed them his star. The thirsty men made a hasty retreat.

A Negro on the Warpath

William Thomas, alias King, is known among all of the tough colored element of the Fifth ward. Late on Saturday he started out to “do up” every person who ventured to come within the vicinity of Third and Spruce streets. His first move was to draw a revolver and tell Mary Blee, an old female companion, that he was going to kill her. Mary succeeded in escaping.

He then went into the saloon of John Jennings and called for a drink. The saloonkeeper refused him, whereupon he picked up glasses and bottles and flung them at his head and finally compelled him to rush into the street for safety. Policeman Streeper was summoned and was about to take the prisoner to the patrol box when he picked up a cobble stone and hit the officer a terrible blow in the back. He was sent to jail by the Mayor yesterday in default of $1,500 bail.

Tried to Burn the Building

While Policeman Harvey was patrolling his beat about twenty minutes of 4 o’clock yesterday morning, he noticed a man coming out of the butcher establishment of Samuel K. Hires, on Kaighn avenue above Third street. He paid little attention to the man, as it is usual for men to work there all night. A few minutes later the entire building was discovered enveloped in a mass of flames. The mysterious man, who had only a few minutes previous left, had been an incendiary and had smeared lard over the floors and then set it on fire. The Fire Department saved the building.

Brief ‘Cross River Notes

Eva Butts, alias “Siss,” Mary Dingle, Emma Adams and Anna Brady were arrested by Officer Butts early yesterday morning on the charge of keeping a disorderly house on Mount Ephraim avenue, between Chestnut and Sycamore streets. They are held for a further hearing.

Jacob Welsh, aged 17 years, living in South Camden, got into an altercation with his brother yesterday, when he nearly bit his finger off. He is locked up at the City Hall.

While intoxicated Frank Wilson, a Philadelphian, got into a fight at Haddonfield yesterday morning. During the fracas he was cut in the face and eye with a razor.

Thirty-six arrests were made in Camden during Saturday night and yesterday.

Contractor Aaron Ward yesterday completed the big sewer on Sixth street, when he built the last part under the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.

Kate Manning, of Stockton township, was committed in default of ball [sic] for a further hearing by Justice Hope yesterday, for assault on Andrew Mullin. Mullin states that the woman had been drinking, and threw a stick of wood at him, and when he remonstrated with her she drew a knife from under her dress, and cut him in the head with it. The woman denied having a knife in her possession, and stated that she only pushed the man for having made an insulting remark to her.

Along Memory Lane

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Along Memory Lane - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 Along Memory Lane - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 Along Memory Lane - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928 Along Memory Lane - Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1928

By Ben Courter

Tinkle, tinkle!

Clippety clip! Clippety clip!

And the old one-horse dinkey ambled along South Second street years and years ago, the wheels frequently striking comparatively large spaces between the rails with bumps and bangs. The iron shod hoofs of the nag more frequently struck the big and little cobbles that decorated that thoroughfare, at night drawing many a spark as from flint and steel.

Doggone, we used to feel sorry for those poor old hosses of the Camden Horse Railroad Company. They stood patiently enough around Second and Kaighn avenue for changing as the cars made round trips from Kaighn Point to Federal street—patient and docile and evidently without a bit of spunk left.

But the recent death of “Joe” Hackney recalls at least one old hoss that evidently concluded he was young and spruce and full of the pep of yesteryear. Hackney, long before he was in the oyster business, was a “horse car driver” on the old Second street dinkey line.

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A herd of long horn steers were being driven from the Kaighn Point ferry to the old abbatoir at Sixth and Kaighn avenue one dismal night in the ‘90s. The fitful glare of gas lamps threw an uncertain light over the long lane of cobbles so that when Second street was reached one of the steers was invested with the spirit of adventure.

With a roar and a prodigious leap it left its fellows moving along to sinister fate. It bounded into Second street, clattered along and the few belated citizens yelled and shouted and scampered in terror.

Since it was about the midnight hour and Camden, then provincial enough, snugly tucked away in bed, it may be imagined the bellowing bull and the shouts of the frightened citizens developed enough commotion to bring a brigade of night-capped curious ones to the windows.

Yells of advice were given, but all from those safe inside. Those on the outside were not so certain.

Since the steer became more frenzied with the increased racket, occasionally narrowly escaping a dodging wayfarer a posse was formed. And then appeared in the picture the game old hoss of the Second street car line with Hackney at the end of the reins.

Rifles, muskets, revolvers of all vintages were displayed by a dozen doughty Kaighn Point citizens who boarded the car and proceeded to chase the steer.

They stood at the doors on either end of the car, at every window while old faithful jogged along in quest of the fiery bovine. Up and down Second street Hackney drove his equine charge and the hoss seemed to take as much enjoyment out of it as the hunters. Not for a moment did he stop even with the load, even with the reverberation of guns and the shouts of the citizenry.

A dozen such trips along the cobbled way and finally, under a fusillade, the bovine expatriate from Texas was bowled over.

It sure was one exciting night and perhaps there are some old-timers who recall Hackney and that episode of the faithful old nag that was young again, just for a night.

Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office

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Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964 Fire Pumper Crashes Into Camden Office - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1964

A fire engine crashed through the front of an automobile insurance office in Camden on Saturday, cracking the entire brick face of the three-story building and leaving it in danger of collapse.

All traffic was halted in the area of Broadway and Pine sts. in fear the rumble of buses and trucks would bring the building down. The fire engine was left inside the bulk glass front of the Basin & Basin Insurance Co. office for nearly three hours until city workers could shore up the building so the vehicle could be removed safely.

COLLIDES WITH AUTO

The apparatus, a pumper of Engine 1, 4th and Pine sts., was responding to a mattress fire at 434 S. 6th st. at 2:30 P.M. when it collided with an automobile.

Both vehicles mounted the curb at the southeast corner of the downtown intersection.

Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who was walking by the building was brushed by the fire engine and knocked to the sidewalk, where she was showered with glass from the smashed window and door. She was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with fractures of the right ankle and lower right leg and cuts of the face and legs.

FIREMAN INJURED

Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 717 State st., driver of the pumper, suffered a fractured right foot and leg cuts and was admitted to Cooper Hospital. Fireman George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormand ave., Camden, who was riding on the pumper, was treated at the same hospital for cuts of the right leg and right hand and then released.

Two young people in the automobile also were treated for injuries at Cooper Hospital. They were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, N. J., and Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., also of Gloucester city. Both received head cuts and the girl suffered a back injury.

Raymond McClintock, 25, of 530 Lester Terrace, Camden, a Camden Public Works Department employe, was treated at the Cooper Hospital for lacerations of the neck and left hand.

He was assisting in the placing of shoring to brace the building against collapse after the crash when struck by a piece of glass that fell from one of the shattered windows.

CROWD GATHERS

Owen Ribble, manager of the insurance office, said he worked there alone Saturday afternoon and left just 15 minutes before the accident occurred. He returned to the scene after police summoned him from his home at 340 Coles ave., Cherry Hill.

Police moved back a crowd of several hundred persons who gathered at the intersection. Then they cordoned off Broadway at Spruce and Line sts., a block north and south of Pine, and barricaded Pine st. at 5th and 6th, a block east and west of Broadway.

William H. Harker, Camden city director of public works, reached the scene at 4 P. M. and immediately declared the building condemned.

The Fire Department’s heavy-duty rescue squad built heavy lumber supports against the building and cautiously removed the fire engine at 5:20 P. M.

Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto

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Six Injured in Crash Of Fire Truck, Auto - Camden Courier-Post, January 6, 1964

A city fireman and five other persons were injured Saturday when a fire engine collided with a car at Broadway and Pine st. and then plunged into an insurance office on the corner, according to police.

Admitted to Cooper Hospital with severe cuts was Fireman Isaac Muns, 36, of 710 State rd., identified by police as the driver of the engine. His condition was listed as serious. George Dixon, 31, of 1554 Ormond ave., the other fireman riding the engine, was treated at the hospital for cuts.

Mrs. Maria Gruber, 74, of 505 Pine st., who police said was standing on the corner waiting for a bus when the accident happened, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with multiple fractures of the right leg.

Others Treated

Also treated at Cooper Hospital for multiple injuries were Charles Wilson, 24, of 407 Monmouth st., Gloucester City, identified as the driver of the car, and his passenger, Janet Mayhew, 17, of 210 Mercer st., Gloucester.

Workmen began shoring up the front of the building occupied by the Basin and Basin Agency Inc., automobile insurers, as fears were expressed the building might collapse from the impact if the engine were moved. Raymond McClintock, a city employe, of 530 Lester ter., sustained a cut that required four stitches in his neck when a piece of glass fell from the second floor while the shoring operation was underway.

Agency Was Closed

The agency was closed when the engine plunged into the three-story brick office building on the southeast corner.

Police said it had not been determined whether Mrs. Gruber was hurt by falling debris or by the engine itself as it jumped over the curb.

The engine was responding to an alarm sounded for a minor fire at 434 S. 6th st. It was confined to one room of a private house.

2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting

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2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting - Camden Courier, June 12, 1925

Alleged Bandits Charged With Assault and Intent to Kill

Edward C. Dillon, 21 years old, 1641 North Phillip street, and Edward Brennan, 23 years old, 1114 Porter street, Philadelphia, were held without bail by Recorder Cleary today on charges of atrocious assault and battery with intent to kill.

Dillon has been identified by Policeman Robert Ward as the man who twice shot him when he attempted to investigate the suspicious actions of seven men in the vicinity of Sixth and Everett streets early last Saturday. Ward is in a serious condition at the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, suffering from a bullet wound below the heart and another in his left lung.

Joseph Brennan, 25 years old, 1114 Porter street, Philadelphia, brother of one of the suspects, claims to be the owner of the motorcar abandoned by the bandits. He was released under $500 bail as a material witness.

Dillon appeared unmoved when brought into court but Edward Brennan was nervous and frequently shifted from one foot to the other as his counsel, Walter H. Keown, conferred with Prosecutor Bertman in efforts to secure their release under bail.

Three Sentenced on Three Charges

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Three Sentenced on Three Charges - Camden Courier-Post, August 19, 1936 Three Sentenced on Three Charges - Camden Courier-Post, August 19, 1936

Neutze Jails Man on Booze Evidence, One for Non-Support, Boy for Theft

A Philadelphia youth was sent to a reformatory, an owner of bootleg liquor was sent to the county jail for six months and a man, charged with desertion and non-support, was sent to state’s prison for a year yesterday by Judge Frank F. Neutze in Special Sessions Court here.

John Skodi, 16, of 804 Fairmount avenue, Philadelphia, entered a guilty plea to stealing the automobile of William Allen, of 412 North Sixth street, last July 26. He was sentenced to the Annandale Reformatory for an indefinite term.

Benjamin Wilson, of 139 Mt. Vernon street, at whose home authorities seized a small quantity of untaxed liquor, entered a plea of guilty and was given the choice of paying a $200 fine or going to jail for six months. He went to jail.

Martin Bell, of 1821 Carlton street, Philadelphia, was pictured as refusing to support his wife, Florence, of 3209 Alabama road, Camden, and their two children, Florence, 2, and Loretta, 1. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to a year in state’s prison.

Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies

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Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies - Camden Courier-Post, September 27, 1979 Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies - Camden Courier-Post, September 27, 1979 Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies - Camden Courier-Post, September 27, 1979

By CAROL COMEGNO Of the Courier-Post

Police investigators are checking clues in the murders of John Barrett (left) and Benjamin Shablack, whose bodies were found last weekend in their burned North Camden home

CAMDEN — Regulars at The Tavern are still stopping by as always, but it hasn’t been business as usual the past few days.

The atmosphere at the North Sixth Street bar has been more subdued since Saturday, when many of the patrons learned that two long-time members of their drinking family had been murdered.

The patrons and tavern owner are so grieved and outraged over the loss of their beloved buddies — Benjamin Shablack and John Barrett — that they are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits who bound and gagged the two retired roommates, set fire to their house in North Camden and left them to die.

Barrett, 66, was a retired city employee with the public works department who once was in charge of the now-defunct State Street dump. Shablack, 69, a former printer in Philadelphia, worked as a cleanup man at the tavern.

SINCE MONDAY, patrons at The Tavern — one of the last drinking spots where city oldtimers gather — have been putting dollar bills and change into a can covered with a sign reading, “For Benny and Eggy.”

“They were the most unforgettable characters. They were loved people, they were our friends, and we just don’t want this to get lost somewhere,” said Anthony Gresk, a former city policeman who owns The Tavern.

“Eggy (Barrett’s nickname) fought in Africa (in World War II) and was injured. In his life, he’s been through a lot — as has Bennie — and they didn’t deserve to die like that,” said Gresk, who later told some of Eggy’s more memorable jokes and imitated some of the mannerisms of his two favorite customers.

Former state Sen. Joseph Cowgill, another of the regular patrons, was helping Gresk count some of the proceeds Tuesday afternoon. One contributor dropped his day’s pay into the till; some customers parted with $50 bills for their slain comrades.

Friends described the pair as kind-hearted, street-wise men who were creatures of habit and who had been touched by crime before.

“THEY STILL wanted to live in North Camden even though it’s a really rough neighborhood now. Their hearts were there because they were raised there and had lived there all their lives,” said Rocky Donovan of Camden. “When I got a phone call about their deaths, it was like they were telling me one of my own family had died. We’re going to miss those guys.”

While police suspect the motive for the murders was robbery, policemen and friends of the dead men said the two had very little money.

“Whoever did this thought those guys had money, but they had nothin’. They got their Social Security checks the third of the month and also had small pensions. Bennie kept his money in a Bull Durham tobacco bag that was tied to a string around his neck and inside his shirt,” Donovan recalled.

Barrett once was known to bet on the horses and carry large sums of money, but city police and friends agreed this was no longer the case.

“The only gambling he did was going on errands for City Hall or tavern friends to buy them daily lottery tickets,” said another of his acquaintances.

A bartender at the grill said he gave Shablack $5 Friday morning because he was broke.

Christine Patterson of Woodlynne, Barrett’s niece, said her uncle had great family pride but was a loner.

“WHEN I’D see him, he would say he had been beaten or robbed at least once a year, but he seemed to laugh it off,” she said. “He had a great disposition and always wore a white shirt, hat and tie no matter where he went.”

Camden Detective Lt. Edward Michalak said Barrett was last seen leaving The Tavern about 8 p.m. Friday and that Shablack had gone home before dark, as was his habit.

The two were found in their underwear at 2 a.m. Saturday after police and firemen responded to a fire call at their two-story brick rowhouse at 834 Bailey St. in a predominantly Hispanic and black neighborhood. The houses on either side of their home are vacant.

Michalak said four city policemen and three investigators from the Camden County prosecutor’s office are working on the case and have interviewed more than 100 friends, relatives and neighbors, and street people.

“There are no new developments and we have no suspects at this point,” said Michalak. “We have not found any wallets and have not been able to establish if anything was taken.”

City Fire Marshal Harold Pike released a report Tuesday that concluded the fire was deliberately set in four locations inside the house — a first-floor closet in the front room and closets and a mattress in two of the three upstairs bedrooms. One of the bedrooms was ransacked, leading police to believe the initial motive was robbery.

PIKE SAID firemen found no sign of forced entry and did not find traces of flammable liquids, which often are used to set fires. “It appears that clothes in the closets and the mattress were set afire with a lighter or something else that could have been easily lit,” Pike said.

Autopsies showed both men died from smoke inhalation and that Barrett had bruises and was bleeding from the head because of a beating. Police, however, said the beating did not appear to be severe.

Shablack and Barrett were buried today.

2 Youths Captured in S. Camden Theft

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2 Youths Captured in S. Camden Theft - Camden Courier-Post, June 6, 1932

Two youths were arrested early yesterday on suspicion of being two of three who held up and robbed an attendant at Kerr’s Chickery, Inc., 1426 South Sixth street.

The victim was Frank Schubert, of 308 Hunter street. He was robbed of $35 and a wrist watch. One of the three men was at the wheel of a car parked across the street, he said.

Detectives Walter Smith, John Trout and Harry Kyler arrested Tony Prucella, alias Basilli, 21, of 419 Clinton street, and Joseph Gargenti, 17, of 323 Benson street, as they sat in a car parked at Fourth and Berkley streets a short time later. The detectives found the watch in the car, $10 on Gargenti and $6 on Prucella. According to Smith they had spent the rest for haberdashery. Schubert identified them as the bandits, according to police. They were held on suspicion pending questioning today.

Store Robber Given 10 Years in Prison

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Store Robber Given 10 Years in Prison - Camden Morning Post, December 12, 1930 Store Robber Given 10 Years in Prison - Camden Morning Post, December 12, 1930

Case of Companion Will Be Put Before Grand Jury This Wek [sic]

Floyd Alter Bell, 36, alias “Twenty,” of 1719 Van Buren street, Philadelphia, was sentenced to 10 years in state’s prison yesterday by Judge Shay in Criminal Court on charges of robbery and carrying a gun.

Bell pleaded guilty to robbing the Star Beef Company, Sixth street and Kaighn avenue, on September 12, the charge on which he was sentenced to seven years. According to Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin, Bell and Frank M. Bank, 19, of 717 Baxter street, Camden, robbed the store of sausages, ham and other food stuffs, loaded them on a truck and escaped.

Both were arrested December 1 by Policemen Rheim and Feitz after the car they are alleged to have stolen from Railroad avenue and Van Hook street struck a pole at Sixth street and Kaighn avenue.

The case of Bank will be presented to the grand jury this week, Baldwin said. Bell, according to the prosecutor, confessed to committing several holdups in Camden and vicinity since July 1. Hams stolen from the beef concern were sold at $1 each in the Eighth Ward, $23 being collected.

Camden’s Scarred Patriots

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Camden’s Scarred Patriots - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1904

Fourth Marked by Absence of Serious Accidents

All Camden entered into the spirit of the Fourth of July yesterday. One noticeable feature of the day was the absence of serious accidents. Not a Fourth of July victim was treated at the Homeopathic Hospital, while at the Cooper Hospital but eight were admitted, as follows:

Albert Owens, aged 24 years, of 227 Mechanic street; powder burns of the back.

Charles Haines, aged 54 years, of 110 Birch street; burned hands.

Joseph Simons, aged 47 years, of 1113 Locust street; contusions of the eyelid.

Russell Hutchins, aged 11 years, of 557 Royden street, gunshot wound of right leg.

William Fabor, aged 14 years, of 226 Washington street; blank cartridge wound of right hand.

Florence McGann, aged 33 years, of 226 Erie street; powder burns of hands.

Samuel Ross, aged 14 years, of 5 North Third street; face burned.

Frank Kupp, aged 14 years, of 1043 Pine street; burned hands.

Yesterday afternoon flag raising and christening ceremonies were held at the new apartment house at Sixth and Mickle streets. At Pyne Point Park exercises appropriate to the day were observed. They consisted of singing, music, reading of the Declaration of Independence by F. Wayland Potter and addresses by Rev. F. A. De Maris, of the State Street M. E. Church; Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey, and ex-Assemblyman Joseph M. Engard.

Last night splendid pyrotechnical displays were given.

A Brave Soldier Dead

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A Brave Soldier Dead - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 10, 1889

Career of Colonel Lee, a Well Known Citizen of Camden.

Colonel Richard H. Lee, one of Camden’s best known citizens, died at his home, 512 South Sixth street, yesterday morning, from typhoid fever, after an illness of ten days. He was born in Philadelphia April 14, 1830. When President Lincoln issued his first call for troops, Mr. Lee and his three brothers, Colonel Joseph C., T. M. K. and William C. Lee, were among the first to answer the summons and go to the front. In 1862 he resigned his commission as captain of Company I, Sixth New Jersey Volunteers, to accept the postmastership of Camden. For sixteen years he held that position.

He was active in military and G. A. R. circles. He was major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Sixth Regiment of the State militia. He never took out his commission as colonel, resigning on the night of his election in favor of General E. Burd Grubb, who was unanimously elected to the position. Colonel Lee was also at one time Department Commander of the G. A. R. His last public position was that of an inspector in the Philadelphia Custom House.

The funeral will take place at 1 o’clock Wednesday, from the residence of his son, U. G. Lee, 645 Clinton street, Camden. He was a member of Garfield Post, No. 2, G. A. R., and the Ninth Ward Republican Club. His wife and five children survive him.

Derousse Meets Wife in the Camden Home

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Derousse Meets Wife in the Camden Home - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 1903 Derousse Meets Wife in the Camden Home - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 1903

Apparently almost a physical and mental wreck, Louis T. Derousse, the postmaster of Camden, who disappeared under peculiar and for a time mysterious circumstances Wednesday, returned to his Camden home at 326 North Sixth street last evening. A small crowd gathered in front of the house as his cab drove up, about a quarter of an hour after nine o’clock.

Former County Physician William H. Iszard, who had been commissioned to go to Baltimore for the missing man, was the first to step out of the vehicle. Dr. Iszard placed his hand in that of Derousse and the postmaster stepped out of the cab. He looked around for a second, and appeared entirely dazed at the sudden end of his peculiar flight. Derousse walked up the steps of his home with the gait of an invalid. Dr. Iszard had to hold him by the arm and assist him into the house. There his wife, daughter and Assistant Postmaster Sayrs, who had entered the house a few minutes before, were waiting to greet him. The scene that took place when the postmaster and Mrs. Derousse met for the first time since he went away is reported to have been a most affecting one. Dr. Iszard, who was present, said afterwards that it was all that one could expect from the most loving couple.

The return of Derousse to his home in Camden was only determined upon after many lengthy discussions among his bondsmen. It was at first intended to have him taken to the residence of his brother, on North Franklin street, this city, or to the home of one of his friends on this side of the river. Finally, all agreed that as long as he would have to come to Camden [cut off at the crop edge]

The Pursuit of a Murderer

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The Pursuit of a Murderer - Camden Courier-Post, August 15, 1970 The Pursuit of a Murderer - Camden Courier-Post, August 15, 1970

By Joe Happ and Joseph R. McCarthy

The announcement, when it came, burst in City Hall like a grenade. A Camden man — in jail nearly a year awaiting trial for murder — was being charged with six additional killings.

The disclosure was made July 2 by the Camden County Prosecutor’s office as a short, stocky man was being led from his sixth-floor jail cell to an arraignment before Camden Municipal Court Judge William M. Rosenblatt.

Until then it had been one of the best-kept secrets in the city in recent memory. The press corps, usually well informed in advance about all such goings-on was caught by surprise.

When the hour-long court procedure was over, newsmen, armed with little more than the name of the prisoner and a list of victims’ names, went to work.

The old newspaper clippings from which they frantically culled information had a grim tale to tell. Six women and a man had been beaten, slashed or shot to death between February and September 1969. The clippings suggested grotesque pictures of battered, butchered human beings.

The suspect was 38-year-old Leroy Snyder, an ex-convict who had spent most of his adult life in prison for acts of violence.

Fresh details fo [sic] the killings were scarce, as County Prosecutor A. Donald Bigley, not wanting to jeopardize his case, clamped down hard on information released to the press. The July 2 stories were mostly a rehash of the earlier murder stories.

The victims:

Mrs. Lula Crawley, bound, gagged and stabbed 13 times, was found Feb. 14, 1969 in a room behind her S. 6th Street antique shop.

Mrs. Mary Freeman, found stabbed to death April 12, 1969, floating in two feet of water in an abandoned house.

Mrs. Shirley Brittingham and Warren Wells, discovered April 25 in the basement of a vacant house. The woman, seven months pregnant, had been stabbed repeatedly and shot in the chest several times. The man had a shotgun wound three inches in diameter in his back, had been stabbed several times and beaten with a blunt instrument. Both bodies had lain there three weeks before being discovered and were badly decomposed and partially eaten by rats.

Mrs. Lovie Williams, found May 19 in her West Street apartment by her 12-year-old son. She had been slashed to death.

Mrs. Vera Stevens, beaten to death Aug. 9 on a vacant lot.

Mrs. Gertrude Friedman, raped, beaten and slashed about the throat Sept. 8 in her combination apartment-linoleum store on Kaighns Avenue.

In city hall, quick comparisons were made between this case and the Sept. 6, 1949 rampage in which a Bible-quoting war veteran, Howard Unruh, shot 13 persons to death in about 20 minutes.

“This one looks worse,” commented one veteran reporter as he scanned the year-old stories.

Following the arraignment, events in the case of Leroy Snyder moved quickly. In less than a week, indictments were handed up by the Camden County grand jury. The following day, Snyder’s signed confessions to all seven killings were presented in Superior Court along with his pleas of no defense.

A week later, he was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in the New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Within the hour, Snyder was en route to Trenton.

The story of Leroy Snyder was ended. This week, however, the two men most responsible for the capture of Snyder revealed some of the details of the exhausting eight-month investigation which led to his arrest. It is a story laced with ironies and improbabilities.

“It was a real jig-saw puzzle,” said veteran city Det. Earl Smith, who along with Det. Nate Jones, logged more than 1,200 hours of overtime and traveled from New England to South Carolina, interviewing more than 150 persons and taking statements from about 75 material witnesses.

Before the case was solved, Jones would have trouble convincing his wife that all the hours away from home were actually spent working. “Not only that, I developed a case of high blood pressure during the investigation,” he added.

Smith would only shrug when asked about the effects of the chase on his home life. He indicated that they were “about the same as Nate’s.”

The two detectives, relaxing in their office in City Hall, explained that the keys to cracking the case were the investigations of the Brittingham-Wells double murder and the rape-slaying of Mrs. Friedman.

“We didn’t turn up much on the other murders at all,” Smith said. “In fact, we weren’t even sure they were related until Shirley and Warren were found.”

At that point, Jones explained, police officials began to fear that a psychopath was loose in the city and ordered efforts in solving the case intensified.

Few clues had been left in the abandoned house where Shirley and Warren were found. “We even had trouble identifying them,” said Smith. “They were horribly decomposed and it looked like rats had eaten away most of their faces.”

Identification had to be made by the use of dental records and fingerprints. Even Mrs. Brittingham’s estranged husband was unable to make a positive identification, the detective said.

Frank Brittingham was located the day after the bodies were discovered. He was in a bar at Broadway and Division Streets where Shirley had worked as a barmaid. He could only tell police that he knew his wife was pregnant by a boyfriend whose name he gave the detectives.

A barmaid in the establishment told the three detectives she last saw Shirley leaving the bar with a man on April 5 (the day she died, according to the medical examiner). She also identified an egg-shaped gold locket found by police at the murder scene as one she sold to Shirley for $10.

Smith said Shirley’s boyfriend was located two days later living at the YMCA in New Brunswick. Police in that city had run a check and told Smith the man had registered in his own name but had listed a non-existent firm as his place of employment.

“We wanted to get more on him,” Smith said, “so we waited a while before picking him up.”

Meanwhile, the identity of the man seen leaving the bar with Shirley was learned after police had interviewed several persons in South Camden. They told police the man had gone to see his wife in Seaford, Del.

Smith and City Det. Isaiah Pitts went to Delaware and, after following the trail of the man’s family through several small towns, learned he had been there a few days before and continued south to visit his father in Traveler’s Rest, S.C.

Smith and Pitts returned to Camden and notified police in the small South Carolina town. A week later, the man was arrested as a material witness and was returned to Camden for interrogation.

He told police he had gone to Delaware in order to cash an Internal Revenue Service check and leave part of the money with his wife. His story checked out with what had been learned in Delaware, and he was released.

On July 19 police in Franklin Township, Sussex County, picked up Shirley’s boyfriend as a material witness. In Camden a lie detector test was administered. The man failed, Smith said.

“We asked him if he was withholding information about the murders,” the detective said. “He answered ‘No.’ The machine indicated he lied. We got the same response when we asked if he knew who killed Warren and Shirley.”

Police, however, had nothing to connect him with the murder and released him.

The probe into the death of Warren Wells was a painfully slow process, Smith said. “We knew absolutely nothing about the man when we started.”

An intensive interview campaign was launched in South Camden, but little was learned. On May 19, however, police learned that Wells’ brother-in-law, a suspect in the case, was living in the 400 block of Sycamore Street. Police placed the house under surveillance, but the suspect failed to show up.

Two women living in the house were unable to give any information about the suspect’s whereabouts. The women, both in their early 20’s accompanied the detectives to police headquarters and were arrested and charged with being under the influence of narcotics.

A separate inquiry into the suspect’s background revealed him to be wanted by the U.S. Army for desertion.

The search spread throughout Camden County and on June 12, nearly a month later, he was picked up by State Police from the Toms River barracks.

Brought back to Camden, the suspect failed a lie detector test, Smith said. Yet nothing was established to connect him directly with either murder and he was held pending the arrival of federal authorities.

The suspect’s wife was arrested a few days later while visiting him in Camden County jail. Smith said he recognized the woman from a police photo shown to him earlier by Williamstown police. He said a federal warrant had been issued for her arrest on a charge of mail theft. She was turned over to the U.S. Marshal’s office in Camden.

The search for information in South Camden continued. Detectives began to check through vacant houses in the area. They found a man crouching behind the heater in the basement of one abandoned house. He claimed to be an acquaintance of Wells. An identification check on the man revealed he was wanted on a charge of possession of stolen property. He was arrested.

Under interrogation, the man told detectives he did not know where Wells had been living before his death but said he knew several persons who might know.

One of his tips paid off. A woman living on Kaighns Avenue told detectives that Wells had been living in the 700 block of Walnut Street in the apartment of a man named Leroy Snyder.

Smith and Jones set up a stake-out at the apartment, but Snyder did not return home that night. The following day, the two detectives canvassed the neighborhood and learned that Snyder had a job in a junkyard on Division Street.

“We went to the junkyard and talked with Snyder,” Jones said. “He told us Wells had been living in his apartment since the latter part of March.”

Snyder told police that Wells received a phone call at the apartment on April 4. He said Wells appeared quite shaken by the call and left, saying he would return shortly. Snyder said that was the last he had seen of Warren Wells.

“Snyder even volunteered to come to police headquarters that night to give us a statement and deliver some clothes he said were left behind by Wells,” Smith said. Snyder dictated a four-page statement for police that night, but the information shed no further light on the killing.

“We had checked on Snyder’s background and knew about his prison record,” Smith said. “But we didn’t have enough evidence to hold him. Besides, he seemed to be cooperating with us.” Snyder was released.

That was on May 23. Four days earlier, Lovie Williams was found slashed to death. On Aug. 9, Vera Stevens, her head battered by a rock, was found. No leads were turned up in those investigations.

The Wells probe produced one more lead, however. Police learned that a man believed to operate a house of prostitution in North Camden had been a friend of Wells. Checking at the address, Smith was told the man had recently departed on a trip through New England and Canada.

Police in several states as well as Canada were notified and, on May 28, Wells’ friend was arrested by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police vice squad as he attempted to cross the border in a stolen car.

A joint investigation by the Mounties and police in Camden revealed the names of several women, allegedly involved in prostitution, who were in this country illegally. The women were later deported to Canada, Smith said.

The police investigation of the murders, now numbering six, continued until Sept. 8, when the nude, mutilated body of Gertrude Friedman was discovered in the living room of her apartment on Kaighns Avenue by a neighbor.

Police swarmed into the area that night and found with a woman who said she had seen a man leaving the Friedman apartment that afternoon. She told police he was carrying two suitcases and a brown paper bag filled with clothing.

A state police artist, Tpr. George Homa of the West Trenton barracks, was called in and drew a sketch based on the woman’s description.

Armed with copies of the sketch, police teams again hit the streets in the area around Kaighns Avenue.

A man, when shown the drawing, told police, “This looks like the guy who tried to rape a woman a few weeks ago on 4th Street.” He did not know the assailant’s name, but he gave police the woman’s name and address.

Smith and Jones checked it out.

The woman, who had not reported the incident because she feared reprisals, said the man depicted in the sketch had knocked on her apartment door one night a few weeks earlier saying he was looking for friends who lived in the apartment below hers. Then he forced his way in and tried to assault her, she said. She did not know his name.

The occupants of the downstairs apartment identified the drawing. They said it seemed to be Leroy Snyder.

“The first thing we did after hearing that, was to check on where Snyder was living,” Smith said. “We knew he had moved from the apartment on Walnut Street, but we didn’t know his new address. Later, we learned he was living in the 700 block of Cherry Street.”

A warrant was obtained and, on the evening of Sept. 11, Smith and Jones arrested Snyder at home.

“He was lying on the couch in the living room when we made the arrest,” Smith recalled. “He didn’t offer any resistance.”

Searching the house, detectives found the bags of clothing and other items taken from the Friedman apartment. Positive identification of the articles later was supplied by Mrs. Friedman’s husband.

“He was wearing Mr. Friedman’s wristwatch,” Smith added.

With Snyder in custody, charged with the murder of Mrs. Friedman, larceny, possession of stolen property and assault with intent to rape in the case of the woman on 4th Street, Smith and Jones began a detailed investigation into Snyder’s possible relationship with the other murders.

Since there was no trial, it will never be known just how much evidence the detectives had piled up against Snyder. But apparently, it was enough to convince Snyder and his attorney that a defense against the charges in court would have been futile. Snyder later signed confessions to all seven slayings, but the confessions alone would not be sufficient basis for sentencing.

The contents of those confessions have not been made public, but one unconfirmed report out of the prosecutor’s office had it that a stenographer became ill while transcribing Snyder’s detailed accounts of the killings.

The future holds nothing for Leroy Snyder except prison. Under present New Jersey parole laws, Snyder, with three consecutive life sentences facing him, will not even be eligible for parole for another 43½ years.

Prosecutor Bigley, who sought seven consecutive life sentences for Snyder, summed it up in the courtroom moments after sentence was passed: “There’s a good chance he’ll die in prison.”

Detective Nate Jones

Detective Earl Smith

The psychiatric section of the pre-sentencing report described Leroy Snyder as a “malignant sociopath and a threat to society.” Little is known about Snyder except that he has spent 19 of the past 21 years in prison for assorted acts of violence. His prison record began when he was 17.

Arrested June 1949 on charge of assault. Convicted, sentenced to two years in Annandale Reformatory. Released May 1951.

Arrested July 1951 on charges of attempted armed robbery and threats to kill. Convicted, sentenced to four years in Bordentown Reformatory. Released June 1955.

Arrested December 1955 on charges of assault and battery and assault with intent to rob. Convicted, sentenced to three to five years in New Jersey State Prison at Trenton. Released January 1959.

Arrested August 1959 for attempted armed robbery and threats to do bodily harm. Convicted, sentenced to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison. Paroled January 1969 after serving nine years.

Arrested September, 1969, for murder of Mrs. Gertrude Friedman.

Michel Confirmed as Prosecutor Here

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Senate Finally Approves Choice Announced by Edison 2 Months Ago

Trenton, June 30. — Firmin Michel, former Camden city solicitor, was confirmed tonight by the Senate as county prosecutor, succeeding Samuel P. Orlando. He was nominated two months ago by Governor Edison.

District Judge Bartholomew A. Sheehan, of Camden, was confirmed as a member of the State Labor Mediation Board.

Michel, widely known member of the South Jersey Bar, had the support of Mayor George E. Brunner, of Camden, and was favored by State Senator Alfred E. Driscoll, Republican majority leader and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Orlando has been serving as prosecutor by virtue of holding a position as special assistant attorney general. Opposition to Orlando’s reappointment developed following suit he instituted for pay deducted under an economy program extending back several years.

Salary of prosecutor is $7500.

Driscoll, as the Senate representative of Camden county, blocked reappointment of Orlando in January and the position went over to the administration of Governor Edison when appointive powers of former Governor A. Harry Moore expired.

Michel’s name then was proposed by State Democratic Committeeman Vincent L. Gallaher and was endorsed by Driscoll. Michel lives at 313 South Sixth street and has law offices at 309 Market street.

Fire Comrades Dead, Tries to End Life

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Fire Comrades Dead, Tries to End Life - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 1916 Fire Comrades Dead, Tries to End Life - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 1916

William J. Simpson, of Camden Department, Found in Ashpit With Wrists Cut

Almost dead from the loss of blood, City Fireman William J. Simpson, aged 56, of 604 North Sixth street, was found in the ash pit at No. 4 engine house, on Vine street near Fourth, Camden, yesterday. Both wrists were slashed and during a lucid interval he said he had cut them because he was tired of living. His condition last night was serious, although he has chances for recovery.

Friends of Simpson say that he has not been himself since the armory fire of 1906 when three of his companions were killed and he was among several badly injured. He has been transferred from several companies in the belief the change would do him good. Only Saturday he was sent in from an East Camden company. He has remained melancholy, however, and when last seen Monday night, complained of his nerves.

It was when Joseph Lodgue [sic], a comrade, went down stairs at the firehouse that he found Simpson in the pit literally covered with blood. The injured fireman had been there for several hours, the blood having coagulated about the wounds.

Vandals Rifle 19 Offices in Center of City

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Vandals Rifle 19 Offices in Center of City - Camden Courier-Post, December 13, 1930 Vandals Rifle 19 Offices in Center of City - Camden Courier-Post, December 13, 1930 Vandals Rifle 19 Offices in Center of City - Camden Courier-Post, December 13, 1930 Vandals Rifle 19 Offices in Center of City - Camden Courier-Post, December 13, 1930

Intruders Wreak Havoc in Building at 6th and Cooper Streets

$5 CASH, SMALL ARTICLES ALL LOOT OBTAINED

Method of Entrance Mystery But Thieves Leave by Aid of Wire

Ransacking files and strewing valuable papers as they went, thieves during the night entered 19 offices in a building on the northwest corner of Sixth and Cooper streets and escaped with only $5 in cash and articles of small value.

Although nothing of much value was taken, the burglars wrought such damage with their ransacking it will require several days for occupants to straighten out their records and equipment. Seven of the offices are unoccupied.

Camden detectives are puzzled as to how entrance to the building was effected. There were no signs that windows or doors had been forced from the outside. The robbers made their escape from an office on the second floor by tearing electric wire from the walls, tying the strands together and lowering themselves from a window into an alley.

A wire, fastened to a radiator, and the open window were discovered in the office of F. A. [?]eickert, an insurance man, where the thieves smashed open steel filing cabinets and strewed their contents over the floor. [?]eickert found a jimmy in the hallway outside his office which the intruders had used to pry open drawers and other containers.

Norris Rollen, janitor, discovered the robbery when he went to the building at 5.45 a. m. today and reported it to Miss Julie Carey, the real estate agent, of 521 Cooper street, who called the detective bureau.

Detective Anson Kelly was detailed to investigate. All the offices entered are on the second floor.

In the offices occupied by Carl Kisselman, Barney Brown and Benjamin Asbell, attorney, the thieves took $5 in cash, a fountain pen, a roll of stamps and a box of cigars. They broke open all the office cabinets and left the place in disorder.

A cabinet safe was opened in the office of Benjamin Natal, lawyer, but no money was taken. However, legal documents and valuable records were left in a muddled heap. Cigarette butts were left on the floor by the burglars.

A box containing valuable microscopic instruments was taken from the Kebler chemical laboratory of F. Victoria Kebler, but was left in the hallway outside.

The offices of P. R. Davey, dentist, and Imogene N. Marcus, public stenographer, were ransacked, but nothing of value was reported missing.

Ward Shooting Thwarted Bank Theft, Cops Say

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Ward Shooting Thwarted Bank Theft, Cops Say - Camden Courier, June 8, 1925 Ward Shooting Thwarted Bank Theft, Cops Say - Camden Courier, June 8, 1925

Police Declare Bandits Planned Big Robbery at Westville

WOUNDED PATROLMAN HAS CHANCE TO LIVE

Robbers Displayed Unusual Daring by Returning to Scene of Crime

Police today declared the shooting of Policeman Robert Ward frustrated an attempt to rob the new bank at Westville.

Two of the seven bandits are being held in the city jail without bail while further arrests were promised in the early future by detectives working on the case. The arrests will cause a big sensation both in Camden and Philadelphia, police intimate.

Physicians at the Homeopathic Hospital, where Ward has been since he was shot down early Saturday morning, today said the wounded policeman has an even chance for recovery. It was at first thought that the bandit’s bullet had penetrated his left lung and that no hope was held for his recovery.

The shooting of Ward occurred on Sixth street near Everett street. With several companions he was in an automobile going south on Sixth. When he saw an auto parked in the darkness without any tail light he went to investigate and was shot down.

Assailant Identified

Edward Dillon, 21 years old, one of the men under arrest, has been identified by Ward as the man who shot him. Edward Brannin, 24 years old, is the other man under arrest.

The other five men made their escape by commandeering the auto of Fred Klosterman after their own bandit car had hit a fireplug and was wrecked. They still are at liberty.

Police who are investigating the shooting are firm in the belief that the bandits were on their way to rob the new bank at Westville when they were discovered by Ward. The sleuths would not divulge the source of their information or their reasons for the belief, however.

When asked if Dillon or Brannin had “peached,” the police would neither confirm nor deny reports to that effect.

Bandits Were Daring

The daring of the five men who forced Klosterman to take them to Gloucester shows the character of the bandits and bears out the statement of Detective Wood, of Philadelphia, that they are members of the famous “Francis Bailey Gang,” of Philadelphia. This gang has been involved in several shooting affairs lately.

The abandoned automobile was found in Gloucester by the police, more than two miles from the scene of the shooting and the wreck. Police now believe one of the five bandits, after the journey to Gloucester, secured another automobile and braved arrest by going back to Sixth and Everett and towing the damaged car to Gloucester.

Examination of the car shows that the bandits had removed several articles that would have been damaging evidence. One of the reports is that the bandits had an acetylene tank concealed in the car and which was to be used in blowing the safe at Westville. They had an elaborate kit of burglar’s tools.

It is further reported that the five men hid in Gloucester all night and quietly made their escape after daybreak. It is further reported that the identity of at least two of the men is known to the police.

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Street Improvements Started

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Street Improvements Started - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 1915

Street Commissioner Sayers yesterday began the work of improving nearly a score of streets throughout Camden. A gang of men was placed at work on Spruce street from Broadway to Sixth street. This will give a connecting link in the central portion of the city with asphalted thoroughfares. Trenton avenue from Newton avenue to Line street will be the next street repaved. All the asphalt is being turned out by the municipal plant at over $1 a square yard cheaper than could be obtained through private contract.

2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children

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2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934 2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children - Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934

Gallopers Stage Impromptu Race in South Camden Traffic

Scores of children on their way to school were endangered yesterday when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.

A horse hitched to a wagon of the Seven Brothers Bakery, 322 Pine street, broke loose from its wagon at Third and Berkley streets when it was frightened by a truck, according to Joseph Cirelli, Second and Washington streets, the wagon driver. The animal raced east in Berkley street to West street, where it collided with an automobile. Despite numerous cuts and bruises, the horse continued its dash eastward.

At the headquarters of Freihofer Bakery Company, Fifth and Berkley streets, where several bakery wagons were being loaded, the runaway animal frightened the horses of the company, and one bolted.

Both horses crossed Broadway, demoralizing traffic and sending scores of children running in all directions to escape the menace of flying hoofs and a careening wagon.

At the railroad tracks, the bakery wagon and one horse was [sic] captured.

The other horse turned north in Sixth street, pursued by Motorcycle Policeman William Thorn.

Thorn overtook the horse and brought it to a stop at Sixth and Stevens streets, opposite Cooper Hospital. The animal was taken to the city stables at Federal street and Admiral Wilson boulevard, where it was later claimed by the driver.

Sixth Street Sewer Completed

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Sixth Street Sewer Completed - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 28, 1890

Contractor Aaron Ward yesterday completed the big sewer on Sixth street, when he built the last part under the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.

Planned Burial, Hanged Herself

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Planned Burial, Hanged Herself - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 17, 1910 Planned Burial, Hanged Herself - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 17, 1910

Woman Alone in the World Committed Suicide in a Deserted Building in Camden

After making arrangements for the decent burial of her body, Mrs. Elizabeth Anna Black, 39[?] years old, who lived with Mrs. Mary Kelly, of 412 Vanhook street, Camden, ended her life some time Saturday night by hanging herself from a window in the deserted building of the Camden Smelting Works, Sixth and Jackson streets. The body was taken to the Morgue, but later claimed by Mrs. Kelly, the only friend the unfortunate woman had.

Alone in the world, her husband and children dead, Mrs. Black frequently spoke of being weary of life. Lately she had met with a mishap which prevented her from earning enough for her board. This appeared to prey on her mind to such an extent that comforting words from Mrs. Kelly had no effect. The only thing that Mrs. Black cared about was to see that she escaped a pauper’s burial in the event of death. She turned over her insurance papers to Mrs. Kelly with the injunction to have the money spent in a respectable interment. This Mrs. Kelly promised to do.

When Mrs. Black went to the lonesome place where the smelting building is located is not known. The spot is an isolated one, located at the lower end of the Line Ditch swamp. All of the windows have long since been knocked out by boys, who use the structure as a sort of rendezvous. It was while they were about to enter the ramshackle structure yesterday that they saw the body swinging from the sash of one of the windows. They notified Policeman Cornog, who cut down the swaying body.

Mrs. Black had knotted together several shoestrings, a piece of manila rope and a part of her skirt, which she had tied about her throat. After making the other end fast to the lower sash of one of the windows, she leaped to her death. Coroner Latchfield found that her neck had been broken.

From what Mrs. Kelly was able to learn about the woman, she came originally from Rappahannock, Va., where she is said to have well-to-do relatives. Mrs. Black was always reticent about speaking of her family connections, however.

Charles Foulon, Ex-Baker, Dies

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Charles Foulon, Ex-Baker, Dies - Camden Courier-Post, January 11, 1950 Charles Foulon, Ex-Baker, Dies - Camden Courier-Post, January 11, 1950

Charles Foulon, 74, of 1453 Ormond avenue, died today in West Jersey hospital where he had been for two weeks. Born in Philadelphia, he came to Camden when he was a child and had resided here since.

He operated the Foulon bakery in the 500 block on the south side of Federal street for many years, and retired 25 years ago. The business was established by his father, Charles Foulon.

Surviving are his widow, Laura; two daughters, Mrs. Miriam M. Joy, Fairwater, Fla., and Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, Camden; a son, Charles P., Tooele, Utah, and two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Maguire, Haddon Heights, and Mrs. Mary F. Street, Moorestown.

Services will be held Saturday at 11 a. m. in the funeral home of Benjamin R. Denny, 453 South Sixth street. The Rev. H. W. Bland Detweiler, pastor of the Parkside Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Harleigh cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Friday night.

Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here

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Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938 Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938 Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938 Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938 Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938 Murder and Kidnaping In ‘75 Bared by Man Here - Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1938

John Roskze, Peanut Peddler of Kaighn Avenue, Tells Details of Unsolved Crime

SAW MOTHER SHOT ON ILLINOIS FARM

By GORDON MACKAY

John Roskze sat on a tumbled bed in his squalid room at 295 Kaighn avenue yesterday to shatter a silence he says he has maintained for 63 years regarding a murder and kidnaping back in Illinois in 1875.

The calm manner in which the man, now 68, reciting the details of the crimes, one resulting in the death of the narrator’s mother, the other his own kidnaping, lent an additional touch of drama to the tale.

John Roskze, who is known by the name of John Welch, and the latter name is a part of the sensational story, is a familiar sight in Camden. Partially blind, trembling from the infirmities of age, he has peddled his peanuts, come rain, come sun, on the streets of this city, for years past.

The reason Roskze gives for lifting the veil of silence which has masked the crimes of 63 years ago is that he recently read that J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G-men, declared all kidnaping crimes for the past 60 years and more had been cleared and the mysteries solved.

Roskze, whose years of trials and vicissitudes have left him a slim stoic, almost sightless, told his tale while a companion named Jack Sutton sat silently in the corner, nodding his head in agreement to the startling and dramatic story.

“My real name is John Roskze,” said the elderly man, “and my father was a steamboat captain, running one of the craft on the Mississippi between Memphis and St. Louis. He also owned a farm in Moro, Ill., below Springfield, the capital.

“This farm was on an island on one of the little streams that flowed into the Mississippi. Mother was in frail health and a woman did the housework, while her husband handled the farm work. Their name was Welch.

Tells of Kidnaping

“One day when I was five years old the woman tried to kidnap me. Mother saw her snatch me and start away, and my mother, frail as she was, battled with Mrs. Welch. Mother naturally had all the furious strength that any woman would have fighting to save her child, and was getting the better of Mrs. Welch.

“Mrs. Welch had a .22-caliber derringer, which women used in the country in those days to protect themselves. Mrs. Welch fired twice, the bullets going into my mother’s breast.

“Mrs. Welch told me afterward, before she died, that my mother said: ‘You’ve killed me, God take care of my child.’ Welch and his wife moved away, and I didn’t know until years afterward that a reward of $15,000 was offered to pay the ransom asked for my return.

“Ed Welch and his wife brought me up as their own child and I didn’t know anything about my real parents and the murder and kidnaping for years afterward. Welch was dying and he sent his wife out of the room, telling me he wanted me to stay behind.

“When Mrs. Welch got out the dying man told me that my mother had been murdered and that my right name was Roskze. I might say that Mrs. Welch’s name was Mrs. Orive Welch. She took me away after her husband died and we went to live in another place.

Four Detectives Slain

“Mrs. Welch afterward fell into bad company, and it seems incredible to you to believe, but she was actually responsible for the murder of four detectives. She didn’t kill them but her boy friends did, two of them being named Powell and Burroughs. I know this seems unbelievable, but I learned the truth back in Illinois.

“All the time that I was with the Welches I kept their name and became so well known I never changed back.

“When I got to be big enough to work for myself I left Mrs. Welch and went to Terrill, Texas, which is between Dallas and Texarkana. While I was there I fell in love with a girl, we were married and went to Rollins, Wyoming, shortly after our marriage.

“I worked in the car department of the Union Pacific, and if I had remained a year longer would have been eligible for a pension. The flu hit Rollins and all my family except myself died from the disease.

“I decided that there was nothing further for me in the West and returned to Illinois, arriving there just about the time that Mrs. Welch took to her deathbed. I asked her about my parents and she told me the same story that her husband had told me. It was then too late to do anything about it, so I decided to let the matter drop and keep quiet.

“I thought I would come East, to see what the country was like, as I had never been here before. It was easy enough to get a pass on the railroad, because I was an old railroad man and I arrived in Philadelphia. I remembered that Mrs. Welch had told me that some relatives of mine were living in New Jersey near Camden, so I came over here in 1920.

“I worked for awhile, then started my own apartment house, restaurant and little candy store on Sixth street. One day I was in my store when one of the men I had come to know, named Frank Wilkie, came into the store and said: ‘Charlie’—folks started to call me Charlie for some reason—’I’m going to bring a relative of yours to see you next Wednesday night.’ He wouldn’t tell me anything further, but kept saying that I would meet one of my relatives on Wednesday night.

Met Sister Here

“Sure enough that night he brought a fine-looking woman to my store, a woman about 10 years older than myself.

“’This is your sister’ Wilkie said, laughing. I took it as a joke, too, but the woman said she was serious. She described certain marks on her brother’s body said that if I bore such marks I was most certainly her brother.

“The strange feature of the whole thing was that such marks were on my body, in the exact places she said they would be found. I went to the rear of the store with a couple of fellows who were there, and let them examine me. Sure enough they found the marks.

“’I’m your sister’ this woman said to me, telling me her name. She said she lived near Grenloch and that she had a niece named Mrs. George Deal, who was coming in to see me later. My niece and I established our kinship and I kept up a calling friendship with her and her family until they moved away.

Tells of Seance

“Now the strange feature of this reunion. I asked Wilkie—I haven’t the slightest idea where he is today—how he came to know my sister. He almost knocked me over, and you probably won’t believe it either as few would, but he said he went to a spiritualistic seance, asked if I had any relatives and who they were.

“Wilkie maintained that the medium had told him to get in touch with this woman, and she would prove to be my sister. You can take it for what it is worth, but she was my sister sure enough. She told me further about the murder of mother, how the Welches had gone away after telling the police a story of some man coming to kidnap me, and taking me away while they tried to fight to keep me. It was a lie, of course, but they got away with it in such a town as Moro.

“All I know is that my real name is Roskze, that I was kidnaped, my mother was shot and killed trying to protect me.”

“Why didn’t you reveal the story that Welch told you?” asked the reporter.

“Well,” said Welch, or Roskze, after a pause, “I always looked on them as my parents. You wouldn’t want to turn up the woman you always felt was your mother, and why rake up the past when everything was buried when my father died. Welch was passing away and why send him to his grave with such a crime and scandal scattered all over the world?”

“Well if you could keep such a secret for 63 years, why did you feel that you could reveal it now?” was the next question.

“To tell you the truth,” replied Welch, “I don’t know. I just read that statement of Hoover’s in the newspaper, so I thought that this was a good time to reveal one kidnaping in 1875, at least, outside of Charlie Ross, that hadn’t been run down.”

Grade Crossing Victims

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Grade Crossing Victims - Philadelphia Inquirer, October 24, 1891

The News of New Jersey.

Two Young Men Killed on the West Jersey Railroad in Camden.

The deadly grade crossing scored two more victims in Camden last night. While driving across the West Jersey Railroad tracks at Vanhook street, Albert Beck, 25 years old, and George S. Jordon, three years younger, were struck by the Bridgeton accommodation train, which leaves the Federal street depot at 5.10. Beck was thrown under the engine and horribly mangled, death being instantaneous. His body was found 65 feet from the crossing and blood and pieces of flesh were strewn along the track for that distance. Jordon was thrown some distance and his neck was broken. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital, but died a few minutes after being placed on the operating table. The carriage was wrecked, but the horse escaped uninjured. Both bodies were taken to the Camden Morgue and Coroner Jefferis will hold an inquest.

The young men hired the team at 3 o’clock from Liveryman William S. Avis, of Sixth and Mount Vernon streets. They said they were going to Gloucester and were probably on their way home when killed. It is reported that they were both under the influence of liquor.

Beck was a baker and boarded with Josiah Jones, at Sixth and Chestnut streets. Jordon resided at 1051 Diamond street and was a teamster.

There are no safety gates at the crossing where the accident occurred.

Camden News Notes

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Camden News Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9, 1905

Bryant Smith, who was whirled about in a fly wheel at a paper mill, will probably have one of his feet amputated at the Cooper Hospital.

The cruiser Washington, recently launched at the New York shipyard, will be given a dock trial on Monday.

The Camden Hebrew relief fund has reached $694.38.

Frank Ireland, Calvin Kircher, Wesley Huff and Robert Barnes, boys, whose ages range from 14 to 16 years, were committed to the county jail by Recorder Stackhouse yesterday to await action on the part of Prosecutor Lloyd, who will probably have them sent to the reform school. According to Detectives Moffett and Hart, the youthful defendants are four of a gang that has been preying on local stores recently.

An unknown boy while passing the grocery store of E. S. Moore, 527 South Sixth street, yesterday lit a match and deliberately threw it into a can of gasoline. There was an explosion that shook the neighborhood and a slight fire resulted. The boy escaped.

Camden at Hebrew Meeting

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Camden at Hebrew Meeting - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 30, 1903

Mayor Nowry [sic] and Delegation Will Attend Demonstration

A delegation from Camden called on Dr. Aaron Brav, of 1337 South Sixth street, a member of the Kishineff Relief Committee, yesterday to give assurance of the co-operation of the Camden citizens in the mass meeting to be held in the Academy of Music on next Wednesday night to protest against the Russian atrocities. Mayor Nowry [sic] will attend the meeting, accompanied by the Representative Business League.

Archbishop Ryan has contributed $20 to the relief fund, and a letter of sympathy was received yesterday by Dr. Brav from the Sunday school of the First Presbyterian Church, of Lansdowne, with a contribution of $7.57.

Nelson Hardy Jailed

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Nelson Hardy Jailed - Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 1918

Nelson Hardy, the negro who attacked Mary Boullion, a white girl of 1911 Kossuth street, as she, with several companions, was crossing Line Ditch, at Sixth street, Tuesday night, was committed to the county jail by Recorder Stackhouse yesterday in default of $2000 bail.

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