Arthur Avenue, named for U.S. President Chester A. Arthur, is in the Cramer Hill section of Camden. The street had been laid out by 1887, and as Chester Arthur was not President until late 1881, was not so named until after that had occurred.
Pre-World War I maps show Arthur Avenue running along the railroad line by the Pavonia Car Shop beginning at East State Street. The railroad switching yards had so expanded that by the time the second map below, in 1946, was published, Arthur Avenue began at North 24th Street. Since those times, the street runs from North 24th Street east, across North 27th Street to North 29th Street, ending at what was Baldwin’s Run and what since about 1950 is known as Von Nieda Park.
The east side of Veterans Memorial Junior High School, built in 1938, is on Arthur Avenue between North 24th and North 25th Streets. The east side of Veterans Park, which had been the city reservoir in the 1800s, is on Arthur Avenue between North 25th and North 27th Street.
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Cramer Hill & East Camden, 1915
1914–1915 map of Cramer Hill and East Camden.
1946 Map of Camden
Arthur Avenue now runs for two blocks on the south side of Veteran’s Park, crosses 27th Street, and proceeds to 29th Street and Von Nieda Park.
2006 Satellite Photo
Arthur Avenue, with intersections of 24th (bottom), 27th, 28th, & 29th Streets marked.
Mrs. Emma E. Wahl
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Emma E. Wahl, 86, who had lived in East Camden for 55 years, died Sunday night at the home of a son, Horace F. C. Wahl, 132 Kendall boulevard, Oaklyn. She had been ill three weeks. Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Wahl was the widow of Frederick Wahl, who died 35 years ago and who for many years conducted a milk route in East Camden.
Mrs. Wahl lived for many years at 2730 Arthur avenue, later taking up her home with her other son, Russell, at 930 North Twenty-second street. Besides her two sons, she is survived by three grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Harriet Baker, Chalfont, Pa.
She was a member of Crescent Chapter of Eastern Star and Betsy Ross Council, Daughters of America. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 p. m. at a funeral establishment at 804 North Twenty-seventh street. Burial will be in Northwood Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Births — Cooper Hospital
Camden Courier-Post —
Richard Stanley, to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Albert Schoelkopf, of 2812 Arthur avenue.
From a description given by Samuel Lipman, a Philadelphia pawnbroker, Detective Captain Schregler, in Camden yesterday, had Harold Miller, aged 16, of 2742 Arthur avenue, arrested on the charge of taking bicycles at the Mount Holly Fair.
Break Into Home
Camden Post-Telegram —
Some time between 10.30 Tuesday night and 5 o’clock the next morning someone broke into the home of Mrs. Penven, 2746 Arthur avenue, and stole $80 that was hidden in a drawer in a sideboard of the dining room.
Entrance was forced through a window in the rear of the house and the drawer of the sideboard, which was locked, was forced open and the money, which was wrapped in a piece of cloth, in the back of the drawer, taken.
Apparently those who broke in were aware that the money was hidden there, as they apparently did not disturb anything else and were after the money.
The police were notified and District Detective Raymond H. Stark was detailed to make an investigation of the robbery.
Joseph Knispel
Camden Courier-Post —
Funeral services for Joseph Knispel, 98, who died yesterday at his home, 2821 Arthur avenue, Camden, will be held at 2 p. m., Friday. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery.
Mr. Knispel is survived by three daughters and one son, Mrs. Mary Riedel, Egg Harbor; Mrs. C. Pfannenstein and Mrs. Richard Knispel, both of Camden and Raymond Knispel, of Gloucester. He also is survived by eight grandchildren, including George F. Pfannenstein, a navy musician on the U. S. Battleship Idaho and two great grandchildren.
Robert B. Guest Jr.
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Guest.—On May 8, 1899, Robert B., Jr., son of Robert B. and Kate Guest, and grandson of Henrietta C. and the late George W. Guest, aged 7 months and 14 days. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, on Wednesday afternoon, May 10, at 2 o’clock, at the residence of his parents, 2824 Arthur avenue, Camden (formerly North Cramer Hill), N. J. Interment at Bethel Cemetery.
