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Linden Street

Camden Street
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Introduction

Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street. Much of Linden Street over the years has been razed to make way for the Ben Franklin Bridge, Rutgers, the toll plaza, and related projects. The surviving blocks pass through what is now Camden’s Cooper Grant Historic District, within walking distance of Rutgers-Camden and the waterfront.

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5 Linden Street

5 Linden Street — 1991 Fire Watch Magazine Ad

5 Linden Street — 1991 Fire Watch Magazine Ad.

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John J. Robinson Coal Yard

Camden Courier-Post —

John J. Robinson coal yard, southeast corner of Delaware Avenue and Linden Street, 1933

John J. Robinson Coal Ad

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Foot of Linden Street — Occupants

At the Delaware River, early 1900s.

5 Linden Street

5 Linden Street — Foot of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1991Palko ContinentalFire Watch Magazine Advertisement

Delaware Avenue & Linden Street — Occupants

Southeast corner occupants, 34–48 Linden.

Southeast Corner

Southeast Corner — Delaware Avenue & Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933–1940John J. Robinson (coal)

Intersection of North Front Street & Linden Street

100–107 Linden Street, circa 1950

Circa 1950. At right: 100 Linden Street; at left: 101, 103, 105, 107 Linden Street.

Funeral of James McDade

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Funeral of James McDade - Philadelphia Inquirer, July 9, 1922

With seventy-five of his fellow firemen acting as escort the funeral of James McDade, veteran engineer of No. 6 Engine Company, who died suddenly Tuesday night, took place yesterday from his home at Front and Linden streets. As the cortege passed the engine house where McDade had been stationed for ten years the members on duty stood at attention with hats doffed. There were floral tokens from all parts of the city, for McDade was one of the most popular members of the department. The services were in charge of Rev. James Lord, pastor of the Tabernacle M. E. Church. The pall-bearers were Lieutenant Clarence Madden, David Bakely, Abraham Kerns, William Thompson, Elmer Burkett, of McDade’s company, and Samuel Hardin, of No. 4 Engine Company. Interment was made at Fernwood Cemetery, Philadelphia.

100 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Captain John G. Hutchison (100, 1888–1896), Cornelius Baker obituary (115, 1952), and The Nelson W. Johnson House (119, 1880s–1940).

100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1876–1957.

100 Linden Street

100 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888–1896 Captain John G. Hutchison
1940Robert Heggan (restaurant)

101 Linden Street

101 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940William Talley

102 Linden Street

102 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1876–1884 John Dugan & Family
1876–1884John & Annie Dugan
1876–1884William Dugan
1876–1884John Dugan Jr.
1876–1884Hugh Dugan
1876–1884Kate Dugan -
1876–1884Rebecca Dugan
1876–1884Matthew Dugan -
1876–1884James Dugan
1876–1884James A. Dugan
1876–1884Marie Dugan
1880 Jacob Rettberg
1940William W. Morton

103 Linden Street

103 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Mary Curtz

104 Linden Street

104 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1884Col. I.S. Buckelew
1940Mrs. Margaret Trautwein

105 Linden Street

105 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Raymond Lau

106 Linden Street

106 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940William E. Godfrey

107 Linden Street

107 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Minnie R. Josling

108 Linden Street

108 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940John B. Green

109 Linden Street

109 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900 Rudolph Preisendanz Sr. (wagon builder)
1940Ernest L. Stahl

110 Linden Street

110 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940J. Hobart Condit

111 Linden Street

111 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900Owen Glenn Stackhouse (Police Dept. / Magistrate)
1940Robert L. Caskey

112 Linden Street

112 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Edwin B. Carlin

113 Linden Street

113 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Alex J. McCausland

114 Linden Street

114 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Frank J. Grundy

115 Linden Street

115 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1878–1910George W. Smith (Read & Smith, paperhangers)
1878–1910George W. & Emma Hunter Smith
1878–1910Maude Hunter Smith
1896–1911Cornelius Baker & Family
1912–1920John Dunn
1921–1929Edward L. O'Brien (foreman)
1931Samuel Saltzberg
1940–1947George A. Parker (foreman)

116 Linden Street

116 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Laura T. Stone (music teacher)

117 Linden Street

117 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Walter J. Gill

118 Linden Street

118 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940George R. Passwater

119 Linden Street

119 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880s–1940Nelson Johnson & Family
1940Mrs. Anna M. Johnson

120 Linden Street

120 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Mrs. Elizabeth Burns

121 Linden Street

121 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Jefferson King

122 Linden Street

122 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940John Lennon

123 Linden Street

123 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1940Mrs. Elizabeth Worner
1957Clara G. Blake

125 Linden Street

125 Linden Street — 100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910 Samuel E. Harring & Family
1910Samuel E. & Josephine Harring
1910Samuel Harring
1910Lottie Harring
1910 William R. Harring
1940Mrs. Dorothea E. McConaghy

Captain John G. Hutchison

Captain John G. Hutchison

Captain John G. Hutchison, 100 Linden Street, 1888–1896.

101 Linden Street, 2013

101 Linden Street, July 24, 2013

101 Linden Street. Photograph taken July 24, 2013.

Colonel I.S. Buckelew Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 1884 — Col. I.S. Buckelew, 104 Linden Street

Items of Interest in Camden County and Vicinity

Colonel I. S. Buckelew, superintendent of the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania, is lying seriously ill of typhoid fever at his residence, No. 104 Linden street, Camden.

Mrs. Maude Baker, Camden Native, Dies

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, August 5, 1952 — Cornelius Baker obituary, 115 Linden Street

Mrs. Maude Hunter Smith Baker, who was born in Camden in 1877, died of a heart attack Saturday at Providence, R. I.

She was the daughter of George W. Smith and Mrs. Emma Hunter Smith. Her father was a Camden merchant and was in the wallpaper business at the northwest corner of 3rd and Federal sts., now the site of The Courier-Post, from 1870 to 1900. He was a partner in the firm of Read and Smith.

She married Cornelius Baker Oct. 19, 1896, who survives, and for many years they resided in Camden. Mrs. Baker was a member of the old Trinity Baptist Church, 5th st. south of Cooper st. Her husband's business address is 1204 Girard ave., Philadelphia.

Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery Wednesday.

The Nelson W. Johnson House

The Camden City Directories for the years 1886 through 1899 show that Nelson W. Johnson and his family lived at 119 Linden Street. They were still living there as late as the summer of 1904, when their daughter Mary Ella Johnson was married at home to James Paul Blore, also of Camden.

Nelson W. Johnson was born around 1837 in Massachusetts to Benjamin and Elizabeth Johnson. At the time of the 1880 census he was living with wife Anna Margaret “Maggie,” who was some 20 years his junior, and sons Nelson C., 5; Benjamin, 3; and Charles, 1 at 441 Royden Street in Camden. Also living with the family was stepsister Ida McBride, then 14. Nelson Johnson listed his occupation as “moulder.” Daughters Mary, Lucy, and Margaret came later. Sadly, little Nelson would die on February 9, 1881. The family remained on Royden Street through at least 1883.

In 1881 Nelson Johnson partnered with Benjamin Holt in an iron foundry called, appropriately enough, Johnson & Holt. The business was originally called the Pearl Street Iron Works, where they made gray iron castings. By 1885 the firm employed 35 men and was building works at the foot of Elm Street, a short walk from the family’s home on Linden Street. This site is now the location of Riverfront State Prison.

Nelson Johnson and his family first appear at 119 Linden Street in the 1886 Camden City Directory.

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 1904 — Wedding of M. Ella Johnson and J. Paul Blore at 119 Linden Street

There was a pretty home wedding last night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson W. Johnson, 119 Linden street, Camden, when their daughter, Miss M. Ella Johnson, became the bride of J. Paul Blore, also of Camden. Rev. Dr. A. W. Spooner, of Cape May, officiated. The bride was given away by her father. Miss Maud E. Cross, of Boston, was maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Misses Sarah C. Blore, M. Alice Johnson, Christine B. Baird and M. Margaret Williams. Frank E. Bierfreund was best man.

Nelson Johnson was living in Cape May NJ when the census was taken in 1910, in a house just off Alexander Avenue. He passed away October 18, 1910, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Camden. The home at 119 Linden Street remained in the Johnson family as late as 1947. Nelson Johnson’s widow Maggie and daughter Margaret were both living there at the time of the April 1930 census. Margaret A. “Maggie” Johnson passed away in late January, 1941. Daughter Margaret Johnson, who for many years taught in the Camden public school system, was living there as late as 1947.

Nelson Johnson’s grandson, Technician 4th Class Gilbert M. Blore, died of wounds received in combat while serving in France on August 13, 1944.

119 Linden Street, 2005

119 Linden Street, Camden — exterior view, 2005 119 Linden Street, Camden — exterior view, 2005 119 Linden Street, Camden — interior view, 2005 119 Linden Street, Camden — interior view, 2005

119 Linden Street — 2005. The house sold for $225,000.

Death of Nurse Aide Laid to Rat Poison

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, December 30, 1957 — Howard W. Creran, 123 Linden Street

Clara G. Blake, 58, of 123 Linden st., a nurses' aide in Cooper Hospital, was pronounced dead on arrival in the hospital at 8.30 a. m. Sunday. Coroner Creran listed the death as a suicide, resulting from swallowing rat poison.

Ptl. Edward Troutman said neighbors went to Miss Blake's aid after they heard her crying for help. She told them she had swallowed a large quantity of poison, Troutman reported. Troutman said there was no apparent reason for the suicide and Miss Blake left no notes.

200 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Charles J. “Jeff” Kay (217, 1899–1900s), Mrs. Margaret Larzalere article (218, 1905), Richard Johnson obituary (222, 1922–1954), and T. Moore White article (228, 1887).

200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1887–1954.

211 Linden Street

211 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

213 Linden Street

213 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

214 Linden Street

214 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

215 Linden Street

215 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

217 Linden Street

217 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899–1900s Charles J. 'Jeff' Kay (policeman)

218 Linden Street

218 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905Mrs. Margaret Larzalere

219 Linden Street

219 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

220 Linden Street

220 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

221 Linden Street

221 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

222 Linden Street

222 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922–1954Richard Johnson & Family
1922–1954Richard & Clara Johnson

223 Linden Street

223 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

224 Linden Street

224 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

225 Linden Street

225 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1920s Richard C. Aitken & Family (bank manager; father of Private Richard K. Aitken)

227 Linden Street

227 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

228 Linden Street

228 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887T. Moore White

229 Linden Street

229 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

231 Linden Street

231 Linden Street — 200 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1888 Henry Washington Buchanan (printer, Civil War veteran)

Charles J. "Jeff" Kay

Charles J. 'Jeff' Kay, Camden policeman

Charles J. “Jeff” Kay, policeman — 217 Linden Street (1899–1900s), 306 Linden Street (1898).

Mrs. Margaret Larzalere Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 15, 1905 — Mrs. Margaret Larzalere, 218 Linden Street

Mrs. Margaret Larzalere, aged 60 years, of 218 Linden street, Camden, dropped dead yesterday as she was leaving a store at 32 Market street, where she had just made some purchases. She was about to go out of the door when she fell. She was taken to the Cooper Hospital, where life was found to be extinct. County Physician Jones gave a certificate of death from heart disease.

Richard Johnson Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, February 1, 1954 — Richard Johnson obituary, 222 Linden Street

MRS. CLARA JOHNSON

Mrs. Clara Johnson, 80, of 222 Linden st., died Saturday in Cooper Hospital.

A native of New Jersey, she resided in Camden 50 years and was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Radiant Star Lodge 13, Shepherds of Bethlehem, and Camp 12, Patriotic Order of America.

Surviving are two step-brothers, Ernest Westcott, Atlantic City, and Howard Westcott, Virginia.

Services will be held Wednesday at 11 a. m. in the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper st., where friends may call Tuesday night. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

T. Moore White Wins Verdict

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 12, 1887 — T. Moore White, 228 Linden Street

In the suit of T. Moore White, a Camden contractor, against Cornelius O'Connell, a Pennsylvania stone dealer, for damages for false arrest for embezzlement, the jury yesterday returned a verdict for the plaintiff of $300.

300 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Charles C. Piper obituary (303, 1911–1920), Mary G. Mooney obituary (304, 1918–1954), William Vannest Silver obituary (307, 1932), William J. Browning article (315), Ronald C. Archer article (319, 1953), and Marcyanna Staszek obituary (321, 1956).

300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1887–1956.

301 Linden Street

301 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

302 Linden Street

302 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

303 Linden Street

303 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1911–1920Charles C. Piper & Family
1911–1920Charles Collins & Farabel Vandegrift Piper
1911–1920Mrs. Sarah Vandegrift
1911–1920Elsie Piper
1911–1920Farabel Piper

304 Linden Street

304 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918–1954Mary G. Mooney

305 Linden Street

305 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

306 Linden Street

306 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1898 Charles J. 'Jeff' Kay (policeman)

307 Linden Street

307 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932William Vannest Silver & Family
1932William V. & Anna Eldridge Silver

308 Linden Street

308 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

312 Linden Street

312 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

313 Linden Street

313 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

314 Linden Street

314 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

315 Linden Street

315 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1887–1891Francis F. Patterson Sr. & Family
1887–1891Francis Ford & Catherine Patterson
1887–1891 Francis Ford Patterson Jr.
1887–1891Theodore Patterson; Wolcott J. Patterson
1897–1923William J. Browning & Family
1997–1923William J. & Lillian Browning

317 Linden Street

317 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

319 Linden Street

319 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1953Ronald C. Archer
1953 Benjamin Dzick
1953 Harry Tracy
1953David Kelly; Louis Prucella; Alfreda Warner

321 Linden Street

321 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1956Marcyanna Staszek

349 Linden Street

349 Linden Street — 300 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

Sarah E. Vandegrift Funeral Notice

Camden Post-Telegram —

Camden Post-Telegram, February 5, 1918 — Charles C. Piper obituary, 303 Linden Street

Mrs. Sarah E. Vandegrift, wife of the late James Vandegrift, died last night, in the 81st year of her age. Funeral ceremonies will be held at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles C. Piper, 303 Linden street, on Friday afternoon. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery in charge of Funeral Directors F. Roedel & Sons.

Mary G. Mooney Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, August 15, 1954 — Mary G. Mooney obituary, 304 Linden Street

MISS MARY D. MOONEY

Miss Mary D. Mooney, 87, of 304 Linden st., died Friday in the Camden County General Hospital at Lakeland after a long illness. A lifelong resident of Camden, Miss Mooney was employed for many years in the old Wilfred W. Fry estate on Penn st. In recent years she was employed by the maintenance staff at the Camden County Courthouse.

Services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in the Mason E. Bradley Funeral Home, 3203 Federal st. There will be no viewing Monday night. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

William Vannest Silver Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, March 28, 1932 — William Vannest Silver obituary, 307 Linden Street

SILVER — Funeral Notice

SILVER—On March 27, 1932, William Vannest, husband of the late Emma J. Silver (nee Eldridge), age 66 years. Relatives and friends of the family, also Ionic Lodge, No. 94, F. and A. M., and other societies to which he belonged, are invited to attend the funeral services, on Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from his late residence, 307 Linden St., Camden, N. J. Interment at Harleigh Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday evening.

William J. Browning Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 1913 — William J. Browning, 315 Linden Street

Acting Governor Taylor spent Christmas with his aunt, Mrs. William J. Browning, wife of the Congressman, of 315 Linden street.

Ronald C. Archer Burglary Sentence

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, November 23, 1953 — Ronald C. Archer, 319 Linden Street

Judge Dzick imposed a three months suspended sentence on an 18-year-old youth after one of his burglary victims testified she would be willing to forget the matter if the boy had learned a lesson.

The sentence was against Ronald C. Archer, 319 Linden st., who pleaded guilty to breaking into a building at 109 Erie st. last week and ransacking offices of the United Lithograph Co., the Van Osten Pattern Co. and the MacIntosh Litho Co.

Detective Harry Tracy said two juveniles accompanied Archer. One has been turned over to juvenile authorities and the second has left home, he said. Archer was arrested by Patrolmen David Kelly and Louis Prucella on information they received while on patrol in North Camden.

The plea of clemency was made by Mrs. Alfretta Warner, 232 Byron st., secretary of United Lithograph. A check writer taken in the burglary was recovered by police and returned to the owner.

Hospital Cases

Camden Courier-Post —

Hospital Cases - Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956

COOPER

Grandville Ingram, 30, of 2807 Thompson st., laceration of thumb.

Rudolph Massal, 76, of 1214 Kaighns ave., abrasion on forehead.

David Lenher, 21, of 290 Ablett Village, dog bite.

John McLaughlin, 55, of 226 Bailey st., laceration over eye.

Pallas David, 3, of 507 Haddon ave., laceration of finger.

Marcyanna Staszek, 56, of 321 Linden st., cat scratch.

400 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Edgar Freeman obituary (400, 1922), John W. Kelly article (400, 1933), Watson Finch article (404, 1927), Enos P. Reeves article (412, 1894), Stella Bacon Beach obituary (416–417, 1941), 3 Camden Students article (422, 1932), Dr. Ernest Ramsdell article (425, 1906), Rev. Wellington E. Loucks article (427, 1890), and J. Willard Morgan article (432, 1907).

400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1885–1947.

400 Linden Street

400 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Edgar Freeman & Family
1922Ruth Freeman
1922Edith Freeman
1933 John W. Kelly & Family
1933John W. & Elizabeth Kelly

401 Linden Street

401 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

402 Linden Street

402 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

403 Linden Street

403 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

404 Linden Street

404 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1885–1906 Martin V. Bergen
1927 Watson Finch

405 Linden Street

405 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

406 Linden Street

406 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

407 Linden Street

407 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

408 Linden Street

408 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

409 Linden Street

409 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

410 Linden Street

410 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
— Rev. Augustus D. Whitney Jr.
— August D. Whitney III (World War II)

411 Linden Street

411 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

412 Linden Street

412 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894Enos P. Reeves
— Dr. William S. Jones
1924–1943 Ida Pfeil (widow of Stephen A. Pfeil)

413 Linden Street

413 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

414 Linden Street

414 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

416–417 Linden Street

416–417 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1941Stella Bacon (later Stella Bacon Beach)
1941Lester R. Beach; Edward T. Beach

417 Linden Street

417 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1941Stella Bacon Beach

418 Linden Street

418 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

419 Linden Street

419 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922–1923 Mrs. Ida Pfeil (widow of Stephen A. Pfeil)

420 Linden Street

420 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

421 Linden Street

421 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1895–1896 Stephen A. Pfeil & Family
1895–1896Stephen & Ida Pfeil
1895–1896Hubert Pfeil

422 Linden Street

422 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932–1933May Marchant (teacher, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School)

423 Linden Street

423 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1897–1898 Stephen A. Pfeil & Family
1897–1898Stephen & Ida Pfeil
1897–1898Hubert Pfeil

424 Linden Street

424 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

425 Linden Street

425 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906Dr. Ernest Ramsdell

426 Linden Street

426 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

427 Linden Street

427 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890Rev. Wellington E. Loucks

428 Linden Street

428 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

430 Linden Street

430 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

431 Linden Street

431 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1900–1920 Stephen A. Pfeil & Family
1900–1920Stephen & Ida Pfeil
1900–1920Hubert Pfeil

432 Linden Street

432 Linden Street — 400 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1907 J. Willard Morgan
1938Stephen P. Szwak

News of a Day in the City of Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

News of a Day in the City of Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1906

Camden is to have another daily newspaper. The stockholders met yesterday and elected these officers: President, George M. Beringer; vice president, William E. Anthony; secretary, Newton B. T. Roney; treasurer, John Danenhower. It will be called the Daily News, and while it is to be a business proposition, it will be established mainly for the advocacy of the Colby-Record movement in New Jersey. It will be opposed to present local political conditions.

Albert Reese, 27 years old, of 834 Jersey avenue, Gloucester City, fell eighty feet from a scaffold at the New York Ship Yard last night. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital apparently fatally injured. An examination revealed the fact that he had escaped with slight bruises.

James McDonald, who was struck by a train at Fish House Monday, died at the Cooper Hospital, Camden, yesterday, without regaining consciousness. His address is unknown and the body was removed to the Morgue awaiting a claimant.

According to the report of Health Physician Leavitt, of the Camden Board of Health, the health of the city is exceedingly good. In all there were but thirty-nine contagious diseases reported for the past month. There was but one case of typhoid fever. This disease has almost entirely disappeared from Camden, there having been less than a score of cases the past year.

A number of Camden’s officials enjoyed a planked shad dinner at Chew’s Landing last night. In the party were City Comptroller Samuel Hufty, City Engineer Levi Farnham, Assistant Tax Receivers Charles Elfreth, J. F. Newton and Frank Heisler, Assistant Engineer William Osler, License Clerk John McCabe, Building Inspector William Steinmetz, Plumbing Inspector Harry Francis and Mayor Charles H. Ellis.

Robert Floyd, a colored stevedore, of Mt. Ephraim avenue, Camden, is building a thirty-five-foot boat in his back yard with the object of using it to seek a treasure island in the West Indies. Although his home is nearly two miles from the river, Floyd declares he will have no difficulty in launching the rather unwieldy craft. A sailor on board a vessel which Floyd was unloading told him the tale of hidden gold and as a result the Camden man decided to seek out the spot on his own hook.

There was an exciting incident in Recorder Stackhouse’s court, in Camden, yesterday, when a young woman yelled a denial in a high voice as a witness was testifying in the case of Herbert M. Denny against Chauncey Bell and Frederick Bock, the latter two being charged with assault and battery. Silence was restored by the court officers and the case was concluded by the defendants being held in $200 bail each.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nace in the Circuit Court, in Camden, yesterday were given a verdict for $25 against the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company. The plaintiffs sued for $2500, they claiming a conductor of the company roughly handled the woman on March 16 of last year when she was put off a train. In the case of Charles Smith against the Public Service Corporation a verdict was given for the plaintiff in the sum of $600.

William H. Cox, 18 years old, of 903 Haddon avenue, had his right foot crushed at the Camden Iron Works yesterday. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.

William Walsh, 17 years old, of 524 Borton street, who had been missing several days, returned yesterday. He had gone to Atlantic City to see the sights.

The Germantown Wood Working Company was incorporated yesterday with a capital of $10,000.

Ida Jackson, a negress, was convicted of dealing in lottery policy before Judge Joline yesterday. William Derry, also a negro, was convicted on a similar charge.

John Cowan, 53 years old, of 1024 Sycamore street, died suddenly yesterday from hemorrhages of the stomach. He was a life-long resident of Camden.

At great personal risk, Dr. Ernest Ramsdell, of 425 Linden street, Camden, last night saved Arthur Grant, 11 years old, of 501 State street, from being crushed beneath a team of horses. Arthur, who was riding a bicycle, attempted to get out of the way of a dog. In doing so he wheeled directly into the horses. The latter reared and were about to fall on the boy when Dr. Ramsdell rushed over to him and dragged him from beneath the horses.

Ruth Freeman Weds Alan Nash

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 4, 1922 — Edgar Freeman, 400 Linden Street

When Miss Ruth Freeman became the bride of Alan W. Nash in a ceremony at Centenary M. E. Church yesterday afternoon, she was attended by her twin sister, Edith. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Freeman, of 400 Linden street. Mr. Nash is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburforce Nash, of 505 Cooper street.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. H. Shick, grandfather of the bridegroom, assisted by Rev. N. V. Sargent, pastor of Centenary Church. Harold Pratt was best man, Harold Tussey presided at the organ, and the ushers were Robert K. Paul, of Haddonfield; William Franklin, of Oaklyn; Robert Freeman, of Camden, and Leslie Gardner, of Philadelphia. The bride is a graduate of Camden High and the State Normal School and has been teaching at Ventnor. Mr. Nash is a graduate of Penn Charter and Penn State.

John W. Kelly Rites to Be Held Today

Camden Courier-Post —

John W. Kelly Rites to Be Held Today - Camden Courier-Post, December 23, 1933

Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. today at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray & Son, 408 Cooper street, for John W. Kelly, Jr., former chief of the Camden Electrical Bureau, who died Thursday. Burial will be private.

“Chief” Kelly, as he was known, was 76 and lived at 400 Linden street. He died of bronchial poisoning in Cooper Hospital, where he was taken 13 days ago.

Chief Kelly was in the employ of the city for 19 years and was internationally known for his achievements in the field of electrical development. He severed his connection with the city in 1927 and since then was a member of the firm of the Greater Camden Decorating Co.

He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth, and two daughters, Mrs. Albert Wetton and Ruth Kelly.

Watson Finch Article

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, June 1, 1932 — Watson Finch, 404 Linden Street, 1927

In Memoriam — FINCH

FINCH—Watson, who departed this life May 31, 1931.

A man may be hailed by his fellows as friend, / As loyal and true as a brother, / But all other loves fade out in the end / When compared to the kinship of mother. / If the mother is left with the memory of days / When her boy was her own by her side, / She must miss him in many intangible ways / For a mother's heart's many miles wide.

Missed in a Mother's heart as big as his own.

405–413 Linden Street, 1954

405–413 Linden Street, 1954

405–413 Linden Street, c. 1954.

Over in Camden -- Enos P. Reeves Dies

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, December 29, 1894 — Enos P. Reeves, 412 Linden Street

Over in Camden

County Physician Jones yesterday gave a certificate of death from heart failure in the case of Enos P. Reeves, 52 years old, of 412 Linden street, who died suddenly on Thursday night.

Mrs. Stephen A. Pfeil

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, October 30, 1943 — Ida Pfeil obituary, 412 Linden Street

Mrs. Ida Pfeil, for many years active in the Pyne Point Community Association, Camden, and in musical circles, died Thursday at her home, 412 Linden st., Camden. She was 83.

Mrs. Pfeil was the widow of Stephen A. Pfeil, lawyer and writer, who died in 1919. A native of Trenton, and a graduate of the normal school there, Mrs. Pfeil was known for her work in behalf of Camden's playgrounds.

She is survived by one son, Hubert. Funeral services will be held Monday at 10.30 A. M. from funeral parlors at 715 Cooper st., Camden, and at West Laurel Hill Cemetery here.

Lester R. Beach Weds Stella Bacon

Camden Courier-Post —

Lester R. Beach Weds Stella Bacon - Camden Courier-Post, July 14, 1941

The marriage of Lester R. Beach, son of Justice of the Peace Everett T. Beach, of 943 St. John’s street, to Miss Stella Bacon, of 417 Linden street, was announced last night. The ceremonies were performed in the Beach residence Saturday night. The couple will spend a week at Wildwood on their honeymoon.

3 Camden Students Get Degrees at N.Y.U.

Camden Courier-Post —

Three Camden residents, including two school teachers, were among the 4,000 students graduated from New York University yesterday at the 101st commencement exercises at Ohio Field, University Heights, New York.

The Camden students are Miss May Marchant, 422 Linden Street, teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, Bella Polivnick, 1449 Ormond Avenue, teacher in Camden High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, and Charles E. Hutchinson, 1353 Park Boulevard, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering.

Dr. Ramsdell Saves Boy from Horses

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1906 — Dr. Ernest Ramsdell, 425 Linden Street

At great personal risk, Dr. Ernest Ramsdell, of 425 Linden street, Camden, last night saved Arthur Grant, 11 years old, of 501 State street, from being crushed beneath a team of horses. Arthur, who was riding a bicycle, attempted to get out of the way of a dog. In doing so he wheeled directly into the horses. The latter reared and were about to fall on the boy when Dr. Ramsdell rushed over to him and dragged him from beneath the horses.

Rev. Loucks Holds Reception

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1904 — Rev. Wellington E. Loucks, 427 Linden Street

Rev. Wellington E. Loucks, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, tendered his congregation a reception at his residence, 427 Linden street, last night.

J. Willard Morgan Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 8, 1907 — J. Willard Morgan, 432 Linden Street

DEATH OF ELI B. MORGAN

Well-Known Camden Man Expired in Jefferson Hospital

Eli B. Morgan, well known in Camden, died in the Jefferson Hospital yesterday afternoon from kidney trouble. He was 56 years old. Mr. Morgan was a brother of J. Willard Morgan, State Comptroller of New Jersey. His sister recently married former Judge E. Ambler Armstrong, of Camden, and a member of the New Jersey Board of Equalization of Taxes. He was recently engaged in the real estate business on Kaighn avenue.

Mr. Morgan was active in Camden county politics some years ago. He was Deputy County Clerk under County Clerk Joseph Hollingshead, and was Deputy Sheriff under his father, Randal E. Morgan, and also under Sheriff William C. Calhoun. He ran as an independent candidate against Theodore B. Gibbs, who was elected Sheriff, in 1895.

The funeral will take place from the residence of State Comptroller J. Willard Morgan, 432 Linden street, Camden, Wednesday morning. Interment will be private.

Stephen P. Szwak Notice

Camden Courier-Post —

DEBTS—On and after this date, February 16th, 1938. I will not be responsible for any debts unless contracted by myself.

Stephen Peter Szwak.
432 Linden St. Camden, N.J.

Linden Street from the 400–500 Blocks, c. 1926–1928

Linden Street, from a 1928 postcard Linden Street, 400–300 block, from a 1928 postcard Linden Street, 301–601, 1954

Linden Street — postcards from c. 1926–1928, and a 1954 view.

500 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover William Joyce Sewell (500, 1880–1901), 500, 502 & 504 Linden Street (c. 1880–1960s), Joseph Carpani article (502, 1933), Steelman Business School (502, 1955–1964), Joseph Elverson article (506, 1910), Randolph Harrison article (509, 1912), James Crawford article (509, 1915), Dr. George Taylor Robinson (518, 1870s–1895), Benjamin F. Boyer article (524, 1894–1895), A.J. Fullmer article (529, 1904), Henry L. Hartshorn article (530), and E.G. Locke article (537, 1914).

500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1870s–1964.

500 Linden Street

500 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1880–1901 William Joyce Sewell
1921–1940 Bellevue Private Hospital (Dr. J. Lynn Mahaffey & Dr. Elmer R. Schall)
1943–1950sCamden General Hospital

501 Linden Street

501 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

502 Linden Street

502 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933 Joseph Carpani & Family
1943–1947Arthur F. Mahaffey (funeral home)
1955–1964Steelman Business School

503 Linden Street

503 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894–1895George Shimer & Family (Shimer & Boyer)

504 Linden Street

504 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943–1947Marie C. Kirby

505 Linden Street

505 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

506 Linden Street

506 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1910Joseph Elverson & Family
1943–1947Mrs. Bernadina Menaquale

507 Linden Street

507 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

508 Linden Street

508 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

509 Linden Street

509 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1912Randolph Harrison
1915James Crawford

510 Linden Street

510 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

511 Linden Street

511 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1922Joseph H. Stewart & Family
1922Joseph H. & Helen Baird Peak Stewart

512 Linden Street

512 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

515 Linden Street

515 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

516 Linden Street

516 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

517 Linden Street

517 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

518 Linden Street

518 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–1900sHeber Robinson & Family
1870s–1900sHeber & Martha Robinson
1870s–1900sMary Robinson
1870s–1900sHebe Robonson
1870s–1900sDr. Frank Neall Robinson
1870s–1895 Dr. George Taylor Robinson
1870s–1905Dr. Frank Neill Robinson

519 Linden Street

519 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

520 Linden Street

520 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

521 Linden Street

521 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

522 Linden Street

522 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

523 Linden Street

523 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

524 Linden Street

524 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894–1895Benjamin F. Boyer & Family (Ralph B. Boyer; Shimer & Boyer)
1894–1895Ralph B. Boyer

525 Linden Street

525 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–1888 Rev. Isaac C. Wynn

526 Linden Street

526 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

527 Linden Street

527 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1870s–1883 Martin V. Bergen

528 Linden Street

528 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

529 Linden Street

529 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904A.J. Fullmer

530 Linden Street

530 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890s–1900sHenry L. 'Harry' Hartshorn & Family

531 Linden Street

531 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

535 Linden Street

535 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

537 Linden Street

537 Linden Street — 500 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1914E.G. Locke
— William T. Boyle

William Joyce Sewell

William Joyce Sewell, 500 Linden Street

William Joyce Sewell, 500 Linden Street, 1880–1901.

500, 502 & 504 Linden Street

500, 502 & 504 Linden Street — late 1879 or early 1880 to 1960s

500, 502 & 504 Linden Street — late 1879 or early 1880 to 1960s. William Joyce Sewell was living at 326 North 2nd Street in the spring of 1879 when the 1879–1880 City Directory was compiled. He had moved to 500 Linden Street by June of 1880, when the Census was taken. These three houses appear in the 1891 Sanborn map.

500 to 530 Linden Street, c. 1900

500 to 530 Linden Street, circa 1900

500 to 530 Linden Street, photo from about 1900. The houses had already been built by 1891.

Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department

Camden Evening Courier —

Sixteen Appointed to Fire Department - Camden Evening Courier, December 3, 1904

Men Selected from Every Ward Throughout the City.

EIGHT TO GO TO THE NEW HOUSE

On account of the illness of its chairman, Dr. Frank Neall Robinson, the fire committee of City Council last night met at Dr. Robinson’s residence, 518 Linden street. The principal object of the meeting was to recommend names for additional appointments in the Fire Department.

Among the sixteen fortunate ones were Rollo Jones and Charles Cook, of the First ward; James White and Harry Anderson, Second ward; Ephraim Davis, Tenth ward; Samuel Sheer and E. Finley, Third ward; Martin Carrigan, Fourth ward; Joseph Daly, Fifth ward; Joseph Ernest, Sixth ward; William Buzine, Seventh ward; William Munson, Charles Sturgis, Eighth ward; William Whitzell, Ninth ward; Joseph Till, Jr., East Camden.

William Miller, Eighth ward; John H. Vickers and F. Morse, Twelfth ward.

News of Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer —

News of Camden - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 24, 1903

Miss Ellen Alberto Langendorf and Dr. A. Haines Lippincott, one of the Coroners of Camden county, were married last evening at the home of the bride’s mother, at 512 Linden street, Camden. Rev. J. S. Heisler officiated. Miss Elizabeth Langendorf, sister of the bride, was maid of honor, and Misses Mary Vansciver, of Chestnut Hill, and Lorette Vreland were bridesmaids. Joseph Lippincott, brother of the groom, was best man, and the ushers were Dr. F. N. Robinson and Charles H. Laird.

Pleads Guilty to Charges

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Pleads Guilty to Charges - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 1914 Pleads Guilty to Charges - Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12, 1914

Taken into custody in Pittsburgh, and brought to New Jersey on requisition, John Topkins, alias Price, yesterday in Camden county court, before Judge Boyle, pleaded guilty to charges of aiding John Miller in burglarizing the homes of E. G. Locke, 537 Linden street, and Charles P. Bowyer, 335 Penn street. He also admitted complicity in a highway robbery case, aiding Miller in holding up Andrew Miller, a butcher, and robbing him of $50.

Joseph Carpani Article

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, August 14, 1933 — Joseph Carpani, 502 Linden Street

The Bell Telephone Co. was permitted to transfer the telephone of Detective Joseph Carpani from his old home at 537 Washington street to his new residence at 502 Linden street.

Steelman Business School

Steelman Business School, 502 Linden Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages Ad Steelman Business School, 502 Linden Street — Camden Courier-Post, May 19, 1964

Steelman Business School — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages Ad

STEELMAN BUSINESS SCHOOL — CAMDEN — Shorthand — Typewriting — Bookkeeping — Accounting — Secretarial — Comptometer — STEELMAN — ESTABLISHED 1924 — Classes Day and Evening — Employment Service Without Charge — STEELMAN BUSINESS SCHOOL — 502 Linden Camden … WOodlawn 4-3369

Joseph Elverson Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, November 15, 1910 — Joseph Elverson, 506 Linden Street

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Elverson and Miss Elverson, of 506 Linden street, sailed yesterday for Bad-Nauheim, Germany, where they go for the benefit of Mrs. Elverson's health.

Randolph Harrison Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 23, 1912 — Randolph Harrison, 509 Linden Street

Becoming excited over a basketball game, at the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A., Randolph Harrison, 25 years old, of 509 Linden street, fell from the balcony. He escaped serious injury by landing on one of the players.

Camden at a Glance

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden at a Glance - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 19, 1915

Struck in the face with a brick thrown by another boy, Albert Sawmering, aged twelve years, of 406 Berkley street, is in the Homeopathic Hospital with a fracture of the skull and a broken nose.

Grapplers have not yet found the body of Landsman John J Smith, a member of the Camden Naval Reserves, who was drowned on Sunday last off Pennsville while on a cruise on the gunboat Vixen.

Suffering from heat exhaustion, Julius Narshinski, aged 40 years, of 214 Burns street, is under treatment at Cooper Hospital His condition is not serious.

On a charge of misbehaving themselves, Neil Rhoades and Emma Wells were yesterday committed to the county jail by Justice Hurett, complaint being made by Constable Headley.

Burned all over the body on June 7 by the bursting of a pipe containing nitric acid at the powder plant at Gibbstown, James Crawford, aged 56 years, of 310 Linden street, died yesterday at Cooper Hospital.

Miss Helen Baird Peak Weds

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, November 26, 1922 — Joseph H. Stewart, 511 Linden Street

Miss Helen Baird Peak, daughter of Mrs. Alice E. Peak, of 1455 Belleview avenue, and a niece of former United States Senator David Baird, became the bride of Joseph H. Stewart, son of Mrs. Emma Stewart, of 1312 Green street, last night. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Leslie L. Hand, pastor of the Parkside M. E. Church, at the bride’s home. Miss Alta Osborne, was maid of honor, and the best man was Slayton Stewart, brother of the groom. After a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart will live at 511 Linden street. The groom is an overseas veteran and is in the U. S. mail service.

Death of Dr. G. T. Robinson

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Death of Dr. G. T. Robinson - Philadelphia Inquirer, June 29, 1895

Overwork Takes Off a Young Camden Physician.

Dr. George Taylor Robinson, of 518 Linden street, Camden, died yesterday of nervous prostration, caused by overwork. He was 34 years old.

Dr. Robinson was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and also of Heidelberg. He was well known in Camden, where he resided for the past twenty years. He was pathologist at the Cooper Hospital. He was a member of Ionic Lodge, No. 94, F. and A. M.; Cyrene, Commandery, Knights Templar; Pottowottomie Tribe of Red Men, Sons of St. George, Knights of Golden Eagle, City and County Medical Society, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and several other societies. The funeral will take place on Monday, and will be private.

Frank Neill Robinson Testimonial Dinner

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, July 26, 1895 — Frank Neill Robinson, 518 Linden Street

The committee of Camden City Council having in charge the testimonial dinner to Councilman Frank Neall Robinson, who recently returned from California, announced yesterday that it will be held at Washington Park August 3.

Miss Boyer Gives Tea

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 3, 1895 — Benjamin F. Boyer, 524 Linden Street

Miss Boyer, of 524 Linden street, will give a tea next Wednesday from 3 until 5.

A.J. Fullmer Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 22, 1904 — A.J. Fullmer, 529 Linden Street

BROWN — Funeral Notice

BROWN—On September 18, 1904, MARY J., wife of the late James D. Brown. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services, on Thursday, September 22, at 2 P M. at the residence of her son-in-law, A J Fullmer, 529 Linden st., Camden, N J. Interment strictly private, at Harleigh Cemetery.

Captain Hartshorn Presented with Crayon Bust

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1894 — Henry L. Hartshorn, 530 Linden Street

Captain H. L. Hartshorn, the retiring Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of New Jersey, was presented with a life-size crayon bust of himself by his staff.

600 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Frank Benson obituary (637, 1938).

600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1930–1938.

601 Linden Street

601 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

609 Linden Street

609 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

611 Linden Street

611 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

619 Linden Street

619 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943Joe Spearing

635 Linden Street

635 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930Edward Morgenweck & Family
1930Edward & Catherine Morgenweck
1930 Edward N. Morgenweck

637 Linden Street

637 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Frank Benson

646 Linden Street

646 Linden Street — 600 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

601 to 615 Linden Street, 1928

601 to 615 Linden Street, from a 1928 postcard

601 to 615 Linden Street — excerpt from scan of a 1928 postcard.

609–637 Linden Street, 1954

609–637 Linden Street, photo from 1954

609–637 Linden Street — photo from 1954.

Frank Benson Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, February 26, 1938 — Frank Benson, 637 Linden Street

BRASS THEFT SUSPECT TO FACE GRAND JURY

Charged with stealing brass fittings worth $700 from the Noecker & Ake Shipyard, Twenty-eighth street and Harrison avenue, Frank Benson, 18, of 637 Linden street, was held in $1000 bail for the Grand Jury by Police Judge Mariano yesterday.

Benson was caught Wednesday by a shipyard employe who told police he waited two hours in the rain for the suspect.

Detectives Heber McCord and Donald Swissler were commended by Judge Mariano after they reported recovering most of the loot.

Intersection of North 7th Street & Linden Street

Northwest corner of North 7th Street and Linden Street — R. McAllister Inc. Coal Yard, 401 North 7th Street, 1952 R. McAllister Inc., 401 North 7th Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages Ad R. McAllister Inc. oil ad, 401 North 7th Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages Ad

Northwest corner of North 7th Street & Linden Street, 401 North 7th Street — R. McAllister Inc. Coal Yard. Top: photo from 1952. Bottom two: 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ads.

McALLISTER R

Complete Sales & Service on OIL BURNERS BOILER BURNER UNITS

See and Compare Our Values

McAllister Service Rendered Promptly On All Make Burners

7th & Linden Camden. . . . WOodlawn 3-0522

McALLISTER

FUEL OIL

OIL BURNERS SALES & SERVICE

Let the GREEN FLEET Serve You HEAT!

WOodlawn 3-0522

COllingswood 5-2800

MErchantville 8-0145

McAllister

700 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover H. Raymond Staley article (700, 1905), Evan Moore obituary (707, 1932), Earl Trewin article (707, 1932–1933. George H. Simon obituary — 707, 1951), Walter Taylor obituary (709, 1941–1950), Daniel Quicksall obituary (713), Jennie T. Davis obituary (715, 1950), Philip J. Carlin obituary (725, 1945), John M. Richardson obituary (725, 1945), and P.A. Walton article (730, 1911).

700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1905–1954.

700 Linden Street

700 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1905 H. Raymond Staley & Family
1905H. Raymond & Bertha C. Staley

707 Linden Street

707 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Evan Moore
1932–1933Earl Trewin
1951George H. Simon & Family
1951George & Maria Simon
1951Thomas Simon

709 Linden Street

709 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1941–1950Walter Taylor (Deputy Warden of Camden County Jail)

712 Linden Street

712 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

713 Linden Street

713 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917–1940Daniel Quicksall & Family
1917–1940Daniel & Henrietta Quicksall
—C.M. Powell Quicksall & Family (Deputy County Surrogate; Charles M. Powell & Anna Quicksall)

715 Linden Street

715 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1950Jennie T. Davis

721 Linden Street

721 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1942 Harry B. Maxwell & Family
1942Harry & MargueriteMaxwell

724 Linden Street

724 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1943Mrs. Gertrude Pogue
1943Garrett C. Pogue Jr.

725 Linden Street

725 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1945Philip J. Carlin
1945John M. Richardson & Family
1945John & Lillian Richardson
1945Lillian Richardson Holtz
1945John M. Richardson Jr.

727 Linden Street

727 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947 Harry B. Maxwell & Family
1947Harry & MargueriteMaxwell

730 Linden Street

730 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1911P.A. Walton

731 Linden Street

731 Linden Street — 700 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

Staley—Toone

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Staley—Toone - Philadelphia Inquirer, April 25, 1905

Miss Florence Clayton Toone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac C. Toone, of 503 Benson street, was married last night to Harry Raymond Staley, in the presence of several hundred guests, at the First Baptist Church, Camden, by Rev. John W. Lyell, the pastor. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Laura Estelle Toone, as maid of honor. Miss Elizabeth McCully and Miss Bertha Pearce, the latter of Long Branch, as bridesmaids, and Miss Margaret Riggs as flower girl. Davis Draper was best man, and the ushers were Howard G. Toone, Percy England, Charles Austermuhl, Burrough Robertson, of Camden; Eugene Haines and Harry Bullock, of Mt. Holly. Mr. and Mrs. Staley will reside at 704 Linden street.

Wedding in Baptist Church

Camden Daily Courier —

Wedding in Baptist Church - Camden Daily Courier, April 25, 1905

Miss Florence Toone the Bride of Harry Raymond Staley.

Last evening in the First Baptist Church, Miss Florence Clapton Toone, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Clapton Toone, was united in marriage to Harry Raymond Staley by the Rev. John W. Lyell. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Laura Estelle Toone as maid of Honor. Miss Elizabeth McCully, of this city, and Miss Bertha Pearce, of Long Branch, were the bridesmaids and Miss Margaret Riggs served as flower girl.

The groomsman was Davis Draper and the ushers were: Howard G. Toone, Percy England, Charles Austermuhl, Burrough Robertson, all of this city, and Eugene Haines, and Harry Bullock, of Mt. Holly.

After the ceremony a reception was given at the bride’s home, 554 Benson street, and upon returning from the wedding tour the young couple will reside at 704 Linden street.

3 Men Are Jailed for Street Begging

Camden Courier-Post —

3 Men Are Jailed for Street Begging - Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1932

Three men who police said begged money from persons leaving Centenary-Tabernacle M. E. church, Fifth and Cooper streets, were sent to jail today.

They are Carl Low, 36, of 520 South Second street; Ned Galvin, 39, of 909 South Fourth street, and Evan Moore, 39, of 707 Linden street. The trio, arrested yesterday were given 30 days each in jail by Police Judge Pancoast.

Isaac Toone Buried with Masonic Honors

Camden Post-Telegram —

Isaac Toone Buried with Masonic Honors - Camden Post-Telegram, June 24, 1910

The funeral of Isaac Toone, whose death occurred on Tuesday took place this afternoon from the residence of his son-in-law, H. Raymond Staley, 704 Linden street, and was largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. John W. Lyell, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of which deceased was a member.

The members of T. M. K. Lee Post, No. 5, G. A. R., viewed the body last night and held their services. The employes of the Toone & Hollinshed Company also viewed the body last night. The services at the grave were conducted by Camden Lodge, F. and A. M.

The body reposed in a black cloth covered cedar casket with satin tufted lining and had antique silver extension bar handles. The pall-bearers were selected from members of Camden Lodge who are also members of the Scottish Rite bodies, and members of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.

The floral offerings were numerous and of handsome design, among them being a large gates ajar, from the employes of Toone & Hollinshed, and a broken circle with immortelles with the words, “Our President.” A shower bouquet from Class A-7, First Baptist Sunday-school; a shower bouquet from former Judge and Mrs. E. A. Armstrong; the usual floral emblems of the Masonic bodies; a shower bouquet of lavender sweet peas from Mr. A. M. Ward’s Bible Class of the First Baptist Bible-school; a handsome bouquet with a tall cedar in the center from the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.

The interment was made in Harleigh Cemetery under the direction of Funeral Director W. B. M. Burrell.

Earl Trewin Article

Camden Courier-Post — &

Camden Courier-Post, 1932–1933 — Earl Trewin, 707 Linden Street

GEORGE H. SIMON

Services for George H. Simon, 62, will be held Tuesday at 11 a. m. in the funeral home of Robert J. Blake, Haddon avenue and Division street, where friends may call tonight. Burial will be in Harleigh cemetery. Mr. Simon died in his home, 707 Linden street, Friday. Born in Philadelphia, he lived in Camden 40 years and had been employed by the old Garden State Dairies and the Supplee-Wills-Jones Co., which took over the Garden State Dairies.

Surviving are his widow, Maria; a son, Thomas, Laurel Springs; five brothers, William, Germantown; Ernest, Philadelphia; John, National Park; Fred, Runnemede, and Frank, Wildwood; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Downing, Merchantville; Mrs. Katherine Smith, Camden, and Mrs. Etta Baker, Wildwood, and two grandchildren.

Walter Taylor Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, July 29, 1941 — Walter Taylor, 709 Linden Street

AUTO SMASHES HOME AFTER TRUCK FAILS

Three weeks ago a 10-ton coal truck ran into the front of Walter Taylor's home at 709 Linden street, but the damage done then didn't compare with the damage done yesterday when an ordinary automobile crashed into his place.

Taylor said he can't understand why his home should be singled out as a target, but the repeat visit took place when a car driven by Tony Sebastiano, 45, of 1045 South Sixth street, Philadelphia, tried to climb up his front steps. Sebastiano told police his brakes failed to hold. He, his wife and their two children all escaped injury, but the machine and the front of Taylor's house were badly damaged.

Walter Taylor Article

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, May 23, 1950 — Walter Taylor, 709 Linden Street

WALTER TAYLOR

For whom services will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. in the Murray funeral home, 408 Cooper street, where friends may call Wednesday night. Burial will be in Bethel Memorial park. Mr. Taylor, 79, a retired deputy warden of the Camden county jail, died Sunday in his home, 709 Linden street, after an illness of six years.

Daniel Quicksall Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, May 22, 1930 — Daniel Quicksall obituary, 713 Linden Street

MRS. QUICKSALL DIES; FUNERAL SATURDAY

Mrs. Henrietta B. Quicksall, mother of Deputy Surrogate C. M. Powell Quicksall, died yesterday after an illness of a few days. She was 73 and made her home with her son at 713 Linden street.

Mrs. Quicksall is survived also by four daughters, Mrs. Borton Mills, of Saranac Lake, N. Y.; Mrs. Bertha Dew, Parcy, Ark.; Mrs. John Pentz, Trenton; Mrs. Albert Pfannenstein, Camden, and several grandchildren. Her husband, Daniel Quicksall, Civil War veteran and builder, died eight years ago.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at 423 Cooper street and burial will be private at Evergreen Cemetery.

Jennie T. Davis Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, September 23, 1950 — Jennie T. Davis obituary, 715 Linden Street

DAVIS — Death Notice

DAVIS—On Sept. 22, 1950, Jennie T., of 715 Linden St., Camden, N. J., age 76 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Monday at 8.30 p. m., at the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper St., Camden, N. J. Interment at Grove Cemetery, Aberdeen, Maryland.

Philip J. Carlin Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, August 11, 1945 — Philip J. Carlin, 725 Linden Street

CARLIN--On August 9, 1945, Philip J., beloved husband of the late Julia Carlin (nee Sullivan), of 725 Linden St., Camden. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday morning, at 8 o'clock, from the funeral home of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway, Camden. High Mass, Cathedral of Immaculate Conception at 9 a. m. Interment at Old Cathedral Cemetery, Phila. Friends may call Monday evening.

John M. Richardson Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, January 23, 1954 — John M. Richardson, 725 Linden Street

JOHN M. RICHARDSON SR.

John M. Richardson Sr., 46, died Friday at his home, 725 Linden st. A native of Burlington, Mr. Richardson had lived in Camden for the past ten years and was connected with the Kieckhefer Container Co. He is survived by his wife, Lillian; a daughter, Mrs. Lillian Holtz; a son John Jr.; a sister, Mrs. Robert Evans, all of Camden; two sisters, Mrs. Edward Holmes and Mrs. Frances Dunhart, both of Beverly; a brother, Edwin of Mt. Laurel Township; and a grandson. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1.30 p. m. at the home where friends may call Monday evening. Burial, under the direction of the Schroeder Funeral Home, will be in the Burlington Odd Fellows Cemetery.

Camden News Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden News Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 1911

A watch and other jewelry stolen two weeks ago from the residence of P. A. Walton, 730 Linden street, were recovered yesterday in a Philadelphia pawnshop by Detective Brothers.

Judge Horner, sitting for Judge Joline, yesterday granted retail liquor licenses to Frank A. Muckenstrum, of Winslow township, and T. M. Ritter, of Pensauken township.

Frank Agnew and Stephen Michael, Philadelphia boys, are being held by the police as runaways.

Held under $300 bail to answer a charge of keeping a disorderly house at the hall at 1039-41 Kaighn avenue, Camden, which he owns and where he keeps a liquor store, Alexander Jasienski, a leader among the Polish residents, claimed in court that a mistake had been made. Police Captain Stanley and Policeman Climes testified to entering the hall last Sunday, finding upwards of 150 men and women there eating and drinking. Jasienski stated that the festivities were held by the St. Joseph’s Society in celebration of the one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary of Poland’s constitution. He declared that he rented the ball [sic] to the society and that they supplied their own eatables and drinkables. Joseph Wotkowiak, president of the society, gave bail for the accused hotelman.

In jail in default of bail following his arrest on a charge of larceny preferred by Blanche Thomas, Frank Gibbs, colored, was released yesterday in Camden police court by Acting Recorder Stackhouse on receipt of a message that Joseph Gibbs, father of the prisoner, had dropped dead on the street while endeavoring to secure a bondsman for his son. The elder Gibbs was 65 years old and was a veteran of the Civil War.

Intersection of Linden Street & North 9th Street

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, March 26, 1912 — Intersection of Linden Street and North 9th Street Linden Baptist Church at the northeast corner of Linden Street and North 9th Street, 1909 Linden Baptist Church, 1914 Linden Baptist Church, 1914

Half the companies of the city turned out to a false alarm sent in yesterday from Ninth and Linden streets, apparently by someone in a spirit of peculiar “fun.”

Linden Baptist Bible School and proposed New Church, Camden, N. J.

800 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Emma Warders obituary (803, 1918), Reino Alanko Thompson (805, 1931), Frank H. Moll Sr. obituary (806, 1954), Clinton D. Lowden obituary (811, 1941), John Guthridge obituary (814, 1903), George W. Restrick article (816, 1899), Earl Hamby article (817, 1950), John Keogh article (820, 1897), Pair Held for Jury article (831, 1935), John Hoey obituary (831, 1957), Frank Wilbur Pharazyn obituary (835, 1908–1911), and Private Emmett W. Ross (840).

800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1895–1969.

800 Linden Street

800 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

801 Linden Street

801 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1955Johnny's Billiard Parlor

803 Linden Street

803 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1918Emma Warders

805 Linden Street

805 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931 Frederick Alanko Thompson & Family
1931Frederick & Hilda Thompson
1931 Reino Alanko Thompson

806 Linden Street

806 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1954Frank H. Moll Sr. & Family (Camden Police Department)
1954Frank H. & Esther N. Schultz Moll
1954Rose Moll
1954Frank H. Moll Jr.
1954Edward Moll
1954Russell Moll
1954William Moll
1954Richard Moll

811 Linden Street

811 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930–1941Clinton D. Lowden & Family
1930–1941Clinton D. & Ruth Lowden
1930–1941Robert W. Lowden
1930–1941DudleyLowden

812 Linden Street

812 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1895 Benjamin Middleton

813 Linden Street

813 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

814 Linden Street

814 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1903John Guthridge
1914John J. Gaffney & Family (John J. & Sarah Kenny Gaffney; John F. Gaffney; Joseph Gaffney; Madeline Gaffney; Margaret Gaffney; Thomas Kenny; Kieran Kenny)
1914Joseph Gaffney
1914Margaret Gaffney

816 Linden Street

816 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1899George W. Restrick & Family (George & Mary Restrick)

817 Linden Street

817 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1950Earl Hamby & Family

818 Linden Street

818 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928Hubert Kernan

820 Linden Street

820 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1897John Keogh

831 Linden Street

831 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931John Whelan
1957John Hoey

835 Linden Street

835 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1896 George Osler
1908–1911Frank Wilbur Pharazyn & Family
1908–1911Frank & Sarah Jane Knight Pharazyn
1908–1911James W. Pharazyn
1908–1911Catherine Pharazyn

840 Linden Street

840 Linden Street — 800 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1930s–1969E.W. Ross Sr. Family (Emmett W. & Mary Ross; Emmett W. Ross Jr.; Charles C. Ross)

Camden News Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Camden News Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 18, 1903

The funeral services over the late John Guthridge, father of Game Warden William Guthridge and Policeman Thomas Guthridge, took place yesterday afternoon at his home, 814 Linden street.

John W. Griffin, aged 25 years, of South Bethlehem, Pa., was burned at the coke works of the Public Service Corporation in Camden yesterday by the explosion of gas.

Mrs. Mary Peschmann, widow of the late Frederick Peschmann, died at her home, 1130 Broadway, yesterday from acute pneumonia. She was 87 years of age. The Peschmanns were among the oldest residents of South Camden.

Emma Warders Obituary

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 17, 1918 — Emma Warders, 803 Linden Street

Her hand caught in a machine at the R. M. Hollingshead plant, Emma Warders, aged 30 years, of 803 Linden street, had two badly mangled fingers treated at Cooper Hospital.

Camden Father Dies in Fight With His Son; Both Jobless

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Father Dies in Fight With His Son; Both Jobless - Camden Courier-Post, April 10, 1931

Quarrel Over Youth Getting Work Is Blamed for Street Battle

ACCUSED WILL MAKE SELF-DEFENSE PLEA

Victim’s Head Hits Curb, Physicians Believe He Died Instantly

A quarrel over his son’s failure to obtain work ended fatally last night for the father of five children who was killed when he struck his head on a curb after the son had hit him on the jaw.

The father is Frederick Alanko Thompson, also known as Elanko, 45, of 805 Linden street. His son, Reino Alanko Thompson, who will be 18 in July, will be arraigned today on a charge of murder.

The fight occurred at the southeast corner of Ninth and Kimber streets.

The story of the alleged murder as told by the boy to Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin differed from that told by two young witnesses. The boy claimed self-defense while the witnesses said he had struck his father first.

Both Out of Work

Reino said he had been out of work for five months and his father had been unemployed for eight. The boy had worked for Todd Rooney, trucker, of Fern street near Eighth street.

Shortly before 7 p. m. last night, the boy said, his father criticised him for not obtaining work. To end the constant nagging of the father, his mother, Mrs. Rose Thompson, 45, gave her son a quarter and he left the house.

Reino was on his way to Tenth and Market streets to meet friends, he said, when his father followed him.

“He kept cursing me and when we got to Ninth and Kimber streets, my father struck at me. I sidestepped and hit him in the jaw. He fell to the curb and lay there. I shouted to him to get up if he wanted me to hit him again.”

When father failed to get up, Reino became frightened and ran home.

Francis Zoll, 15, of 912 Kimber street, and Herbert Townsend, 16, of 934 Linden street, who saw the fight, told the authorities the father made no effort to hit his son but that the boy hit him “six or seven times.”

Victim Dies Instantly

They notified Detective William Moll, who had the father taken to Cooper Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Coroner Melvin Cain will perform an autopsy today.

Detectives Clifford Carr and Anson Kelly went to the Thompson home where they found the boy hiding in a kitchen alcove. They told the mother that he was wanted for questioning about a fight with his father but did not reveal that the father had been killed until they reached police headquarters. The son himself did not know his blow had proved fatal until later.

Mrs. Thompson and her two older daughters, Rose, 16, and May, 14, accompanied Reino and the detectives to police headquarters. Two other twin daughters, Diamond and Irene, 10, remained at home.

The boy was questioned by Baldwin, Capt. John Golden, of the city detectives, and Maj. Charles V. Dickinson, deputy director of public safety.

The boy broke down when he was charged with murder and was led weeping to a cell. Mrs. Thompson, who had remained calm during the questioning, collapsed after her son was taken away.

Another son, Esel, 22, was arrested eight months ago by Detective Carr and turned over to immigration officials at Gloucester for deportation. He was said to have illegally entered this country from Finland six years ago. The other members of the family came to America some years before. The father was naturalized.

Reino Alanko Thompson

Reino Alanko Thompson, 805 Linden Street, 1931

Reino Alanko Thompson — 805 Linden Street, 1931.

Wife of Man Killed by Son Is Stricken

Camden Courier-Post —

Wife of Man Killed by Son Is Stricken - Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1931

Illness was added to tragedy in the home of Mrs. Hilda Thompson, 805 Linden street. Late last night the woman, whose husband was killed by her son, Reino, 17, was taken to Cooper Hospital, a victim of nervous breakdown.

Reino was freed by the county grand jury Wednesday for striking the blow that caused his father’s death April 9. He declared he hit in defense of himself and his mother. The mother has been in a highly nervous state since her husband’s death.

‘Bus Bandits’ Found Guilty; Face 15 Years

Camden Courier-Post —

‘Bus Bandits’ Found Guilty; Face 15 Years - Camden Courier-Post, October 23, 1931 ‘Bus Bandits’ Found Guilty; Face 15 Years - Camden Courier-Post, October 23, 1931

Thompson and Mallet Convicted of Robbing Drivers in Short Time

‘CONFESSION’ FORCED, DEFENDANT DECLARES

Juror Slugged, Case Goes on With Eleven in the Box

Found Guilty

REINO A. THOMPSON

805 Linden street, who with Henry N. Mallet, of 119 North Ninth street, co-defendant, was found guilty of highway robbery by a jury in Criminal Court yesterday. The jury consisted of 11 persons. One was released after he informed the court he was “put on the spot.”

Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth street, were both found guilty of highway robbery by a jury in Criminal Court yesterday after one hour and 20 minutes’ deliberation.

The maximum penalty for this crime is 15 years in state prison. Judge Samuel M. Shay will sentence the pair next week.

At the opening of the case yesterday, it was revealed that one of the jurors had his head bandaged. An inquiry from the court brought out the fact that the juror had received two alleged beatings and was “put on the spot.”

Judge Shay allowed the man to leave the jury box and proceeded with 11 persons, an unprecedented situation in the history of the county court.

Mallett Scores Police

Thompson in his testimony exonerated Mallet of the crime and told the jurors he did the robbery. Mallet, who had made a signed confession, which was introduced into court, testified he was given rough tactics by the police and compelled to sign the statement.

Mallet said that at the time of the robbery he was eating in a Camden restaurant. Later he met Thompson and they went for a ride through Merchantville. When several policemen approached, Thompson wrecked the car in attempting to escape and Mallet suffered a severe cut over his right eye.

When taken to the station house, Mallet testified, Bangs struck him repeatedly on his injured eye “until I would have confessed anything and signed without knowing what I was doing.”

Thompson, who admitted his part in the holdup, corroborated Mallet’s testimony.

Charles B. Kay, 53, of 435 Liberty street, was the juror who said he had been attacked by thugs. He declared he suffered four broken ribs and cuts and bruises. His head was swathed in gauze when he appeared in the courtroom.

In further explanation, Kay said he was put “on the spot.” He volunteered no further explanation than that, but asked to be excused, as he had to report back to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital today for treatment.

Excused From Duty

He was excused by the court after Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese and Frank M. Lario, attorney for the defendants, agreed to continue with eleven jurors.

Kay walked into the hospital at 4 a. m. and asked for treatment. He said that a man offered to give him a lift in an automobile while he was standing at Third and Mechanic streets. A woman was with the “good samaritan,” according to Kay, who averred that instead of going to the Market street ferries the man drove the car out Mt. Ephraim avenue.

Kay asserted that when he protested the man struck him and threw him out of the machine. No attempt was made to rob him. Police investigating the attack stated that Kay had been drinking and told varying stories, first saying he knew the couple and later denying he knew who they were.

Reino, who was exonerated of killing his father last April, and Mallett are said to have confessed to 13 robberies, but they were placed on trial on charges of holding up Leon Garringer, 4725 Poplar avenue, Pennsauken, and Fred Crowder, 6308 Shelbourne street, Philadelphia, on Aug. 5. Garringer and Crowder are bus drivers and were on the witness stand today.

Garringer said he stopped his Public Service bus at Park avenue and Haddonfield road, Pennsauken township, at 11 p. m. that night. Later, Crowder parked his bus and came into Garringer’s bus. Garringer was reading a paper and Crowder was counting his receipts when a coupe containing two men pulled up beside the buses.

One of the coupe’s occupants entered the bus, levelled a revolver at the two drivers and yelled, “Stick ‘em up!” He stole $19 from Crowder and then ran back to the coupe, where his companion had been waiting at the driver’s wheel.

Caught After Chase

Crowder corroborated Garringer’s testimony, and Chief of Police William H. Linderman was called by the state. Chief Linderman said his men captured Thompson Aug. 9 after a long chase and later arrested Mallett. The following day, Thompson sent for him, saying he wanted “to come clean.” Thompson confessed to the bus holdup, Chief Linderman said, and implicated Mallett. Palese succeeded in having the confession accepted in evidence and it was read to the jury.

Policemen Edward J. Hare and Herbert A. Davidson, Jr., of Merchantville, stopped an automobile at Maple and Westminster avenues. They were suspicious of the registration, and bade the driver, who was Mallett, to follow them to the police station. Thompson was in the car. Instead of stopping at the station, the driver turned into Park avenue, where a pistol was thrown out of the automobile. The police gave chase. Near Maple Shade, the car went into a ditch and overturned. Thompson was caught but Mallet escaped. He was later arrested in Camden when his mother allegedly revealed his hiding place to police.

Thompson was arrested when his father died last April of injuries to his head suffered when he fell after being struck by Reino. The youth said he struck in self-defense. Also his mother pleaded his cause. Young Thompson promised to “lead a good life” and help support his mother and her family. He was then released by the grand jury.

Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense

Camden Courier-Post —

Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931 Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931 Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931 Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931 Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931 Grand Jury Finds Camden Boy Killed Drunken Father in Self Defense - Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1931

YOUTH INSTRUCTED TO ‘MEND HIS WAYS’ IN FUTURE CONDUCT

Reino Thompson Promises to Help Mother as He Leaves Prison

DEATH WAS ACCIDENTAL

Wins Freedom

REINO A. THOMPSON

Who was given his freedom yesterday by the April Grand Jury, who returned a “No Bill” on a murder charge lodged against the youth after he had struck and killed his father on April 9 in defense of his mother.

Seventeen-year-old Reino Alanko Thompson who on April 9 killed his father in defense of his mother and himself was freed yesterday by the April grand jury.

The youth was instructed by the jury never to take the law into his hands again and to mend his ways.

Following the action of the grand jury the youth rushed into the arms of his mother, who was waiting just outside the jury room door. While the tearful mother embraced him Reino promised her he would devote the balance of his life in an effort to make her happy.

The youth struck his father, Frederick, 45, of 805 Linden street, and the latter fell heavily and struck his head on a curbstone, dying from a fractured skull. Reino was formally charged with murder.

The new grand jury, meeting yesterday for the first time, had been instructed to safeguard the county’s youth by eliminating incentives of crime.

It had been freely predicted that a “no bill” would be returned. Such was done after the jurors heard six witnesses, including the youth, his mother, his sister, Rose; two eye-witnesses of the quarrel, Francis Zoll and Herbert Townsend, and City Detective Clifford Carr. Prosecutor Baldwin immediately ordered the youth’s release from the county jail.

“I’m glad it’s all over,” the youth told his friends. “I want to thank the prosecutor, the Grand Jury and the newspapers for all they’ve done for me. It was very kind of them. I am going to lead a good life and help my mother and the family. It was all an accident. I never thought that would happen. I’m sorry it did happen, for I didn’t mean it.”

“The boy told a straightforward story,” averred the prosecutor. “He stated that he struck his father in self defense after the parent berated him for being unable to obtain work. The argument started when the boy reprimanded his father for striking his mother. The death was an accident, and the boy struck without malice. The Grand Jury warned him to better himself and not to take the law in his own hands.”

A brother of the dead man, Frank Thompson, 186 Edison street, New Dorp, L. I., was at the courthouse, and congratulated the boy.

“I’m glad my nephew was liberated,” the brother stated, “for what happened couldn’t be helped. It doesn’t sound right for me to say this, but my brother had no human traits. Drink was the cause of it. My brother came here 16 years ago, and continually drank poison liquor.”

Youth Cleared in Killing Dad, Admits Holdup

Camden Courier-Post —

Youth Cleared in Killing Dad, Admits Holdup - Camden Courier-Post, August 10, 1931

Confessed Bandit

Confesses He and Pal Robbed Two Bus Drivers in Pennsauken Township

CAUGHT BY POLICE AFTER AUTO CHASE

Boy Who Jury Cleared in Father’s Death, Had Promised to Be ‘Good’

Reino A. Thompson.

Arrested yesterday, Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden street, and Henry N. Mallett, 21, of 119 North Ninth street, both of Camden, admitted holding up two bus drivers at Haddonfield road and Park avenue, Pennsauken township, on August 5. Last April Thompson was exonerated of blame in the killing of his father.

A Camden youth who was cleared by the grand jury in the killing of his father was one of two who confessed yesterday to holding up two bus drivers at Haddonfield road and Park avenue, Pennsauken township, on August 5.

He is Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden street. His companion is Henry N. Mallett, 21, of 119 North Ninth street, Camden.

Thompson was arrested near Maple Shade after their car was driven into a ditch. Mallett escaped but was arrested at his home.

Police say both youths also admitted they were on their way to hold up another bus driver when Merchantville police became suspicious, and chased them.

The bus drivers, Leon Garringer, of 4725 Poplar avenue, Pennsauken township and Fred Crowder, of 6308 Shelbourne street, Philadelphia, were seated in Garringer’s bus at the end of the route at 11 p. m., August 5, [sic] A coupe drove up beside them. One of the occupants drew a pistol and took $20 from Crowder and $15 from Garringer.

Three hours later a coupe was found abandoned at Cedar and Cooper avenues, Pennsauken. It had been stolen from Warren F. Marshall, of Paulsboro.

Policemen Halt Car

At 2.25 a. m., yesterday, Policemen Edward J. Hare and Herbert A. Davidson, Jr., of Merchantville, became suspicious of an automobile, which they had stopped at Maple and Westminster avenues. Mallett produced his driver’s license, but said a friend had lent them his car and that he had no registration card. The car is believed to have been stolen.

The police ordered Mallett and Thompson, who was a passenger, to drive to the police station at Maple avenue and Centre street. Instead of stopping at the station, the car turned from Centre street into Park avenue, where a pistol was dropped. The police gave chase.

The suspects continued on toward Maple Shade. Near Haddonfield road, a second pistol was thrown from the car.

The police were gaining on the speeding car when it was turned into a ditch at Park avenue and Forked Landing road. Both occupants fled from the car.

Thompson was caught a few hundred feet away but the other youth disappeared.

Marshall’s driver’s license stolen the night of the bus holdup, was found in the car.

Both Admit Holdup

Under questioning by Merchantville police, Thompson confessed his part in the bus holdup and named Mallett as his accomplice. Mallett was arrested yesterday afternoon at his home by Camden City Detective Sylvester McGrath. Mallet also confessed.

The youths told the police they were on their way to Moorestown pike and the East End Hotel, Pennsauken township, terminus of another bus line, where they planned another holdup.

Tags on the car ditched yesterday were stolen from the automobile of Fred Musick, 111 North Twenty-second street, Camden.

The youths were held by Merchantville for a hearing today on charges of carrying concealed deadly weapons. They will be turned over later to Pennsauken authorities on the holdup charge.

Thompson was arrested on April 9 for the killing of his father, Frederick, 45. The son and his mother testified the father had attacked them while drunk. The youth punched his father, who fell and struck his head on a curbstone, dying of a fractured skull.

In thanking the grand jury for his release Thompson declared:

“I’m going to lead a good life and help my mother and family.”

Pyne Poynt Officers on Committee To Aid Moose Minstrel Show Plans

Camden Courier-Post —

Pyne Poynt Officers on Committee To Aid Moose Minstrel Show Plans - Camden Courier-Post, April 15, 1950

North Camden News:

By FRANK SHERIDAN

Officers of the Pyne Poynt Athletic Association were appointed members of the ways and means committee on Wednesday night by Nicholas W. Hahn, president, to assist in completing arrangements for the minstrel show to be given by Camden Lodge of Moose on April 28 in Webster’s Sport Center, Eighth and Market streets.

J. Theodore Kates is chairman of the committee. The other members include Mrs. Matilda A. Garwood, Mrs. Alfretta Warner, Mrs. Mary F. Hendricks, Charles Falkenburg, Carroll P. Sherwood, Alfred Weiss, Edward M. Schlereth, Frank Sheridan, Ralph M. Madden and Miss Lucy Devine. Madden and Miss Devine also were named members of the finance committee.

The minstrel show will be staged to assist the association in raising funds to finance its golden jubilee Independence Day celebration at Pyne Poynt Park this year. Tickets for the show are now available at the Moose Lodge Home, 315 Cooper street, from Kates at the Milner hotel, Second and Penn street, and from association members. Kates announced the Police Athletic League is cooperating in helping to make the show a success and talented children that organization is selecting in the city schools will appear on the program. A dance will follow the show.

* * *

HONOR BUTTONS have been presented to 53 children of all grades of the Cooper school, Third and Linden streets, for excellent scholarship and attendance. Louis Feinstein, principal, announces. They include all grades from the third to the seventh.

They are:

Seventh grade—Michael Graver, Miriam Holshin, Lynda Shaw, Roberta Williamson, Howard Bussard, Jonathan Gubin, Charles Latko, Judith Albrecht, Sandra Badame, Dorothy Duncan, Jeanette Emore, Juliana Sevick.

Sixth—Arlene Engstrom, Claudia Stevens, Malcolm Bond, Joseph Gellura, Norman Lepofsky, Russell Jentsch, Harold Fingerhut, John Rossi, James Stewart, Betty Parker, Deborah Gubin, Elizabeth Rowan, Alice Mary Trost.

Fifth—Deanna Liebrand, Eleanor D’Ottavi, Hedda Jacobs, Frank Watson, Albert Ferrante, Barbara Badame, Alberta Mannino, Albert Mannino, Herbert O’Dell.

Fourth — Dorothea Flowers, Kathleen Krill, Patsy Mason, Harry Berkowitz, Alice Cassady, Rose Chierici, Sally Gamble, Edward Stevens, James White, Franklin Witherow.

Third—Margaret Bishop, Catherine Cassady, Kathleen Cobb, Barbara Meckle, Judith Jacobs, Joanne Badame Patricia Patterson, Kenneth Fisher, Edward Penney, Ricardo Santana.

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MEMBERS of Centenary Tabernacle, State Street and Bethany Churches will attend the mid-year conference of the Camden [words missing at the column seam] rich presiding. A monthly meeting of the Sunday School association will be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday with Walter A. Boyer, superintendent, presiding.

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MEMBERS of the Fellowship Club of State Street Methodist Church will be served a covered dish supper at 6.30 p. m., in the church social rooms at Sixth and State streets. The members are married couples. The pastor, the Rev. Joseph T. Edwards, will preach on “God’s Message to the World” at 10.30 a. m., Sunday. The church school meets at noon and the Youth Fellowship at 6.45 p. m. The pastor will preach at 7.30 p. m.

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AT GRACE LUTHERAN Church, State street above Fourth street, the pastor, the Rev. William L. Ziegenfus will preach at 11.15 a. m., on “It is Finished” and at 7.45 p. m., his topic will be “The Prefigurative Christ.” The Luther League meets at 7 p. m.

* * *

THE SEWELL A. A. will open its baseball season at the Cornelius Martin County Park, Tenth and Elm streets, on April 30, it was announced at this week’s meeting of the club by George Smith, manager. The team will play independent ball, he said following the meeting Wednesday night at Ford’s cafe, Tenth and Pearl streets. Ray Keeser and Ed Mortimer, coaches, said the club expects to have a strong team in the field this season. Tryouts are being held this afternoon and beginning Sunday at noon.

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A BOY was born this week at West Jersey hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moyer, 528 Cedar street. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hamby, 817 Linden street, also are parents of a boy born at the same hospital.

Twelve persons, who were baptised on Easter Sunday night at Linden Baptist Church, Ninth and Linden streets, will be formally welcomed into church membership at 7.30 p. m., Sunday by the pastor, the Rev. B. Ellsworth Snoddy.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Foote, 845 Grant street, have announced the engagement of Mr. Foote’s sister, Miss Doris F. Foote, to Mr. Norman Cross, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cross, 305 Morse street.

Lindenwold Okays 6 Street Lights

Six new street lights have been authorized by Lindenwold council, according to John P. Collins, chairman of the lighting committee.

Three of the lights will be erected in the Garden Lake section at Scott and Wade avenues, Columbia avenue and Lake boulevard, and at Park and Fifth avenues. A single light in the Lucaston section will be placed at United States avenue and Bernhard street. In Lindenwold, lights will be located at Holland [cut off at the crop edge]

Frank H. Moll Sr., Dies; Former Policeman

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, January 23, 1954 — Frank H. Moll Sr., 806 Linden Street Camden Courier-Post, January 23, 1954 — Frank H. Moll Sr., 806 Linden Street — additional clipping

Frank H. Moll Sr., 73, of 806 Linden st., a former Camden policeman, died Friday in his home. He had been employed recently as a watchman at the Park View Apartments in West Collingswood.

Surviving are his widow, Esther N.; a daughter, Mrs. Rose Dietrich, Trenton; five sons, Frank H. Jr., Philadelphia; Edward, Beverly; Russell, a Woodlynne patrolman; William, Camden; Richard, Merchantville; seven grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Rose Welch, Trenton, and Mrs. Theresa Jackel, Camden; three brothers, William, Richard and Chris, all of Camden. Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. in the Frank J. Leonard funeral home, 1451 Broadway, where friends may call Monday night. Burial will be in Lakeview Memorial Park, Riverton.

Clinton Lowden Party Notice

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, July 26, 1941 — Clinton D. Lowden, 811 Linden Street

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton D. Lowden, of 811 Linden street, entertained at a party at their home in honor of the twenty-first birthday anniversary of their son, Mr. Robert W. Lowden. Guests included, Miss Gladys Engel, Miss Eleanor Gregory, Mr. Norman Anderson, Mr. Aaron Powell, Mr. Wilmer Banik and Mr. Dudley Lowden, of this city; Miss Margery Tweedy and Miss Jean Davis, of Collingswood; Miss Grace Heil, of Merchantville; Miss Dorothy Burk, of Magnolia, and Mr. Albert Warner, of Mt. Ephraim.

John Guthridge Fatally Stricken

Philadelphia Inquirer —

John Guthridge Fatally Stricken - Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 1903

John Guthridge, aged 75 years, father of Game Warden William Guthridge and Policeman Thomas Guthridge, died suddenly at his home, 814 Linden street, Camden, from heart failure. He was stricken as he was returning from his work at the dinner hour. Coroner Beale gave a certificate of death from heart failure.

George W. Restrick Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, November 20, 1899 — George W. Restrick, 816 Linden Street

RESTRICK.--On November 29, 1899, Mary Adelia, wife of George W. Restrick, in her 47th year. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services on Saturday afternoon, December 2d, at 1 o'clock, from her husband's residence, 816 Linden street, Camden, N. J. Interment private.

Boys Born at West Jersey Hospital

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, April 15, 1950 — Earl Hamby, 817 Linden Street

A BOY was born this week at West Jersey hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moyer, 528 Cedar street. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hamby, 817 Linden street, also are parents of a boy born at the same hospital.

John Keogh Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

John Keogh, 820 Linden Street, 1897. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 11, 1897.

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 11, 1897 — John Keogh, 820 Linden Street

OVER IN CAMDEN

The Street Committee of City Council made a tour of the streets yesterday to ascertain what improvements would be necessary during the coming fiscal year.

A strawberry festival will be given on the lawn of the Camden Republican Club headquarters to-morrow evening for the benefit of the Newsboys’ Parlor.

In trying to capture a swarm of bees in a tree at Diamond Cottage Grove, John Keogh, 9 years old, of 820 Linden street, fell thirty feet and was seriously injured.

Frank Albertz, of Fish House, fell from a wagon at Twelfth and Federal streets yesterday and was badly cut about the head. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.

A stranger in jumping from an incoming ferryboat at the Federal street ferry yesterday miscalculated the distance and fell between the boat and slip, narrowly escaping being crushed to death.

At the annual meeting of the Camden County Homeopathic Medical Society these officers were elected: President, Dr. S. H. Quint; vice-president, Dr. Willis Hunt; secretary and treasurer, Dr. A. L. Ironsides; reporter, Dr. Wallace McGeorge.

Pair Held for Jury in Theft of Liquor

Camden Courier-Post —

Charged with possession of stolen goods, Leon Grenkwicz, 21, of 1213 Louis street, and George Sanders, 22, of 307 Walnut street, Haddonfield, yesterday were held without bail for the grand Jury by Police Judge Lewis Liberman.

Charges were placed against them by Detective Benjamin Simon after they had been arrested in Audubon for being drunk and disorderly. Simon said his investigation indicated they were the men who, on September 25, stole a liquor truck belonging to James Thompson, wholesale beverage dealer, from Fourth and Arch streets, where it was parked.

Simon said that he has the sworn statement of Hugh Gaffney, of 3 Albertson avenue, Westmont, and John Whelan, of 831 Linden street, that Grenkwicz tried to sell him some of the stolen liquor, for which Thompson is the sole agent in Camden.

Furthermore, said Simon, he has the evidence of a Merchantville man and his sister, whose names he did not reveal, that Sanders sold them a case of the same brand.

Victim’s Shouts Rout Two Young Thugs

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, December 14, 1957 — John Hoey, 831 Linden Street

Two youths who struck a parking lot operator on the head and demanded money Friday at 8.30 p. m., fled when the man shouted for help.

John Hoey, 73, of 831 Linden st., who operates a parking lot at 4th and Arch sts., was taken to Cooper Hospital where he received three stitches for a head cut. According to Det. Russell Young the boys were Negroes and about 18 years old.

Two N. Camden Men Attacked by Thugs

Camden Courier-Post —

Two N. Camden Men Attacked by Thugs - Camden Courier-Post, December 15, 1957

Two street attacks were reported Friday night to Det. Russell Young.

John Hoey, 73, of 831 Linden st., an attendant at a parking lot at 4th and Arch sts., said that while he was counting the day’s receipts he was assaulted by two Negroes about 17 years old, and was hit on the head with a rock. He said the pair fled without loot when he shouted for help.

Joseph Packer, 45, of 621 Grant st., said he was punched in the face by a group of five teen-age Negroes at 3rd st. and Kaighns ave. while he was walking to work. He said his assailants fled without robbing him. He was treated at West Jersey Hospital for a possible nose fracture.

Piano Tuning Ad -- F. W. Pharazyn

Camden Post-Telegram —

Camden Post-Telegram, March 15, 1909 — Frank Wilbur Pharazyn, 835 Linden Street

PIANO TUNING

F. W. Pharazyn, pianist, 838 Linden street, Camden, N. J. Piano tuning, voicing, action regulating. Expert work guaranteed. Charges reasonable. Drop a postal card and I will call.

Private Emmett W. Ross

Private Emmett W. Ross, 840 Linden Street Emmett W. Ross grave marker, 840 Linden Street

Private Emmett W. Ross, 840 Linden Street. E.W. Ross Sr. Family, 840 Linden Street, 1930s–1969 (Emmett W. & Mary Ross; Emmett W. Ross Jr.; Charles C. Ross).

900 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover William O’Shaughnessy obituary (924, 1935), Pusey A. Walton article (930, 1911), 931 Linden Street photos (1932–1955), Oscar H. Higgenbotham article (935, 1932), 937 Linden Street photos (1932), and 949 Linden Street photos (1943–2011).

900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1911–1959.

901 Linden Street

901 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

914 Linden Street

914 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1952 Mrs. William Cogswell

924 Linden Street

924 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1935William O'Shaughnessy & Family (William & Delia O'Shaughnessy; Thomas O'Shaughnessy; William O'Shaughnessy; Catherine O'Shaughnessy; Elizabeth O'Shaughnessy; Elenore O'Shaughnessy)

930 Linden Street

930 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1911Pusey A. Walton

931 Linden Street

931 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1947Carl Decker

934 Linden Street

934 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1931Herbert Townsend

935 Linden Street

935 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932Oscar H. Higgenbotham

937 Linden Street

937 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1932No information available

940 Linden Street

940 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1915 William F. Large Sr. & Family

944 Linden Street

944 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1948 Mrs. Ella Horner & Family (Florence 'Sally' Horner)

945 Linden Street

945 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928–1929George Daniels

949 Linden Street

949 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
April 1943 – October 1959Woodrow & Marie Fairess (Shirley, Marie, Woody, Warren, and Bud Fairess)

952 Linden Street

952 Linden Street — 900 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1924–1927 Kennard H. Naylor

William O’Shaughnessy Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, August 31, 1935 — William O'Shaughnessy obituary, 924 Linden Street

MRS. DELIA O'SHAUGHNESSY

The funeral of Mrs. Delia O'Shaughnessy, 53, of 924 Linden street, who died yesterday, will be held at 8 a. m. Tuesday. High mass will be held at 9 a. m. at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. She died yesterday. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy was the wife of William O'Shaughnessy and was a member of the Parent Teacher Association of St. Mary's School. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

CAMDEN NEWS NOTES -- Walton Jewelry Recovered

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 1911 — Pusey A. Walton, 730 Linden Street

CAMDEN NEWS NOTES

A watch and other jewelry stolen two weeks ago from the residence of P. A. Walton, 730 Linden street, were recovered yesterday in a Philadelphia pawnshop by Detective Brothers.

931 Linden Street Photos

Barbara Stone in front of 931 Linden Street, April 1955

Barbara Stone standing in front of 931 Linden Street, April 1955. She is looking west towards 9th Street. Scott Smith Cadillac is behind her in background.

Sheriff’s Sale -- 935 Linden Street

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, June 9, 1932 — Oscar H. Higgenbotham, 935 Linden Street

SHERIFF'S SALE

BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FIERI facias, to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, will be sold at Public Vendue, on

FRIDAY, THE TWENTY-FOURTH DAY OF JUNE, 1932,

at 1 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time, (2 o'clock, Daylight Saving Time) in the afternoon of said day, at the Sheriff's Office in the Court House, in the City and County of Camden and State of New Jersey.

All the following tract or parcel of land and premises hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the City of Camden, in the County of Camden and State of New Jersey.

Beginning in the north line of Linden street two hundred thirty-eight feet one and one-quarter inches east from Ninth street, in middle line of party wall between Nos. 933 and 935 Linden street; thence east along Linden street thirteen feet five inches to extended middle line of party wall between Nos. 935 and 937 Linden street by north through middle lines of said party walls and same extended seventy-two feet to the south line of an alley.

Being premises No. 935 Linden street, Camden, New Jersey.

The approximate amount of the decree sought to be satisfied by this sale is $3566.04.

Seized as the property of Oscar H. Higginbotham, taken in execution at the suit of Cooper Building and Loan Association of Camden, N. J., and to be sold by

E. FRANK PINE,
Joseph H. Carr, Sol'r. Sheriff.
Dated June 2, 1932. Ptrs. fee $17.64

937 Linden Street Photos

Harry McDaniel in front of 937 Linden Street, 1932 Woodrow Fairess in back yard of 937 Linden Street, 1932

Top: Harry McDaniel standing in front of 937 Linden Street, 1932. Bottom: Woodrow Fairess standing in back yard of 937 Linden Street, 1932.

949 Linden Street Photos

Shirley, Marie, Woody, Warren and Bud Fairess, 1951 949 Linden Street, October 1, 2005 949 Linden Street, August 27, 2011

Woodrow & Marie Fairess, 949 Linden Street, April 1943 – October 1959. Top: Shirley, Marie, Woody, Warren, and Bud Fairess, location unknown, 1951. Middle: 949 Linden Street, October 1, 2005. Bottom: 949 Linden Street, August 27, 2011.

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.

Hospital Cases

Camden Courier-Post —

Hospital Cases - Camden Courier-Post, May 21, 1956

WEST JERSEY

Alfred Fabiano, 26, of 2614 Manall ave., Pennsauken, cut fingers.

Nathaniel Winthers, 45, of 823 Sycamore st., cut hand.

Julia Williams, 6, of 688 Hazelton ct., cuts over eye.

Rochelle Rivera, 3, of 643 Locust st., cut forehead.

Ronald De Pasquale, 8, of Central ave., Glendora, cut forehead.

COOPER

Susan Harvey, 3, of 907 Pine st., cut scalp.

Rosie Ross, 79, of 312 Cherry st., dog bite of arm.

Clarence Chapman, 65, of 739 Kaighns ave., cut head.

Leroy Freedman Jr., 7, of 952 Linden st., cut over eye.

Karen Mathis, 5, of 169 Frazer ave., Collingswood, cut face.

Intersection of North 10th Street & Linden Street

Linden Street at North 10th Street, July 30, 1947 Looking west on Linden Street from North 10th Street, October 1, 2005

Top: Linden Street at North 10th Street, July 30, 1947. Bottom: Looking west on Linden Street from North 10th Street, October 1, 2005.

1000 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Albert West article (1018, 1904), Leroy Freeman article (1020, 1954), George W. Waters article (1022, 1939–1940), Claude “Black Bill” Brooks article (1028, 1928), Mrs. Anna Lewis obituary (1032, 1938), and Edward Jubb (1038, 1894).

1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1896–1940.

1010 Linden Street

1010 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1012 Linden Street

1012 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1014 Linden Street

1014 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1016 Linden Street

1016 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1018 Linden Street

1018 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1904Albert West

1020 Linden Street

1020 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1954Leroy Freeman

1022 Linden Street

1022 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1896 John W. Vanhart & Family
1896John & Ella Vanhart
1896Mary Vanhart
1939–1940George W. Waters

1028 Linden Street

1028 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1928Claude 'Black Bill' Brooks

1030 Linden Street

1030 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1032 Linden Street

1032 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1938Mrs. Anna Lewis
1939–1940C. Sheldon Johnson

1034 Linden Street

1034 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1038 Linden Street

1038 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1894 Edward Jubb

1046 Linden Street

1046 Linden Street — 1000 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

Albert West Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1904 — Albert West, 1018 Linden Street

Albert West, colored, of 1018 Linden street, reported to the Camden police yesterday that he had been swindled out of $6. West says he met a man who gave the name of William Beston, and claiming he had been sent by the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad to get West to work as a porter. Beston declared White must first have a uniform and after measuring him Beston asked for the $6 as advance money. He then told West to report at the railroad office. He did but no porters were needed.

Police Slap 4 Charges Against Tipsy Driver

Camden Courier-Post —

Police Slap 4 Charges Against Tipsy Driver - Camden Courier-Post, February 1, 1954

Leroy Freeman, 39, of 1020 Linden st., was held without bail Saturday following his arrest on charges of driving while drunk, without a license, without proper registration, and while on the suspended list.

Patrolmen William Miller and Thomas Kelly arrested Freeman about 4.30 a. m. Saturday at Broadway and Federal st. Freeman, police said, was pronounced unfit to drive by Dr. Lee J. Hammett, police examiner.

George W. Waters Article

Camden Courier-Post —

Camden Courier-Post, March 6, 1940 — George W. Waters, 1022 Linden Street

CRAPS PLAYER PLEADS GUILTY IN SLAYING

Pleading guilty to second degree murder during a craps game argument, George W. Waters, 51, a stevedore, of 1022 Linden street, yesterday threw himself on the mercy of Judge Clifford A. Baldwin, who will pronounce sentence today.

Waters admitted firing the fatal shot which killed Sylvester “Luke” Council, 48, of Penn street near Eleventh last Dec. 15. He contended the gun went off accidentally, but two other players, Norman Pollard, 49, of 1128 Baring street, and C. Sheldon Johnson, 42, of 1032 Linden street, said Waters aimed at Council.

Waters produced a score of character witnesses, among them City Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen and former Detectives Howard and Walter Smith, neighbors and policemen, who said he was a reputable citizen. Council had a police record and Judge Baldwin said he would be lenient.

‘Black Bill’ Is Hurt When Car Hits Wagon

Camden Courier-Post —

‘Black Bill’ Is Hurt When Car Hits Wagon - Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1928

Thrown from his wagon when it was struck by a truck, Claude Brooks, known in the sporting world as “Black Bill,” was cut on the hand and suffered body bruises yesterday afternoon.

Brooks was driving on Haddon avenue when at Mickle street a vehicle driven by Rocco Turchi, Jr., 22, of 1526 South Twelfth street, Philadelphia, crashed into the wagon.

The horse was injured and was killed by Dr. Charles B. Helm, city veterinarian and purchasing agent. Brooks was treated at Cooper Hospital.

Turchi, driver for John Morrell & Co., Philadelphia, was arrested by James Wilson, motorcycle policeman, for reckless driving. He was released under $22[?] bail for a hearing Tuesday. Brooks, at the height of his fistic career many years ago, fought such notables as Jack Johnson and others. He is 42 and lives at 1028 Linden street.

Mrs. Anna Lewis Obituary

Camden Courier-Post —

Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Lewis, 65, who died Monday at her home, 1032 Linden Street, will be held tomorrow, 1 p.m., at the Harris Temple, 1128 Cooper street. A native of Delaware, she is survived by her husband, Joseph. Burial will be in Jordantown Cemetery.

Edward Jubb

Edward Jubb, 1038 Linden Street, 1894

Edward Jubb, 1038 Linden Street, 1894.

1100 Block of Linden Street

The cards that follow cover Scott Smith Cadillac (1105, 1955), James Alcorn article (1156, 1909), Eli Dent article (1158, 1917), Jacob Schoellkopf article (1166, 1895), Ellen Hamilton obituary (1176, 1906), and Minnie Aaron article (1188, 1890).

1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1890–1933.

1105 Linden Street

1105 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕ Source ↕
1955Scott Smith Cadillac1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone

1130 Linden Street

1130 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
—No information available

1156 Linden Street

1156 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1909James Alcorn

1158 Linden Street

1158 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1917Eli Dent

1166 Linden Street

1166 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1895Jacob Schoellkopf & Family
1895Jacob & Catharine Schoellkopf

1176 Linden Street

1176 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1906Ellen Hamilton

1188 Linden Street

1188 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1890Minnie Aaron

1194 Linden Street

1194 Linden Street — 1100 Block of Linden Street — Occupants
Year ↕ Name ↕
1933Sarah Stone

Scott Smith Cadillac

Scott Smith Cadillac, 1105 Linden Street — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages Ad

Scott Smith Cadillac, 1105 Linden Street, 1955. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.

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James Alcorn Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 1909 — James Alcorn, 1156 Linden Street

NAIL SLIPPED DOWN CAMDEN BOY'S THROAT

Swallowed It While Trying to Balance It Between His Lips

Trying to perform a juggling act with a ten-inch nail, James Alcorn, 11 years old, living at 1156 Linden street, Camden, swallowed the nail last night. Alcorn, with a number of other boys, was playing at Eighth and Market streets, Camden, when the boy tried to balance the nail between his lips. Suddenly it slipped down the lad's throat.

Young Alcorn went to the Cooper Hospital. He was told to return next Tuesday when it is likely an operation will be performed.

HERE AND THERE IN CAMDEN -- Eli Dent Injured

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31, 1917 — Eli Dent, 1158 Linden Street (mis-reported as Liberty Street)

HERE AND THERE IN CAMDEN

In a thirty-foot fall at the Camden Iron Works, Eli Dent, 18 years old, of 1158 Liberty street, broke his arm and received severe bruises of the body. He was taken to Cooper Hospital.

Jacob Schoellkopf Article

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1895 — Jacob Schoellkopf, 1166 Linden Street

SCHOELLKOPF.--On September 24, 1895, Catharine, beloved wife of Jacob Schoellkopf, aged 65 years 4 months and 11 days. The relatives and friends of the family, also the German Evangelical Lutheran Sterbkasse, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services on Friday afternoon, September 27, at 2 o'clock, from her husband's residence, 1166 Linden street, Camden, N. J. Interment private, at Camden Cemetery.

Ellen Hamilton Obituary

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 13, 1906 — Ellen Hamilton, 1176 Linden Street

Ellen Hamilton, 12 years old, who was badly burned at her home, 1176 Linden street, was reported to be in a serious condition at the Cooper Hospital last night.

Brief Across the River Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Brief Across the River Notes - Philadelphia Inquirer, August 12, 1890

Llewellen B. Jackson, the installment man, at 94 Federal street, whose place was robbed on Saturday morning, thinks he has a clue. He says among the things stolen were two affidavits which he had secured to use in obtaining a divorce from his wife.

While unloading coal from a scow yesterday George Burton, of 629 Mechanic street, was struck by the hoisting bucket and received a compound fracture of the hip.

Minnie Aaron, of 1183 Linden street, was sent to jail by Mayor Pratt last night for a hearing to-day. “Jimmy” Bundles accused her of stealing a $20 gold piece from him.

Pensions Awarded 6 Cops, 17 Firemen

Camden Courier-Post —

Pensions Awarded 6 Cops, 17 Firemen - Camden Courier-Post, January 2, 1933

Inspector Humes Refuses to Withdraw Application in Spite of Requests

Pensions for six policemen and 17 firemen took effect with the dawn of the New Year yesterday.

Proposed Salary reductions from five to 30 percent prompted the wholesale requests for pensions which were approved Saturday at noon by the Police and Firemen’s Pension Commission, of which Mayor Roy R. Stewart is chairman.

The proceedings were delayed one hour while efforts were being made by political leaders and friends to have Inspector Charles T. Humes reconsider his application. But he refused to withdraw his application and it was approved.

Two sergeants, a city detective and four captains of the fire department were included in the list of applicants.

Sergeants Albert York and Clarence Thorn, Detective David Hunt and Fire Captains Harry Haines, John Lutts, James R. White and William H. Miller, Jr., were included among the pensioners.

Major W. Greenwood and Adrian Bateman, two patrolmen, completed the list from the police department, while the others receiving pension awards who are member [sic] of the fire department were:

Elmer Burkett, 66; Robert M. Coffman, 57; Howard E. Currie, 52; James E. Navin, 67; George W. Hollins, 64; Richard S. Marter, 60; Arthur A. Wingate, 64; Joseph T. Earnest, 63; Samuel E. Harring, 64; Andrew Miller, 73; Stewart Bakley, William K. Buzine, 63, and Daniel Grimes.

The application of Marter’s was passed, but an improviso [sic] was made by the commission which gave him the opportunity of recalling his decision but he failed to take advantage of it.

It was explained that the city commission’s resolution passed at noon, providing that members of the police and fire departments could continue in their employment under the 1933 wage scale, but that their pensions would not be affected by the cut and they could retire under the 1931 basic pay, might cause Marter to want to rescind his action.

Mayor Stewart and Commissioner Bennett, both members of the commission, said they regretted so many “young men” were asking to be pensioned at this time.

Greenwood, 54, was appointed to the police department 21 years ago and during nearly all of this time has been attached to the First district. He lives in the First ward, at 220 York street, and will receive a pension of $83.30 monthly.

Buzine is a veteran of nearly 28 years’ service. He is 63, lives at 856 Haddon avenue and will be pensioned at $90.65. He was classed as an engineer in the fire department.

The applications of Captain John Lutts, of Engine Company No. 6, Front and Linden streets, and Elmer Burkett, engineer of the No. 4 Company, were filed shortly before noon.

Captain Lutts, 62, lives at 456 Royden street, and will receive a pension of $100 monthly. He was appointed 33 years ago.

Burkett, 66, lives at 330 North Ninth street. He was appointed to the fire department in 1907 and spent a great portion of his service at the fire station at Front and Linden streets, recently being transferred to the Vine street house. He will be pensioned at $90.65 monthly.

Penn Street & Linden Street

Camden Courier-Post —

Penn Street & Linden Street, Camden Courier-Post, July 26, 1941

TAKING OVER PENN AND LINDEN STREETS —

1934—State Highway Department agrees the State should take over Penn and Linden streets, as approaches to Delaware River Bridge.

1935—State agrees to consider taking over Penn and Linden streets.

1936—State looking into advisability of considering taking over Penn and Linden streets.

1937—State still making up its mind—while snow and ice batter traffic, cause wholesale accidents on Penn and Linden streets.

1938—State agrees to decide whether to determine what to do about Penn and Linden streets.

1939—Extra! State “agrees” to take over Penn and Linden streets.

1940—State continues to “agree” to take over Penn and Linden streets.

1941—Everything definite. State is going to take over Penn and Linden streets, some day.

1942—(Fill this one in yourself.)

4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions

Camden Courier-Post —

4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950 4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions - Camden Courier-Post, July 7, 1950

Johnson, Garrity, Crawford, Stahl Retire Aug. 31

Four police officers and four firemen applied for pensions under the mandatory 65-year-old retirement law today.

The applications, all approved by the police-firemen pension board, are in line with Commissioner Aaron’s order in December, 1948, advising chiefs of the respective services that state law requires retirement of all personnel who have reached 65.

Police officers to be pensioned are Detective Capt. Samuel E. Johnson, 71, Capt. John T. Garrity, 65, Detective Frank Crawford, 69, and Patrolman Harry Stahl, 68.

Fire department members include Deputy Chief Clarence Madden, 67, and Firemen John Prucella, 75; Spencer Smith Sr., 68, and Frank L’Esperance, 66.

The eight men will retire Aug. 31, with each receiving one-half of the average annual salary of the last three years.

Also approved today was an application for a widow’s pension by Mrs. Carrie Bean, 1103 North Twenty-sixth street. Her husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, died June 8, eight days after being pensioned. She will receive $1000 annually.

Captain Johnson, of 211 Elm street, is considered the dean of the police department, having served 40 years.

Johnson, who will receive $2019 annually, was appointed in April, 1910, and was made a detective 10 years later. He was elevated to sergeant in November, 1928, and to lieutenant in 1930. One year after he was cited in 1942 by former Public Safety Director Mary Kobus, Johnson was raised to captain. He served as acting police chief from December, 1947, to December, 1949.

Captain Garrity will receive $1601 annually. He served as commander in each of the three city districts. Garrity was appointed in January, 1920; made sergeant July, 1930; lieutenant in 1940, and captain on June 30, 1944. He lives at 2515 Morgan boulevard.

Following a “pep” meeting with city detectives Thursday, Aaron announced he had transferred Captain Garrity to his office for “special assignments.” Sgt. William Schultz was named acting captain to head the third police district to replace Garrity.

Crawford, of 578 Chestnut street, will draw $1501. He was named to the force in 1912 and resigned eight years later. In 1931 he was reinstated and received a promotion to detective status in 1942. He was cited by former Chief John Golden.

Stahl Appointed in 1917

Stahl lives at 1513 Baird avenue. After his appointment in 1917, he saw service in most departments of the bureau. He will receive an annual pension of $1401.

Chief Madden, 2760 Mickle street, is serving as fire commander for the second fire district at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. He was appointed July 1, 1910 and assigned to Engine Co. 5, Fifth and Arch streets.

In 1922 he was raised to lieutenant, and six years later became senior captain. Madden was named battalion chief Nov. 21, 1944 and deputy chief on Dec. 16, 1949.

Madden will receive about $2000, with the others drawing approximately $1358 annually.

Prucella, 919 Penn street, was sworn in on Nov. 1, 1911 and joined Engine Co. 5. Since 1933 he has been serving at No. 6 Engine Co., Front and Linden streets.

Smith was appointed May 1, 1914 and assigned to No. 1 Engine Co., Fourth and Pine streets. He has been attached to No. 10 Engine Co., Ninth street and Morgan boulevard, since 1920.

Frank L’Esperance, 604 Clinton street, is also a member of No. 10 Engine Co., where he has been attached since 1938. He was appointed June 6, 1918 and served with No. 5 and No. 3 engine companies.

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.

Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee

Camden Courier-Post —

Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee - Camden Courier-Post, August 21, 1936 Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee - Camden Courier-Post, August 21, 1936

Advisory Board Suggests Razing 895 Dwellings In 2 Areas, Classified as Sub-Standard; Mayor Favors Plan For Parking Spaces

Elimination of 20 blocks of what were characterized as sub-standard properties in Camden was recommended to the city yesterday by the Camden Housing Advisory Committee.

Although it was urged that the city clear out two large areas as an economy measure, no plan was suggested whereby the city could obtain money to finance the clearance project.

The two areas that would be affected if such a proposal were carried out are as follows:

Area A: Tenth street to Twelfth street, between Market and Linden streets, embracing Linden, Penn, Lawrence and Cooper streets between Tenth and Twelfth.

Area B: Line to Stevens streets, between Second and Third streets, embracing Stevens, Benson, Washington, Berkley, Senate, Clinton, Royden, Beckett and Line streets, between Second and Third.

Made by Burnison

The recommendation was made in the office of Mayor Frederick von Nieda, by James W. Burnison, head of the housing advisory committee. Burnison termed the two areas of ten blocks each definitely sub-standard and said that the city should consider them for condemnation proceedings to effect an appreciable saving to Camden of municipal service costs.

The recommendation was made on the basis of a survey completed by the State Housing Authority. Conditions in the 20 blocks were pictured as causing an annual total loss to the city of $156,791.04. In the two areas are 895 dwellings.

It was estimated in the state survey that the city’s annual operating costs in the first area, Area A, are $95,335.30. The annual income to the city in the same area was put at $27,061.63. The annual loss to the city was fixed by the survey as $68,273.67.

Operating costs in Area B were estimated at $106,178.88 per year with an income of $17,661.51. The loss was placed at $88,517.37.

The costs were said to embrace fire protection, police protection, education, relief and health expenditures. The income is from taxes and municipal liens.

Burnison said that by tearing out the affected areas, free parking districts could be established there, bringing considerable trade and money to the city. Operating costs would be eliminated, he pointed out, and tax rates would go down generally with the removal of a costly burden.

Joseph N. Hettel, also a member of the committee, pointed out that both areas would be ripe for use as industrial sites or for a new housing project. Hettel said that if a city housing authority were established, such an agency could obtain its own bonds and be established as an independent venture, divorced from the municipal government but perhaps subsidized by the federal government.

Mayor von Nieda, expressing himself in harmony with plans for eliminating sub-standard areas, declared that he was opposed to the city’s spending any money until the city could receive assurance that the income would be as much as the loss.

The committee also considered the project on which the government is spending $3,000,000 at Westfield Acres in the construction of a low-cost housing venture. George V. Walsh, Camden district manager of the PWA housing division, said the superstructure bid of Anthony P. Miller, of Atlantic City, had been accepted.

Jobs for 500 Men

The Miller contract figure was $2,489,000. The contract has not been awarded as yet. Walsh said that foundation work would be finished Sept. 10 and that superstructure work would start Sept. 15. Completion in one year is provided by contract.

Walsh said 500 men would be employed on the superstructure work and that 800 men would be given jobs at the peak of the work. The housing plan is for three-story apartments of three, four and five rooms each. There will be 598 apartments in all, with central heating and fireproof construction. The Westfield Acres project will cover 25 acres.

Mayor von Nieda criticized the estimates of the state survey group when he said that the figures given for relief and school costs were high. These are the city’s main operating expenses, he said, and they would go on though persons living in the two areas went elsewhere.

Abe Rosenfeld, a real estate man, and James V. Moran also attended the meeting.

Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908 Exciting Scenes Feature Big Fire - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 18, 1908

Camden’s Spectacular Fire and Incidents Attending the Conflagration Which Licked Up Valuable Property

Conflagration in Paint and Varnish Works, in Camden, Resulted in Destruction of Much Valuable Property

Panoramic Scene of the Fire.

Moved Out as a Precaution.

Lowering Their Effects from Window.

More than five hundred thousand dollars-worth of property destroyed, three persons seriously injured and half a score of families forced to flee from their homes were a few of the effects of a disastrous fire which yesterday swept its way through the big plant of the N. Z. Graves Paint and Varnish Company, on Twelfth street, Camden, between Linden and Federal streets.

It was the explosion of a mixing tank that caused the blaze, but no reason has yet been assigned for the explosion, and the only workman who was near the vat at the time is now lying in a critical condition at the Cooper Hospital.

Explosion followed explosion with the same deafening roar as that made by opposing batteries in a battle, and during the three hours when the fire raged its fiercest more than two hundred tanks blew up.

Spectacular Blaze

From the spectacular viewpoint the blaze was one of the greatest in years, owing to the chemical nature of the varnishes and paints which were destroyed. Flames mounted as high as two hundred feet in the air and could be plainly seen from Twenty-first and Market streets in this city.

Often as a vat exploded a dense mass of black smoke would mount high towards the heavens and then suddenly burst open like a huge pyrotechnic and out would come a large ball of flame. Then suddenly the whole building would seem to send up a solid square of flame that, after becoming lost in the clouds of smoke which hid the sky, would suddenly veer to the east or west and set fire to some small building.

Not the least of the curious sights was the throwing by the sun of a beautiful rainbow whose arch was easily one hundred feet long across a background of smoke. The sun had caught the spray from a fire hose and reflected it across the smoke. Another time, from one of the small buildings which had caught fire, but from which no flames came, there issued a dense cloud of red smoke which gradually changed to purple, then became white and finally black.

Tanks Intact

While all these explosions occurred and while the heat of the flames was so great that it singed the hair of persons on the opposite side of the street, thirty large tanks containing from five to ten thousand gallons of gasoline and benzine and located almost directly in the rear of the blazing buildings, remained unharmed, although it was momentarily feared that they, too, would explode.

All but one of the eight buildings of the Graves Company were either totally destroyed or so badly damaged that they will have to be rebuilt. Three houses were badly damaged and half a score of other houses scorched.

The persons injured were Joseph Pease, of 941 Kimball street, this city; George Ward, foreman of Fire Company No. 2, and Peter Gray, a fireman.

Pease was the workman who was near the vat at the time the first explosion occurred, and he was thrown high in the air and had his face, arms and body burned by the flames.

Ward was injured while leading his men in an attack upon the flames. He was mounting a ladder leading to the room of a dwelling at 316 Twelfth street when the cornice of the roof came off, fell and struck him on the head and caused an ugly wound of the scalp. Ward kept his hold upon the ladder and managed to descend. He was immediately hurried to the hospital.

Fireman Peter Gray was burned by the flaming benzine from a small tank which exploded.

Attacked Flames With Vim

Although one of the largest buildings resembled an enormous cauldron when they arrived upon the scene the Camden firemen, nothing discouraged, attacked the fire with vim, and while they could not confine it to the one building, they did splendid work in saving a number of small houses of workmen which surround the plant. They also saved one of the large buildings of the plant.

The police boats Ashbridge and Visitor, from this city, were sent to the fire, but were unable to get up Cooper Creek, which is in the rear of the plant, owing to the ice and mud. The Pennsylvania Railroad’s fire tug Jamestown, however, got to the plant and did effectual service.

Mayor Ellis was early upon the scene and had his hair singed while directing the firemen.

In Philadelphia great interest was taken in the fire, and at one time it looked as though all Camden were ablaze.

It was about half-past eleven yesterday morning that Pease, while working in what is known as building No. 1, at the Greaves plant, a large three-story brick structure, fifty by one hundred and twenty-five feet, was suddenly hurled from his feet by the explosion in a vat. Accounts differ as to what really occurred, but it is certain that there was an explosion. This building is used partly as an office building and partly to mix paints and varnishes.

General Alarm Sounded

For a minute the flames did not spread rapidly and a call was sent to the police headquarters for a chemical engine. By the time this apparatus arrived the whole building was on fire and a general alarm was sent in.

In the few moments elapsing between the call for the chemical engine and its arrival upon the scene several other explosions occurred and caused the employes to flee for their lives. There were only about fifty men, or one-third the regular force, working yesterday.

As soon as the firemen all arrived they tried to save building No. 3, which is of the same size and structure as the No. 1 building, but in which were stored one hundred and eight large vats of various kinds of varnish and paint, and all of them combustible.

Between the two buildings was a narrow archway, and over this the flames crept and defeated the efforts of the fire fighters. Then began the series of explosions that not only lit up the skies, but carried the fire to half a dozen dwelling houses.

These buildings are double houses and are two and one-half stories high. When the house at 306 Twelfth street caught fire all the other occupants of the row started to throw their household goods in the street, and in several cases the sparks set fire to bed clothing. Later in the day the residents, still fearful of their homes, secured wagons and carted their belongings away.

Thought of His Hens’ Eggs

One man, James Demsey, when he found his house afire, thought only for a dozen of Plymouth Rock hens’ eggs which he had secured for the purpose of raising some chickens. Regardless of his danger he dashed into the burning building, secured the eggs, and then made his escape.

Prompt work by the firemen soon put an end to the flames which had attacked the dwellings, but against the blaze which raged in the two buildings of the paint works the fire fighters were helpless. It seemed that the more water was poured upon the buildings the wickeder the flames arose. Not until all the floors had fallen and everything burnable had been consumed did the flames cease their work of destruction, and the walls had been so scorched that half of them fell crashing into the interior of the buildings.

Besides the two large buildings the stable of the works caught fire, but the employes of the plant were able to get all the horses and wagons out safely.

A. Graves, a son of the proprietor of the plant, stated that he did not know how great the loss would be nor could he tell exactly how the fire started. There is about $265,000 insurance upon the plant.

Bucket Brigade at Work

Later the residence at 1194 Linden street, where lives George Brown, was ignited. A bucket brigade did yeoman service there. To add to the excitement word reached the firemen that the plant of the R. F. South Lumber Company, Federal street and Cooper Creek, had been fired by sparks. An engine company was withdrawn and sent to the scene of the new blaze, which was extinguished with a trifling loss.

When the walls of No. 3 building fell, forcing the firemen to abandon their post, one of the recently purchased engines was left under the ruins. It wasn’t there long, however, a rope being attached and the steamer being pulled out by a hundred or so volunteers.

The first two dwellings to take fire were those of C. W. Sleighs, 306, and John Taylor, 304 North Twelfth street. The other houses in the row are tenanted as folows [sic]:

In 302 is Harry Smith; 300, vacant; 224, Frank Pullinger; 222, Mary Rass; 220, Joseph Eccles; 218, Charles Sibert; 216, Fred Exler; 214, Henry Palmer; 212, Charles Mills; 210, Samuel Ivins.

Own Life Taken by Music Teacher

Camden Morning Post —

Own Life Taken by Music Teacher - Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933 Own Life Taken by Music Teacher - Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933 Own Life Taken by Music Teacher - Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933

Miss Elizabeth M’Creight, 65, Found Dead in Home at 321 State Street

An elderly North Camden music teacher ended her life last night by gas.

The teacher was Miss Elizabeth McCreight, 65, of 321 State street. Her body was found in the kitchen.

Because Miss McCreight lived alone, police guarded the house during the night, after she had been discovered dead, when it was reported she owned many valuables.

Detectives reported finding a chair upset directly in front of the kitchen gas stove, indicating, they said, Miss McCreight was overcome by the fumes and had fallen from the chair.

The body was discovered after two boys, William K. Huff, 16, of 317 State street, and Dermott Dollar, 16, of 408 Cooper street, had smelled the odor of gas as they passed. Huff went to his home, directly across the street, and told his father, William K. Huff, Sr., who telephoned police.

Detectives William Dolan and Leon Branch forced a rear window and found the body on the floor of the gas filled kitchen. All gas jets of a cook stove were open. Coroner Arthur H. Holl was summoned and issued a certificate of death by suicide. Holl declared the woman had probably been dead for three or four days.

Neighbors informed police the woman lived in the house alone and was a music teacher. Other information revealed she was an active social worker of the North Baptist Church, Linden street near Fourth street, and had not been seen since Sunday when she returned from church.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at the Holl Funeral Home, 1401 Princess avenue, by Rev. George H. Hemingway, former pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The body will be on view tomorrow night at the Holl parlors. Interment will be on Tuesday in the family burial plot at Springfield, Ohio.

Three Hurt During Test of Fire Hose

Philadelphia Inquirer —

Three Hurt During Test of Fire Hose - Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1915

Two Camden Firemen and Child in Hospital as Result of High Water Pressure

Escaping the grasp of several firemen, a hose being tested at Front and Linden streets, Camden, yesterday whirled about like a great serpent and as a result Fireman Rollo Jones, aged 36 years, of 658 State street, and David Bakley, aged 35 years, of 531 Roberts street, of No. 6 Engine Company, and Anna May Lander, aged 5 years, of 325 North Front street, were taken to Cooper Hospital. Jones had a hole knocked in his leg, Bakley nearly had an eye put out and the little girl’s legs were injured.

The hose was attached to a high-pressure main in Camden’s fire district. The force was so great that the nozzle whirled about as though a thing alive. Jones and Bakley were knocked down and then rolled over and over by the powerful stream. Swishing around, the stream struck the crowd, which scattered in every direction, all escaping except the little girl.

While the hose wiggled and bounced about several firemen endeavored to get it under control. It was only after they had been knocked about like tenpins that they succeeded in holding the nozzle and preventing further damage.

After the excitement had somewhat abated it was announced the test was a success.

Snapper Dinner Debate

Camden Daily Courier —

Snapper Dinner Debate - Camden Daily Courier, April 7, 1922

A lengthy argument over the question of preparing stewed snapper occupied the attention of the members of Engine Company No. 6, Front and Linden streets, today. Robert Brice and Abraham Kern insisted that the tail be cut off to bleed the snapper, while Captain Johnny Lutz was just as certain that the head be cut off. The controversy was settled by doing both, and the resultant snapper dinner was thoroughly enjoyed.

Defies Efforts Of 2 Chums to Rescue Him

Camden Courier-Post —

Defies Efforts Of 2 Chums to Rescue Him - Camden Courier-Post, June 9, 1950

A 16-year-old boy was drowned in the Cooper river, near Eleventh and Linden streets, today after he jumped into the water, apparently to escape the heat.

The boy, William Bush, of 431 Riley street, was brought to Cooper hospital, where physicians used artificial respiration in an effort to save his life. Dr. Llewelyn Hunsicker pronounced the boy dead.

According to police, Bush, who could not swim, had been playing on the bank with two companions, Thomas Brown, 16, of 320 Washington street, and Raymond Hickman, 15, of 318 Washington street.

Police said the three decided to take a dip i nthe [sic] river. The Bush boy asked the others to watch him while he jumped in. He then leaped from the bank and immediately began bobbing up and down.

At first the other two thought Bush was joking, but soon realized that he was in trouble. Brown leaped in after him, but Bush was frantic by then and drove Brown away with his flailing arms.

Forced to Quit Effort

Another boy, Dennis Conway, 16, of 717 Fern street, who was swimming nearby, approached Bush and tried to grab him, but Conway also was forced to abandon the effort to save Bush when the latter thrashed at him.

Conway then shouted to one of the others to call the police. The boy was forced to run several hundred yards to the Scott-Smith Cadillac Co. to make the telephone call.

Fire Rescue Squad No. 1, at Fifth and Arch streets, under the direction of Battalion Chief Harry Wagner, administered artificial respiration until the arrival of Dr. Hunsicker, brought from Cooper hospital by police.

Orders Boy to Hospital

Dr. Hunsicker expressed belief Bush was already dead, but ordered the boy taken to the hospital for still further attempts to revive him.

The Weather Bureau reported a high of 86 today at 5 p. m., but a gentle southerly breeze brought fairly pleasant conditions in this area. The thermometer will drop to about 66 tonight, but will rise to 86 by tomorrow afternoon. The latest prediction is fair and quite warm weather tonight and tomorrow.

11th Ward G.O.P. Club to Discuss Boulevard

Camden Courier-Post —

11th Ward G.O.P. Club to Discuss Boulevard - Camden Courier-Post, April 3, 1928

A meeting of the Eleventh Ward Republican Club has been called for tonight to discuss the city’s plans for the northeast boulevard to connect with the proposed Linden street bridge over Cooper river. Edward Peard, president of the club, will preside.

Freeholder Howard Firth and Horace Beideman, named by the club to consult with city officials on a plan for the extension of the boulevard to Pierce avenue, will speak. The boulevard is to extend from Eleventh and Linden streets to River avenue and East State street.

Harry Carle

Camden Courier-Post —

Harry Carle - Camden Courier-Post, October 22, 1937

After an illness of several months Harry Carle, 54, of Eighth and Linden streets, died yesterday. He is survived by his widow, Bertha Stein Carle; two brothers, Patrolman Frank Carle and William Carle, and four sisters, Mrs. Clara Bennett, Mrs. James Daly, Mrs. Anson Kelly and Mrs. Rose Martin. The funeral will be held at 8.30 a. m., Monday at 521 State street. High mass will be held at 9.30 a. m., at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

New Fire Fighting Apparatus

Camden Courier-Post — 1959

New Fire Fighting Apparatus - Camden Courier-Post, 1959

Courier-Post Photo by Arthur C. Jarvis

NEW FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS went into service Thursday when Mayor Pierce (center) handed over the keys of a pumper and a hose and booster truck to Acting Chief Engineer Edward MacDowell (left), in front of Engine Company 6 station at Front and Linden sts. First District Chief Harry J. Wagner, under whose command the new apparatus will be used, witnessed the ceremony.

Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan

Camden Courier-Post —

Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936 Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936 Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936 Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936 Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936 Von Nieda Opposes ‘Parking Lot’ Plan - Camden Courier-Post, August 22, 1936

Mayor Calls Razing of 20 Blocks ‘Destruction,’ Denies Slums Exists [sic]

Mayor Frederick von Nieda last night denied that he approved the recommendations of the Camden Housing Advisory Committee to remove 20 blocks of houses to provide public parking places for motorists in North and South Camden.

The mayor particularly stressed his opposition to the razing of properties in the area designated by the committee as Section A, embracing Tenth to Twelfth streets between Market and Linden streets, taking in Linden, Penn, Lawrence, Cooper and Carpenter streets between Tenth and Twelfth strets [sic].

“If some people in Camden have gone crazy you can tell them the mayor has not,” Mayor Von Nieda declared.

“If you move these people then you only place them somewhere else. I am emphatically against any Zioncheck plan like that. I believe in construction, not destruction.”

‘No Slums in District’

“This plan was proposed to me by Joseph N. Hettel, a member of the committee, as a slum district elimination. I want to say here and now there are no slums in that district and the people who live there resent that statement.

“I said I would favor the plan if it meant slum elimination, but it does not. If there were actual slums in the area I would say ‘Amen.’ The residents are poor people in modest homes. Here and there is a dilapidated property. But to take them all down, I say ‘No!’

“There are 825 families living in that section. The advisory committee says a survey shows the city’s annual operating expenses in the area is $95,335.30. The income to the city is placed at $27,061.63, causing a loss to the city of $68,273.67.

“I want to say the cost of operation is $141,000 a year. We spend $66,000 yearly to educate children in that area. If we moved them we would not save anything. We would have to educate them wherever we moved them. The relief administration spends $75,000 yearly in that area. That would have to be paid wherever we move them. If the costs of operation were $180,000 that sum would be insignificant.

Wants to Help City Grow

“I want to help Camden grow if I tread on my own political toes. That progress must come slowly and not takes [sic] away wage-earners’ homes. That survey is an overstatement of facts. I have lived with figures all of my life.

“If it is a question of slums then that is a matter for police to clear up. I know there is no slum district in Section A. As far as ratables are concerned, there are lots of good ratables in the area.

“When the government proposed constructing Westfield Acres apartments it was said it would aid slum clearance. It will not. It will provide only cheaper housing for wage-earners who do not get enough to live in higher-priced houses.

“The project will house less than 600 families. If they take large families of children with them we will have to provide another school, more teachers. It will cost $75 per child a year for education. Say there will be 500 children housed there, that will mean an additional $37,500 piled on the taxes for education. The city will get a gross take of five percent on the rentals and I dread the tax rate when another year comes around.

Would Keep Veterans’ Homes

“I also am opposed to razing the two veterans’ homes at Broadway and Benson street. They are substantial. To tear them down would be an absolute crime. If they were a menace I would say yes. But not to lease the site for a parking lot. If anything should be done it would be to convert them into stores to give revenue to the city.”

James W. Burnison, chairman of the housing advisory committee, recommended the plan for the elimination of the two areas. He said the recommendation was being made on the basis of a survey made by the State Housing Authority.

Burnison declared the parking areas would bring additional business to the city and remove a costly burden.

John F. Meade

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Linden Baptists in Their Handsome New Home

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Linden Baptists in Their Handsome New Home - Camden Post-Telegram, October 4, 1909 Linden Baptists in Their Handsome New Home - Camden Post-Telegram, October 4, 1909

Linden Baptist church, Camden

S. Conrad Ott. John T. Bottomley. The Rev. George W. Peck.

Yesterday was the day of accomplishment and the day of new beginnings for the Linden Baptist Church.

It was the day in which the church moved into its handsome new building at the northeast corner of Ninth and Linden streets. That was the accomplishment of a dream long indulged in. The new building gives greater and broader and better opportunities for work. That is the new beginning.

The church building is really one of the ornaments of this city. In every line there is beauty, symmetry and dignity. One of the visitors to the Bible-school’s portion of the services yesterday afternoon was Henry D. Moore, of Haddonfield. In the course of a conversation, Mr. Moore declared without doubt that Linden Church has the handsomest church building in the country. Rev. William H. Geistwelt, D.D., the first pastor of the church, was another visitor, and he declared that he had travelled all over the world and nowhere was there a building that was more beautiful. All Camden may well be proud of the achievement of this church, therefore, from an architectural and aesthetic point of view, in addition to the natural pride of all people in the achievement of increased moral force and the ability to accomplish more for the up(lift) of humanity.

The exterior of the new building is of brick, surmounted by a concrete dome of magnificent, sweeping proportions. This dome is of itself more or less of a curiosity because of the advance it marks in building. It is new; absolutely new, and it, too, is an achievement of skill. The main entrance to the building is at the corner of Ninth and Linden streets. Entering the church you find yourself passing through two vestibules, the outer one of which at once takes the place of the usual unsightly storm doors. The floors of these vestibules are tiles, the word “Linden” being a part of the design in the outer one. It is when you reach the main door to the audience room that you are almost swept off your mental feet by the sight that bursts upon you. Above stretches the great dome. In the very apex of this in ancient Hebrew is the word “Jehovah”, from which there radiates great bursts of light in gold. At each of the intersections in the panels of the dome there is in relief a large gold star - one hundred and twenty-eight of them in all of the dome. The dome is supported by sixteen great white columns and is itself finished in white. The thought here expressed is Jehovah in the centre of the firmament shedding over all the light of His love and grace. The walls are finished in a light canary and the maple floor is carpeted in green. The rich color effect is most striking and so decidedly harmonious as to be almost surprising.

The pulpit is in the east and the circular appearance of the interior is broken by the extending lines of the apse back of the platform and into which the latter is built. The choir is in the north and this platform will accommodate a chorus of fifty to seventy-five. In the northeast corner, between pulpit and choir, so to speak, is the baptismal pool. This is also something entirely new. It is built low so that those in the audience may look down into the water. The parlor [sic] and candidates in entering the pool walk down a gentle incline, so that the whole give the representation of walking down the banks of a river and is an effort to reproduce in a way the baptism in the Jordan. Over the pool is the test: “Repent and Be Baptized.” This text, too, is in gold.

The pews and furnishings are what is technically called “modern English,” but most people refer to it as “weathered oak,” “antique oak,” etc. It is dark green in color. The pews are arranged in amphitheatre form. The robing rooms for candidates for baptism are in the crypt under the pulpit platform. The pastor’s study is to the south of the pulpit.

The architect was Arthur Truscott, of Merchantville, who was assisted by Arnold H. Moses, also of Merchantville. It is a curious fact that twenty-eight years ago yesterday there was opened and dedicated the old building that stood on this corner, and which a year ago last July was torn down to make room for this. Mr. Truscott, when a young architect, planned that building. John T. Bottomley, then and now superintendent of the Bible-school told him that some day a handsome building should go there and that he should draw the plans. When the time came to draw the plans the promise of a quarter of a century ago was redeemed and Mr. Truscott planned the new edifice. The church itself built the building. Turner & Stewart, of this city, were the supervising contractors, but the church was its own builder, the work being in charge of the following committee: James J. Myers, secretary; Robert J. McAuley, treasurer; Rev. George W. Peck, Jr., John T. Bottomley, Victor S. Pike, Albert Adams, Albert Senemeck, Joseph W. Graham, Mrs. L. S. Read, Miss Agnes Naso, Mrs. Ellen Enwistle, Mrs. Matilda Crumley, William H. King, Edwin Hillman, Frank W. Cramer, Harvey L. Restrick, Harry E. Booz, Albert E. Heal, Jonn Hill [sic], G. Walter Lees, J. G. Reeves, Randolph Cramer, Lewis A. Linnekin and J. Willard Morgan.

And now to return to yesterday’s services. It was a red letter day that began with a men’s prayer service in the Bible-school building, led by Deacons Albert Scherneck and Joseph W. Graham at 10 o’clock in the morning and closing with an evangelistic appeal by Dr. Geistwelt at 10 o’clock at night. There was music and speeches all day long with a grand triumphal march of the Bible-school in the afternoon, when the scholars gave a thank offering amounting to nearly $500, and this, too, with no especial appeal - barely with announcement. In fact, the services lacked the element so frequently seen of making the day one of begging for funds. Not a special collection was taken all day and none will be taken for this fund during the three weeks that yet remain of services.

Pastor George Williams Peck presided at the morning service. The prayer was offered by Dr. Geistwelt and Rev. Dr. Milton G. Evans, president of Croz’er Theological Seminary, preached the opening sermon. At the close of the sermon Mrs. Elmer E. Morton called the roll of “Linden’s honored dead” and this was followed with a memorial prayer by Deacon S. Conrad Ott. The choir sang “Asleep in Jesus,” and thus was the memory honored of the pioneers who went across the river before seeing the fruition of their labors. One new member received the right hand of fellowship at the close of the service, the communion service concluding it all.

In the afternoon Superintendent John T. Bottomley had the Bible-school in charge, assisted by Associate Superintendents Edwin Hillma [sic], Randolph Cramer and S. Conrad Ott. Mrs. Richards and Mrs. Sophie R. Carter, the two who in 1863 made the house to house canvass to ascertain whether or not there was need for a Bible-school in the northeastern section of the city, spoke to the great host of assembled scholars telling of things of the early days. Then came a rousing address by Dr. Geistwelt, a talk full of inspiration and pointing to the greater things ahead. It was at this service that Architect Truscott was presented to the audience and received a Chautauqua salute.

In the evening Pastor Peck presided and preached a sermon that was fitted to the occasion and was a fitting conclusion to the great day, his theme being “The Church and the World.” At this service it was found that the building was all too small to hold the people who had come to see and hear. Built to accommodate in the sittings about 700 persons, fully 1,500 were crowded within the doors, many were turned away and an overflow meeting of some 200 young people who sacrificed their places in the church to make room for strangers was held in the Bible-school building. It was a great outpouring of people surely. It was at this service that the beautiful effects of the lighting scheme was seen. Great globes containing tungsten burners of high power are suspended form [sic] the dome by cords of white wire. The effect is most beautiful. This feature was designed by Richard T. Eschler, of Richter & Eschler of this city and is most effective.

Following the pastor’s sermon, fifteen candidates were baptized by him in the new pool and then came the closing evangelistic appeal by Dr. Geistwelt and the benediction.

The choir rendered its music most effectively under the direction of Chorister George K. McGonigle, Miss Caroline W. Colby presiding at the organ. The soloists of the day were Herbert J. Starn, Clarence Hope, Eugene Adams and John N. Young. At both serviced [sic] of the church the following poem by Pastor Peck was suns [sic] a “Linden’s Prayer:”

In humble thanks we gather here
To praise Thee Lord of Life,
For Thou has [sic] saved us from the fear
Of overwhelming strife.
And Thou hast brought us to this hour
When in our new church home
We recognise Thy salient power
And pray Thy Spirit Come!

Yea lead us Lord, we need Thee now;
To save our hearts from pride!
Such human splendor her [sic] below
May wean Thee from Thy side.
We rather would the closer draw
And harder work for thee
And teach some weaker soul Thy law
That they may too be free!

Oh God of light enthroned above!
Oh lord, o’er time and space!
We know Thee only, by Thy love
For none have seen Thy face.
But this our honest prayer we raise
And none can stronger be;
To do Thy will through all our days
To prove our thanks to Thee!

There will be special services all this week which is know [sic] as “Occupation Week.” To-night is “Old Linden Night” when John T. Bottomley will preside and Rev. William G. Russell, who for ten years was pastor of this church, will make the principal address. Mr. Bottomley and Associate Superintendents Hillman, Cramer and Ott, Secretary of the trustees Frank W. Cramer and “Emergency Pastor” Miles S. Read, will give some recollections. To-morrow night is Women’s Night; Wednesday, Young People’s Night; Thursday, Inter-Denominational Night, and Friday, Baptist Night.

Next Sunday marks the opening of “Evangelization Week,” which is really two weeks, as on Monday night of next week Rev. Dr. John J. Wicker, the well known evangelist, will begin two week’s work at Linden, services being held every night and concluding with a series of all day services on October 24th.

Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack

Camden Courier-Post —

Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939 Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack - Camden Courier-Post, September 16, 1939

Police Head Succumbs During Sleep While Suffering From Cold

MEMBER OF FORCE IN CAMDEN 27 YEARS

Chief of Police Arthur Colsey, veteran of 27 years in the department, died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home, 2937 Stevens street, last night. He was 67.

Apparently in good health except for a slight cold, Chief Colsey left his office in City Hall at noon yesterday, telling his assistants he was going home “to nurse the cold.”

Shortly after 5 p. m., Chief Colsey asked his son, Arthur, Jr., to take Mrs. Colsey on a shopping trip. When they returned two hours later, they found him dead on a couch. The son said his father told him he was going to take a nap before he went to a doctor’s office to receive treatment for the cold.

Chief Colsey was a Camden merchant before entering the police department. For years he was active in the Republican party. He was highly respected by all men in the department. The chief was quiet in manner and the excitement pertaining to strikes in the city a few years ago found him calm in the most delicate situations.

Born in Kidderminster, England, in December, 1872, he came to this country when 17. He was in the department store business with his brothers at Ninth and Market streets for years. He served in the old City Council from 1907 to 1911 from the Second ward. At that time he lived at Eighth and Linden streets.

Joined Force in 1912

Colsey was appointed a patrolman by former Mayor Charles H. Ellis on March 13, 1912, while Elisha A. Gravenor was chief. After several months as a street patrolman he was assigned to the First District patrol wagon. Then he was made a district detective. Next he was promoted to a full ranking detective under Detective Chief William Schregler.

After being appointed a detective he was assigned as a plainclothesman and secretary to Mayor Ellis. He served in this capacity seven years. In 1923 he was appointed chief clerk of the police department with the rank of captain.

In 1924 he was made chief of the vice squad, which made 380 raids for prohibition law violations. The squad also assisted the federal authorities in 180 more liquor raids and participated in 54 raids on disorderly houses and 38 gambling places.

In 1927 the City Commission abolished the rank of captain in the department and Colsey remained as chief clerk without the title. The rank of captain was restored to him by the City Commission in 1932 by motion of Commissioner David S. Rhone.

When former Chief John W. Golden retired on a pension on June 11, 1934, Colsey was named acting chief by Mayor Roy R. Stewart. He was named permanent chief on August 30, 1934, by Mayor Stewart. At the same time John H. Lennox was named permanent chief of the fire department.

During the absence of City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, director of public safety, Chief Colsey was acting director.

Colsey was one of the most popular men who served as chief, both in his department and in civic and political circles. After he was made a full ranking captain in 1932 a series of testimonial dinners were given by the East End Republican League, Twelfth Ward Republican Club and Eleventh Ward Republican Clubs. He was boomed for chief at each of the dinners. Another testimonial was given when he was acting chief by the Camden Police and Firemen’s Association.

In February, 1931, his appointment as chief was urged to succeed Chief Lewis H. Stehr but Golden was named.

While a resident of North Camden he served as president of the Second Ward Republican Club. He was president of the Twelfth Ward Republican Club in 1932.

Prominent Lodgeman

Chief Colsey was a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of Trimble Lodge, No. 117, Free and Accepted Masons; Crescent Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Camden Forest, No. 5, Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He also was a member Camden Lodge, No. 293, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Camden Lodge, No. 111, Loyal Order of Moose; Camden Aerie, No. 65, Fraternal Order of Eagles; Sons of St. George, Foresters of America, Improved Order of Red Men, Camden Local, Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association; International Police Chiefs’ Association, New Jersey State Police Chiefs’ Association, Camden Police and Fire Association, and the Camden County Republican Association.

Coroner Ernest Larossa issued the death certificate due to a heart ailment.

The funeral will be held at 2 p. m., Wednesday with burial in Arlington Cemetery. Other arrangements have not been completed. The body will be on view from 7 to 9 p. m., Tuesday at the home.

The chief is survived by his widow, Lillie; a brother, Thomas Colsey, a merchant and ranking officer of the Loyal Order of Moose; and two grandchildren, Arthur Colsey, 3rd., and Lillian Colsey. The grandson, a student at Western Maryland College, was notified last night of his grandfather’s death and left immediately for Camden.

J. Willard Morgan Seriously Ill

Philadelphia Inquirer —

J. Willard Morgan Seriously Ill - Philadelphia Inquirer, February 23, 1912

Suffering a general breakdown last Saturday, former State Comptroller, J. Willard Morgan was last night reported to be in a serious condition at his home, Fifth and Linden streets, Camden.

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