Sherman Avenue
Sherman Avenue is a street that runs north and south between River Road and the railroad in Cramer Hill. Like many of the other north-south streets in that part of Camden, it was laid out in the 1890s and named after Civil War hero General William Tecumseh Sherman. Just about all of the north-south streets in that part of Camden are named for U.S. Presidents or military heroes.
— Phil Cohen
2400 Block of Sherman Avenue
2400 Block of Sherman Avenue
2006
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1923–1924
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| — | Joseph T. Angelo & Family — Joseph T. & Sarah Angelo; Betty Angelo |
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Fire at 2413 Sherman Avenue
On the morning of November 4, 2006 at approx 0425 hrs. Camden City Firefighters from Engine Co’s 9, 11; Ladders 3, 1; Rescue 1 and Battalion 2 were dispatched to the area of 27th Street and Sherman Avenue for a reported dwelling fire.
Engine Co. 11 and Battalion 2 arrived on location and reported a 2 story E/O/R Vacant Dwelling with heavy fire showing in the rear placing all hands operating.
Battalion 2 then requested an additional Engine and Battalion 1 which brought Squad 7. Shortly after Battalion 2 also requested an additional Ladder Company to assume the duties of the RIT.
Ladder 2 was dispatched, and at the 10 Min report, Battalion 2 reported all hands operating with 2 handlines making good progress. The fire was placed under control within 30 mins and the Battalion corrected the address as 2413 Sherman Avenue. No injuries were reported at the scene. — Gregory T. Taylor
2400 Block of Sherman Avenue
2400 Block of Sherman Avenue. Photographs taken May 3, 2007.
2415 Sherman Avenue — Joseph T. Angelo & Family
Joseph T. Angelo and his family resided at 2415 Sherman Avenue in 1923–1924.
American Woodworking Mill Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
BENJ. POGUST JAMES H. JONES Buy Direct from the Mill Porch Enclosures Storm Sash Kitchen Cabinets all kinds of M-I-L-L-W-O-R-K AMERICAN WOODWORKING MILL 27th & Sherman Ave. ~ Camden Foot of Pavonia R.R. Bridge - Bell 7307
American Woodworking Mill — Benj. Pogust & James H. Jones. Buy Direct from the Mill. Porch Enclosures, Storm Sash, Kitchen Cabinets, all kinds of Millwork. 27th & Sherman Ave., Camden. Foot of Pavonia R.R. Bridge — Bell 7307. Camden Courier-Post advertisement, January 7, 1928.
700 North 27th Street / 2715 Sherman Avenue — H. B. Davies Paint Company
700 North 27th Street / 2715 Sherman Avenue — H. B. Davies Paint Company, 1940s–1950s.
701 North 27th Street — Murphy Auto Body Works
Murphy Auto Body Works, 701 North 27th Street, 1930s–1940s. By 1956 this business had moved to Pennsauken, and back to Cramer Hill by 1959 at 1137 North 36th Street.
2700 Block of Sherman Avenue
2700 Block of Sherman Avenue
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| — | H. B. Davies Paint Company |
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Early 1890s–Late 1920s
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| — | Ferdinand F. Sell |
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1923–1935
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| — | William F. Foehl Sr. & Family — William F. & Florence Foehl; William F. Foehl Jr |
1956
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| — | Charles A. Bates |
1927–1950
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| — | Harry H. Hess & Family — Harry & Mary Hess; Allen F. Hess |
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| — | Corporal William F. Foehl Jr |
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1899
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| — | Abraham Lupp & Family |
1910s–1920s
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| — | Sergeant George W. Schlam |
1927–1970
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| — | Philip I. Gorman & Family — Philip I. & Florence Gorman; Florence Gorman Staepel; Doris Gorman O'Neill; Claire Gorman; Evelyn Murdock; Philip D. Gorman; Andrew J. Gorman; Robert D. Gorman |
1894
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| — | Jacob F. Auchter |
1896–1912
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| — | William Lemmerman & Family — William & Emma Lemmerman; Gustav, George, Bertha, William A., Freda, Helen Lemmerman |
1913
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| — | Harry West & Family — Harry & Mamie West |
1914–1943
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| — | John Martin & Family — John & Susanna Martin; Alice, John, Mark, Samuel, Hannah, Harry, Joseph Martin |
1920s–1930s
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| — | Thomas Pippit & Family — Thomas & Alice Martin Pippit; Robert Pippit; Charles Pippit |
1947
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| — | Edward Staepel & Family — Edward & Florence Staepel |
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2721 Sherman Avenue — Ferdinand F. Sell
Ferdinand F. Sell resided at 2721 Sherman Avenue from the early 1890s through the late 1920s.
East Camden Briefs
Camden Post-Telegram —
Mrs. William Foehl, of Sherman avenue, who has been ill for several weeks, is able to be about again.
The Foehl family resided at 2731 Sherman Avenue from 1923 to 1935.
2731 Sherman Avenue — Corporal William F. Foehl Jr.
Corporal William F. Foehl Jr. grew up at 2731 Sherman Avenue.
2731 Sherman Avenue — Charles A. Bates
Charles A. Bates resided at 2731 Sherman Avenue in 1956.
37 Camden Men Pass Tests for City Firemen
Camden Courier-Post —
Thirty-seven candidates have passed the Civil Service test for fireman in the Camden City fire department. Thirty-two of those who qualified are former service men and three of them, disabled veterans, were placed at the top of the list under the preference given by law.
Joseph T. Hackett, of 158 Branch Village, is listed first, Owen D. Gale, 320 Marlton avenue, second and August L. Johnson, 916½ Chestnut street, third.
The salary on Jan. 1 will begin at $2400 and reach a maximum of $3160 after four years.
Following is the complete list of those who qualified in the test:
Joseph T. Hackett, 158 Branch Village; Owen D. Gale, 320 Marlton avenue; August L. Johnson, 916 Chestnut street; Harry Sterling, 112 Ablett Village; Albert A. Stinger, 1423 Bradley avenue; Jesthroe Hunt, 753 Walnut street; Harold H. Pike, 429 Penn street; Roy R. Moffa, 216 Morse street; Allen F. Hess, 2733 Sherman avenue; Franklin W. Whylings, 602 North Thirty-second street; William L. Gosnell, 3303 Crescent drive; David W. Humphries, 3017 Mickle street; William G. Winstanley, 510 Penn street; Joshua H. Robinson, 1934 Kossuth street; Henry S. Keubler, 936 Broadway; Adolph S. Zubrzycki, 1223 South Tenth street; Ralph H. Palmer, 585 Mickle street; Alexander P. Matis, 903 Haddon avenue; Earl G. Robinson, 1036 Penn street; Anthony J. DiMaggio, 530 South Eighth street; Earl A. Smith Sr., 201 Biedeman avenue; Philip J. MacDonald, 123 North Eleventh street; Robert P. Olesiewicz, 321 Mt. Vernon street; Eugene E. Demers, 2034 High street; Chester J. Gedrich, 1154 Thurman street; John F. Chudzinski, 1043 Thurman street; Samuel D. Siniscalki, 803 Line street; Santo DiMaggio, 319 Beckett street; Ludwig Polniak, 471 Pfeiffer street; George P. Baxter, 817 Howard street; Ralph F. Schaffer, Canterbury apartments; Joseph J. McTaggart, 3135 Waldorf avenue; Louis J. Monahan, Canterbury apartments; John DiMaggio, 319 Beckett street; William N. Stone Jr., 950 Vine street; Casper J. Martelli, 220 Mt. Vernon street; and H. Raymond Dixon, 439 Trenton avenue.
Helmrich–Hess Engagement
Camden Courier-Post —
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Helmrich Jr., of 125 South Twenty-seventh street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Esther Pauline Helmrich, to Mr. Allen Frederick Hess, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Hess, of 2733 Sherman avenue. The wedding is planned for spring.
Carriage Wrecked
Philadelphia Inquirer —
While Abraham Lupp, of Sherman and Horner avenues, had his wife and child out riding last evening the horse became frightened at a trolley car, at Thirty-second and Federal streets and the carriage was wrecked. Mr. Lupp was cut and bruised but his wife and child escaped injury.
2745 Sherman Avenue — Philip I. Gorman Family
2745 Sherman Avenue, home of the Philip I. Gorman family from 1927 to 1970. The second photograph shows the building on February 29, 1972.
2746 Sherman Avenue — Private First Class Charles H. Pippett
Private First Class Charles H. Pippett grew up at 2746 Sherman Avenue.
2800 Block of Sherman Avenue
2800 Block of Sherman Avenue
1938
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| — | Anthony Alexander |
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2011
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| — | 5 Star Cab Service |
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1890–1943
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| — | Charles Newton & Family — Charles & Emma Newton; Harry Newton; Gertrude Newton; Laurence W. Newton; Mary Newton |
1915
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| — | William Willoughby |
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Coursey Breaks Down While Story of Cold-Blooded Killing of Karl Kellmann Is Told by Detective
Camden Post-Telegram —
Two “Pals,” Too, Accused of Crime
Harry Duffield. Fred. Coursey. Linnans Staley.
Trio Accused of Murder, Coursey Firing the Shots.
Collapsing when arraigned in Police Court this morning before Recorder Stackhouse on the charge of killing Karl Kellmann, aged 18 years, of 2919 High street, at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets, shortly before midnight Saturday, Fred Coursey, alias “Mexican Pete,” alias “Cowboy Pete,” aged 20 years, of 121 North Twenty-first street, who admits firing the fatal shots while committing robbery, and Harry Duffield, aged 21 years, of 407 North Forty-first street, who acknowledged masking his face with a handkerchief and being with Coursey, sobbed piteously, resting their heads on the railing of the dock, while John Painter, the veteran detective, was briefly reciting the story.
When Recorder Stackhouse asked what became of the young man who was shot and Painter replied that he died, Coursey and Duffield sobbed afresh, and when Recorder Stackhouse committed them without bail Policemen Frost and Kay had to help them.
Linnans Staley, aged 21 years, of 1819 Federal street, who confessed that he was in the robbery plot but later got scared and hid in the bushes, was scarcely able to stand, and when his mother broke down as he was committed as a principal he staggered and would have fallen but for Sergeant McClong.
Prosecutor Boyle announced this morning that the Grand Jury will be recalled for Thursday of this week and the case will be made the special order of the day.
Without the slightest clue to start with in the most brutal murder committed in recent years in Camden county, police and detectives under the personal direction of Chief Gravenor in two hours arrested two of the three prisoners and obtained their signatures to confessions and before sunrise the other was lodged behind the bars at the City Hall.
According to their statements to the police the prisoners while drinking on a lot near Twenty-first and Federal streets on Saturday night planned to go to a lone spot near Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets to hold someone up to get money and jewelry to buy more drink. Coursey had a 38-calibre cowboy pistol and Duffield used Coursey’s bandanna as a mask. Staley weakened before the spot selected was reached and at the time of the murder was hiding in a clump of weeds a short distance away.
The murdered boy was the son of Karl and Lulu D. Kellmann. He was a member of the Bible class of Grace Presbyterian Church, East Side, and active in church work.
Saturday night was the closing of a carnival given on High street between Twenty-seventh and Thirtieth streets. Karl was there and made several purchases. At one booth he bought a necktie, from another some ice cream and a box of candy and spent some time conversing with the young ladies connected with the church.
When it grew rather late he noticed that Misses Bertha and Bessie Skillen, of 815 North Thirty-fourth street, the latter a teacher in Grace Church Sunday-school, were without an escort and he volunteered to see them home. They accepted his invitation to be their escort. He saw them safely home and he was on his way back and had reached a point on the east side of Twenty-seventh street south of Sherman street and near the foot of the bridge that spans the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks when two men jumped out from behind a tree and as one commanded him to hold up his hands the other began to shoot.
The first shot struck him in the breast and turned him partially around. The next ploughed a hole through his neck, knocking him down, and the third went wide.
Screaming for help he tried to rise to his feet and was on his knees when Night Yardmaster Albert Ludlow and Brakeman Joseph Wittick, who were on the opposite side of the bridge, ran to his assistance. By the light of their lanterns they saw that he was seriously hurt and they took him to ’Squire Sasse’s house nearby to await the arrival of the ambulance. As the railroaders sped across the bridge Ludlow saw a man run down the tracks in the direction of Seventeenth street.
In the signal tower at Pavonia station known as C. B. the operator, Thomas Sink, heard the shots and cries for help and ’phoned to Captain James at Police Headquarters that a murder had been committed. Sink also saw a man run down through the weeds and bushes on the east side of the bridge toward the railroad tracks.
Policeman Hurlock and Schmid, ’Squire and Mrs. Sasse and several others were out on the street before the railroad men reached the Sasse home and all hurried to ’phones to notify police headquarters.
In less than five minutes by use of the red light system Captain James had every officer on duty on the East Side hurrying to the scene, officers stationed at every bridge, ferry house and railroad terminal, and the downtown auto with Detectives Schregler, Painter, Brothers and Moffett on its way to East Camden.
On information from the railroad men Sergeant Horner took all the East Side officers and the four detectives and they worked westward among the cars while Captain James started Policemen Colsey and Kelly to walk eastward from Fifteenth street until they met the main body.
The search proved fruitless and as they returned to the bridge one of the men picked up a green bandanna with yellow spots and sheep burrs embeded [sic] on it on the incline near the signal tower. Later he recalled that the man who went down the slope wore a Khaki shirt and cap.
The handkerchief was recognized as the kind used by “Indian Bill” May, and Detectives Brothers and Policeman Abbott were sent to arrest him. They found May and Eugene Cafferty asleep in a moving van in Marlton avenue. “Indian Bill” soon established an alibi.
Detective Schregler and a couple of officers who were sure that the description of the man with the khaki shirt tallied with Duffield started for his brother’s house, but failed to find him there. About this time the downtown auto turned into Twenty-seventh street to get Karl’s father, mother and sister and take them to the hospital. Councilman Finkeldey and a friend shouted to the crew that a woman was down and out on a step nearby, but the crew yelled back that they were on an emergency run and the woman would keep until they returned. Fireman J. H. Vickers walked across the street to investigate and found that the supposed woman was Duffield and that he seemed to be asleep.
Vickers shook him and as he got up he said something about the shooting that aroused Vickers’ curiosity and he ’phoned to Police Headquarters. Captain James immediately notified Chief Gravenor, who was on the scene and the latter sent Detective Moffett to investigate. When Moffett arrived he learned that Duffield had taken a Westfield avenue car. Moffett returned to the bridge and he and Detective Painter and Chief Gravenor took the down-town auto for Duffield’s home.
Painter went to the front door and saw Duffield in the act of taking off his shoes. Moffett in going around to the back door to prevent his escape that way passed by the window at which Duffield was sitting.
Grasping Duffield by the collar Moffett pulled him through the window to the ground. As soon as he landed on his feet, according to the Chief and detectives, Duffield said that Coursey did the shooting.
Placing him in the auto they next drove close to Coursey’s home and with Policeman Potter who knew the man wanted, the detectives entered the house with drawn revolvers while other officers guarded all avenues of escape.
Coursey was found akwake [sic] on a cot and while he was covered with revolvers Detective Painter searched his trunk and found the weapon that he later admitted using. It was empty. The detectives late yesterday afternoon found three used shells adjoining the house near a spot where Coursey said he had thrown them.
In order to keep the men apart they were taken to the City Hall separately and questioned and after they decided to tell all Sergeant E. B. McClong reduced their statements to writing and they signed them. It was on the strength of these statements that Staley was arrested.
Young Kellmann was taken into the hospital at 12.20 a. m. Chief Surgeon Schellenger saw at a glance that there was no hope for him and so notified Captain James, and Sergeant McClong was sent to the hospital to get all information possible.
The unfortunate youth could only speak a few words at a time because of the hemorrhages. All Sergeant McClong was able to get from him was that he was told to hold up his hands and that the shooting instantly began. The only description he could give was that they were small men and that the attack was so sudden that he could not tell whether they were black or white.
The injured young man kept asking the doctors if he was going to die, but they did not answer. He was conscious when his father and mother arrived and then sank rapidly until the end, dying at 1.50 o’clock, 90 minutes after he was admitted. Mother and father were prostrated and were taken home by the up-town auto.
County Physician Jones conducted the autopsy yesterday morning. He said that either wound would have caused death. The bullet in the breast pierced the right lung at the top and lodged in the cavity. It is now in the doctor’s possession. The other bullet went clear through the neck.
Coursey and Duffield have been working in the Pavonia car yard. The former was born in El Paso, Texas, but has lived East nearly all his life. He is an expert shot and was a member of the vaudeville team of Coursey & Cook, according to their letter heads presenting a fifteen-minute thriller.
Duffield was only recently paroled for robbing Gallagher’s saloon, Nineteenth and Federal streets of a lot of drinkables. Staley has been arrested several times on petty charges but was never convicted of crime. When Duffield’s coat was examined at the City Hall, it was found to contain sheep burrs.
To a reporter Coursey said that whenever he was drinking he had to get his gun and shoot something or somebody. He insisted that all were in on the job and that they let the man who preceded Kellman go over the bridge without molestation because he didn’t look as if he had any too much money.
Yesterday morning Assistant Prosecutor Wolverton and Stenographer Cleary called at the City Hall. The prisoners were examined by Mr. Wolverton and their statements taken by Mr. Cleary, but there was little or nothing new elicited.
2817 Sherman Avenue — 5 Star Cab Service
2817 Sherman Avenue — 5 Star Cab Service. Photograph taken August 24, 2011.
Dog Bite Victims
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Two victims of dogs’ teeth were treated at Cooper Hospital yesterday. William Willoughby, aged 3 years, of 2839 Sherman avenue, had his face lacerated, while Edward Nelson, aged 29 years, of 303 Benson street, was bitten on the hand.
U. S. Tire Service
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943
RECAPPING VULCANIZING
Camden, N. J.
DISTRIBUTORS OF U. S. TIRES
The Origin of St. Joseph’s Parish—Continued
In the middle part of the eighteenth century (1744) a celebrated Jesuit, the Reverend Theodore Schneider, D.D. was companion to Father Harding, S.J., at Old St. Joseph’s, Fourth and Willings Alley, Philadelphia. Father Schneider acted as missionary to West Jersey, where he made regular stops at Bound Brook, Burlington, and Gloucester—which then included Camden. Thence he journeyed south to Cohansey (Bridgeton), and Salem, generally winding up at the glass house near Alloway, where he frequently said Mass and baptized at the house of Matthew Geiger. Upon his death in 1765 the Reverend Ferdinand Steynemeyer, better known as “Father Farmer,” took up the labors. He paid frequent visits during English and American troops stationed along the east bank of the Delaware from the revolutionary period to both the Salem to Burlington [sic]. It is also quite certain that Bishop Carroll, on one occasion at least, passed through Camden, but there is no known record of his officiating at any religious services at that time.
After the death of Father Farmer in 1786, the West Jersey missions were visited for several years by priests from St. Joseph’s, but on the organization of St. Augustine’s, July, 1796, they seem to have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the priests of that church. After 1808 and the erection of the Cathedral parish the
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Murphy Auto Body Works
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TWENTY-SEVENTH ST. AND SHERMAN AVE., CAMDEN, N. J.