Category: Historical Accounts
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 3
SOCIETY MANUFACTURING COMPANY 28 MARKET STREET In the production of fine grocers’ specialties, no trade mark has become more familiar with the higher class of the trade than that which bears the trademark “Society,” which is practically synonymous with purity, high quality, and artistic make up, in the preparation of the goods placed upon the…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 2
J. B. VAN SCIVER & CO. This firm occupy a handsome building on the corner of Delaware avenue and Federal street. It is of mammoth proportions and is visible along the whole river front. Furniture of all descriptions, from the plain and substantial to the aesthetic, artistic and costly, are to be found in its…
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1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey – Part 1
1890 Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey – Intro The Historical and Industrial Review of Camden, New Jersey was commissioned and published by Camden’s Board of Trade, a forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce. NEW YORK: COMMERCIAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1890 The Camden City Board of Trade In recognition of the serious detriment to…
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Regimental History – NJ 24th Infantry
This regiment was mustered into the U. S. service at Camp Cadwalader, Beverly, Sept. 16, 1862.
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History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. John L. Lenhart went down with the ill-fated USS Cumberland, while Reverand Samuel Y. Monroe met his death by falling from a train.
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John H. Dialogue – Shipbuilding Pioneer on the Delaware River
His father, Adam, had invented and manufactured the riveted leather fire hose found in pictures of horsedrawn firewagons racing through city streets.
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Former Lumber Yard Site in Camden, New Jersey Now An Historic Place
Initially, the vast amount of sawdust produced by the numerous Camden saw mills created logistical problems.
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Descendants
Dr. Paul Mecray was at the Mayo Clinic when my Mother was with Dr. John Stokes. If it is the same person, he married an heiress to the Anheuser-Busch fortune.
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Remembering Camden – Hotel Walt Whitman
Helen Keller said she felt the vibrations of my voice and knew what I looked like by feeling my face.
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Remembering Camden – Casselman Family
William S., Jr. worked in the bank, Mark became a lawyer and had his offices on Market Street. Paul was an engineer and worked at the Franklin Institute. The ejection seat for pilots in Army planes was his idea, although I don’t think he ever took (got) the credit.
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Since
Today, as I write in 1942, the Company is enlisted for the duration of the war producing Ordnance for the United States Army.
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His Great Hour
On the evening of June 23rd, the Organization tendered Warren Webster a testimonial dinner at the Walt Whitman Hotel. It was an exceptionally happy and impressive affair…;