Tag: First Presbyterian Church
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Bowman Hendry McCalla
Rear Admiral Bowman H. McCalla was born and raised in Camden, founding the Perseverance Fire Company in 1832 and marrying General MacArthur’s sister.
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Carol Sampson Feaster – Oral History
..So she sat me down with a soup bowl full. Well, I just looked at the dish and upchucked all over. And she said,” You can go.
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Old Cooper Street
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden’s earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County – Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
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A Brief History of the Camden Home for Children & SPCC
THE CAMDEN HOME FOR CHILDREN is an institution located on Haddon Avenue, above Mount Vernon, the object and design of which is to afford a home, food, clothing and schooling for destitute friendless children, and, at a suitable age, to place them with respectable families to learn some useful trade or occupation. The home was…
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Aitken Funeral to be on Wednesday
Camden Courier-Post – October 16, 1933 The funeral of William C. Aitken, 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
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W.C. Aitken Dies at 87, One Time Builder
The funeral of William C. Aitken, 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Aitken was one of the best known builders of his day. He erected more than 200 houses, principally on Cooper street, He built rows on both sides of…
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Police in a Church
Chief of Police John Foster, Captains Stanley, Boyle and Alberts, seventy policemen and Colonel D. B. Murphy, the police drill instructor, marched in a body from the Third Regiment Armory in Camden to Broadway M. E. Church last evening to attend divine service. A number of city firemen, trolley conductors and motormen were also in…
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The Year 1846 – Camden, NJ
The First Presbyterian Church effected a permanent organization on June 25, 1846. The West Jersey Presbytery had organized the church on September 27, 1840, but owing to a lack of funds to build a church edifice the project was temporarily abandoned in December of 1841.