Tag: West Jersey Hospital
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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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Harry Gleason (via SABR)
On the surface, Harry Gleason’s career wasn’t noteworthy. But there’s so much more to Gleason’s story.
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West Jersey Hospital
West Jersey Hospital opened in 1885, for the purpose of giving relief to the sick who were poor. It bore the name of “Camden Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary Association,” and was the first successful attempt in Camden to establish an institution which would offer treatment to “worthy persons unable to employ a Homeopathic physician.” It…
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Robert T. Abbott
ROBERT T. ABBOTT was born in Salem, New Jersey on March 21, 18689 to Benjamin P. Abbott and his wife, the former Beulah Horner. The family moved to the Wrightsville section of Stockton Township, what is now Camden, in the 1870s. The 1880 Census shows the family consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Abbott, Robert, and…
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Kathryn H. Trado, Singer in Vaudeville
Mrs. Trado used the stage name "Kay Hamilton" as a singer who won her fame in vaudeville, touring from Boston to Chicago.
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Woman’s Scream Routs Robber
A woman’s screams and the outcries of her two frightened children drove off a robber choking her in bed early Thursday morning.
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Robert Abbott Dies, Ex Policeman Here
Camden Courier-Post – February 8, 1939 Robert Abbott, 73, retired Camden police sergeant and brother of William S. Abbott, former member of the Board of Education, died yesterday at West Jersey Hospital after a week’s illness of pneumonia. He had been retired since 1921.
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4 Hurt as Auto Strikes Pole Strewing Live Wires on Road
Camden Courier-Post – Feburary 4, 1938 Four persons in a small coupe were injured last night when the machine crashed into a pole at Seventeenth Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard during a dense fog. The car broke off a telephone pole at the base, strewing live wires on the highway. Traffic was detoured until the…
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Wife Slain by Jagged Glass, Husband Held
Camden Courier-Post – June 26, 1933 Accident Hoax Broken by Cops after Grilling Family; Friend On Deathbed, She Orders 4 Children to Say She Fell on Stairs Command Arouses Concealed Detectives Woman Slashed by Broken Decanter; Man Faces Murder Charge Today A death-bed command of a South Camden mother to her four children to stick…
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Stricken by Food in Camden Factory
Nearly 100 Camden factory and shipyard workers were poisoned yesterday after eating food contained in box lunches.
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Partial List of Poisoned
A partial list of the nearly 100 persons poisoned by food at local factories yesterday follows…
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Employee Charges E.C. Cades with Attempt to Kill
Walter Devlin testified yesterday that Edwin Cades invited him out for an automobile ride, alighted somewhere to look at a soft tire and struck him on the head.