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ALFRED
"JAKE" ARENSBERG was in Camden, New Jersey on August
19, 1912, one of at least 11 children born to Joseph and Ida
Arensberg, the older children being Herman, Louis, Ernestine,
Louis, Johanna (Hannah), Julius, and Henrietta. The Arensbergs
had come to Camden from Pennsylvania shortly after the 1906 City
Directory was compiled. The family was living at 2737 Arthur
Avenue in Cramer
Hill when the 1910 Census was enumerated, and were still at
that address in 1914. That year's City Directory listed Joseph
Arensberg's occupation as "buttonhole maker". By 1920
he was working as a tailor in a department store. The Census for
that year shows five more children in the Arensberg family-
Sabina, Alfred, Emil, Adolph, and Natalie. The family was still
at the Arthur
Avenue address in April of 1930, although by this time only
five children were still at home, Johanna, 24 and still
unmarried, Alfred, 18 and working as an assembler in a radio
shop, and the three younger children.
In
1935 Alfred Arensberg, known to one and all as Jake, had married
Florence Marlowe. There were four children of this marriage,
Bonnie, Joseph, Alan, and Richard. By 1943 they were living at
874 Beideman Avenue in Cramer
Hill, and would remain here into the 1980s. His widowed
mother and sister were still at the Arthur
Avenue address, while brothers Emil and Julius were also
still living in Cramer
Hill. Alfred Arensberg was working as shipfitter at the New
York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards when the 1943 Camden
City Directory was compiled. He later worked for the Langston
Company, which had
originated in Camden before moving to Cherry Hill, retiring
after 29 years service with the firm.
Cramer
Hill had a great sports tradition. In the early 1950s along with
Bill Flemming, Rocco
Nasuti, and others, Jake Arensberg co-founded the Cramer
Hill Boys Club. The impact and importance of the Cramer Hill
Boys Club in Cramer
Hill during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s cannot be
understated.
His
son, Joseph Arensberg
joined the Camden Fire Department in January of 1961. The following
November, his wife Patricia bore a son, Douglas. Douglas
Arensberg joined the Fire Department as an apparatus
mechanic in 1982. Sadly, Douglas
Arensberg passed away on
January 22, 1996.
Jake
and Florence
Arensberg family had
moved from Camden by 1977 to Maple Shade, New Jersey. His later
years were spent in Marlton and in Indian Mills, New Jersey.
Jake Arensberg passed away in April of 2007, joining his wife of
70 years and son Richard, who had died in 2000.
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