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George
Osler was born in Pennsylvania around 1841 to Charles and Luvinia
Osler. The family moved to Camden soon after he was born, and had
locatged in Camden's North Ward by 1850. Charles Osler supported
his family by working as a steamboat engineer, in time, George
Osler would follow him in this profession. The 1860 Census shows
the Oslers living in the North Ward. Besides George, the family
included younger siblings Clark, Silenia, Henry, Hannah,
Wilhelmina, and Caroline Osler. George Osler married in the 1860s,
and a son, Walter Osler, was born around 1867. George Osler was
working as a slip tender at the Cooper's Point Ferry in the summer
of 1869. By the following year he had begun working as an
engineer.
When
George Osler was appointed to the Fire Department, no address was
entered into department records. City Directories indicate that
he was living at 432 Lawrence Street in 1879. The 1880 Census shows the Osler family at 129
Mickle
Street. By this time the Oslers had four more children at home
besides Walter, Elizabeth, Harry, Reva, and Addie Osler. By
1883 the ferry at the foot of Federal
and Market
Streets had been acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad. City
Directories indicate that the railroad would be George Osler's
employer and he would work the ferries the rest of his working
days. He was living at 221 Broadway when the 1883-1884 Directory
was compiled, and at 918 Market
Street in 1884 and 1885. The 1887-1888 directory gives
his address as 200 Washington
Street. By the end of 1888 he had moved to 457 Berkley
Street. The
1890-1891 Directory shows that he had moved to Stockton, that is,
to what became East
Camden in 1899. The address listed is "Penn Avenue near 25th,
Cramer Hill", this street was renamed Howell
Street after the 1899 annexation of Stockton by Camden. The
Directories from 1892-1893 through 1894-1895 give an address of
420 Trenton
Avenue for George Osler. He stayed at 835 Linden
Street in 1896, and he was at 28 North
26th Street in Stockton when the 1897 edition was compiled.
The 1898 Directory indicates that George Osler was living with his
parents at 214 Arch
Street. The
1900 Census shows George Osler, a widower, living at 76 South
24th Street in East
Camden with his daughter Reva, her husband John Knecht and son
Harry. George OSler was still working as an engineer at the time
of the census. George
W. Osler is not listed in the 1906 Camden City Directory or 1910
Census, but is listed in the 1910 City Directory at 32 Morse
Street in East Camden. He is not listed in the 1914 Directory
or the 1918-1919 Directory.
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