Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Elm Street


ELM STREET is another of Camden's "tree" streets, running west from the foot of the Delaware River to 11th Street. It was not laid out until after 1850, as it does not appear in the City Directory published for that year. It does appear in the 1863-1864 Camden City Directory. It should be noted that the 300 Block of Elm Street

Do you have an Elm Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

 Phil Cohen


LIFE ON ELM STREET:

Ray Becoskie
on a Shetland Pony,
600 Block of Elm Street,
circa 1950


Foot of & Elm Street, West of Delaware Avenue
   
Photo Taken September 17, 2011 - Click on Image to Enlarge
Photo Taken September 17, 2011 - Click on Image to Enlarge
   

Intersection of Delaware Avenue & Elm Street


Southeast Corner

1910s-1970s
Camden Foundry Company

Top: 1915 Patriotic Sons of America Ad Booklet

Benjamin Holt - Herbert Holt
William B. Cannon

Southeast Corner

1910s-1970s
Camden Foundry Company

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

Southeast Corner

1910s-1970s
Camden Foundry Company

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

Southeast Corner

Camden Foundry Company
1910s-1970s

Photo dated November 9, 1974
by Bob Bartosz

Riverfront State Prison
1980s-2006
Riverfront State Prison
1980s-2006
Intersection of Point Street & Elm Street

Southwest Corner

Warren Webster & Company
1893-1923

Factory as it appeared in 1895. The front door of the factory was on Elm Street.

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  Northeast Corner
600 Point Street

William G. Merkle
saloon
1900s-1910s

Caesar Campana Sr.
Caesar's Grille-Caesar's Sandwich Shop
1936-1943 
Johnny Moore's
1946-1970 

  Northwest Corner
601 Point Street

Peter Campana Family
Caesar Campana Sr.
1910s-1930s

Intersection of North Front Street & Elm Street
  Northwest Corner
521 North Front Street
David Payne
Coal
1880s-1890s

Intersection of North Front Street & Elm Street
1955
West Jersey Paper Manufacturing Company

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad


Unit Block of Elm Street
  Frog Row - 2 to 18 Elm Street
  2 Elm Street

1906

  4 Elm Street

1906

  6 Elm Street

1906

  8 Elm Street

1906

  10 Elm Street

1906

  12 Elm Street

1906

  14 Elm Street

1906

  16 Elm Street

1906

  18 Elm Street

1906


100 Block of Elm Street
  100 Block Street

North Baptist Church
1859-1860s

  106 Elm Street

Vincent A. Tydeman
1947

108-126 Elm Street

Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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  108 Elm Street

Glenmore Stackhouse
1887-1888

Owen Stackhouse
1887-1891
Both were Camden Policemen

  110 Elm Street
  112 Elm Street
  114 Elm Street

1878-1882
George B. Anderson

  116 Elm Street
  118 Elm Street
  120 Elm Street

1912-1920
Frank Breininger & Family
Frank & Sophie Goehringer Breininger
Harry Goehringer (Stepson)
Frances Breininger

Frank Breininger died in August of 1918 from cancer at the age of 57. Sophie G. Breinger died in November of 1920 at the age of 59, also of cancer

My Great-grandmother Sophia Pfeiffer Goehringer Breininger was a busy woman, she had 13 children, six of whom were alive in 1910. They all lived in Camden, NJ from the 1890s into the 1910s on Front Street, where my Grandmother Frances Breininger Wilson was born in that home. By 1914 they moved to 120 Elm Street. After Sophia died son George lived there. Son Frederick Goehringer lived at 126 North 26th Street. Frederick was coal dealer and husker, he or Harry had a horse for husking, and rented or had barn on corner of Front Street. Anna Goehringer Travis Mannes and Al her husband Al lived at 109 North 26th Street.

Jean Kuhn
April 21, 2012 

121-127 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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  121 Elm Street
  122 Elm Street

1880-1883
Rudolph Preisendanz Sr. & Family
Rudolph & Annie Preisendanz
Edward A. Preisendanz

124 Elm Street

1886
William Jones

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 23, 1884

124 Elm Street

1953 James Troiette

Camden Courier-Post
November 6, 1953

125 Elm Street

1922
David Payne & Family
David & Margaret D. Payne

Philadelphia Public Ledger
March 16, 1922

Robert Payne
Samuel D. Payne
Margaret Payne
Broadway School

  126 Elm Street

1923-1927
George Beutler Sr. & Family
Camden Police Officer, died in 1939
George & Grace Beutler
Alma B. Beutler
Gtace Beutler
William L. Beutler
George Beutler Jr.

   
  127 Elm Street
  198 Elm Street
Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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Intersection of North 2nd Street & Elm Street
Northeast Corner
 North 2nd & Elm Street

April 2, 1912

  Northwest Corner
 North 2nd & Elm Street

Imex Corporation
imprinters
1947


200 Block of Elm Street
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200 to 212
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

211 to 231
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

200, 202 & 204
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

200, 202 & 204
 Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

200 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

200 Elm Street

Samuel D. Payne
Payne Print Shop
1920s-1959

200-202 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

  202 Elm Street

Sergeant Max F. Moritz
1940s-1950

Sergeant Moritz was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in action during World War I

  202 Elm Street

William & Ella Hume
1940s-1950s

200-202 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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204 Elm Street

Charles Jefferson "Jeff" Kay
1900s-1910s

  206 Elm Street
  208 Elm Street

1925
Alma C. McGhee

210 Elm Street

Millwood Truscott
1890s

  210 Elm Street

1928-1940
George Beutler Sr. & Family
Camden Police Officer, died in 1939
George & Grace Beutler
Alma B. Beutler
Grace Beutler
William L. Beutler
George Beutler Jr.
Joan Beutler

211 Elm Street

1919-1930
Robert Brice & Family
Robert & Mary Baird Robinson Brice

 

211 Elm Street

1935-1962
Samuel E. Johnson & Family
Acting Chief of Police
Samuel E. & Frederica Johnson

  212 Elm Street
  213 Elm Street
215 Elm Street

1895-1899
Joseph Conley & Family
Jpseph & Mala F. Mollie" Conley
William J. Conley (brother)
Ida E. Conley (sister)
Earl Conley (1892-1893)
Charles Conley (1899-1900)
Ethel Conley (1893-1975)
Margaretta Conley (1896-??)
Edna Conley (1902-1943)
Thomas D. Bradley (father-in-law)

Camden Daily Courier
January 31, 1896

William J. Bradley

  215 Elm Street

1900s-1914
Edward Preisendanz & Family
Edward & Claudia Preisendanz
Annie Preisendanz

  217 Elm Street

1910
Harry Curtis

  217 Elm Street
219 Elm Street

1917 John Daly

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 13, 1917

Newton Avenue
Carteret Street
Elisha Gravenor

 

  221 Elm Street

Joseph A. Vermeeren Family
1920s-1960s

227 & 231
Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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217 to 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

April 18, 2004

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Intersection of North 3rd Street & Elm Street

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  600 North 3rd Street

Pasquale 'Pat' Iarossi

227 & 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

Mancine's Liquor Store

April 18, 2004

227 & 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

Mancine's Liquor Store

April 18, 2004

   

300 Block of Elm Street
  305 Elm Street
310-320 Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 3rd Street

April 18, 2004
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  310 Elm Street
312 Elm Street

1964 Walter Sevens

Camden Courier-Post
December 1, 1964

Keith Kauffman
Louis Ivey
J. Allen Nimmo
John Benson
Edward V. Michalak

 

   
314 Elm Street

1950s-1958
Russell J. Anderson

  316 Elm Street

1915-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. & Rose A. Bradel
Ruth Bradel
Robert Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

My grandparents lived at 316 Elm Street from 1915 to 1965. Their names were Christian James and Rose Alice Bradel. My mother, Ruth Bradel, and uncle Robert Bradel grew up there. My great-grandmother Elizabeth Whistler lived with them until 1946. Jim Bradel worked for the City of Camden as a mechanic and was a well-known baseball player, winning a championship with the Sewell 9.

James Paulus
November 14, 2019

  316 Elm Street
316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Jim Bradel circa 1908, catcher for the undefeated Sewell AC baseball team



316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Robert, Rose Alice & Ruth Bradel,
in back yard of 316 Elm

316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Robert, Rose Alice Bradel & child
in front of 316 Elm, looking at 323 Main Street

316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Robert Bradel, circa 1919
in front of 316 ElmStreet
looking across railroad tracks on Main Street

316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Robert Bradel, circa 1919
in front of 316 Elm Street
looking across railroad tracks on Main Street

316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Left: Christian J. "Jim" Bradel

316 Elm Street

1916-1965
Christian J. "Jim" Bradel & Family
Christian J. "Jim" & Rose Alice Bradel
Robert Bradel
Ruth Elizabeth Bradel
Elizabeth Whistler (mother-in-law)

Camden Courier-Post
July 20, 1948

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  318 Elm Street
320 Elm Street

1910s-1927
Henry Baumgartel
Camden Fire Fighter

320 Elm Street

1929
Harry B. Maxwell
Camden Fire Fighter

  322 Elm Street
  324 Elm Street
  326 Elm Street

 

  328 Elm Street

 


Intersection of North 4th Street, Main Street, & Elm Street
  Elm Street

400 Block of Elm Street
  403 Elm Street
  405 Elm Street

D. Somers Risley
Conveyancer, real estate, and insurance Treasurer- West Jersey Title & Guaranty Company
Sarah Risley
Wallace Risley
1880s-1890s

  407 Elm Street
  408 Elm Street

John A. Rogers
1900s-1910s

  409 Elm Street

William J. Lorigan
1890s

  411 Elm Street
412 Elm Street

1902
Enos W. Roland & Family
Enos & Lorina Roland

Philadelphia Inquirer
October 20, 1902

  413 Elm Street
  414 Elm Street
  415 Elm Street
  416 Elm Street
  418 Elm Street
  420 Elm Street
  422 Elm Street

Intersection of North 5th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

500 Block of Elm Street
510 Elm Street

Elm Theatre

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510 Elm Street

Elm Theatre

Of course that reminds me of the Elm Theatre. Place was about three seats wide and five blocks long. Only it seemed that way!!! 

John Ciafrani
December 2005

  511 Elm Street

1918
Harry Curtis

  511 Elm Street
  512 Elm Street

1885
Andrew Long & Family
Andrew & Elizabeth Long
Lydia Long - J. Walter Long

  513 Elm Street
  514 Elm Street
  515 Elm Street
  516 Elm Street
  517 Elm Street
  518 Elm Street

MRS. HATTIE COTTON

The funeral of Mrs. Hattie Cotton, 49, of 519 Elm Street, who died Thursday, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at Chambers Avenue and Washington Street. Burial will be private in New Camd en Cemetery. Mrs. Cotton was the wife of Frederick Cotton.

519 Elm Street

1933 Frederick & Hattie Cotton

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1933

519 Elm Street

1941
Charels E. Wiley & Family
Charles E. & Lillie Eberly Wiley

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1941

520 Elm Street

1949
Alberta Linthicum

Camden Courier-Post
November 17, 1949

  521 Elm Street

1933 Frank Smith

523 Elm Street

1964
Walter Baker & Family
Walter & Lillian Baker
Hqrry R. Baker
Donald E. Baker
Walter A. Baker
Marie Baker
Alberta Baker
Margaret Baker
Elizabeth Baker Flemming
Lillian Baker Nasuti

Camden Courier-Post
November 1, 1964

  524  Elm Street

1917 David J. Baxter Family
David J. & Leta B. Baxtere
Leta E. Baxter

  525 Elm Street
  526 Elm Street

Thomas Homan
1910s-1920s

  527 Elm Street
  528 Elm Street

Elisha A. Gravenor
1890s-1900s

  529 Elm Street
  530 Elm Street

1900s-1930s
Otto Dreher & Family
Otto & Wilhelmina Dreher
Otto Dreher
William G. Dreher
Henry R. Dreher
Clara Dreher
Minnie Dreher
1900s-1930s

  530 Elm Street

Sergeant Otto Dreher

530 Elm Street

1932 Clara Dreher

Camden Courier-Post
June 11, 1932

  531 Elm Street

1970 Doris Brown

532 Elm Street

1953
James Stewart
Camden Fire Department

Camden Courier-Post
April 3, 1953

Frank A. Oberman
North 7th Street
William Van Pfefferle

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HE'S NOT QUITE CERTAIN

William P. Sweeten, 66, of 1245 Washington Street*, was treated at Cooper Hospital yesterday for cuts of the nose and head after he had been found wan4erlng in the vicinity of Fifth and Royden streets.

Detective Benjamin Simon declared Sweeten told varied incoherent stories of being robbed.

* This is an incorrect address. It does not exist. William Sweeten had lived at 533 Elm Street in the 1920s and early 1930s.

533 Elm Street

1920s-1930s William P. Sweeten

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1933

  533 Elm Street

W. Earl Doan
1940s

  534 Elm Street
  535 Elm Street
  536 Elm Street
  537 Elm Street
  538 Elm Street
  539 Elm Street

MRS. IDA STARLIPER

Funeral services will be held to morrow at 2 p. m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris H. Shinn, 539 Elm Street, for their daughter, Mrs. Ida Starliper, who died Tuesday. Burial will be in Arlington Mausoleum. Mrs. Starliper is also survived by her husband; Robert.

539 Elm Street

1933 Morris H. Shinn

Camden Courier-Post
February 3, 1933

   

Intersection of North 6th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner
538 North 6th Street

John L. Colsey
Dry Goods
1880s-1890s

Arthur Colsey
1880s-1890s
Samuel Molotsky
1947

  Southeast Corner

Northgate II Apartments
1950s-2006


600 Block of Elm Street
  601 Elm Street

1924-1947 Jacob Masner

  606 Elm Street

1924-1929 George H. Gilbert
1947 Mrs. Lulu Gilbert

  608 Elm Street

1924 Mrs. Mqry Pfeil
1929 Warner M. Eutaler
1947 Mrs. Agnes G. Barnt

  609 Elm Street

1924 Mrs. Edna Laurie
1929-1947 Howard L. Jackson
1947 George King

My parents moved to Camden sometime in 1940 which was the year of my birth.  We lived at 829 North Sixth Street until the spring of 1948.  For a few months we lived at 833 North Sixth Street as there was some delay in the closing on the house my parents bought at 609 Elm Street.

 I attended kindergarten at the Cassady School at 3rd and State Streets.  Then I went to first and second grade at the Read School at 5th and York.  From third through sixth grade I attended Northeast School at 7th and Vine.  My younger brother attended Sewell School on the other corner of 7th and Vine.  For junior high I went to Veterans Memorial Jr. High in Cramer Hill.  After that I attended school in Philadelphia.  We moved to Philadelphia in the summer after my junior year in high school.

 We were active members of State Street Methodist Church at Sixth and State Streets.  It was a beautiful and vibrant church in those days.

 My childhood in North Camden was happy and normal.  It was a cohesive community and a place where you didn't worry about your kids when they went outside to play.  I would love to see North Camden return to some of its former status as a good place to live and raise a family.  

Peggy Spencer
December 23, 2009

609 Elm Street

1948-1957
J. Calvin Spencer  & Family

  611 Elm Street

1906
William F. Jaeckel & Family
William F. & Anna Jaeckel
William E. Jaeckel
Mary Jaeckel - Lottie Jaeckel
Albert Jaeckel
Florence Jaeckel

  611 Elm Street

1924 Samuel Hill
1929 Harry Flippen
1929 Samuel Flippen
1947 Mrs. Frances T. Baker

1950s-1964 Ralph Kraemer & Family

  613 Elm Street

1924-1929 William P. Burk

613 Elm Street

1947-1959
George T. Lawrence & Family
George T. & Alda Lawrence
George T. Lawrence
Henry H. Lawrence

Camden Courier-Post
April 26, 1956

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the
Complete News Article

 

613 Elm Street

1947-1963
George T. Lawrence & Family
George T. & Alda Lawrence
George T. Lawrence
Henry H. Lawrence

Camden Courier-Post
August 22, 1959


 

  613 Elm Street

1950s-1964 The Brown Family

  615 Elm Street

1924 Lloyd C. Womer
1929 Mrs. Clara Staron
1947 Paul F. Ackley

615 Elm Street

1947
William Hopkins

 

  615 Elm Street

 

1950s-1964
Charles George & Family

  616 Elm Street

1924 George A. Holmes
1929 Harry Neville
1947 Anthony J. LeComte

  617 Elm Street

1924-1929 Mrs. Marie T. Ryan
1947-1964 J. Eugene Ryan & Family

618 Elm Street

1906 Tenth Ward Republican Club

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 1, 1906 

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618 Elm Street

Private
William Stanley Ablett

  618 Elm Street

1910s-1920s
James John Ablett Family

1924 Harry Neville
1929 Vacant
1947 Benjamin F. Reighn
Trucking

619 Elm Street

1893 George W. Grant

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 11, 1893

  619 Elm Street

1910
Steward D. Bakley & Family
Steward D. & Clara Bakley

1929 Wilfred Conner

619 Elm Street

1924-1943
George D. Harris & Family
George D. & ELizabeth Harris
Donald W. Harris
George D. Harris Jr.
Dorothy M. Harris Willis

Camden Courier-Post
October 28, 1943

The house was subsequently
remodeled into three apartments

  619 Elm Street

1946 Robert J. Grover
1949 Doris Hoffman
1951 Nedra Ohlig
1952 Mrs. Frances McClay Zold

1950s-1964
V.C. Brooks & Family
Carol "Cookie" Brooks
Jackie Brooks 

  620 Elm Street

1924-1929 Ralph C. Madden
1947 Ralph C. Madden Jr.

621 Elm Street

Joseph M. Vanhekle & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 20, 1894

  621 Elm Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947 Charles E. Eicholtz
1950s-1960s The Ashburn Family

  622 Elm Street

1924-1929 Walter J. Barnes
1947 Mrs. Lulu Barnes

  623 Elm Street

1924-1929 Mrs. Margaret Hanlon
1947 Calvin Patterson
1947 Ellis Jones
1950s-1960s The Seeds Family

  624  Elm Street

1924-1929 Courtland J. Laughead
1947 Mrs. Melissa Laughead

  625 Elm Street

Raymond C. Frech

  625  Elm Street

1924-1929 Patience S. Miller

My name is Raymond H. Becoskie. I was born and raised in Camden, from 1947 to 1963. Northgate 2 took our house. I lived at 510 North 7th Street. My Grand Parents Hugh & Cathrine Kennedy AKA as the "Camden Window Washer Man" lived at 625 Elm Street and my Aunt Catherine Kennedy lived on Pearl Street between 6th & 7th Streets. My first friends lived on Birch Street. One of my fondest memories was of the corner confectionary store on 7th & Birch known then as "Benny's". Never knew his real name. I attended Holy Name, Pyne Point and Woodrow Wilson Schools. I have a picture of me on the same Pony that Albert Bass from 6th Street, that had his picture taken on State Street on your site. Roy & Albert Bass were good friends of mine.

Ray Becoskie
April 29, 2010

625 Elm Street

1947
Hugh J. Kennedy & Family
Hugh J. & Catherine Kennedy
Catherine Kennedy

   

  626  Elm Street

1924 Felix J. Donnelly
1929 Edward J. Duffield
1947 Lyman Giberson

  627 Elm Street

Dr. V.R. Stone
1890s

  627  Elm Street

1924 Esther Tillinghast
1929 Mrs. Mary Tillinghast
1947 Esther Tillinghast

  628 Elm Street

1924-1945
Hubert V. Purvis & Family
Hubert V. & Margaret Purvis
Richard Connell
Michael Connell
Hubert Connell
James V. Connell

628 Elm Street

1921-1945
Hubert V. Purvis & Family
Hubert V. & Margaret Purvis
Richard Connell
Michael Connell
Hubert Connell
James Connell

James V. Connell & Family
James V. & Lillian Connell

Camden Courier-Post
August 15, 1945

628 Elm Street

1932 Hubert Connell

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1932

Lt. James V. Connell, 32, whose wife, Lillian, lives at 628 Elm Street, has returned from overseas service as a flight surgeon in the Okinawa campaign.

628 Elm Street

1945  Mrs. Lillian Connell

Camden-Courier-Post
August 15, 1945

  628 Elm Street

1947 Mrs. Margaret Purvis

629 Elm Street

1920 Census Sheet
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1910- mid 1962
James J. Hopkins & Family 
James J. & Marguerite Hopkins
William A. Hopkins
8 other children

1947 Mrs. Marguerite Hopkins
1959 James Hopkins

  630 Elm Street

1924 Harry Rechtenbach
1929 Vacant
1947 Helen Bowers

  631 Elm Street

1924-1929 Mrs. Albertina Selm
1947 Francis McNulty

632 Elm Street

1917 Tolbert McKenna

Philadelphia Inquier
July 3, 1917

Westfield Avenue
Clinton Street

  632 Elm Street

1924-1929 Albert Hammond
1947 Guido Menaquale

  633 Elm Street

1924-1929 Charles A. Mathis
1947 Mrs. Ida V. Hill

  634 Elm Street

1924 Frank C. Davis
1929 Frank Battafarano
1947-1964 Raymond J. Dolan

  635 Elm Street

1924-1947 Mortimer L. Nottebrock

  636 Elm Street

1910s-1947
Conrad Hoer

  637 Elm Street

1924-1947 Bowman H. Shivers

  638 Elm Street

1924-1929 John C. Shissler
1947 John C. Shissler Jr.
1947 Charles Shissler

  639 Elm Street

1910-1920
Hubert V. Purvis & Family
Hubert V. & Margaret Purvis
Richard Connell
Michael Connell
Hubert Connell
James V. Connell

  639 Elm Street

1924-1929 Thomas Carroll
1947 Thomas F. Richter

641 Elm Street

1900s-1942
Albert York & Family
Ms. Caroline York (mother)
Bertha York (sister)

641 Elm Street

1947 Mrs. Julienne Callahan
1947 Edwin I. Callahan

  643 Elm Street

1924 Harry Cattell
1929 Harry W. Ross
1947 Mrs. Sarah A. Powers

  645 Elm Street

1924-1929 Harvey J. Cannon

1930s-1947
Frank & Emma Wandsleben
1930s
Joe "Joe Wandy" Wandsleben
1947 Mrs. Ida L. Wandsleben

  600-638 Elm Street

Everything standing on the south side of the 600 block of Elm Street was razed in the 1960s so that Northgate II could be built.


Intersection of North 7th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner

Northgate II Apartments
1950s-2006


700 Block of Elm Street
  706 Elm Street
  708 Elm Street
  709 Elm Street
  710 Elm Street
  711 Elm Street
  712 Elm Street
  713 Elm Street
714 Elm Street

1956
George Sanders

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1956

  715 Elm Street
  716 Elm Street
  717 Elm Street
718 Elm Street

1906 Harry Steelman

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 1906

  719 Elm Street
  720 Elm Street
  721 Elm Street
  722 Elm Street
  723 Elm Street
  724  Elm Street
  725 Elm Street
  726 Elm Street

1913-1914
Edward F. Allen

  727 Elm Street
  728 Elm Street
  729 Elm Street
  730 Elm Street
HERBERT DUFFIELD

Herbert Duffield, 44, of 731 Elm Street, employed as an instrument maker at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, died yesterday in West Jersey hospital. He had lived in Camden all his life. He is survived by his widow, Hilda. Funeral services will be held Thursday, p.m., at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray & Son, 408 Cooper Street. Burial will be in New Camden cemetery.

731 Elm Street

1938 Herbert Duffield

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1938

731 Elm Street

1941 John Clark

Camden Courier-Post
July 29, 1941

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  732 Elm Street
  733 Elm Street
734 Elm Street

1922-1948
Edward C. Rochester & Family
painter
Edward C. & Elizabeth J. Rochester
Edward L.  Rochester
Lucy Rochester
Elizabeth  Rochester
Robert Lloyd "Floyd" Rochester
Evelyn Rochester
Frederick Rochester

Top Left: Edward C. Rochester

Camden Courier-Post
June 18, 1932

North 4th Street
Rev. Joseph Rigney

  735 Elm Street
  736 Elm Street
  737 Elm Street
  739 Elm Street

Intersection of North 8th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner
547 North 8th Street

Litwin's Market
1940s-1960s

  Southwest Corner
801 Elm Street

Litwin Brothers' Market
1960s-2000s


800 to 814 Elm Street
  801 Elm Street

Litwin Brothers' Market
1960s-2000s

  803 Elm Street
804 Elm Street

Photograph taken December 11, 2011

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  805 Elm Street

1938
J. Edward Jacques

806 Elm Street

 

Photograph taken
December 11, 2011

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  807 Elm Street
  808 Elm Street
  809 Elm Street
  809 Elm Street

1914-1918
Isaac Lovett & Family
Isaac & Emeline Lovett

810 Elm Street

1906-1940
William H. Dole Jr. & Family
William H. & Annie Dole
Elizabeth Dole - Abbie Dole
William H. Dole Sr. (father)

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1932

Margaret Baxter - Irene Willits
Eleanor Bush - Ruth Beech
Beatrice Beech - Frances Warren
Bernice Reihmann

  811 Elm Street
  812 Elm Street
813 Elm Street

1918
F.G. Walls

Philadelphia
Inquirer
April 15, 1918

  814 Elm Street

Intersection of Willard Street & Elm Street
   

815 to 831 Elm Street
  815 Elm Street
  816 Elm Street
  817 Elm Street
  818 Elm Street
6 PERSONS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
2 Hurt as Car Collides With Truck; Pedestrian Hit in Merchantville

Three women and two men were injured in automobile accidents over the weekend. 

Herbert C. Bloxson, 29, of 123 Linden street, Woodlynne, suffered a fractured left hand, and Gertrude Lutz, 51, of 19 Apple avenue, Bellmawr, received a fractured left arm and face cuts when the car Bloxson was driving was in collision with a truck at Ferry avenue and Charles street. Wilmer Blake, 24, of 716 Walnut street, driver of the truck, was held in $500 bail on a charge of driving with a student's permit and no licensed driver with him.

Mildred Brown, 28, of 767 Federal street, and William Edwards, 50, of 819 Elm street, suffered cuts when the car in which they were riding struck an abutment of a railroad bridge over Haddon avenue at Line street. Walter H. Holler, 40, of 884 Beideman avenue was the driver, police said.

Mrs. Katherine Sharp, of 70 West Walnut avenue, Merchantville, suffered shock, concussion and bruises when she was struck by an automobile at Gilmore and Walnut avenues, Merchantville, last night. She was admitted to Cooper Hospital. Pennsauken police said William D. Plough, of Newark, Del., drove the car.

819 Elm Street

1938 William Edwards

Camden Courier-Post
February 14, 1938

 

  819 Elm Street

1947 

  820 Elm Street

1910 L. Darby Hyde

820 Elm Street

1938
Mrs. Florence Jordan & Family

Camden Courier-Post
February 18, 1938

820 Elm Street

Fred Rossi
aka
Pee Wee Ross
1940s

  821 Elm Street

House was damaged on December 18, 1989 by arson fire originating at 827 Elm Street 

  822 Elm Street

1910 Maurice Geist

  823-825 Elm Street

 1931-February 1938
Wesleyan Methodist Church
1941-1947
Bible Presbyterian Church

  823-825 Elm Street

1968 Bible Tabernacle Church

Original church destroyed on December 18, 1989 by arson fire that originated at 827 Elm Street 

823-825 Elm Street

2004-2012
Camden Bible Tabernacle

Photograph taken December 11, 2011

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  824 Elm Street

1910 William Dolan

  826 Elm Street

 

827 Elm Street

1914-1915
William Baker Wells

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 27, 1914

827 Elm Street

1989 Daisy Donchez

Camden Courier-Post
December 18, 1989

  828 Elm Street

1910 William Hulme


Intersection of Linwood Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

832 to 844 Elm Street
  829 Elm Street

1893-1908
Dr. David Fuller Bentley Sr. & Family
Camden police Department, physician, drugstore
David F. & Louise Bentley 
Dr. David F. Bentley Jr. - Jules Bentley
May Bentley -Edith Bentley

  830 Elm Street

1910
Absalom Smith Hetzel Sr. & Family
Absalom S. & Lizzie Hetzel
Absalom S. Hetzel Jr. 
Mary F. Hetzel

  830 Elm Street

1910s-1920s
John Lord Kaighn & Family
John R. Kaighn
Lewis S. Kaighn
1910s-1920s

831 Elm Street

1930 Arthur J. Hans
Joseph Hans
Harry Wilhelm

Camden Courier-Post
December 9, 1930

Howard Smith
Albert Shires

  832 Elm Street

1910 Edwin Hankin
1910 Jarrett Willits

  833 Elm Street

1903-1910
Isaac Lovett & Family
Isaac & Emeline Lovett

  833 Elm Street

1929 Arthur J. Hans

833 Elm Street

1980s
Doña Tita Candelaria & Family
Nereida Candelaria
Julio Candelaria
Tata Candelaria
Carmin Candelaria
Maribel "Chiquita"  Candelaria
Amparo Candelaria
Olga Candelaria
Lucy Candelaria
Virginia Candelaria

  834 Elm Street

1910 Charles Marshall

  835 Elm Street
  836 Elm Street

1910 Albert C. Long
1947-1977 George E. Houck

  837 Elm Street
  838 Elm Street

1910
J. Marshall Boileau & Family
J. Marshal & May C, Boileau
Oliver C. Boileau
Harry Boileau
Dorothy Boileau

  839 Elm Street

Neil Deighan
Richard Deighan
1910s-1920s

839 Elm Street

Private John T. Deighan

840 Elm Street

Private First Class
Robert E. Watkins

Pilot William M. Bredell was married to Miss Claudine Hulker, at 841 Elm Street, on Wednesday evening, by Rev. James W. Marshall, D.D., of Broadway M.E. Church.

841 Elm Street

1898 Claudine Hulker
1898 Wilson A. Pierson

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 6, 1898

THIEVES ROB BAKERY AND GROCERY STORE

While bakers were at work in an other part of the building, thieves entered the bakery of William Spengel, 825 Broadway, at 6.30 a. m. yesterday and stole $18 from a cash drawer. The theft was discovered when an employee, about to give change to a customer, found the money gone.

Thieves who entered the grocery store of Herman Kaimowitz, Ninth and Elm Streets, during the night, tore a pay telephone station from the wall and took it with them. A quantity of cigarettes also was stolen.

The windshield from the automobile of Earl Calhoun, Haddon Heights, was stolen while the machine was parked on Broadway near Market Street.

841 Elm Street

Hyman P. Kalmowitz
(also spelled Karmowitz & Kaimowitz)
Grocery
1933-1947

Courier-Post
June 29, 1939

JOHN W. PETERS

Funeral services for John W. Peters, 64, of 842 Elm Street, who died last Saturday in Cooper Hospital. will be held tomorrow, 2 p. m., at 453 South Sixth Street. He was a resident of Camden all his life. Surviving are his widow. Mary, two sons, John W. Jr., and William, four daughters; Mrs. Wallace Phifer, Mrs. John Stipps, Miss Anna Peters and Miss Anna Vandergrift, and a brother, William Peters. Burial will be in New Camden Cemetery.

842 Elm Street

John W. Peters
1938

Courier-Post
February 9, 1938

  844 Elm Street

Intersection of North 9th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Intersection of Ray Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

914 to 928 Elm Street
  914 Elm Street
  916 Elm Street

1920
George E. Jones & Family
George E. & Susan Sweeney Jones
Georgianna Jones - Myrtle Jones
Charles Jones - Grace Jones

James O. Jones

  918 Elm Street
  920 Elm Street
  922 Elm Street
  923 Elm Street
  924 Elm Street
  925 Elm Street
  926 Elm Street

1929 Edward Chambers

Use of 'Cheaters' Fails to Deceive Judge's Memory

The changeable eyesight of chronic offenders doesn't fool Police Judge Gene R. Mariano one bit.

Two men arrested as drunk and disorderly tried It In police court today but didn't get to first base. Instead, they got jail terms.

Several weeks ago Wesley Pigwood, 44, of 2390 Farragut Avenue, received a suspended sentence. Yesterday he appeared before Judge Mariano wearing smoked glasses.

"You can't fool me," Mariano said. "You were arrested three weeks ago and I gave you a chance. Now you’ll go to jail for 30 days."

Henry Brownson, 58, of 926 Elm Street, tried the same trick, with reverse English. Wearing glasses, he received a suspended sentence several weeks ago. Yesterday without glasses, he was haled before the court again. Mariano recognized him and sentenced him to 15 days.

926 Elm Street

1938 Henry Brownson

Camden Courier-Post
February 1, 1938

  926 Elm Street

1947 Arthur A. Olsson
Albert Olsson
George A. Ollson

  927 Elm Street
  928 Elm Street

Intersection of Borton Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

929 to 947 Elm Street
  929 Elm Street
  930 Elm Street
  931 Elm Street
  932 Elm Street
  933 Elm Street
  934 Elm Street
  935 Elm Street
936 Elm Street

Woodrow & Marie Fairess
1937-April 1943

Shirley, Marie, Woody, Warren
and Bud Fairess
Location unknown, 1951

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  936 Elm Street
  937 Elm Street
  938 Elm Street
939 Elm Street

1918
William Baker Wells

World War I Draft Card

 

 

1939 William McSparrin
1947 James McSparrin

940 Elm Street

 

1930 William Whalen

Camden Courier-Post
June 4, 1930

941 Elm Street

1913
Howard L. "Reds" Padgett

941 Elm Street

1914-1954
Frank Sheridan & Family
author, reporter
Frank & Anna Sheridan
Anna Sheridan - David Sheridan
Edward Sheridan

Camden Post-Telegram
October 16, 1916

942 Elm Street

1955 Samuel Roork

Camden Courier-Post
October 4, 1955

Leonard Krause
Vine Street
Walter Szalanski

  943 Elm Street
  944 Elm Street
  945 Elm Street
  947 Elm Street

1920s-1960s
Frank Oberman & Family
Camden Fire Department
Frank & Emily Oberman

1920s-1959
Harry Kleinfelder
Camden Fire Department

947 Elm Street

1920s-1960s
Frank Oberman & Family
Camden Fire Department
Frank & Emily Oberman

1920s-1959
Harry Kleinfelder
Camden Fire Department

Camden Courier-Post
April 3, 1953

James Stewart
North 7th Street

William Van Pfefferle

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Intersection of North 10th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Intersection of North 11th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Chief of Department Edward Michalak steps back and takes a look at the "big picture" as heavy smoke pushed out of a cockloft area on a row of occupied dwellings in the 500 block of Elm Street. Fire occurred on May 31, 1967 and required a 3rd Alarm to control. Photo Courtesy of Bob Bartosz.


600 Block of Elm Street - July 4, 1972

"Master streams from street level go into service ion upper floors of fire dwellings, as "Truckies" in background prepare for main ladder service. Units operating at front of properties in above photo are Engine Company 1 and Ladder Company 3. Apparatus appearing in photo is a "Reserve series Ladder" on loan to the Camden Fire Department from the City of Brotherly Love. Fire occurred on 4 July 1972 at 6th and Elm Streets on Camden's North Side, and damaged ten dwellings before being confined, a Second Alarm for Box #1213 was required to control this worker." Photo Courtesy of R. Bartosz.

"Above photo clearly illustrates magnitude of fire at rear of properties in the 600 block of Elm Street on 4 July, 1974.  A common cockloft and a "good start" were responsible for the above scene, which produced a tough service for all hands involved. Fire resulted in one civilian death and numerous injuries to members." Photo courtesy of R. Bartosz"


Camden Courier-Post - February 6, 1934

BANDIT'S BULLET HALTS PURSUERS
Two Youths Escape After
Robbing North Camden Grocery Store

A bullet whizzing past them caused several men to cease pursuit of two bandits on Elm street near Ninth Saturday night after the pair had obtained $18.75 in the holdup of a grocery store proprietor at 841 Elm Street.

The victim was Herman Kalmowitz, whose store was broken into and robbed twice recently. Kacmowitz said the two youths, about 17 years old, entered and asked for candy. When he started to get it, one pointed a pistol at him and demanded that he "stick 'em up."

While the one "covered" him the with the weapon, the other robbed the cash register. As they fled, Kalmowitz ran after them screaming. His alarm attracted the attention of several men passing, who started in pursuit of the bandits east on Elm  street. One fired a pistol, however, and the men abandoned the chase.

The youths were about five feet five, Kalmowitz said, and wore gray caps. One had a dark gray overcoat and the other's was a light gray.

Detectives Joseph Carpani and Sylvester McGrath are investigating.

A purse-snatching and theft of a leather bag from an automobile also were reported to police. The theft of brass and copper fittings also is under investigation with a 17-year-old youth under arrest.

Anna Whiteman, 16, 1606 Pershing Street, reported that two boys, about 15, snatched her purse containing $1 while she walked with a companion, Ada Hans, 16, of 1342 Lansdowne Avenue, on Lansdowne near Norris Street. She pursued the boys but was compelled to give up the chase when she slipped and fell.

A black leather bag was stolen from the car of Frank Grotaski, of Cape May, parked Saturday night at Fifth and Arch Streets. The door of the car was forced open. The empty bag, minus clothes and letters it had contained, was found later by two boys in an alley on South Sixth street, near Stevens.

At liberty, under $500 bail, George Dotterer, 17, of 928 North Twenty-fourth street, is charged with larceny, although the brass and copper fittings he is suspected of stealing have not been identified as to ownership.

Dotterer was arrested by Patrolman Herbert Bott when the youth asked for aid in recovery of the fittings from a junk man to whom he had "sold" the goods. He said the man, George Elliott, of Twenty-fourth and Pierce avenue, kept the fittings and refused to pay him.

Bott presumed after examining the fittings "they could not have been picked up as junk" and arrested the youth in the belief they had been stolen from the Pavonia railroad shops. Detective Sergeant Joseph Tully declared the fittings had not been stolen from the shops. The boy is to face Police Judge Garfield Pancoast this morning.


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