Camden People - George B. Johnson

GEORGE B. JOHNSON was born in August 14, 1862, He served as a Camden policeman for over 20 years. He was appointed to the department in 1899 by Mayor Cooper B. Hatch, and retired on pension in 1920.

George B. Johnson sent his career patrolling the comparatively quiet North and South Rosedale neighborhoods of Camden. In his twenty-plus years of service with the Camden Police Department, he never made a single arrest, but was highly respected and had been promoted to sergeant in 1914.

George B. Johnson was married to Frances Parker Johnson, who died in 1911. The marriage produced two children, daughter Ethel Johnson in 1891 and son Parker N. Johnson in 1892.

George B. Johnson made his home at 220 North 37th Street from 1900 until at least 1940. George B. Johnson passed away after an illness of two years on September 18, 1942.

*Here's Camden's Finest, With Whiskers, in 1898*
Camden Courier-Post - July 15, 1930	William A. Schregler William "Rex" Comley Jules Bosch John Foster Samuel Dodd H. Franklin Pettit Harry Mines Edward Hartman Charles Wilbur Thomas Brothers Ralph Bond John Dall George Kappell Josiah Sage Edward S. Hyde William Selby Elbridge B. McClong Edward Powell John Sinclair William Laird Benjamin Middleton Alfred L. Sayers John Anderson William Butts John Painter Frank Matlack Thomas Hicks Alfred Hayden Abe Jackson Albert Shaw Edward Steen Samuel Bakley Caleb Williams Elisha A. Gravenor Thomas Buchanan Samuel Cox George Horner Godfrey Eisenhardt Harry Curtis George B. Johnson John Barnett Casper Hart Charles Fitzsimmons A. Lincoln James J. Oscar Weaver Sr. Charles Ridgely William Fish George Cooper


Harry Mines, not named above, is in the first row between H. Frank Petttit and Edward Hartman. In the fifth row, at the far right, "John Barnett" was a guess on the part of A. Lincoln James. Another person guessed George Johnson. Both were wrong and it is not known who that policeman is.

*Camden Post-Telegram June 23, 1908**

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William E. Albert - Allen J. Palmer - George B. Johnson - Anson Nicholson - William C. Horner

Camden Post-Telegram
June 24, 1911

North 37th Street

	Camden Post-Telegram November 25, 1910 Josiah Pedigree - Mrs. Katie Conner Howell Street - Nicholas Donahoe Federal Street - George B. Johnson

*Camden Daily Courier May 10, 1920**

Thomas S. Reed - George B. Johnson - Edmund Pike - Walter Welch - Jesse Pratt Cooper B. Hatch - Charles H. Ellis