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JOHN FOSTER was a noted policeman in Camden in the 1890s. Born in Bloomfield NJ in 1859, his parents moved to Camden in 1861. He attended school in Camden, before going to work as a hatter at the age of 17. When the Census was taken in 1880 John Foster had married Mary Hanle. The couple lived at 702 South 3rd Street, and were the parents of a daughter, Louisa, not quite a year old. At least three more children would follow before Mrs. Foster passed in the spring of 1894. John Foster continued working as a hatter until 1888. Active in local Republican politics, he became a member of the Camden police force when the Republicans swept into office in a landslide that year. The Foster family by then was living at 345 Pine Street. John Foster was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on March 12, 1892, and was put in charge of the southern part of Camden, solving many notable cases and making numerous arrests. Like most other Republicans, he was dismissed by the thoroughly partisan Police Commission in March of 1893, but was returned to the Department at his rank the following year, when the Commission was, in its second year of existence, disbanded. John Foster was appointed Chief of Police in 1899, succeeding long-time Chief Samuel Dodd. That year's City Directory shows him residing at 247 Pine Street In 1895 John Foster served as the
first Exalted Ruler of Camden
Lodge 293 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Other
charter members included Frank
A. Ward, Charles L. Bowman, Dr.
A. Haines Lippincott,
Dr. J. F. Leavitt, Fred W. George, T. L. Bear,
William M. Fithian, Everett Ackley, Fithian S. Simmons, Philip Wilson,
Paul E. Quinn, John N. Kadel, William G. Maguire, Frank B. Sweeten
and Maurice Hertz. Chief Foster oversaw the expansion Camden's police department at the same time as Camden expanded with the annexation of Stockton Township, which brought what is now known as East Camden and Cramer Hill within the city limits. Chief Foster served under both Republican and Democrat mayors. Last a resident of 292 Mount Vernon Street, he was still serving as Chief of Police when he died on March 1, 1906 at Jefferson Hospital. John Foster was succeeded as Chief of Police by Elisha A. Gravenor. |
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Philadelphia April 22, 1894 John Foster
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Philadelphia Inquirer April 28, 1895
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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. |
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Foster - Knights of Pythias Fisher Guards - William P. Robeson Post No. 51, G.A.R. - William Butts - William H. Jones William J. Sewell Republican Club |
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Hyde Harry Frisby - William Wilkins Henry Chambers - Lillian Chambers - Louisa Chambers - Annie Stewart Coroner Edgar H. Landes - County Physician William S. Jones Assistant Prosecutor William H. Carson - General William Joyce Sewell 825 Locust Street |
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CAMDEN ELKS HOPE
TO GET CONVENTION The twenty-first annual
reunion and the convention of the New Jersey State Elks Association
will be held in Camden next June if efforts of the advisory board of Camden Lodge of Elks
are successful at the state meeting in Newark on June 15, 16 and 17. Members of the advisory
board for the local lodge, who are past exalted rulers of the Camden
lodge, will present the invitation to hold the 1934 meeting in Camden,
at the twentieth reunion and convention in Newark. Members
of the lodge have adopted a
resolution
confirming the action of the advisory board and plans were made to set
the necessary machinery in motion to bring the 1934 convention to
Camden. It was pointed out that Camden Elks have the largest home in
the state.
Samuel
Kirkpatrick, the oldest past exalted
ruler of the lodge, is head of the advisory board, and Harry G.
Robinson, youngest past exalted ruler, is delegate to the state
association, which is composed of past exalted rulers of all Elks
lodges in New Jersey. Although the state
association was formed in Camden, there has never been a reunion or
convention of the association held here, it was pointed out. The outstanding feature of
each annual convention is the mammoth sessions, with thousands of Elks
in line. It is estimated the parade would draw more than 50,000 persons
to Camden, if the local lodge's invitation is accepted. The Camden lodge is sending
the band and patrol to Newark for the parade, which will start at 7 p.
m. on June 17. Arrangements are being made to have the largest
delegation in the parade represent Camden. Past
exalted rulers who comprise the advisory board, and the year they took
office, follow: Samuel
Kirkpatrick, 1900;
Dr.
A. Haines Lippincott,
1901; Alex J.
Milliette, 1906; J. Harry Switzer, 1908; James H. Long,
1911; Marion Moriarty, 1913; Allen Jarvis, 1914; Albert Austermuhl,
1915; William L. Sauerhoff, 1917; Theodore T. Kausel,
1918; Garfield
Pancoast, 1919; William G. Ferat, 1920; Harry Ellis, 1921;
Samuel A. Dobbins, 1923; D. Trueman Stackhouse, 1924; Frank S. Van Hart,
1925; Edward J. Kelly, 1926; Rud Preisendanz,
Jr., 1927; Roy
R. Stewart, 1928; William H. lszard, 1929; William Lehman,
1930; J.
Harry
Todd, 1931, and Harry G. Robinson, 1932. Deceased past exalted. rulers and the year they took office are: John H. Foster, 1895; W. E. B. Miller, 1896; Philip Burch, 1897; D. Harry Condit, 1898; H. L. Hartshorn, 1899; George D. Borton, 1902; Maurice Rogers, 1904; Francis Warren, 1907; E. Wilmer Collins, 1909; Lewis H. Leigh, 1910; Morris Odell, 1912, and W. Wallace Balcom, 1922. |
