Camden People - Levi E. Farnham

LEVI ELMER FARNHAM was born in Massachusetts around 1856. By 1887 he had relocated to Camden NJ, and was employed as the assistant city surveyor, making his home at 550 Berkley Street. By 1890 he was promoted to city surveyor. Shortly thereafter he was made City Engineer, in which he served for 30 years. The Farnhams lived at 550 Berkley Street from 1887 to 1890.

The 1900 Census shows Levi Farnham living with his wife Georgeanna at 416 South 6th Street. By 1906 Levi Farnham, still employed by the City of Camden, had purchased a home at 413 Chambers Avenue, not far from the Berkley Street address. Among those on his staff in the City Engineer's office was Thomas J. Daley. Mrs. Farnham was an active member of the Womans Club of Camden.

Levi E. Farnham, for over thirty years City Engineer of Camden, died October 13, 1923 at the age of 67. Still a resident of the Chambers Avenue address, his wife joined him in August of 1931.

On December 1, 1927 the City Commission of the City of Camden re-named Forest Hill Park, between Kaighn Avenue and Baird Boulevard and along the Cooper River, Farnham Park in appreciation of Levi Farnham's services to the city.

Philadelphia Inquirer - April 26, 1896

Harry A. Goodman - William H. Cole - J. Oscar Nichuals - Richard C. Mason Owen B. Jones - William T. G. Young Jr. - Levi Farnham - Frank S. Fithian Samuel Lee - John Cherry - Samuel Lodge - C. Harry Price - Frank Vacke Arthur Bedell - Thaddeus P. Varney - Charles Van Dyke Joline George D. Barton - Charles Hollingshed - Councilman Charles P. Sayrs

Camden Daily Telegram
September 2, 1896

Henry C. Moffett
Broadway
Rev. J.R. Mace
Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church
Jesse Pratt
Thaddeus P. Varney
John Blowe
William A. Husted
Levi Farnham
Christopher J. Mines Jr.
Walter Moffett
Charles C. Moffett

	Philadelphia Inquirer July 15, 1902 Broadway - Spruce Street Louisa Traubel - Levi Farnham Gately & Hurley Company George Fields - John Welsh Joseph Nowrey - Arthur Stanley

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Philadelphia Inquirer - September 5, 1903

David Baird Sr. - J. Wesley Sell - Frank F. Patterson Jr. - E.V.D. Joline
E. Ambler Armstrong - Frank T. Lloyd - F. Morse Archer - Robert L. Barber
William J. Bradley - William D. Brown - Thomas P. Curley - Charles F. Currie
Isaac W. Coles - E.W. Delacroix - John J. Burleigh - John Cherry - William Graeff
Theodore Gibbs - John S. Roberts - Henry J. West - George Pfeiffer Jr.
Irving Buckle - Samuel Wood - Jonathan Watson - Maurice Redrow
Richard R. Miller - Lwis H. Mohrman - David M. Anderson - G. WIlliam Harned
Edward H. Chew - William Coffin - Dr. John B. Davis - Dr. Henry H. Davis
Samuel S. Elfreth - Charles H. Ellis - Levi Farnham - John Blowe - J. Palmer Earl
Samuel P. Jones - George W. Turner - Henry M. Snyder - Lewis Stehr Sr.
Charles P. Sayrs - Henry J. Rumrille - William M. Palmer - Frank Peterson
Martin J. O'Brien - J. WIllard Morgan - J. Alpheus McCracken - John R. McCabe
A.G. McCausland - Joseph Kolb - John M. Kelly - E.E. Jefferies - Jacob S. Justice
Robert Jaggard - Harry L. Jones - Upton S. Jefferys - William Kettler
John D. Courter - Dr. William S. Jones - Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.
Samuel G. Hufty - Ephraim T. Gill - Francis Fithian

	Philadelphia Inquirer June 26, 1904

E.E. Jefferis - Edward H. Sayford - James E. Bryan - Clara S. Burrough Susanna Danser - Julian K. Potter - G. Bovilla Fry - George T. Phillips Helen E. Herbert - Frank Healy - Peter Verga - Frank Gardner - Broadway Camden Manual Training and High School - Camden Lodge of Elks Amos R. Dease - Levi Farnham - Albert West - Federal Street - Linden Street

Philadelphia Inquirer October 5, 1921

Joseph Forsyth - Levi Farnham - Martin Schreiber - Wellington Barto - J.J. Blanchard - William L. Roberts - E.H. Sapp - Charles H. Ellis

Postcards of Farnham Park in the 1930s


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