Mahlon
Fowler
Ivins Sr.


 

MAHLON FOWLER IVINS SR. was a prominent businessman and Republican politician in Camden County in the 1880s and 1890s. He owned a successful sign and house painting business, and employed, among others, Amos R. Dease. His son, Mahlon F. Ivins Jr. was also involved in the civic life of Camden NJ. 

His first wife, Anna, passed away in January of 1891, leaving three children, Mary Emma, Lillie May, and Mahlon F. Ivins Jr. A fourth had died in infancy. Mahlon F. Ivins Sr. remarried in January of 1892 to Miss Cornelia C.W. Lewis of Camden. She became a charter member of the Woman's Club of Camden, N.J. in 1895.  

Mahlon F. Ivins Sr. was active with New Jersey Lodge No. 1, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

Ivins Street, between Mt. Vernon and Chestnut, and Front and 2nd Streets, was named for him. A grandson, Paul Mathis, the son of his daughter Mary Emma, became famous as a professional dancer and dance instructor.  


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Philadelphia Inquirer - January 16, 1888

William J. Browning - Maurice A. Rogers - D. Cooper Carman
William J. Sewell - J. Willard Morgan - Adam Clark Smith
John Harris - W.B.E. Miller -
Frederick A. Rex
John Campbell Jr. -
Mahlon F. Ivins Sr. - Isaac Githens
E.A. Armstrong - Rev. Maurice Bronson
Col. A. Lowden Snowden -
Preston B. Plumb


Philadelphia Inquirer - December 28, 1890

John Leighton Wescott - Cooper B. Hatch - John Campbell
James M. Lane - Mahlon F. Ivins Sr. - Dr. John D. Leckner
Eugene B. Roberts - Joseph Starr - Charles H. Sharp
John Furey

Philadelphia Inquirer - December 28, 1890

Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.  

Philadelphia Inquirer - December 19, 1896

Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.  - Central Trust Company

Philadelphia Inquirer - April 8, 1897

Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.  - George Felton

Camden Daily Courier * July 7, 1902

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George G. Felton - Hugh Boyle - Fithian Simmons - Mahlon Ivins Sr. - John Foster - Dr. Paul N. Litchfied
Charles H. Felton - John L. Westcott - Dr. Frank N. Robinson - Clarence Hires - Charles F. Eastlack 
Frank F. Michellon - Freedom C. Lippincott - Thomas M.K. Lee Post No. 5, G.A.R.
Washington Street - George F. Kappel - Henry Longacre - Harry Miller

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 31, 1903

Judge Charles V.D. Joline
Rev. Dr. J.B. Graw
Frank S. McPherson
Sig Schoenagle
Henry F. Stockwell
Joseph Leonard
Mrs. Emma Menard
J. Willard Morgan
Arthur Stanley
Frank Ford Patterson Jr.

Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.
South 9th Street
Ferry Avenue


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
December 1, 1904

Herbert W. Johnson
Mahlon F. Ivins Sr.
William J. Bradley
Maurice B. Rudderow
William C. Coffin
Harry C. Sharp
William D. Brown


Philadelphia Inquirer
February 2, 1905

Catholic Lyceum - B.F. Archer
John J. Burleigh 
William Casselman - William C. Dayton
William L. Hurley 
Frank T. Lloyd Sr.
Mahlon Ivins Sr.
Frederick A. Rex
John F. Starr - Miss Mary A. Burrough
William Coffin - Richard Devlin
F.W. Marcy - Stephen Pfeil
Miss Laura Peabody - Oliver Smith
Joseph Watson - James S. Woodward
George Bergen 

CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY
1906 Officers & Directors
From an 1906 City Directory Ad


A. McCRACKEN, President
C. T. SHARPLESS, Vice-President
T. S. NEKERVIS, Treasurer
C. CHESTER CRAIG, Trust Officer
WILLIAM C. JONES, Solicitor.

====== D I RECTORS ======

A. McCRACKEN
T. S. NEKERVIS
CASPER T. SHARPLESS
CHARLES HELM
CHARLES BOSCH
FITHIAN S. SIMMONS
A. J. FULLMER     
GEORGE A. MUNGER
MAHLON F. IVINS
JESSE W. STARR III
RICHARD F. SMITH
CONRAD SCHWOERER
W. LEONARD HURLEY

WILLIAM C. JONES
KILLIAM E. BENNETT

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