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WILLIAM G. KAIRER SR. was a well-known and respected businessman in Camden in the 1880s and 1890s. He was born around 1839, and was in the bakery business in Camden as early as 1869. The 1869 City Directory shows him at 616 South 5th Street. By 1872 he had moved to 703 Federal Street, and was still there when the 1874 Directory was compiled. William G. Kairer Sr. married twice and was widowed twice. His first wife, Margaret W. "Maggie" Godshall, gave him two sons, sons William G. Kairer Jr. and Charles Kairer, before dying of tuberculosis on May 9, 1872 in Camden. His second marriage, to Ella Hopper, sadly also ended when she died in 1886 at the age of 34, but not before bearing at least three children, Frank Granville Kairer, and daughters Elizabeth Gertrude Kairer and Adda Kairer. Sadly, but not all that uncommon in those days, daughter Adda also died before reaching adulthood. By 1877 WIlliam G. Kairer had moved to South Camden, setting up home and business at 416-418 Line Street. This address was residence when the census was taken in 1880. Late in 1892 or in 1893 he moved to a recently built home 429 Beckett Street, the corner of Beckett and Avon Streets, in South Camden with his son, William G. Kairer Jr., his daughter-in-law Frances "Fannie" Fithian Kairer, grandson Howard Kairer, and a servant, Annie McCuen. On December 4, 1893 William G. Kairer Sr. was murdered by Nicholas Theodore "Theodore" Lambert, who had broken into his home with the intent of robbing it. William G. Kairer Sr. was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Camden after services held at his home. Theodore Lambert was arrested, tried, and after numerous appeals, on December 19, 1895 executed at the Camden County Jail for murdering Mr. Kairer. After settling the estate, William G. Kairer Jr. remained in business at 416-418 Line Street until 1900, when the building was badly damaged by fire. Camden Courier-Post reporter Benjamin W. Courter wrote in 1928 that it was later rented to use as a warehouse for the Gately & Hurley department store, known after 1904 simply as Hurley's Department Store, after its owner, William Leonard Hurley. |
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West J. Scott Veasey - North 8th Street - First Methodist Episcopal Church Improved Order of Red Men - Ancient Order of United Workmen - Odd Fellows - Theodore Lambert |
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G. Kairer Jr. Rev. J.B. Graw - First Methodist Episcopal Church - Beckett Street - John A. Smith - Isaac Cox A.E. Davies - Charles Parker - N.C. Stowell - C.T. Pierce - William H. Davis Ellis Silberstein - Theodore Lambert - Levin Riley - Joseph B. Stevenson - George Greenleaf Improved Order of Red Men - Ancient Order of United Workmen - Legion of the Red Cross |
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