Samuel
E.
Harring

SAMUEL E. HARRING was born in Pennsylvania around 1870 to Samuel and Rosa Harring. He married Josephine Black at the age of 24. A son, Samuel B. Harring was born shortly thereafter. The 1895-1896 City Directory shows the family at 619 North Front Street. Samuel Harring's brother Walter, his wife Lottie and son William Harring lived at 605 North Front Street. Sister-in-law Lottie appears to have passed away around 1900. When the Census was taken in 1900, Walter and William Harring were living with parents, Samuel and Rosa Harring, in Philadelphia. A daughter was born to Samuel E. and Josephine Harring not long after the census was taken. She was named Lottie.

Samuel E. Harring, was a bricklayer by trade, but at some point during the 1900s had traded in his mason's trowel had become Camden fire fighter. By the time he turned 16, nephew William Harring had returned to Camden. When the Census was taken he was living with his Uncle Samuel at 125 Linden Street in North Camden, a short walk from the Engine Company 6 firehouse. William Harring joined the Camden Fire Department by mid-January 1920. He eventually rose to the rank of Deputy Chief. His son William Harring Jr., joined the Camden Fire Department in 1948, serving over 23 years. Between the three, there was a Harring fighting fires in Camden for over 60 years. 

The 1924 and 1927 City Directories show Samuel and Josephine Harring at 619 North 2nd Street. The 1929 edition states that he had moved to 912 North Front Street. The 1930 Census, taken in April of that year, states that Samuel Harring, wife Josephine, and daughter Lottie were living in the Colonial Manor section of West Deptford, New Jersey. Samuel Harring was still a city fire fighter at that time. Josephine Harring was still living in Colonial Manor when she passed on March 11, 1935.