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COOPER BROWNING. HATCH, one of Camden's leading citizens in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch, and was born in the then farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society. Joseph Hatch owned a great deal of land in what is now East Camden, and Cooper B. Hatch grew up in the farmhouse which has stood since the1890s at 2677 Mickle Street. Cooper B. Hatch became involved in politics early in life. he served on the Board of Freeholders and on City Council, finally being elected mayor of the City of Camden in 1898. During his term, which ended in 1902, the Manual Training and High School was built, at the corner of Haddon and Newton Avenues. This building would serve as Camden's high school until the completion of the current Camden High School at Park and Baird Boulevards in 1918. It was the renamed Clara Burrough Junior High School. Cooper B. Hatch promoted other projects while mayor of Camden, including the first asphalt paving in the city, and improvements to the municipal water system. After leaving the Mayor's office, Cooper Hatch continued in public service, serving as the Sheriff of Camden County from 1908 to 1911. Cooper B. Hatch sat on the Board of Directors of the Security Trust Company bank, at 301 Market Street in 1916. A lifelong bachelor, Cooper B. Hatch later lived near Diamond Cottage Park. He spent the later years of his life living at 206 North 6th Street in Camden, with his mother and sister. He passed away on February 15, 1922. Other members of the Hatch family played a prominent role in Camden's history. Uncle Hugh Hatch was the proprietor of the Fairview Brick Works, whose offices were at 14th and Federal Street, while first cousin Hugh Morgan Hatch, who with J.R. Mick, founded Camden's pioneer Buick Agency, New Jersey Auto Supply, whose dealership stood for many years at Delaware Avenue between George and Market Street, before moving to Federal Street at Wright Avenue in the early 1940s. Cooper B. Hatch Middle School which stands on the northwest corner of Park Boulevard and Bradley Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden NJ was named for him, and was completed in 1924. |
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Samuel
S. Elfreth. -
Frank Michellon - Cooper
B. Hatch - Charles
S. Wolverton - Dr.
W.B.E. Miler - Harry
C. Sharp James M. Lane - Frank B. Sweeten - Harvey Flitcraft - William Schregler - Dr. John D. Leckner - J. Wesley Sell - Frank A. Ward James Ware Jr. - Frank S. Heisler - Thomas Thornley - Ulie G. Lee - Edward Weston - Dr. P.W. Beale - Charles H. Helmbold - John Carmany Isaac C. McKinley - John N. Zanders - Edward E. Jefferis |
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Cooper
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Samuel
Dodd -
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Philadelphia September 2, 1898 Cooper
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Philadelphia
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Philadelphia
Inquirer
November 24, 1899 Cooper
B. Hatch - George
W. Whyte Right Click on Images to Download PDF of Article |
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Philadelphia
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Cooper
B. Hatch - George
W. Whyte - Edgar
Boulton - John
W. Vanhart - W. Scott Franklin Robert Gick - Joseph Till - Edward Kelly - Christian Stark - Frank Powell - Lewis H. Sasse Samuel Collins - William Madison - John F. Renner - Josiah Pedigree |
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Philadelphia
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November 28, 1899 Cooper
B. Hatch - George
W. Whyte Right Click on Images to Download PDF of Article
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It
is not so many years ago, old timers say, since Fetters
School at Third and Mount
Vernon Street was considered large enough to accommodate youngsters
for several generations. Now a six-room annex is to be built on the
north side facing Walnut
Street. Back in 1905 five rooms were added in the annex on Mount
Vernon Street. With the new structure the school will contain 19
rooms, which would have thought far too large for a high school in the
90s, when Camden had its first experiment in that line. That was in the
old Federal Street
building later occupied by the Post-Telegram Half
a Century Ago When
Fetters School was
built in 1875 it was considered about the last word as far as a school
structure went. It was of stone, solidly constructed and furnished with
gas, running water, and everything then regarded as thoroughly modern.
The largest school downtown was the old Kaighn building on Newton
Avenue, until the 1870s ample for the Kaighn Point area. There
were plenty of open lots when the Fetters
School was built. Those days Camden was something of a struggling
community with districts that had not yet lost their individuality. As a
pupil in the early 90s in old Fetters
I recall the section had many open spaces. Nothing remotely suggested
the part-time classes was then necessary, certainly not thought of by Professor
Horatio Draper, of blessed memory, who guided Camden’s educational
system more than 30 years before he was displaced by the late Mayor
Hatch at the close of the last century Nothing
had then been heard of a “melting pot” as applied to America and its
schools. But around Kaighn Point even in the 80s there was the first
evidence of a great influx of those from across the seas who were soon
to follow the old families, who’s children were to enter that melting
pot and become transformed into American citizens The
Melting Pot The
Fuhrmans, Auerbachs, Lichtensteins were among the first I recall. Many
others followed; especially from the Russian Polish district where life
was hard and oppression severe. Came the immigrant wave from South Italy
whose descendants long since have taken possession of the district
spreading from Third and Pine,
once the stronghold of English, German, and Irish families. In a police
census a quarter of a century ago it developed that the Fifth Ward could
boast representatives from every nation on the face of the globe, even
to a Finlander, some Turks with Japs and Chinese commonplace. It
was about the period when Miss Clara
S. Burrough, long principal of the High School and now recovering
from an operation in Cooper Hospital, was principal of Fetters
that the big change came that the classes were composed largely of
children of foreign parentage. Often they did not know a single world of
English. Teachers had their problems and Miss
Burrough will undoubtedly recall the great task involved in really
making the “melting pot” down there in the old school at Third
and Mount Vernon Street
effective. But she and the valiant corps under here direction tackled it
and by the time Miss Burrough
was elevated to the principalship of Camden
High, a very deserved promotion, by the way, the problem had been
totally solved. Hot
Times in the Old Town Incidentally
Miss Burrough will
likewise recall the hectic conditions in more ways than one for the
period marked turmoil in the educational world hereabouts. “Old
Drape”
had been fired overnight by Hatch,
indignation meetings were held, demands were made for his reinstatement
but the Committee of Public Instruction, headed by the late C.S. Magrath,
named by Hatch,
naturally followed his direction. Martin Scheibner, a long,
white-whiskered veteran of the Civil War, was named as Draper’s
successor. But it was worse than handling a drove of wild horses. The
venerable professor soon bowed out of the scene. It was not until the
advent of Professor James E.
Bryan that something like peace came. Bryan's
firm hand plus extraordinary ability and a determination not to
surrender despite scholastic bedlam finally won. But
even yet, old friends of “Drape's”
who knew him in Fetters
or in the makeshift “high school” have not forgotten the bitterness,
have not forgiven the shabby way in which that fine Southern gentleman
was treated. I recall him down at Fetters,
sometimes with his setters on which he placed much store; often with a
humorous story, which probably didn’t contribute to strict school,
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C.S. Magrath - Martin Scheibner - Fuhrman Family - Lichtenstein Family |
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2677 Mickle Street - The Joseph Hatch House |
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The Joseph Hatch House dates back to at least 1875, and was the center of one of several large farms that were a part of what was Stockton Township, present day East Camden. The house was the home for many years of Michael J. Jubanyik, a successful builder in the 1930s, 1940s. Younger members of the Jubanyik family went into the practice of law in New Jersey |
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This house sits at the north end of Eutaw Street, between Grand Street and South 27th Street. Photographs |
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Manual
Training and High School Haddon Avenue Camden NJ This school was
known as Click Picture for Enlarged View |
| Evergreen Cemetery - May 9, 2004 | |
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Older
Brother
Isaac B. Hatch |
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Parents
Joseph J. Hatch |
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Sisters
Rebecca Hatch |
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Sisters
Mary Hatch |
| Uncle Hugh Hatch & brother Joseph Hatch are buried nearby | |
