Isaac
M.
Shreeve

ISAAC M. SHREVE was born February 28, 1853 to Isaac M. and Mary Wilkinson Shreeve. His father had passed before he turned 14. When the census was taken in 1870, the family lived in Camden's Middle Ward. It appears that their neighbors were the Whitcraft family. As the Whitcrafts were also the next door neighbors at the time of the 1880 Census it is highly likely that the address was 557 Bridge Avenue. 

 On January 4, 1876 Isaac M. Shreeve married Nellie Bacon. When the 1880 Census was taken the Shreeve family was at 557 Bridge Avenue. Three children had been born, William Shreeve, Mary R. Shreeve, and Isaac Shreeve. James Beale Shreeve, Alfred Shreeve, Joseph Shreeve, and Maud Marion Shreeve came later. Sadly, Alfred and Maude died while quite young. In 1880 Isaac M. Shreeve was employed as the janitor of a public hall. He later joined the Camden Fire Department, assigned as a hoseman at Engine Company 2 into 1886. In late 1886 or early 1887 he joined the Camden Police Department.

The Camden City Directory shows the Shreeve family still living at 557 Bridge Avenue through 1890. By 1887 Isaac Shreeve had been appointed an officer on the Camden Police Department. 

Isaac Shreve was serving as a policeman in Camden when, in May of 1890, while responding to a report of a burglary in progress at a Chinese laundry at Broadway and Berkley Street, he was show and seriously wounded by Ben Hudson, a notorious local criminal. Fortunately Isaac Shreeve recovered from his wounds and eventually returned to work with the Camden police. Ben Hudson's criminal career came to an end on October 6, 1895, when he was shot and killed in a running gun battle while evading arrest near Cobb's Island Station, Virginia. His brother Bill was wounded by the same bullet and arrested.

By 1906 Isaac Shreeve had moved to 17 South 36th Street in East Camden. Sometime between then and the summer of 1910 Isaac Shreeve retuned to the Camden Police Department. Nellie Bacon Shreeve passed away between the time of the compilation of the 1914 City Directory and January 1920, when the Census was taken. At that time Isaac Shreeve was still living at 17 South 36th Street and a member of the Camden Police Department. A Jennie S. Perkins was living at the address as well, and according to the 1924 City Directory, the soon wed. Isaac Shreeve was then still living at 17 South 26th and even though he was in his late 60s, was still working for the Camden Police Department.  

By 1920 son Joseph had married Laura Boulton, of 15 North 32nd Street in East Camden, He had also become a Camden policeman. He served on horseback in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Laura's younger brother Lawrence Boulton had a long career as a fire fighter in Camden.

Isaac Shreeve passed away on June 19, 1926 in Camden.

Camden Daily Courier - October 8, 1895