Camden People - Theodore Guthrie

THEODORE FREED GUTHRIE was born on October 29th of 1877 to Oliver S. and Matilda Guthrie, in New Jersey. Oliver S. Guthrie worked as a shoe repairman in 1880s and early 1890s, the family then living at 511 and later 512 Chestnut Street. Oliver Guthrie later worked as a house carpenter, and, when the census was taken in 1900, the family lived at 1117 Baring Street, between Sycamore Street and Kaighn Avenue, just east of Broadway. Theodore Guthrie was then working as a cattle driver- in those times beef cattle were unloaded near Front and Kaighn and driven up Kaighn Avenue to butcher shops such as that owned by Adam Schlorer at 8th and Chestnut Streets. Besides Theodore, the family included four other children than, older brother Oliver, then in the Army, younger daughter Mary, and two younger brothers, Frank and James. The Guthrie family was living at 935 St. John Street when the 1906 City Directory was compiled. He was still working as a cattle driver at that point.

By 1918 Theodore Guthrie had secured an appointment to the Camden Police Department. When he registered for the draft in September of 1918, he was living with his sister Mary at 1023 South 6th Street in Camden.

When the Census was taken in January of 1920, Theodore Guthrie was a member of Camden's police force. He was apparently the sole support at that time of his sister and two younger brothers, none of whom were working at the time of the census enumeration. The family still lived at 1023 South 6th Street.

Even though he was just short of being 40 years old, Theodore Guthrie served with America's armed forces during World War I.

The 1930 Census shows Theodore Guthrie as unmarried, renting a home at 570 Chestnut Street. He was working as a detective on the Camden Police Department.

Retired from the police department, Theodore Guthrie was still living at 570 Chestnut Street in 1947. His younger brothers were also living with him at that time.