Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Grant Street

"....I read about Cassady School block party and decided to send this picture of me and my little cousin. The block party stands can be seen just over my left shoulder. The look on my face was caused by my mother forbidding me to go to it. The year, 1939. I'm 10 yrs. old." 

Jim Bessing, March 2004

"That picture of Gene and I was taken in front of my grandfather's sister's house, 203 Grant. Her name was Ella Crossley, the widow of George Crossley. She had two daughters. My grandfather lived with her in 1940 and died there in 1947."

Jim Bessing, October 2004

1930s -  late 1940s
Mrs. Ella Crossley
1940-1947
James S. Edwards

1914
Dan McConnell

Harry Kyler
Camden Police Department
1947

On December 1, 2007 at 6:40 AM, a fire was reported at 418 Grant Street. Tower Ladder 1 arrived with fire showing 1st and 2nd floor. Battalion 2 transmitted the 2nd alarm for fire extending to the exposures, all searches were negative. No injuries reported.

Photo shows 426, 4188, 420, & 422 Grant Street.

Photo courtesy of Bob Bartosz

Otto Braun

Fatally injured in a runaway accident yesterday, Samuel Saunders, 37, of 523 Grant Street, died at 5.15 p. m. in Cooper Hospital of a fractured skull and. concussion of the brain.

Saunders was a milkman and was driving his team on Eighth Street when the horse became frightened, bolted and ran away. The animal raced from Elm to Pearl Streets, where he swerved into the latter street, Saunders losing his balance as the horse swung around the corner.

The milkman was thrown from his seat, landing on his head and shoulders, The unconscious man was rushed to the hospital, where he remained in a coma until he died.

Police could find no witness to the accident.

Saunders is survived by his widow, Nettie; two sons, Samuel and Joseph; a sister, Mrs. Edna Hettie, of Wilmington, Delaware, and a brother, Howard G., of Merchantville.

The funeral will be held at 11 a. m. Monday at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and Son, 408 Cooper Street, with services in charge of Rev. E. A. Chambers, pastor of State Street M. E. Church.

Samuel Saunders

Camden Courier-Post
February 3, 1938

The funeral of Samuel, Saunders, 37, of 523 Grant Street, who was killed in a runaway accident on Wednesday, will be held at 11 a. m., Monday at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and Son, 408 Cooper Street. Mr. Saunders, a milk wagon driver for Supplee Wills Jones Milk Company, is survived by his widow, Nettie; two sons, Samuel and Joseph; his father, William E. F. Saunders, of 648 State Street; a sister, Mrs. Edna Hettie, of Wilmington, Delaware, and a brother, Howard G., of Merchantville.

Samuel Saunders

Camden Courier-Post
February 4, 1938

The Clancy Family

Left: Mrs. Mary Clancy

Photo courtesy of
Cynthia Ackley Nunn

1933
Charles Flippen

George Zeitz

609 Grant Street
Camden Courier-Post - February 7, 1933

WIFE TIED IN CHAIR, PERILED WITH KNIFE
Charges Husband Trapped on Pretense of Returning Child

Accused by his wife of binding her to a chair and threatening her life with a knife and with gas, Charles Flippen, 26, of 609 Grant street, was held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast yesterday.

Flippen's wife, Lillian, 24, lives at 1626 Wingohocking street, Philadelphia. She said the threats took place Saturday afternoon in the third floor front room of a rooming house in Penn street near Sixth. Patrolmen William Thorn, Walter Patton and Raymond Stark said they found adhesive tape and towel strippings in the room, and took two knives from Flippen.

Kidnapping Charged

Mrs. Flippen said her husband went to California last September, leaving her and their four-and-a-half year old daughter at his mother's home in Grant street. She heard nothing from him, she said, and in December she moved with the baby to Philadelphia. Last month, she charged, he returned and kidnapped the child in the street near her home.

On Saturday, she said, she received a telegram from Flippen, telling her he would give her the baby if she would meet him. She met him in Philadelphia and he took her to the Penn street house, where, he said, his brother was to bring the baby.

They went to a room ostensibly to wait for the brother to bring the baby, she said, and he told her he was going to ki11 her and himself.

He bound her arms and legs to a chair with adhesive tape and strips from a towel, she said. Then he waved a knife about her head and turned on the illuminating gas, Mrs. Flippen charged.  

She pleaded with him and finally induced him to take her to a restaurant, where she whispered to a waitress to call the police, the wife testified in Police Court. The waitress did so, and the police arrived shortly afterward.

Flippen pleaded not guilty to a charge of threatening to kill. He did not testify. 

Grant Street is the first cross street, with the white house at lower left

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1938 Allen Filer
1938 William Filer

Michael Walsh
1920s-1930s

Camden Courier-Post
April 3, 1928

Charles A. Wolverton

5 Bitten by Mad Dog in North Camden Treated for Rabies
STATE TEST SHOWS ANIMAL INFECTED, DR. HELM INFORMED
Drive to Capture All Strays Pushed by Police Chief Colsey
LICENSES NECESSARY 

The dog which ran amok and bit five persons in North Camden Saturday night was suffering from rabies.

That was announced yesterday by Dr. David B. Helm, Jr., city sanitary inspector, after receipt of a telegram from the state board of health In Trenton. Examination of the head of the dog revealed the animal had rabies.

The five victims of the dog who received Pasteur treatment at Cooper Hospital pending examination of the dog, will continue to be treated, Doctor Helm said.

The victims were: William Wagner, 65, of 1554 Forty-eighth Street, Pennsauken township, bitten on leg. Miss Florence Smith, 19, of 833 Grant Street, bitten on wrist and leg. William Luers, 3, adopted child of Mrs. Frank Smith, 833 Grant Street. William Winstanley, 11, of 835 Grant Street, bitten on hands. Thomas Owens, 12, of 631 North Ninth Street, bitten on right forearm and left hand.

At the same time Doctor Helm announced he and Police Chief Arthur Colsey were co-operating to capture and destroy all unlicensed and stray dogs and cats found on city streets.