CAMDEN- Camden Hardware Company

The Camden Hardware Company operated at 1107 Kaighn Avenue from about 1910 into the 1960s. It was founded by Simon Cybulski and his wife Martha. The Cybulskis were among the earliest Polish immigrants to Camden. The 1906 City Directory shows the family living at 1443 South 10th Street, not far from St. Joseph’s Church.

Simon and Martha Cybulski turned over management of the business to their son, Leon, around 1929. By 1930 they had moved to Laurel Springs NJ. Sadly, Martha Cybulski passed away in March of that year.

Leon J. Cybulski was running the business in 1947, according to the city directory for that year. The business appears in the 1959 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory, but does not appear in the 1970 edition. The business most likely closed in the late 1960s, after the first Camden riot.

Camden Courier-Post - March 29, 1930

MRS. MARTHA CYBULSKI TO BE BURIED MONDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Cinkowski Cybulski, 53,_ who died Thursday, in her home at "The 'Willows”, Park Avenue and Laurel Lake, Laurel Springs, will be held at the home Monday at 8.30 a. m. Requiem High Mass will follow at St. Joseph’s Church, Tenth and Mechanic Streets. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Cybulski and her husband Simon owned the Camden Hardware Company, 1107 Kaighn Avenue for more than 20 years, turning the management of that establishment over to their son Leon several years ago.

A resident of Camden for more than 40 years, Mrs. Cybulski is survived by her husband and two sons, Leon and Edward B.; five daughters, Genevieve A., Florence R; and F. Teresa who are employed in the Courier-Past classified advertising department; Irene H. and Leona V.; two grandsons and four brothers.