H. B. Hanford

HENRY B. HANFORD was born in Connecticut around 1846. He was living in Beverly NJ as early as 1870, and engaged in the shoe business. He appears to have come to Camden around 1889, and is listed in the 1890-1891 City Directory as living at 517 Penn Street and being in the shoe business in Philadelphia. He later went into the rubber trade. Whatever line of business he was endeavoring in, he certainly was successful, and by 1900 and until his death in the 1910s, he lived in a fine mansion at 633 Cooper Street, adjacent to that of insurance executive J. Lynn Truscott. This house had previously been the residence of prominent Camden attorney Howard M. Cooper. The 1914 Camden City Directory shows hat he was president of a freight delivery company known as Potter Express Company. Funeral director Bernhard F. Schroeder was vice-president of this firm, which was located on Delaware Avenue at Cooper Street.

H.B. Hanford married around 1887. His wife, New Jersey-born Alice B. Hanford, was quite active in the Camden Day Nursery, serving as that organization's president in the late 1920s.

627 & 633
Cooper Street

627 Cooper Street, designed by Arthur Truscott, for his brother, J. Lynn Truscott. Lawyer Howard M. Cooper lived at 633 Cooper Street in the 1890s, prior to H.B. & Alice Hanford.

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