Morris
Puro

MORRIS PURO was born on July 15, 1898 in Poland. His family came to America in 1900. After serving in the military during World War I, he married at the age of 23. 

By 1930 Morris Puro was already a successful automobile dealer. He owned a home at 4 Warren Street in Edgewater Park NJ, where he and his wife Bessie with their two daughters, Florence and Marian. He was still living there in 1936, according to the New Jersey bell Telephone Directory of that year. 

By that year Morris Puro had purchased the Watson Shallcross Inc. car dealership at 1721 Haddon Avenue in Camden, and renamed it Haddon Motors. This business had operated as a Dodge truck and Plymouth franchise. Morris Puro soon was operating a De Soto dealership here, and he did quite well over the years. In the late 1930s, he also served as the president of the Camden Automobile Dealers Association. Haddon Motors was a fixture on Haddon avenue, Camden's "other" new car dealer strip, into the late 1950s.

During the 1960s Morris Puro was involved in the relocation of Congregation Beth El from Parkside to Cherry Hill NJ. He served as co-chairman with Edward Saline of the Building Committee.

Morris Puro retired to Florida, where he died, on December 16, 1977, in Broward County.

Camden Courier-Post - January 28, 1938

Construction
of the new synagogue
Congregation Beth El
Cherry Hill NJ
1968

Left to Reight:
Jack Wall, Edward Saline, Morris Clymer,
&
Morris Puro

Haddon Motors DeSoto-Plymouth at 1761 Haddon Avenue - Summer of 2003