5 10 100 https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/0bbd79ebafd8edf59bc80dc8af39f8c4.jpg e13f19db68465ae2b4f99c509addff59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Time period on Cooper Street 1867-88 Location(s) - Cooper Street 228 Cooper Street Location(s) - Other 105 Cove Road, Pennsauken Township/Merchantville Birth Date c. 1840 Birthplace Burlington County Death Date April 1, 1912 Biographical Text Among the many women who headed households on Cooper Street, Sallie Ackley had a distinction: In 1867, while still in her 20s, she independently contracted for construction of a new home. The three-story Italianate townhouse at 228 Cooper Street survived into the twenty-first century. It represents a young woman's story of survival in the wake of tragedy and offers a connection to the early nineteenth-century settlement of Camden. Sallie Ackley was born into the Wilkins family, early settlers of Burlington County. Her grandfather, Isaac Wilkins, moved to Camden to go into the lumber business on the Delaware River waterfront, and in 1814 he purchased lots at Third and Cooper Streets as well as Third and Market. These properties passed by inheritance through the Wilkins family, including the land for 228 Cooper Street. Sallie Wilkins became Sallie Ackley in 1864, when she married a local doctor, Henry Ackley, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Her new husband had recently returned from service as U.S. Navy surgeon, but with his health irreversibly damaged by a bout with yellow fever aboard the USS San Jacinto in the Gulf of Mexico. He and Sallie had little more than a year together before he died of tuberculosis in December 1865. Six weeks later, Sallie gave birth to their son, Henry Wilkins Ackley, whom she had baptized at St. Paul's in July. Another tragedy followed, however, when the child died just short of his first birthday. It was the latest in a long line of family losses, in that Sallie's parents also had died during the war years. Although tragic, the circumstances conferred both independence and resources on Sallie Ackley, enabling her to contract for the house at 228 Cooper Street. The land was then owned by her brother, <a href="http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-RichardCWilkins.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richard C. Wilkins</a>; it stood adjacent to her grandfather's former property on the corner of Third and Cooper, which had passed by inheritance to her aunt Eliza Davis. Sallie paid $7,500 to Harden and Brothers Contractors to build the house, and she specified the Trenton stone facade unlike anything else on the block. By 1870, at age 28, she headed a household consisting of her brother Richard, a 23-year-old veteran of the Civil War; her aunt Eliza (then age 73, she sold the corner house next door); and two domestic servants. Her activities included serving as a manager for the <a href="http://www.dvrbs.com/camden/CamdenNJ-Home-Friendless-Children.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Camden Home for Friendless Children</a>, and in 1874 she bought the land under her house from her brother for $1,000. Sallie Ackley's life took a new turn by 1877, when she married a Camden bank teller, Nathan F. Cowan. They continued to live at 228 Cooper Street while rearing three healthy sons, two of them twins. Around 1888, they followed the trend of many of Cooper Street's professional-class families and moved to a suburban home on the Pennsauken Township border with Merchantville. Associated Individuals Isaac Wilkins (grandfather) Richard M. Wilkins (father, died 1861) Elizabeth Ann Coate Wilkins (mother, died 1861) Richard C. Wilkins (brother) Henry Ackley (first husband, died 1865, buried Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia). Henry Wilkins Ackley (son, died 1867, buried Woodlands Cemetery Philadelphia) Nathan F. Cowan (husband) William Cowan (son) Herbert Cowan (son) Edgar Cowan (son) Sources Building Contracts, Camden County Historical Society. Camden/Gloucester County Deeds (Familysearch.org). Camden and Philadelphia Newspapers (Newspapers.com). New Jersey State Census; New Jersey Church Records, Birth Records, and Death Records (Ancestry.com). U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, 1880. Photographs of the Wilkins family, including Sallie and Richard, are posted on the <a href="http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-RichardCWilkins.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">website dvbs.com</a>. Research by Charlene Mires, Robbie DeSimone, and Lucy Davis. Photograph above, 228 Cooper Street in 2019, by Jacob Lechner. Posted by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ackley, Sallie (Wilkins) Description An account of the resource In the wake of the Civil War, a young widow contracted for a new house to be built at 228 Cooper Street. 1860s 1870s 1880s 200 Block 228 Cooper Street Adult Childhood Civil War Death Extended Family Female Investment Italianate Widows https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/d83d7da564b69b0552c4f907305baa31.png 577e7df0a996c98d99907c0db535fb63 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Documents Document Date 1897 Location(s) - Cooper Street 419 Cooper Street Location(s) - Other 63 N. Second Street, Philadelphia Associated Individuals Robert S. Nickerson Description During the 1880s and 1890s a Philadelphia manufacturer of silk and wool hats, Robert S. Nickerson, resided at 419 Cooper Street with his wife Elizabeth and adult daughter Jennie Gay while commuting to his business across the river at 63 N. Second Street. The move marked a significant change for Nickerson, whose business had been operating in Philadelphia since 1836. But during the 1880s, Camden was growing rapidly and houses near the Delaware River waterfront offered attractive prices and easy access to the ferries. The sometimes-frantic nature of ferry commuting is suggested by a report in the Camden Morning Post on May 26, 1888, which described Nickerson attempting to leap onto a ferry departing from Philadelphia while clutching an umbrella and bottle of pickles. He ended up in the river, still clutching his possessions when rescued. This advertisement was published in the trade magazine The American Hatter in August 1897, around the time the Nickersons moved from Cooper Street to another Camden address. The ad documents the duration of the Nickerson business, since 1836, and its production of silk and cassimere (wool) hats. Sources The American Hatter, Vol. 27 (August 1897), p. 62. Google Books. Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Advertisement, Nickerson & Bro. Hats (1897) 1890s 400 Block 419 Cooper Street Advertising Manufacturers Philadelphia https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/c9d39373f2c11d2214674e112bfb49b7.png 6ddc07d4dc786fbf0d458484e1aa42ae Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Documents Document Date January 22, 1963 Location(s) - Cooper Street 417 Cooper Street Location(s) - Other Haddon Township, New Jersey Willingboro, New Jersey Description This advertisement published in the Camden Courier-Post promotes the insurance agency led by Richard C. Hardenbergh at 417 Cooper Street from 1961 until around 1967. By 1966, he had a second office in Willingboro. A resident of Haddon Township, Hardenbergh served as a Haddon Township Commissioner and in 1963 chaired the Camden County Republican Executive Committee. Sources Camden Courier-Post, January 22, 1963, p. 43. Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Advertisement, Richard C. Hardenbergh Agency (1963) 1960s 400 Block 417 Cooper Street Advertising Haddon Township Insurance Politics Republicans Willingboro Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Time period on Cooper Street C. 1845-1883 (property owner, possible resident c. 1847-50 and 1855-60) Location(s) - Cooper Street 413-415-417 Cooper Street. Location(s) - Other Philadelphia; 416-418-420-422 Lawrence Street, Camden. Biographical Text In a city atlas of Camden published in 1877, a name appears diagonally across the lots numbered <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/70" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">413</a>, <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/45" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">415</a>, and <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">417</a> Cooper Street: Hannah Atwood. Yet Hannah does not otherwise appear in records of Camden residents, such as city directories or the Census. Who was she, and why did she own property where she seldom lived? A clue lies in the nomination of Cooper Street for the National Register for Historic Places, which documents a sale of land from Richard Cooper to Hannah Atwood in 1845, more than thirty years prior to the atlas. The transaction, which the nomination associates with 413 Cooper Street, would have been among the first sales of Cooper family land on the north side of Cooper Street. The nomination provides a further clue, an undated later transfer of the land to Hannah's granddaughter, Clara V. Fisher, and a sale of 413 Cooper Street by Charles P. Fisher (Clara's husband) in 1883. The rest of the story, as it emerges from records of the lives of Hannah Atwood and her family, reveals more about the development of Camden in the nineteenth century and the economic strategies of a married woman whose husband, an artist, was frequently absent and dependent on patrons for income. Jesse Atwood, born in New Hampshire, was an itinerant portrait painter who became best known for a journey to Mexico to paint General Zachary Taylor during the Mexican-American War (while living in Camden in 1847, he created a bust based on the portrait and offered it for sale). He also painted portraits of presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, and promoted this work to entice other patrons as he traveled. According to Who's Who in American History, Hannah and Jesse Atwood came to Philadelphia from Rhode Island around 1830, which may have been shortly after their marriage. They had at least two children while Jesse pursued his art in a city known for institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he displayed his work in 1841. He also traveled to Deerfield, Massachusetts (1832), and Richmond, Virginia (1841), among other places. His trip to Mexico to paint Zachary Taylor was covered in the press, as was his opportunity to paint Abraham Lincoln in Illinois shortly after Lincoln's election. Hannah, who had been born Rhode Island, was about 45 years old when she purchased the Camden property in 1845 (and a second adjoining lot in 1846). It was not unusual for Philadelphians to purchase investment property in Camden during the nineteenth century, and that seems to have been Hannah's purpose. When she later bequeathed her property to her granddaughter, she described the process of collecting rents and maintaining the property in good order. During the 1840s and 1850s the Atwoods added to the value of the property, which spanned fifty feet on Cooper Street, by building seven houses. Three faced Cooper Street, and four smaller houses faced Lawrence Street in the rear. Two of the houses, built in 1853 at <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/45" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">415</a> and <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/48" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">417</a> Cooper Street, attracted notice in the Philadelphia Public Ledger: "Mr. Atwood has nearly finished two exquisitely, ornamentally and conveniently arranged dwelling houses on Cooper Street. They are fine additions to the improvements of that part of the city." Hannah's presence can be traced only through her marriage to Jesse, who was listed in Camden and Philadelphia city directories. The Atwoods lived in Camden during the late 1840s and again between 1855 and 1860, but otherwise they lived in Philadelphia. Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, other tenants occupied row houses on Hannah's Cooper Street land--among them, a widow and her daughter who generated their own income by taking in boarders. Jesse Atwood died in Philadelphia in 1870, at the age of 79, and Hannah lived until 1883. Both are buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Hannah's will specified the houses at 415 and 417 Cooper Street as bequests to her granddaughter, without mentioning the adjoining property at 413. Although her will envisioned the houses as an ongoing source of independent income, Clara Fisher sold both to a new owner by 1888. Separately, Clara's husband sold 413 Cooper Street in 1883. Hannah Atwood's long record of ownership on Cooper Street faded from memory. Occupation Property owner Birth Date c. 1800 Birthplace Rhode Island Death Date 1883 in Philadelphia, buried Laurel Hill Cemetery Associated Individuals Jesse Atwood (husband) George Atwood (son) Sarah Miller Atwood (daughter-in-law, wife of George) Mary Atwood (daughter) Clara Virginia Atwood Fisher (granddaughter, daughter of George and Sarah) Charles Perry Fisher (son-in-law, husband of Clara) Edith Gay Fisher (great-granddaughter, daughter of Clara and Charles) Richard Fisher (great-grandson, son of Clara and Charles) Ellen M. Gay (sister, living in New York City) Gamelia Gay (brother-in-law, husband of Ellen) George Grace (boarder in Philadelphia home, 1880) Sources Camden and Philadelphia City Directories (Ancestry.com). Holzer, Harold. Lincoln, President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-61 (New York, Simon and Shuster, 2008), 88. Hopkins, G.M. City Atlas of Camden, New Jersey (1877), Camden County Historical Society. New Jersey Wills and Probate Records (Ancestry.com). U.S. Census, 1860, 1870, and 1880. Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers (Library Company of Philadelphia). Sandweiss, Martha A. Print the Legend: Photography and the American West (Yale University Press, 2002), 27. Who's Who in American History (Marquis Biographies Online). Research by Charlene Mires Send corrections to cmires@camden.rutgers.edu Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Atwood, Hannah Description An account of the resource Investing in Camden real estate provided steady income to an artist's wife for nearly 40 years. 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 400 Block 413 Cooper Street 415 Cooper Street 417 Cooper Street Adult Artists Female Investment Philadelphia Rhode Island Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text James I. Battle is the only known African American to move from a position of service to head his own household on Cooper Street. Born in Georgia in 1876, by the 1890s Battle had migrated north and settled in Camden. From 1896 until 1899, he worked as a live-in janitor for the Camden Republican Club at 312 Cooper Street. He left this job and the housing it provided in 1899, when he married another African American migrant from Georgia, Hattie Daniels. They made their home at 403 Friends Avenue for most of the first quarter of the twentieth century, but for four years (1909-1912), they returned to Cooper Street. City directories and the U.S. Census of 1910 find them at 63 Cooper Street, a three-story brick row house that they rented just east of Front Street. At that time, their house and two adjacent (61 and 65) belonged to the Victor Talking Machine Company, where James also worked as a steward. Their departure from the Cooper Street home in 1912 coincided with Victor's plans to build its new headquarters on the same site at Cooper and Front Streets. The Battles, who had no children, returned to 403 Friends Avenue until the 1920s, when they moved to Atlantic City. Time period on Cooper Street 1896-99, 1909-12 Location(s) - Cooper Street 312 Cooper Street (1896, 1897, 1898, 1899) 63 Cooper Street (1909, 1910, 1911, 1912) Location(s) - Other Atlantic City: 131 Willow Avenue (1894) Camden: 640 Cherry Street (1900) Camden: 403 Friends ' Avenue (1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908; 1916, 1917, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926) Atlantic City: 704 Arctic Avenue (1926, 1927, 1929) Occupation Janitor for Camden Republican Club (1896-1899) Steward / Waiter Birth Date October 3, 1876 Birthplace Georgia Death Date Unknown Associated Individuals Hattie (Daniels) Battle, wife, married 1899 in Camden John W. Battle, relationship unknown, co-worker at Camden Republican Club Anna Daniels, mother-in-law Sources Camden City Directories (Ancestry.com) U.S. Census (Ancestry.com) Research by Charlene Mires Posted by Charlene Mires Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Battle, James Iverson Description An account of the resource Once a janitor, James Battle may be the only African American to advance from a position of service on Cooper Street to heading his own household. 00 Block 1890s 1900s 300 Block 312 Cooper Street 63 Cooper Street Adult African Americans Alumni House Janitor Male Southern Migration Steward Victor Talking Machine Company Waiter https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/0f7843b41cc3edd533271899a3c9d2d0.jpg ce042bf992e880bbeb68f29a40a2fd27 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beer Bottle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photograph by Jacob Lechner Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Beer Bottle Description An account of the resource This bottle was used to sell and distribute beer by Charles Joly, a bottler at 9 Seventh Street in Philadelphia. Consumers paid for the beer, but not the bottle. Beer drinkers would return the bottles to the brewer or take the bottles back to get them refilled. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. late nineteenth century; photograph, April 2018. Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Anila Ramsarran (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Glass beer bottle, 9.5 x 2.5 x 1 inches. 300 Block Alumni House Display Archaeology Food and Drink Philadelphia https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/97cf14c28e587ed8e3a946029390c12d.jpg 3485b0e7b2b5120ddeae3771377796ee https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/7906fecf6531221b0484a5e1b011969b.mov aa2b8ef8c0108d61692ffa32589133f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bisque Doll Head Description An account of the resource The painted features of this porcelain doll face point to the work of firms in the Thuringia area of Germany. Thuringia’s natural clay deposits made it the center of the German doll industry. This doll likely once included glass enamel eyes and a mohair wig. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lucy Davis Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1860-1890 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Ceramic (bisque) doll head, approximately 3" tall and 2" wide. Eyes and back of head missing. 1860s 1870s 300 Block Alumni House Display Childhood Toys Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Data Description An account of the resource Data about past residents, compiled from city directories and the U.S. Census (work in progress). Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Data compiled from public records. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Blocks Adjacent to Cooper Street, 1839-1860 (before house numbering) Description An account of the resource Data about residents in blocks immediately adjacent to Cooper Street in Camden, New Jersey. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Philadelphia city directories (Camden listings) and the U.S. and New Jersey censuses. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1839-1860. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Compiled by Charlene Mires Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Compiled from public sources. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fsFKceqwyg_TUVgFN3zNCITA5YFgQB90s1j7UY9DBHg/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>. https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/files/original/b38009df86d346045189843f21aa7b8a.jpg 81a502ca1ffafe6377fb9d3cfa7c1278 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Artifacts Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Artifacts from the collections of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts. Description An account of the resource Artifacts recovered during archaeological dig prior to construction of the Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Bone Buttons and Button Blank Description An account of the resource Students, almshouse residents, and homemakers all crafted buttons out of cleaned cow bones. The carving required few tools and little skill. The incomplete button blank on the center of this board still shows a fragment of the larger bone from which it was carved. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lucy Davis Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Recovered from excavation prior to construction of Rutgers-Camden dormitory at 330 Cooper Street, Camden, N.J. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rutgers University-Camden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Late 1800s; photograph, July 2018 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lucy Davis (Graduate Student, American Material Culture, Spring 2018); photograph by Jacob Lechner. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Collection of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Art Relation A related resource Affleck, Richard, George Cress, Ingrid Weubber, Rebecca White, Kimberly Morrell, and Thomas Kutys. Phase II and Data-Recovery Archaeological Excavations of the Smith-Maskell Site Cooper Street Development Camden, New Jersey. Archaeological Excavation Report, Burlington: URS Corporation. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Bone buttons on cardboard backing. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People Description An account of the resource Residents of Cooper Street Person An individual. Biographical Text While a widow heading a household at 415 Cooper Street, Jerusha Browning was far from alone. By marriage, she was a member of the prominent Browning family of South Jersey, whose ranks included the former New Jersey Attorney General Abraham Browning (1808-89). Her husband, Lawrence, had 17 siblings born from his father's two marriages. While living on Cooper Street for more than two decades after the death of her husband, Jerusha had a vast nearby network of relations by marriage or by lineage, including the Doughtons and Hollinsheads next door (413 Cooper), the Hinchmans (417), and other Browning households across the street (414) and in the 500 and 600 blocks. Jerusha apparently rented the three-story brick row house from its original owners, who relocated to Philadelphia but retained title until the 1880s. We cannot know why she made this choice, given that she and her son, Abraham, had inherited considerable property after her husband's death in 1858. If the $12,000 in inherited real estate lay in the South Jersey countryside, where the Brownings were extensive land holders, she may have opted for the proximity to neighbors or the potential to support the household by taking in boarders. In 1860, the residents at 415 Cooper Street included Jerusha, then age 60, Abraham, 26, another son, George, 22, daughter Margaret H., 30, and a servant, Margaret Welsh, 20. During the 1860s and 1870s, various other Browning relatives lived with Jerusha's family for short periods of time. They also continued to employ servants, including Lydia Pernell, who was African American, in 1874. Over time, however, Jerusha and her daughter Margaret began to accept boarders in their home. This began in a genteel manner by 1876, when Jerusha was 76 and her daughter 46, and their boarders included the English-born architect <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/47" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arthur Truscott</a> and his two brothers in the insurance business, James and Millwood. They would have been low-risk boarders, given that they were nephews of an insurance man already established in Camden. Of the three Truscott brothers, the architect remained with the Brownings the longest, for at least twelve years between 1876 and 1888. During this period, he established his architecture practice in Philadelphia and designed the New Jersey Safe Deposit & Trust Company building at Third and Market Streets in Camden (1887). Later he served as a supervising architect during construction of the Camden High School built on Park Boulevard 1916-18. His firm Baily and Truscott also contributed new buildings to Cooper Street with the Chateauesque trio of houses at 538-42 Cooper Street (c. 1892)--later retained as facades for the LEAP Academy Charter School--and the Colonial Revival house at 514 Cooper (1903). After Jerusha Browning died in 1884, Margaret continued to operate the boarding house and to advertise it actively in Camden newspapers. She offered rooms for boarders on the second and third floor, in some cases connecting rooms that could be rented together. She remained in the home and in the boarding house business into her 70s. The Browning family association with 415 Cooper Street ended with the turn of the twentieth century, with Margaret H. Browning's death in 1901. Sources Browning Family Trees, Camden and Philadelphia City Directories, New Jersey State Census 1885-1895, and U.S. Census 1860-1910 (Ancestry.com). Camden and Philadelphia Newspapers (Newspapers.com) <a href="https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/21581" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Truscott, Arthur (1858-1938)</a>, Philadelphia Buildings and Architects, Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Research by Charlene Mires, Lucy Davis, and Sheri Ezekiel Posted by Charlene Mires Time period on Cooper Street 1860 or earlier to 1884; daughter until 1901. Location(s) - Cooper Street 415 Cooper Street Occupation Boarding house operator Birth Date September 22, 1800 Birthplace New Jersey Death Date November 19, 1884 Associated Individuals Lawrence Browning, husband Margaret Browning, daughter Abraham Browning, son George Browning, son Margaret Welsh, servant Abraham Browning, NJ Attorney General, husband's nephew Lydia Pernell, servant (African American) Thomas Stiles, clerk, boarder Arthur Truscott, architect, boarder James Truscott, insurance, boarder Millwood Truscott, insurance, boarder Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Browning, Jerusha Description An account of the resource A member of the prominent Browning family, after the death of her husband Jerusha Browning took in boarders at 415 Cooper Street. 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 400 Block 415 Cooper Street Adult Architects Boarding House Boarding House Operator Extended Family Female Insurance Widows