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Isaac C. Toone was born about 1842 to Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Toone in Pennsylvania. His father was a merchant. Isaac Toone served in the Civil War veteran. He came to Camden NJ and owned and operated a dry goods and notions store at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue in the 19th Century. At the time of the 1880 census the Toone family lived at 463 Kaighn Avenue in Camden. At home at the time wire wife Annie, son Jonathan, and daughters Laura and Florence. By 1887 he had moved his family to 554 Benson Street. He also had taken on a partner, Thomas Hollinshed, and together they owned the Toone and Hollinshed Department Store, selling "dry goods, carpets, hats, caps, clothing and boots and shoes." Isaac Toone and the Toone & Hollinshed store appear in all Camden City Directories from 1887 through 1891. Isaac Toone was friendly with City Engineer Levi Farnham. On June 18, 1903 the Camden Daily Courier reported "William C. Riggs and wife, then City Surveyor Levi Farnham and wife, Daniel Garwood and wife, Isaac C. Toone and wife and George E. Taylor and wife are a party of Camdenites enjoying the grocers' excursion to Eaglesmere, Pa. They will be gone a few days". He was also friendly with Alexander G. Cattell. Isaac Toone had passed away by the time of the 1920 Census. he was survived by his wife Annie, and a son Howard, then living in Collingswood, who was managing the family business. The Toone & Hollinshead Department Store was destroyed in a fire on December 14, 1921. |
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Philadelphia Inquirer * March 20, 1888 |
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Corson - I.C. Beatty - Edward Gillingham - W.H. Husted - Homer Snyder Edward A. Martin - Joseph M. Engard - Frederick A. Rex - C.V.D. Joline - Frank Lee Dickinson Martin Bergen - A.J. Greene - C.S. Magrath - Adam P. Sloan - Robert . McDougall Alexander Schlessinger - J. Wesley Sell - James Ware Jr - Water Stret - Vine Street - Federal Street |
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Philadelphia Inquirer - August 19, 1915 |
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Howard Robbins North 10th Street - Penn Street - Cooper Hospital Wildwood Avenue - Princess Avenue - Broadway Kaighn Avenue - Jackson Street South 3rd Street - Bridge Avenue Toone & Hollinshed - Camden Curtain Rod John McTaggart - Harry Green Chemical Company No. 1 (Engine Co. 9) Engine Company No. 1 Thomas Hollinshed Parkside School Click on Images to Download |
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Big Camden Fires in Six Weeks Bring Losses of $595,000 Four fires in Camden's business district within the past six weeks have destroyed or damaged a dozen retail stores, entailing losses fixed at $595,000. They were:
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