Camden People - Samuel Alcott

SAMUEL B.F. ALCOTT was born in New Jersey in February, 1855 to John Alcott and his wife, the former Elizabeth Fox, most likely in Burlington County, New Jersey, where he resided though at least 1870. By 1880 Samuel Alcott had moved to Camden, New Jersey.

Samuel Alcott served with the Camden Fire Department in 1882 and 1883, as a turnkey at the County Jail in the late 1880s, and also was a member of the Camden Police Department as late as 1905. Late in life he worked as a watchman at the Camden Post Office. Politically aligned with the Democrats, in the full-contact sport that was Camden politics in the years between the Civil War and World War I, Samuel Alcott was a frequent participant.

Samuel Alcott married Rhoda Conn in 1887. Two sons, Richard Smith Alcott and William J. Alcott were born of this marriage.

Samuel B.F. Alcott passed in 1921 and was buried at Pemberton Baptist Church in Pemberton, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 8, 1885

James A. Cassady
Harry Gallagher

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 26, 1892

Samuel B.F. Alcott

Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905

Camillus Appley - Charles H. Ellis - George Murry - Samuel B.F. Alcott
Harry Hope

Philadelphia Inquirer - April 28, 1906

Taylor Grain Elevator - Cooper Hospital

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 1, 1906

O. Glen Stackhouse
Samuel B.F. Alcott
Hugh Kelly
James Harris
William Conway
John S. Roberts
Chris Stark
Effie Lucas
Pine Street

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 23, 1906

O. Glen Stackhouse
Samuel B.F. Alcott
Hugh Kelly
James Harris
William Conway
Division Street
Berkley Street
Kaighn Avenue
Isaac Harris
Harry Livermore
Jonathan Simpkins
Walter Willets
Richard Green
Stanley Murray
Judge Gaskill

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 1, 1917

Dr. Duncan Blake
Louis Le Duc
Walter Farrell
John Cleary
Russell Carrow
Samuel B.F. Alcott

*Philadelphia Inquirer December13, 1894**