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• 1854 - Gloucester
  Gloucester, a township of Camden county, New Jersey. Population, 2371.
  
  Gloucester, a city of Gloucester town ship, Camden county, New Jersey, on the Delaware, about 4 miles below Camden. This flourishing place has increased in population, within the last 5 years, from some 50 to about 3000. Its growth is chiefly owing to the establishment of several cotton and other factories. Within the last 3 years 4 churches have been erected. Steamboats ply continually between this place and Philadelphia.
  A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
  
•   1859 - THE LATE STORM IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY, N.J. LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
  We learn that the terrible storm of Wednesday evening was particularly destructive in Gloucester, N.J. It began in the vicinity of Glassboro at about 7 1/ 2 o'clock. The wind blew a perfect tornado, and lasted until after nine o'clock. The house of THOMAS C. WOODROW, about two miles from Glassboro, was blown down, and MR. WOODROW and his wife were killed in the ruins. A boy in the house escaped. Fifteen or twenty barns and stables were blown down, and numbers of cattle were killed and badly hurt. The tornado covered a width of about two miles; it passed over from northeast to southwest, and nothing withstood its force that was moveable. Trees, fences, &c., were prostrated, and several dwellings were wrecked. The people in the vicinity were greatly alarmed. The growing crops suffered severely, both from the wind and the hail. In many instances vines were torn out of the ground by their roots.
  
  Philadelphia Bulletin, July 15.
  Banner of Liberty
  Middletown, New York
  July 27, 1859
  
•   1892 - FIERCE EASTERN CYCLONE. TWO MEN KILLD AND BUILDINGS WRECKED IN NEW JERSEY. A DWELLING CRUSHED BENEATH A FLYING STRUCTURE - HEAVY WINDS AND RAIN TO THE SOUTH - CONNECTICUT CROPS DAMAGED.
  GLOUCESTER, N. J., June 30. - At 1:20 this afternoon a windstorm of cyclonic character struck this city from the southwest, doing great damage to property and killing two persons and injuring three others severely.
  
  The killed are:
  PATRICK HIGHLANDS, aged fifty years, of Philadelphia.
  ROBERT HAMILTON, aged forty-five years, of Gloucester.
  
  Hamilton was killed by the crashing in of his house by the roof of Frombergen's pavillion.
  
  The injured are:
  Mrs. ROBERT HAMILTON, wife of Robert Hamilton; foot badly crushed.
  MARY HAMILTON, daughter of Robert Hamilton, seriously injured about the body and limbs.
  PATRICK HIGGINS of Camden; severe contusion in the head.
  
  For an hour or more before the storm burst threatening clouds filled the western sky to the zenith, an occasional flash of lightning rending from top to bottom. The air was close and heavy, and the light wind that was blowing sent the clouds before it with hardly a perceptible movement. By 1 o'clock the heavens were... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1895 - Gloucester City
  Gloucester City, a post-town of Camden co., N.J., on the Delaware River, and on the Camden, Gloucester & Mount Ephraim Railroad and the West Jersey Railroad, 3 miles S. of Camden. It contains 5 churches, a savings bank, a city hall, a newspaper office, iron-works, extensive manufactories of cotton, and gas-works and terracotta works. It is connected by steam-ferry with Philadelphia. Ginghams, print-cloths, and calicoes are made here. Pop. in 1870, 3682; in 1880, 5347; in 1890, 6564.
  Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
  
•   1899 - KILLED AT GRADE CROSSING. TROLLEY CAR RUN DOWN, ONE LIFE LOST, 15 SEVERELY AND 15 SLIGHTLY INJURED.
  Camden, N. J., Sept. 8. - A bad grade crossing accident at Gloucester City this evening resulted in one death, the severe injury of fifteen persons, and the slight injury of fifteen others, all trolley passengers.
  
  The dead:
  NEUNSICHWARD, ANNIE, 814 Butterworth Street, Philadelphia.
  
  Those most seriously injured:
  DELLARD, CURRUIT, thirty-five years of age, Ridge Avenue.
  THOMAS, MARY E., 2326 Lawrence Street.
  MORLEY, OSCAR B., Mountairy, Penn.
  TELLER, MRS. HENRY, 1100 Filbert Street, Philadelphia.
  
  The accident occurred at the Essex and Salem Streets Gloucester City. The trolley car was loaded with passengers at the time. It was bound from Washington Park at Gloucester.
  
  The persons on board had been spending the day at the park, and started to return to their homes in Philadelphia and other points in Pennsylvania and this State by way of the Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury Road.
  
  At the point where the accident occurred the trolley road's tracks cross those of the... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1911 - TRAIN KILLS FREEHOLDER
  GLOUCESTER, N. J., Nov. 8. - Thomas Cunningham, member of the Board of Freeholders of Gloucester County, was struck and instantly killed by an express train at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing in Westville, his home, today.
  Trenton Evening Times
  Trenton, New Jersey
  November 8, 1911
  
• 1916
  Gloucester, a township of Camden co., N.J. Pop. in 1900, 4018. See also Gloucester City.
  
  Gloucester City, a banking city of Camden co., N.J., on the Delaware River and on the Atlantic City and the West Jersey and Seashore Rs., 3 miles S. of Camden. It has extensive manufactories of oottons and woollens, incandescent lights, fertilizers, etc. It is connected by ferry with Philadelphia. Pop. in 1890, 6564; in 1900, 6840.
  Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher
  
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