Ed lived at the corner of Haddon avenue and East Main street when he was a boy and the rear of his yard met the rear of the fire house, and there was his hut standing near a big oak tree.  He was the captain of his gang and they all spent many afternoons up in the branches of that tree with a spy glass peering at a hut over in the field on Quaker lane (Friends avenue.)

This often caused activities between the two groups.  Ed's lieutenant was Izzy Feinstein who when maturity was reached became the well known newspaper editor, I.F. Stone, in Washington, DC.

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For generations now the story has been passed down that before and during the Civil War runaway slaves were hidden in the numerous piggeries that were over in Snowhill (Lawnside).  They had to be constantly moved so they were put in cellar in Saddlertown that still exists off Crystal Lake avenue in Haddon Township.  The town was founded by Jonathan Saddler, a runaway slave, who had been given the land, now reduced to five acres, by a Quaker before the Civil War.  The next stop of the underground railway was Philadelphia where the runaways finished their hidden route to freedom.

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Around the era of World War I an elderly gentleman resided in the first block of Centre street whose name was "Cap" Foehl.  No kid asked him why his name was "Cap".  Years later when his son, Willard, now himself a Haddonfield old-timer, was questioned about his father's name, he divulged that his dad had been Captain Charles W. Foehl, the military trainer and mathematics instructor at the Reilly Military Academy when it had been up on Centre street near Reilly's Woods at the turn of the century.

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Since 1901 the Haddon Gazette has continuously been serving a weekly story of Haddonfield.  A school teacher, Mr. Allen Clymer, began to publish a weekly newspaper with the press and editorial room in the rear of his property on East Main street where Haddon avenue now has been cut through to Ellis street.  The paper was distributed to stores then, with no routes.  The price was four cents a copy, and a yearly mail subscription cost $1.50.  Eventually Mr. Clymer sold the publication to his son, Heister, who was the publisher until he sold to his brother, Victor H. Clymer.  Heister worked for Vic until he became Borough Clerk and later the Postmaster in 1924.   When Victor became deceased his son, George Allen Clymer, printed the paper until it was sold to Mr. Louis F. Klauder, the publisher of the weekly paper in Moorestown.  The Gazette next was sold to Mr. Frank Helemen the owner of several South Jersey weeklies.  Ultimately the weekly was sold to the Gannett Group and it is a member of the Suburban Newspaper Group.

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In the 1880's the Star Milk Cooler Company was in a large frame building on the west side of the Pennsylvania tracks near Kings highway opposite the ticket office and waiting room.  It was the forerunner in the manufacture of sanitary dairy apparatus that cooled and sterilized milk, and washed bottles.  The company also furnished plans and specifications for barns and buildings on dairy farms and supervised the installation of the equipment that was sold to them.  Around 1909 the factory ceased to operate and the large building was vacant.

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John E. Hand and Company took the building over and began to manufacture nautical instruments that were soon known the world over.   Old man Hand initially operated a store on the Market Street hill near the Delaware River in Philadelphia.  He was a compass setter by trade and he would board ships from pilot boats as the vessels entered the Delaware Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.  He would set their needles as they made their way up the Delaware River to their anchorages at Philadelphia.  His factory moved to Haddonfield from Atco when the Star building was available.  Hand's was in Haddonfield for years and eventually moved to Cherry Hill Township and again the old building stood empty until it was modernized and is now an office building.