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Chief Hain

Jack Hain wrote, "You know you're from Wenonah if you remember when this fellow (my Dad) was Chief of Police and the big crime was running the stop sign in front of our house at Maple and Jefferson by Wenonah Lake!"

A newspaper article from The Camden Courier Post, Feb 13, 1954 is attached below. The text is also printed here.

Names New Officer for Traffic Control

Wenonah, Feb. 13
Appointment of Walter Hain Jr., of Monroe ave. as an assistant police marshal was confirm Friday night by borough council.

Edward Lincoln Farr

By Lou McCall

Born in Maine in 1861, he was the son of Lincoln D. Farr ( of Bailey and Farr Manufactory in Camden, previously know as Farr’s Oil Cloth Works ) and Hannah Bailey Farr (daughter of a leading oilcloth manufacturer and niece to CM Bailey, a financial magnate and oil cloth manufacturer). He hails from a long line of Quakers and Puritans dating back to Plymouth Rock.

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