Campbell soup company was started in 1869 by Joseph A.
Campbell, a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and
Abraham Anderson, an icebox manufacturer from South
Jersey. They produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies,
soups, condiments, and minced meats.

Joseph Albert Campbell
(1817 – 1900)

The Jos. A. Campbell Preserve Co., Camden, NJ in 1894.

Exterior view of the new World HQ building in Camden, N.J.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founded
the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later
renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938.

The Department of Justice unleashed a shocking and often
violent unconstitutional nationwide dragnet — detaining as
many as 10,000 people — on this day in history, Jan. 2, 1920.

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer (above) appointed to the
office 10 months earlier by President Woodrow Wilson, led the
sweep against suspected communists and anarchists, as well
as their sympathizers.

The action was soon dubbed the Palmer Raids. 

The Foundation for Economic Education said…"The raids
constituted a horrific, shameful episode in American history,
one of the lowest moments for liberty since King George III
quartered troops in private homes."

The foundation called the effort under President Wilson
"America’s reign of terror."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

A young Justice Department official, J. Edgar Hoover, 
played a key role in the Palmer Raids. He was named
FBI director in 1924. 

On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Attempting to stitch together a nation mired in a
bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln made a last-ditch, but carefully calculated, decision regarding the institution of slavery in America.

                              Alice Sanger (1864 – 1941)

President Benjamin Harrison welcomes Alice Sanger as the first
female White House staffer on January 2, 1890.

President Benjamin Harrison (1833 – 1901)