Month: April 2022
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Frances “Fannie” Traphegen Rippel
1860-1943 President of the Home for Aged and Respectable Women from 1929-1934, and a longterm board member and volunteer. Lived in Newark from at least 1900-1930. She was president of the Heidelberg Guild…
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Lydia Young Hayes
1871-1943 First director of the New Jersey Commission for the Blind which had offices in Newark at 14 James St (now Audible). Became director in 1910. Was blind herself from a childhood farm…
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Margaret Douglas Haines
1884-1966 Lifelong resident of Newark. Member of the General Assembly 1949-1953. Taught at Garfield and Avon Ave Schools. Canteen worker and ambulance driver in WWI. Signal corps driver and USO Organizer in Newark…
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Mariana Higbie Barker
1880- April 24, 1967 Born in Newark, graduate of Smith College 1901. President of the Board of Babies Hospital. She was a founder of the Babies Hospital Guild. Involved for 65 years. Received…
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Myrtle C. Williams
1900- 15 Jun 1965 (?) Grew up in Newark on Chestnut St. First “colored girl” to finish a 4 year commercial course in 1919 when she graduated East Side High. Played a piano…
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Stella Windsor Wright
1887-1932 From North Carolina. Social worker who helped establish the Friendly Neighborhood House with Gladys Churchman and Louise Shugard. Stella Wright Homes was named after her. She also helped to establish a Girls…
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Dr. Eva Topkins Brodkin
1899-1994 First female dermatologist in New Jersey. Practiced in Newark from 1927 to 1977. Also chief of dermatology at St. Barnabas Newark in the 1960s. President of the NJ Dermatological Society. President of…
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Clara Dasher
1930-1995 President of the Essex County College Board of Trustees, longtime active member and leader of the Newark Teacher’s Union. Teacher from 1959-1973. President of the NJ A Philip Randolph Institute. Served on…