Category: Asian Americans

Maud “Peggy O’ Wing” Wingk Batsch

Oct 17, 2024

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Newark Women

in 1890-1909 (Born), Asian Americans, Born or raised in Newark (high school or before), Entertainers, Theater and Music, Suffrage

Sept 1896 – early 1930s? Maud P Wingk lived with her mother Lena, her father a laundry dealer (William) and three sisters Janette/Lulu, Alma and Nora (names differ on census records). She was…
Lem See Wong

Oct 20, 2023

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Newark Women

in 1870-1889 (Born), Asian Americans, Other Careers

1880-? Mrs. Willie Hong, was called “the only Chinese woman in the city” in 1909 and “the only woman in Chinatown” in 1911. The Star Eagle wrote, “She is very nice indeed. Mrs.…
Aileen Fong Shane

Oct 23, 2022

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Newark Women

in 1910-1929 (Born), Asian Americans, Born or raised in Newark (high school or before), Other Careers

1926-2017 Born and raised in Newark’s Chinatown Aileen Fong Shane was an early woman engineer, graduating from Newark College of Engineering in 1946, at just age 19. In a 1947 article in the…