Category: Born or raised in Newark (high school or before)
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Hannah (Burnet) Kinney
1761-1862 Helped found the Newark Female Charitable Society in 1803 and served as president. “A star in the social world of her day as well as a writer and theologian”. Instituted the first…
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Emma Ward Edwards
1845-1896 Emma Ward Edwards was one of the first woman doctors in NJ. Born in Newark, she graduated valedictorian of the first class of the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary…
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Amina Baraka
1942- Amina Baraka is an American poet, actress, author, community organizer, singer, dancer, and activist. She graduated from Arts High School. Bibliography “Amina Baraka – Queer Newark”. queer.newark.rutgers.edu. Barbara J Kukla Papers “Amina Baraka”.…
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Clara L Scudder
1874-1930 Clara L Scudder was very accomplished on the piano and organ. She learned from her father David Scudder who was a member of Craig’s Orchestra. She went to Scotland and Europe to…
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Augusta Parsonnet
1870-1949 President, Women’s Political Union of New Jersey; President, League of Women Voters of Newark. Lived in Weequahic and Lincoln Park. Bibliography Robb, George. Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists. John James Scannell, New Jersey’s…
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Mildred Preen
1919-1979 Mildred Preen, graduate of West Side High in Newark was the first woman to graduate in Electrical Engineering at Newark College of Engineering, was an Assemblywoman, private pilot, and served with the…
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Mabel Irene Gilman
c. 1897?-1943 Miss Mabel Irene Gilman who lived on Clinton Ave., was the first female detective appointed by Essex County in 1929. She attended Barringer High School, and lived in Newark from 1906.…
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Adelaide Wilson
1902- Adelaide Wilson was raised in Newark and worked as a reporter. In 1922 she hiked 10,000 miles to San Francisco & back. She became engaged to a rancher in Denver and worked…