Category: Born or raised in Newark (high school or before)
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Evelyn Silverstein Simpson
1931-2021 Newark space planner, interior designer, teacher and potter. Graduate of Weequahic High School and Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Lived on Renner Ave during highschool. She tudied ceramics at the…
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Bessie Lanier Smith
1924-1966 Bessie Lanier was born in Virginia but graduated Arts High in 1942 with a major in music. She was prominent in the Clinton Hill anti-poverty activities with United Community Corporation and as…
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Everane (Eva) Crump Harris
1913-2006 Born in Pleasantdale, NJ but lived in Newark by 1930 and in the Ironbound at 101 Hawkins St by 1950, after her first husband died, and for the rest of her life.…
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Susan Amelia Barnet
1814-1897 Born in Mendham but raised in Newark. Member of the first class of the New York Women’s Medical College, which graduated 1865. She practiced as a physician until four years before her…
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Rose A Leonardis
1916-2012 Lifelong Ironbound resident. Proprietor of the Rose A. Leonardis Funeral Home after the death of her father in 1953. She graduated from embalming school in 1950. She ran the funeral home until…
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Mildred Roberts Helms
1907–2002 Community activist, encouraged the building of affordable housing in Clinton Hill. In 1972, she helped found the Clinton Hill Area Development Corp which built 151 units of housing in Clinton Hill Community…
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Asimina Speros Zois
1909-1987 Arrived in Newark at age 7 from Greece, married in 1937 as “Minnie Speros”. Before marriage lived on Baldwin St (1930) and served as a bookkeeper. In 1927, she was listed as…
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Rose Slavitt
1895-1969 Born in Newark, but grew up in New York for some years (1910). Back in Newark by 1915. First woman to manage a department at Prudential Insurance Co. in 1952. She was…