Category: Born or raised in Newark (high school or before)
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Naomi Sylvia Charner Campbell
1925-2017 Naomi Charner was a graduate of South Side High who lived at 712 Bergen St and 140 Somerset St in Newark. In 1947, she attended Upsala College and was a senior and…
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Duryee Family
(Photo from FindAGrave, Mt. Pleasant Cemetery) All heavily involved in missionary work – specifically the Women’s Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Church in America (WBFM of the RCA). Mary, Anna, Charlotte and Amy…
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Elizabeth Hardin Goss
1895-1953 Graduated Miss Townsend’s School in Newark and then went to Vassar where she broke the world record in shot put, as well as the basketball and baseball throw. Her shot put record…
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Dr. Edith Gann
1905-1998 Graduate of Miller Street School, South Side High and the Normal School. Received a Phd from psychology from Columbia. She was a principal at Camden Street, Avon Avenue, and Maple Avenue Elementary…
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Jessie Yearance Cann
1882-1964 First woman to gain a Phd in Chemistry at Columbia. She was born in Newark to Frank (Newark alderman) and Fanny Cann and a 1901 graduate of Newark High. She graduated Goucher…
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Maude E Emery
1888-1973 Born in Boston, came to Newark before 1905. Graduated Barnard in 1910. Taught Latin and History at South Side High School for 41 years. Bibliography “Miss Emery 85 Newark Teacher” Star Ledger…
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Bertha Rosenthal
1891-1957 Early College of Pharmacy graduate in 1909, “one of the youngest graduates of the college”. Only one other woman graduated that year, though the first woman graduates were in 1901 there were…
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Sarah Elizabeth Collins Houston
1896-1986 Grandmother of Whitney Houston. Born in California in 1896 but lived in Newark on Beach St by the time she was 14. Her father was minister at St. James AME Church. She…