Category: Business & Entrepreneur
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Sara Jane Ash
1886-1973 One of only two woman engineers at NJ Bell Telephone Company as of 1937. Started in 1902. Born in Paterson and worked at Bell in Paterson and other places until 1929 when…
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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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Alice Condit Kirkpatrick
11 Dec 1875 – 15 Jan 1951 First woman in Newark to head a city governing board. Elected in 1917 as President of the Recreation Commission, after being appointed for the start of…
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Elizabeth Albright Spurr
1870-1934 Newark native and lifelong resident. Founder of the Newark Branch of the Red Cross in 1917. She was also a vice chairman of the National Red Cross. Founder of the Welfare Association…
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Janet MacRorie
1887-1950 Assistant ad manager for PSE&G for 10 years. Pioneer in setting up standards and polices for commercial radio programs. Editor of Advertising Women 1924-1925. Report, feature writer, and women’s page editor for…
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Olivia Queene Brown
1882-1954 Beauty culturist since 1912, ran the Poro Beauty School on 9 Wallace Street which she opened in 1936 or 1937. On her death, the Afro American wrote how she had organized the…
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Anna E Whittington
c. 1875-1956 African American woman who ran her own real estate agency in Newark for more than 30 years from at least 1910. Left an estate over $100,000. She went by “A E…
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Rose Kussy
1887-1955 President of the West Side Trust Company after the death of her husband. Graduate of Barringer (Newark) High and Newark Normal School where she graduated in 1905 (Kean). Taught in Newark Schools…