Category: Doctors, Nurses and Medical
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Margaret Brydon Laird
1871-1968 A leader in the women’s suffrage movement and NJ’s first Assemblywoman, elected with Jennie C. Van Ness. Born in Newark and lived there most of her life. She attended Newark schools and…
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Mary Boland
c. 1950- Director of the AIDs program at the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey in Newark. She co-founded the program with Dr. James Oleske and was honored internationally for her work with children…
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Anna (Annie) T Nivison
1835-1920 An 1868 graduate of the New York Medical College for Women, Annie T Nivison opened “The Homestead” a private hospital in Newark in 1872. It was at 565-567 Orange St and later…
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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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Sarah Catherine Howard Johnson
1907-1993 One of the first African American nurses in the Visiting Nurses Association of Newark, where she worked from 1930-1950. Nurse at Hawkins Street School from 1965-1977. Received degrees from Tuskegee Institute (1929)…
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Dr. Sarah D. Smalley
1875-1952 A native of Newark who practiced in Newark from 1900-1952, for 52 years. She was active in the Newark Equal Suffrage League and a charter member of Zonta International. She was active…
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Dr. Rita Sapiro Finkler
1888-1968 Dr. Finkler established and headed the endocrinology department at Beth Israel Hospital. This was the first endocrinology department in New Jersey. She also practiced medicine in Newark for 55 years and wrote…
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Dr. Anna M. Robinson Cross
1856-1925 Physician who traveled widely in the West and was very prominent in Crawford, Nebraska where she was a government surgeon, “physician to the Indians” and relief surgeon for the railroad. The Newark…