Category: Doctors, Nurses and Medical
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Christiana Oehler Trefz
1831-1913 Image from 1889 city atlas President and manager of the Christiana Trefz Brewing Company. She managed the company from 1876, when her husband died, until 1889 when it merged with Krueger, after…
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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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Alma Beatty
1940-2015 Vice President of Community Affairs at Beth Israel. Beth Israel calls her “a trailblazer in our community”, She was the founder and coordinator of Beth Israel’s annual health and wellness fair. It…
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Irene E Morris
1900-1953 Irene Morris worked for the Board of Health for over 25 years. She graduated from Mercy Hospital in Philadelphia with the class of 1922. Listed as a nurse in city directories from…
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Hamilton Family
Laura Bland Hamilton 1853-1952 Born into slavery in VA. Came to Newark after the Civil War with her sister and married Frederick Hamilton. Founder of Bethany Baptist Church. Organized a factory making baby…
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Dr. Gertrude Ash Golat
c. 1909-1980 Graduate of University of Vienna Medical School, came to Newark in 1939. For 25 years worked as a part time physician for the Newark Board of Education and in the 1960s…
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Esther Newman
c. 1883 – 1901 First woman graduate of the NJ College of Pharmacy along with Emma Egge. Graduated in April and died in August due to appendicitis after an operation. She was listed…
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Theresa Kraker Guthrie
c. 1889-1959 Lived in Newark from at least 1910. Founder of the Chronically Ill Service of Essex County. Board member of the Essex County Tuberculosis League and county representative on the board of…