Category: Education, Museums and Libraries
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Emily B Thomas
1870-1924 Emily B Thomas was an assistant teacher to James Baxter at the Colored School from at least 1888. She pent most of her teaching career at Commerce Street School and was a member of the Phyllis Wheatly Society. Emily was appointed a delegate to the National Congress of Colored Educators, by the Governor, in…
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Mary Dennis Poland
c. 1873-1947* Born in Ohio, Mrs. Poland was the wife of state superintendent Addison Poland. However, she was accomplished in her own right. She was the first woman to be award a doctorate in philosophy, which came from NYU. In Newark she was dean of girls in Newark High School (Barringer) for 26 years until…
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Hamilton Family
Laura Bland Hamilton 1853-1952 Laura Hamilton was born into slavery in VA. She came to Newark after the Civil War with her sister and married Frederick Hamilton. Founder of Bethany Baptist Church. She organized a factory making baby clothes in her home which she ran for 18 years. Her husband also had an automobile exchange…
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Mildred Morris Williams
1905-1958 Mildred Morris was one of the early Black teachers in Newark. In 1938 the Herald News called her “one of Newark’s popular school teachers”, “charming” and a “member of one of New Jersey’s outstanding families”. She taught at Abington Ave School, in 1st grade, for most of her career, teaching briefly at Belmont Ave,…
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Linda H. Morley and Adelaide C. Kight
1885-1972, 1889-1972 Linda Morley was head of the business branch of Newark Public Library after Sarah Ball and before Marian Manley from 1917(1919?)-1926. With Adelaide Kight she wrote “2400 business books and guide to business literature” (1920) and “Business books 1920-1926” (1927). The Wilson Bulletin called Kight and Morley the “moving spirits of Newark’s Business…
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Sarah Bedell Ball
1879-1962 Sarah Ball was head of Newark’s business library from 1907 to about 1919. She was inducted into Special Library hall of fame in 1959 with Alma Mitchell. She helped found the Special Libraries Association. Later Sarah became a bookseller in New York (Ball & Wilde) and died in Hartford, CT. Sarah was born in…
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Shirley Northern Green
c. 1935-1983 Shirley Green was appointed director of the Division of Public Welfare in 1978 by Ken Gibson. She previously served as Rent Control Administrator from 1974 to 1978, and in the Business Administrator’s office before that. Shirley was forced to leave school at age 15 due to illness. In 1966, after a husband and…
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Marcia King Stillwell
c. 1846- Feb 13, 1929 Marcia King Stillwell was a daughter of Mary Thompson King and sister of Harriet and Ellen King. Marcia was First Assistant to James Baxter from at least 1865 (first year its listed in the Board of Education reports) until 1880, likely through 1882 so at least fifteen years. In Jan…