Category: Other Careers

Janyce Jackson Jones

Mar 5, 2022

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Newark Women

in 1930-1959 (Born), Activists and Community Leaders, African Americans, LGBT+, Other Careers

1951- Co-Pastor of Unity Fellowship Church located in Newark, NJ. Pastor of Liberation in Truth Unity Fellowship Church for which she is a founding member when it was established in 1995. Executive Director…
Mildred Preen

Feb 24, 2022

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Newark Women

in 1910-1929 (Born), Born or raised in Newark (high school or before), Other Careers

1919-1979 Mildred Preen, graduate of West Side High in Newark was the first woman to graduate in Electrical Engineering at Newark College of Engineering, was an Assemblywoman, private pilot, and served with the…
Melinda Scott

Feb 23, 2022

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Newark Women

in 1870-1889 (Born), Activists and Community Leaders, Immigrant (born outside the Continental US), Other Careers, Suffrage

1876-1954 Melinda Scott was an English immigrant and President of a Hat Trimmers Union in Newark & worked for suffrage including being part of a delegation to President Wilson. She was also a…
Elsa Rehmann

Feb 23, 2022

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Newark Women

in 1870-1889 (Born), Born or raised in Newark (high school or before), Other Careers

1886-1946 Sister of Antoinette Perrett. Famed landscape architect. Large biography linked below from the Cultural Landscape Foundation. 1908 Barnard Graduate. 1904 Newark High graduate. Lived at 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Bibliography