Category: 1870-1889 (Born)
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Marguerite MacDonald Carpenter
1886-1977 Marguerite MacDonald Carpenter was an early lawyer who was admitted to the Bar in 1928. She was a secretary of the NJ Civil Service Commission in Newark, also teaching night classes in typing and stenography at Central High School. She was active for women’s rights, appearing before the State Constitutional Committee in 1948. She…
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Emma Smith Lesch
c. 1878 – 1953 Emma Lesch was considered one of the first women to train a performing tiger. Posters said she was the only woman to include a tiger in a “mass animal” act, with other types of animals. Other articles said she was, “the only woman ever to handle a tiger in public.” In…
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Florence M. Rose
1876-? Florence M. Rose was one of the earliest lawyers in NJ, she was admitted to the bar in 1898, when only three other women had passed the bar, one of whom was Mary Philbrook. In 1902, Florence passed her counselor at law exam. She said she found her work “very fascinating” and would advise…
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Paula Laddey
1880-1966 Paula Laddey was an early woman lawyer in Newark serving from 1913-1950, during some of which she had her own Newark office. She served eight years as the assistant probation officer of Essex County. In 1914, she became attorney and executive secretary of the Legal Aid Society of New Jersey, in Newark, where she…
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Estelle Morris
1881-1979 Estelle Morris was a civic activist and women’s club leader, active in the NJ Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, Sojourner Truth branch of the YWCA, Newark Community Chest and many other organizations. Mother of Mildred Morris Williams and Irene Morris. Estelle was Regional President of Northwest Region in the NJ State Federation of Colored…
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Anna W. Hilton Monroe
1878-1973 Anna Monroe was active in Black social and civic organizations in Newark for many years. She was a founding member of the Urban League, president of the Newark Branch of the NAACP, and financial chairman for the Sojourner Truth Branch of the YWCA and the NJ State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. Price’s Freedom…
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Ella Van Steenburgh
c. 1871 – 1958 Ella Van Steenburgh was a registered nurse, who ran a successful Nurse’s Home and registry business for over 40 years. In 1906, Ella graduated from Newark City Hospital School of Nursing: Class Photo here from Newark Library. She began working a hospital nurse, however, in 1908 she acquired spinal meningitis and…
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Jenny H. Morris
1870-1949 Jenny H Morris was secretary of the NJ Women’s Suffrage Association and Newark News reporter from 1914 until her retirement in 1946. From her biography on the Alexander Street Suffrage database: Ms. Morris covered education, welfare movements, and women’s organizations. She wrote under the byline “J.H. Morris” because “at the time Ms. Morris came…