Category: 1870-1889 (Born)
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Dora G Roworth
1885-1962 Dora G Roworth was the 1st woman to get a CPA license in the NJ in 1909. She was an officer in the NJ Society of CPAs and worked at 790 Broad…
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Musette Brooks Gregory
1876-1921 Musette Gregory was a suffragist and activist. She was a leader in the Urban League of Newark and Vice President of the Newark Branch of the NAACP. She was on the Executive…
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H. Blanche Harris
1878-1956 (Thanks to George Robb who did much research on Harris). Blanche Harris was active in the suffrage movement in Newark. She was president of the Lincoln Branch, Women’s Political Union of Newark.…
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Elsa Rehmann
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
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Antoinette Rehmann Perrett
1880-1952 Garden photographer and magazine writer. Wrote for national publications. Sister of Elsa Rehmann. 492 Mt. Prospect Ave. Graduated Newark High School in 1897. Bibliography “Pictoral Photography Work Gains Success for Woman” April…
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Josephine Lawrence
1889-1978 Newark Sunday Call Children’s and Household Editor. Newark News Women’s Page Editor and Weekly Columnist. Wrote over 100 children’s book with Stratemayer and over 30 adult books. She attended Barringer High School…
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Clara Maas
1876-1901 Clara Maas was one of the first graduates of Newark German Hospital and was named head nurse at 21. She volunteered to be infected with yellow fever for experiments to cure the…
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Maria Jeritza
1887-1982 Renowned Czech soprano Maria Jeritza lived in #newarknj Forest Hill from 1948 until her death in 1982. Her rapid rise to fame, beauty and personality earned her the nickname “The Moravian Thunderbolt”.…