Category: 1870-1889 (Born)
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Mabel F Thomas
1887-1974 Mabel F Thomas was an early female dentist in Newark. She worked for Dr. C A Spahn and then practiced on her own. Mable began practicing on her own after graduating the Thomas Evans Institute of University of Pennsylvania as one of only five women in 1918. She was a specialist in orthodontic straightening,…
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Janet MacRorie
1887-1950 Janet MacRorie was an journalist, adwoman, and radio censor, often based in Newark. Janet began her career as a journalist she was a reporter, feature writer, and women’s page editor for the Newark Star-Eagle, and previously New York City. She wrote the “advice to the lovelorn” column in the Star Eagle. She also worked…
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Florence Peshine Eagleton
1870-1953 Florence Eagleton was active in suffrage and a civic leader in NJ. She was a lifelong Newark resident. Florence Peshine Eagleton a suffragist who was was vice President of the NJ Suffrage Association and president of the Woman’s Political Union. She was a founder of the New Jersey League of Woman Voters. Florence was…
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Armita Harris Douglas
1874-1958 Armita Douglas was active in the suffrage movement and a civic leader in Newark, advocating for Black women to become more politically active. She said in 1923, ” “the best mother is not the mother who stays at home all the time and gets a flower once a year…there are girls outside our own home…
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Eleanor E Hamilton (Kingsley)
1882-1956 Eleanor E Hamilton was superintendent and director of Presbyterian Hospital in Newark from at least 1927-1947. She was named Outstanding Woman of Year in Essex County in 1947. She was president of the NJ Hospital Association in 1937. Eleanor was as previously director of the Illinois Training School for Nurses and Superintendent of Miami…
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Rose Kussy
1887-1955 Rose Kussy was president of the West Side Trust Company after the death of her husband. She was a director of the Jewish News. She was a member and secretary of the Newark Central Planning Board. Rose was appointed to the Planning Board in 1943, was Secretary of the Planning Board as early as…
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Jessie L. Creamer Cone
1880-1965 Jessie L Creamer was one of the founders of the College Women’s Club of Essex County in 1903 and president from 1912-1913. She taught at Belleville High and later is listed as a secretary for an auto service (1920 census). She was honored by the Club in 1960 and 1963. She was also a…
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Dr. Meta Anderson Post
c. 1889-1942 Dr. Meta Anderson was the director of Special Education for the Newark Public Schools from 1922 until 1942 when she was killed in an accident. She entered the school system in 1910 as “head teacher of mentally defective classes” and became supervisor in 1914. Meta took a leave of absence from the schools…