Category: 1890-1909 (Born)
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Dr. Vera Schectman
1890-1971 Russian immigrant. Graduate of the Women’s Medical College of UPenn. The first woman doctor at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark. On the staff at Beth Israel through 1970. Also had a practice…
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Elizabeth Miele
1898-1975? Went to Barringer and Central High graduating Central in 1918. Newspaper reporter for the Newark Ledger, lawyer, publisher of The Civic Pilot. Graduated New Jersey Law School in 1921. Praticed law at…
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Majorie M Sweet
1892-1963 In Newark from at least 1915. The Sunday Call claimed she was the first licensed woman automobile driver in NJ. She became a car saleswoman at a young age in Perth Amboy.…
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Dorothy Palmer
c. 1893-1984 Operated the Dorothy Palmer School of dancing on Broadway in Newark for more than 50 years. Retired in 1963. Born in Newark, attended Barringer, member of the Dance Masters of America.…
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Elsa Greenwood
1893-1957 Lifelong resident of Newark, who attended Robert Treat School. She ran the Elsa Greenwood School of Dance. When she died in 1957 the Newark News claimed it was due to exhaustion from…
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Julia Sabine
1905-1990 Head of the Art and Music Department at Newark Library. Worked at the library for over 40 years. Taught at Rutgers Library School. Specialist in rare books, printing and fine prints. Editor…
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Abigail Malmgreen
1909-2009 1926 Graduate of Barringer High. Worked at Bamberger’s Department Store and then for the Newark Welfare Department. Lifelong political activist. Member of the United Nations Association, Americans for Democratic Action, the NAACP,…
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Esther K Untermann
1896-1989 First woman secretary of the Newark Civil Defense Council (1953-1962, gained international recognition, works produced for radio and TV) and first woman to be named a judge (police judge) in Essex County.…