Category: 1890-1909 (Born)
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Lillian B Huff Stewart
1909-2007 Social writer, social editor of the New Jersey Herald News in Newark. Reporter who covered all kinds of stories according to Robert Queen. He says she was working as a waitress when…
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Harriet Stratemeyer Adams
1892-1982 Wrote over 200 books over her literary career, including the plot outlines for many Nancy Drew books. Took over control of the Stratemeyer business after her father’s death. Born in Newark and…
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Sally (Sara) E. Cooke Young
1905-1967 Born and raised in Newark. 1924 graduate of Central High. Lived at 169 Norfolk St when she graduated Central. Her father Ambrose was listed on the census as a book author. She…
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Mae Muldrow
1909 -1977 Owned LaVogue Beauty Salon. Nationally known and active with the Cordelia Greene Johnson Foundation (scholarships for beauticians). She graduated from the Myriam Caragu Beauty School in Paris. General chairman of the…
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Alice Bunce
1893-1970 Alice E. Bunce was the first African American woman to graduate from the New Jersey College of Pharmacy in Newark. However, she lived in Asbury Park at the time of graduation in…
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Mabel Irene Gilman
c. 1897?-1943 Miss Mabel Irene Gilman who lived on Clinton Ave., was the first female detective appointed by Essex County in 1929. She attended Barringer High School, and lived in Newark from 1906.…
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Adelaide Wilson
1902- Adelaide Wilson was raised in Newark and worked as a reporter. In 1922 she hiked 10,000 miles to San Francisco & back. She became engaged to a rancher in Denver and worked…
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Miriam Studley
1899-1984 Miriam Van Arsdale Studley was the first director of the New Jersey room at the Newark Public Library from 1951-1966. She also ran the NJ collections from 1943, when Julia Sabine went…