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Rosamond Stewart Marrow
1903-1972 President of the Board of the Community Hospital (African American hospital, previously Kenney) in Newark. Also on the faculty of Essex County Vocational School in Beauty Culture. She was involved in politics in the 1930s through 1950s including being Republican Vice Chairman in the Central Ward and working on the campaign of Senate candidate…
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Adelina “Addie” McIntyre Garris
1869 – 1936 Cited by William Ashby and the Afro American as one of the earliest African American teachers in Newark. Lived at 13 Academy St and 69 Plane St. Listed as “Mulatto” on the 1880 census and “White” on the 1895 and 1930 Censuses. Attended Commerce Street School. When she graduated the Newark High…
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Lettie Mae Mulford
1883-1970 *sometimes listed as “Lettie Mulford” or “May Mulford” Teacher in the Newark Public School System for 42 years. A daughter of the first African American Newark High School student Clara Mulford, Lettie graduated Newark High School in 1901. In 1904, she graduated from the Normal School. Starting that year, she was an Assistant Teacher…
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Eva Mae Mulford
c. 1884-1886 to 1944 Daughter of Clara Irene Mulford. Lived in family house at 41 Chestnut. Early African American nurse associated with the Newark Board of Health. She was appointed in late 1917 or early 1918, it was reported in the Jan 1918 The Crisis. Mulford made 209 visits” regarding tuberculosis. She served at the…
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Anna Luella Seager
c.1887 -1957 Associate supervisor of the Newark Normal School and later Associate Professor Education at New Jersey State Teacher’s College. Planned international trips for the students. Graduated Columbia University. Worked at the Normal School/Teacher’s College from 1917, until her retirement in 1950. Bibliography Wingert, Dorothea “Woman Achieves Union of Business and Pleasure” Newark Sunday Call…
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Charlotte Kroll
1872-1958 Owner of Domestic Art Rooms 149 Washington St., teaching china painting. Buried by St. John’s Church Newark. Also imported and dealt in china with Mrs. Florence Nightingale Waterfield. Lived in Newark from at least 1913 until her death. She was on the Artist Committee for the 1916 Pageant of Newark. Her work was exhibited…
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(Clara) Irene Pataquam Mulford
c.1854- 1945 In 1872, first African American pupil to attend the Newark High School. Previously African American students attended the Colored School. She had to sit alone in the last seat because she wasn’t allowed to sit next to a white pupil. However, she said she was treated with “consideration” and one teacher was very…
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Marion Thompson Wright
1902-1962 Graduate of Barringer High. First African American woman in the US to earn a PHD in History. Rutgers annual lecture series named in her honor. Wrote, “The Education of Negroes in New Jersey” and other works. One of only two black students in her class at Barringer. Her mother worked as a domestic servant in…
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Mary Philbrook
1872-1958 First female attorney admitted to the bar in New Jersey. Practiced in Newark for many years. Bibliography “New Jersey Women’s History”. New Jersey Women’s Histor. 2020. Hendrickson, Lisa. “Biographical Sketch of Mary Philbrook”. Alexander Street. History, J. C. “Library Guides: Mary Philbrook (1872-1958): Mary Philbrook (1872-1958)”. njcu.libguides.com. Retrieved 2020-11-12. “Manuscript Group 572, Mary Philbrook (1872-1958), Women’s rights leader Papers, 1843-1954…
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Elizabeth Swain(e) Ogden
1645-1706 In 1666, settlers from CT settled Newark. Elizaeth is said to be the first of the 1666 Newark landing party to step foot on Newark soil. Historian Urquhart believes she was first of the Branford group. Atkinson writes, “so that women’s proper rights to positions of honor and distinction in Newark are not the…