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Elsa Rehmann
1886-1946 Elma Rehmann was the sister of Antoinette Perrett. Elsa was a famed landscape architect, who has a large biography linked below from the Cultural Landscape Foundation. The Sunday Call called her “one of the most successful women in her profession.” Elsa worked planning gardens saying, “The results of my work are most satisfying but…
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Antoinette Rehmann Perrett
1880-1952 Antoinette Perrett was a photographer and magazine writer, who wrote for national publications, specializing in gardens. Her work appeared in magazines such as House Beautiful, House and Garden, and Charm. She was the sister of Elsa Rehmann. She also had a recurring feature “Nature News Gathered in the Essex County Parks” in the Newark…
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Josephine Lawrence
1889-1978 Josephine Lawrence was Newark Sunday Call Children’s and Household Editor. She was also the Newark Sunday News women’s page editor and a weekly columnist. Josephine wrote around 100 children’s books, many with the Stratemayer firm and over 30 adult books. She also contributed to the New York Times Book Review, until she retired from…
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Louise Scott
1927-1983 Louise Scott was the founder of the Scott School of Beauty Culture. Born in the South, she came to New York from the South as a domestic & then to Newark where she opened her first beauty shop in 1944. This expanded into five shops and then a school. Louise was known as Newark’s…
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Dorothea H Wingert
1905-1990 Dorothea started writing for Newark newspapers in her teens. She wrote dozens of articles for a series on business and professional women in NJ in 1926-1927 when she was 21-22. In Jun 1926 she was placed in charge of the Call’s resort news bureau at Asbury Park. In 1934, she wrote several articles for the Newark…
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Brenda Estelle Ray Moryck
1894-1945 Black writer and social activist born in Newark. Worked with Newark Bureau of Charities. She published short stories, essays, and book reviews in national journals and magazines. Photo from Wellesley College. At the time of her graduation from Wellesley in 1916 her address was 61 Kearny (31 Kearney seems to be the correct address)…
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Florence Haines
1869-1955 Florence Haines secretary of the New Jersey Women’s Political Union, a charter Member of the Newark League of Women Voters, and one of New Jersey’s first woman Assembly representative from 1926-1931, one of the first two sisters in the General Assembly with her sister Margaret. Bills she championed in the Assembly included better rehabilitation…
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Louise Bullock
1910-1974 Louise Bullock graduated from the University of Newark’s College of Arts & Sciences in 1937. She may be the first Black female graduate of a school affiliated with Rutgers. Louise served as a director of “Negro work” in United Service Organizations (USO) club activities for the Young Women’s Christian Association (YMCA). She was play…
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Effa Manley
1897-1981 Effa Manley owned the Newark Eagles, championship winning Negro Leagues team with her husband Abraham Manley. She was very active in the running of the baseball team. There are several books written about her life including James Overmeyer’s “Queen of the Negro Leagues”. The Newark News wrote in 1942, “There is little she doesn’t…
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Sarah Vaughan
1924-1990 Sarah Vaughan described as having “one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century.” Vaughan grew up in Newark and attended Arts High, many of her first performances were in Newark. In 1930, she lived at 9 Brunswick Street, and 1940 at 72 Brunswick St. In 1950, the family is listed at 2…