Englewood Makes History

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  • Vivian Scheinmann was a journalist and women's rights activist. She opened a bookstore in Englewood with Pamela Sheldrick named Pandora Book Peddlers. It was opened around 1983 on 68 West Palisade Avenue. She also ran the New Directions for Women newspaper.
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  • William Outis Allison was a banker and philanthropist. He acted as vice president of the Palisades Trust and Guaranty Company of Englewood, president of the National Reserve Bank of New York, president of the publishing company that owned Oil, Pain and Drug Reporter, Druggist's…
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  • Frederick Snare Sr. (c. 1860–September 22, 1943) was an American engineer, contractor, and international builder whose career spanned the United States, Cuba, and South America during the era of rapid industrial expansion and American overseas influence. As founder and longtime…
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  • Armando Pavon owned the Santa Barbara Grocery Store with his brother. He married Noewm Fernandez in 1955. He remarried Luz Amparo Sanchez in 1980. He had five children.
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  • Arely Rincon gained ownership of the Santa Barbara Grocery store in 2012.
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  • LeRoy McDonald was the manager of the nightclub Harlem-on-Hudson in Englewood Cliffs.
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  • Louis Stevenson Coe was a business owner who grew up in Englewood. He established and owned the New Jersey Paper Tube Company. He ran and was elected to the Board of Freeholders. He was also head of the Englewood Field Club.His father was William Patten Coe and his brother was…
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  • William A. Booth (1805–1895) was a prominent nineteenth-century businessman, financier, railroad organizer, and philanthropist whose long career helped shape the commercial and institutional life of New York and the expanding United States. He died in Englewood, New Jersey, in…
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  • Charles Henry Booth (1803–1903) was a longtime resident of Englewood, New Jersey, whose life and moral commitments linked the town to some of the most important reform movements of the nineteenth century. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1803, Booth came of age during the…

  • John Jay Phelps was a businessman and founder of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. He married Rachel Badgeley Phinney on July 4, 1835. He had three children, Ellen Ada Phelps Dodge, William Walter Phelps, and Francis Alexander Phelps. He was the father of…
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