Englewood Makes History

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  • Charles W. Ward was an Episcopal clergyman who served as rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church during the 1880s. He was the son of James Harman Ward, a distinguished U.S. Navy officer and nationally known military intellectual. James H. Ward was one of the founders of the U.S.…
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  • Rev. Dr. Thomas J. B. Harris was a Presbyterian minister, educator, civil-rights organizer, military chaplain, and political strategist whose life and leadership shaped Englewood and Bergen County’s Black civic institutions for more than seventy years. Widely regarded as an…
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  • Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is a prominent African American religious leader, orator, and political figure best known for his leadership of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Over the course of his long public life, Farrakhan emerged as one of the most…
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  • Irwin William Langston “Dominie” Roundtree was born into slavery in Georgia sometime in the mid-1850s, though the precise year of his birth remains uncertain. Census records, seminary files, and Roundtree’s own recollections offer conflicting dates, ranging from 1855 to 1860.…
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  • James Harrison Dwight was the first minister of The First Presbyterian Church. This church is the oldest in Englewood. He served from 1860 to 1861. He continued after a leave of absence to serve in the Civil War. He resigned in 1867. He was the son of minister Harrison Gray Otis…
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  • Walter Scott Taylor (1916–1984) was a minister, civil-rights leader, publisher, and politician whose career bridged the pulpit, the streets, and City Hall during one of Englewood’s most turbulent eras of racial change. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Taylor was educated…
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  • Robert I. Miller was a Presbyterian minister and the mayor of Englewood in 1967. He was the first democratic mayor with a democratic council majority. Miller was in the Army during World War II. He graduated from the University of Buffalo with a degree in sociology and…
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  • Joseph O'Brien was a pastor at St. Cecilia. He attended Mt. Carmel College, St. Bonaventure University, and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He was ordained on August 18, 1963. He served at numerous other churches globally and nationally including Parroquia Santo…
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