Englewood Makes History

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  • The Friends of Dr. William F. Willoughby Auxiliary was founded in 1952-1953. Marie Davis founded the organization and became its first president. She named the organization after the first black doctor as Englewood Hospital. The organization raised funds for new beds and to…
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  • Maria Cheney Davis was one of Englewood’s most enduring community builders. Over the course of nearly half a century, she helped shape the city’s Black civic life through health advocacy, volunteer leadership, youth mentorship, and sustained service to Englewood Hospital and…
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  • William F. Willoughby (c. 1866–1945) was a physician, medical examiner, and political leader whose career placed him at the center of Black civic life and racialized party politics in early-twentieth-century Bergen County, New Jersey. Born in Barbados, British West Indies,…
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  • Dr. Helen C. Moran was a pioneering physician whose career intertwined clinical medicine, public health, and women’s leadership, with a particularly significant impact at Englewood Hospital during the formative decades of the twentieth century. At a time when women physicians…
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  • The Englewood Hospital School of Nursing was a training school. The first graduating class was that of 1887/1898.
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  • Adalberto Barroso-Bernier was the first Latino doctor on staff at the Englewood Hospital. He was also the first Colombian-born resident of Englewood. He graduated from Cornell Medical School in 1931. He was a surgeon and a urologist. He lived in Englewood between 1933 to 1939.…
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  • The Englewood Volunteer Corps (EVAC) was founded in 1954. It was a nonprofit emergency medical agency funded by the city and medical billing donations. The organization stopped service on April 1, 2024, due to declining membership and operational constraints.
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  • Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE) is a labor union for medical professionals. The Englewood Professional Nurses' Association was created in 1974 by the nursing staff at Englewood Hospital, led by Ann Twomey. Local hospitals and medical centers asked for the…
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  • Englewood Hospital is a teaching hospital. Construction began in November 1889. The first patient was admitted on June 25, 1890. It expanded in 1901 to include a Men, Women, and Children Ward. In 1906 it included a maternity ward and by 1915 a contagious disease ward opened. By…
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  • Violet Cherry was a social worker and political activist. At the age of 12, the South African government jailed her briefly for protesting the racist Apartheid laws that discriminated against her due to her Indian heritage. She began social work at 16. She had an arranged…
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