Englewood Makes History

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  • Seward Prosser was a Banker. He grew up in Englewood. He began working with the Equitable Life Assurance Society. he acted as the vice president of the Astor Trust Company from 1907 to 1912. He was the president of the Liberty National Bank from 1912 to 1914. He was the…
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  • Thomas William Lamont was an American banker. He graduated from Harvard in 1892. After the firm he was working for suffered financial problems, he helped reorganize the firm which was renamed Lamont, Corlis & Co. in 1898. He became the secretary and treasurer of Bankers Trust…
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  • Trude Heller was a music producer and nightclub owner. She created Trude Heller's, a club in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. She opened another club in Palm Beach, Flordia. She also co-founded Tru-Glo-Town Records.
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  • Ann Twomey was a nurse at Englewood Hospital. She graduated from the Englewood Hospital's School of Nursing. She graduated and joined the hospital's cardiac care unit in 1971. Eventually, she was appointed to the nurses' council which allowed nurses to make recommendations to…
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  • Robert Wides was the owner of Wides Liquor. The store was opened by his family in 1932.
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  • David Samuel Cohen or David X Cohen is a screenwriter. He attended Dwight Morrow High School. He received a B.A. in physics from Harvard University and an M.S. in computer science from the University of California Berkeley. He began writing Beavis and Butt-Head episodes. A year…
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  • Fletcher C. Johnson was a surgeon and a basketball player. He went to Dwight Morrow High School and was drafted by the National Basketball Association's Syracuse Nationals. He was one of the first African American players to play overseas after he served in the military. After…
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  • Otto Oscar Binder was an author who wrote science fiction, non-fiction, comic books, and television scripts. He began his career with his brother Earl writing "The First Martian" in 1930 under the name Eando Binder. In January 1936 Earl dissolved the partnership. By 1939 Binder…
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  • Sol Kaplan was a business owner and founder of Sol & Sol kosher deli on Palisade Avenue. He opened the deli in 1951 with his partner Sol Stein. Celebrities such as Dizzy Gillespie and Alan Alda discussed the deli on an episode of M*A*S*H. He fled his home village of Kopatkewich…
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  • William E. Brown Jr. was a Lieutenant General of the Allied Air Forces Southern Europe and the deputy commander in chief of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe for the Southern Area. He attended Dwight Morrow High School and was a member of the Bethany Presbyterian Church. Brown…
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