Englewood Makes History

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  • George Pratt Shultz was an economist and businessman. He served in numerous government positions including cabinet. While born in New York, he grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, where he attended the Englewood School for Boys now known as Dwight Englewood. Shultz graduated from…
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  • The following is a description of Charles H. Bullock written by his granddaughter Cheryl Ann. "My grandfather Charles H. Bullock Jr. was born in 1903 in Charlottesville Virginia. He was the second to oldest of six children. His father Charles Sr. was Secretary of the Carlton…
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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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  • Burge Upshaw Davis (1894–1966) was a longtime Englewood, New Jersey resident whose life blended family devotion, church leadership, and sustained commitment to youth and community life. Born in Apalachee, Georgia, in 1894, Davis moved north during the Great Migration and settled…
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  • Byron M. Baer (October 18, 1929 – June 24, 2007) was a civil rights activist, community organizer, and longtime Democratic legislator whose public life was deeply rooted in Englewood, New Jersey. Long before he became one of the state’s most influential champions of open…
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  • Austin Nicholas Volk (December 28, 1918 – September 18, 2010) was a New Jersey businessman, naval officer, and Republican public official whose career bridged local government, state politics, and military service during some of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth…
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  • (c. 1876–1962) Charles B. Hinton was a pioneering civic leader, political organizer, and longtime public employee whose career made him a central figure in Englewood, New Jersey’s Black political history during the early twentieth century. In 1914, he became the first Black…
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  • Winifred Charlotte Goings Farrar, known to all as “Winnie,” was born on August 2, 1932, in Orange, New Jersey, to Gertrude and Charles Goings. After her parents’ deaths, she was raised in Rutherford by her paternal grandparents, Mattie and Charles Brown, who instilled in her a…
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  • Shirley M. Lacy was a civil rights strategist, Black feminist organizer, and public official whose work spanned grassroots protest, policy reform, and electoral politics in New Jersey for more than four decades. Based in Englewood, she became a central figure in northern…
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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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