Englewood Makes History

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  • Elizabeth Sears Hinton was a resident of Englewood. She worked as a Domestic Worker. She was a member of the Shiloh AME Zion Church. She was married to Charles Burture Hinton. She was the daughter of Nancy Lee Sears. Hinton had two children, Theodore and Carmen E. Pawley.
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  • Thomas J. Huckin was a Bergen County prosecutor and a judge. He graduated from the Englewood public school system. He became a district judge in 1912 and a prosecutor in 1915. He was a Bergen County Bar Association member and the Englewood Board of Education. He was also…
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  • Ernest Isley is a musician, singer, and songwriter. He grew up in Englewood, attending Dwight Morrow. He took inspiration from Jimi Hendrix who lived with the Isley family from 1963 to 1965. His older brothers formed the Isley Brothers and he joined the group officially in 1973,…
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  • Alexander Louis Jackson (1891–1971) Scholar, Institution Builder, and Civil Rights Strategist Alexander Louis Jackson was born on March 1, 1891, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up on William and Humphrey Streets in the heart of the city’s historic African American Fourth Ward…
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  • Alva Jackson was a widely respected civic leader and community organizer in Englewood, best known for her decades of service to the city’s Fourth Ward and her tireless advocacy for working-class families, children, and seniors. Active during the mid-20th century, Jackson played…
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  • Charles Jackson was Englewood's first black policeman. He began working with the department in the 1920s. He married civic leader Alva Jackson. He had one daughter, Ida Dudley. Jackson died of Typhoid fever during the 1936 epidemic. The city replaced Jackson with another black…
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  • Hannah Jackson, a formerly enslaved person, died in Englewood in 1889. Twenty years later her grandson came to Englewood from the South to recover property he claimed Jackson had left him. 
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  • Christopher Howard Jasper was a singer and music producer. Jasper's older sister Elaine married Rudolph Isley. Originally from Cincinnati, Jasper visited his sister often in Teaneck. He started to gig with Ernie and Marvin in a trio called the Jazzmen Trio. He studied at the…
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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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  • John Wyman Jones was a businessman and lawyer. He was also a real estate developer. He was the president of the St. Joseph Mining Company. He helped finance the founding of Englewood. He was acquainted with numerous contractors and brought Englewood to the attention of his…
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