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Ferber, Fred
Fred Ferber was an inventor, manufacturer, and environmental advocate whose life and work were closely tied to Englewood, New Jersey, where he lived, built his business, and participated actively in civic life. From his factory on West Sheffield Avenue, Ferber helped transform… -
Lyons, Romola
Dr. Romola Lyons was a pioneering physician whose career combined clinical medicine, public health education, and civic leadership in Englewood, New Jersey, during the mid-twentieth century. A graduate of elite institutions and a respected hospital physician, Lyons played a key… -
Hinton, Theodore
The Hinton family’s history in Englewood spans more than a century and traces a remarkable arc from enslavement in the antebellum South to legal, civic, and residential leadership in 20th-century New Jersey. At its foundation was Nancy Lee Sears, who was born into slavery on a… -
Hinton, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Sears Hinton (c. 1878–1986) Elizabeth Sears Hinton was a lifelong Englewood resident whose life bridged the era of slavery and the modern civil-rights century. She died in 1986 at the age of 104, having spent nearly three decades as one of the city’s elder witnesses… -
Johnson, Leonard
Dr. G. Leonard Johnson Jr. (1901–1963) was a respected physician, civic leader, and educational advocate whose work left a lasting imprint on the city of Englewood, New Jersey—particularly in the areas of public health, early childhood education, and community uplift. Born in… -
Sharp, Violet
Violet Sharpe: From England to Englewood, and the Tragedy of Suspicion Violet Sharpe was an English domestic worker whose life and death became entangled in one of the most infamous criminal investigations of the twentieth century—the 1932 kidnapping of Charles and Anne…