Englewood Makes History

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  • Dan Fellows Platt (June 10, 1873 – December 16, 1937) was an archaeologist, author, art collector, and civic leader who played a notable role in the cultural and political life of Englewood, New Jersey. Born in 1873, Platt moved to Englewood with his family as an infant and…

  • William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was an influential American sociologist, economist, and public intellectual who helped shape early social science in the United States, while also promoting ideas that later drew sustained criticism. A longtime professor at Yale University,…

  • Madison Grant (1865–1937) was an American lawyer, conservationist, and one of the most influential proponents of scientific racism and eugenics in the early 20th century. A member of the elite New York patrician class, Grant is best known for his 1916 book The Passing of the…

  • Tracey Ross (born Linda Tracey Ross on February 27, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American model and television actress. Early in her career she won beauty pageants — including Miss Black Teen-Ager of New Jersey in 1974 — which helped launch her modeling career, followed by…

  • Tom Wright is an American actor known for his work in television, film, and theater. He is best recognized for his role as inmate Kenny Wangler on HBO’s gritty prison drama Oz, where his performance contributed to the show’s reputation for intense, character-driven storytelling.…

  • John Borg (c. 1878–1956) was a prominent New Jersey newspaper publisher and civic figure best known for his long leadership of the Bergen Evening Record. A native of Hackensack, Borg entered the newspaper business early in life and became associated with the Record while it was…

  • William (Michael J.) O’Neill was a long-serving and influential law-enforcement official whose career placed Englewood at the center of New Jersey’s early-20th-century movement toward police professionalization. O’Neill spent approximately 25 years with the Englewood Police…

  • In July 11, 1945, The Bergen Record reported that Otto Mangiello of Jay Streeet owned the Blue Moon Tavern.

  • Madame Bertha Gounod was a European dress designer whose career spanned the heights of prewar high society and the hardships of displacement and poverty. Born on a farm in Béla, Hungary, the tenth of fifteen children, she rose to prominence before World War I as a celebrated…

  • Frederick M. Raubinger was a long-serving and influential figure in New Jersey’s public education system, appointed State Commissioner of Education in 1952 by Alfred E. Driscoll and subsequently reappointed by Governors Robert B. Meyner and Richard J. Hughes. A graduate of…
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