Englewood Makes History

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  • Foster Rhea Dulles was an educator, historian, and author. He was born in Englewood and graduated from Princeton University in 1921. He wrote for numerous newspapers including the New York Herald, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. He taught as a…
  • William Dulles was a lawyer and businessman. He attended Princeton University in 1878 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1880. He began practicing in New York in 1882. He also acted as treasurer of the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago railroads. From 1889 to 1897 he was…
  • The Dwight Morrow Estate, also eventually called the Next Day Hill, where the Morrow family lived in Englewood was a forty-two-acre property. At the time of Elisabeth Cutter Reed Morrow's Death, thirty acres were located in Englewood and ten acres in Tenafly. After the passing…
  • Dwight Morrow High School is a public high school in Englewood. The school opened in 1932 and graduated its first class in 1934. Named after banker, ambassador, and senator, Dwight Morrow, the high school brought students together from all of the city’s four wards and became one…
  • "The Oracle" Strike was a protest by the staff of the newspaper "The Oracle" over a freedom of the press argument with the principal of Dwight Morrow High School.
  • The Dwight-Englewood School is an independent college-preparatory school. It teaches pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. There are three schools, the lower school, the middle school, and the upper school. It is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools…
  • James Harrison Dwight was the first minister of The First Presbyterian Church. This church is the oldest in Englewood. He served from 1860 to 1861. He continued after a leave of absence to serve in the Civil War. He resigned in 1867. He was the son of minister Harrison Gray Otis…
  • The Eagan's School of Business was a business training school in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was established in 1894. The school was founded by politician John Joseph Eagan.Due to its location, many students attended from Bergen County. A branch of the school was also founded in…
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