Englewood Makes History

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  • Larry "Love" McCain was a musician and member of the R&B group Today. He grew up in Englewood with the other members of the group.
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  • Wesley "Wes" Adams was a musician and member of the R&B group Today.
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  • Larry "Chief" Singletary was a musician. He was also a founding member of the R&B group Today. He grew up in Englewood with the other members of the group.
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  • Constance Chilton was an educator. She graduated from Smith College in 1926. She went to school with Elisabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan. Together they founded the Little School, now named the Elisabeth Morrow School in Englewood. She graduated from Columbia University Teacher's…
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  • Silbermann, Kurt was a spiritual leader, musician, and educator. He trained in Germany before the school he was attending was closed on Kristallnacht or "The Night of Broken Glass." He fled with his parents to New York in 1939. He graduated from the Hebrew Union School of Sacred…
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  • Miriam Weidenfeld was a teacher. She acted as director of Temple Emanu-El religious school in the 1980s and 90s.

  • Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg arrived at Temple Emanu-El of Englewood in the mid-1950s during a moment of institutional expansion and social change. Coming from a previous pulpit in Nashville, Tennessee, he assumed leadership just as the congregation was preparing for the High Holy…
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  • Ferdinand Vorsanger (c. 1872–1946) was a central figure in Englewood’s civic, commercial, and religious life during the early decades of the twentieth century. An immigrant who built his reputation through persistence, public service, and community leadership, Vorsanger helped…
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  • Cornelius Porter Kitchel was a politician and lawyer. He graduated from Philips Andover Academy in 1897 and then from Yale Law School in 1901. He acted as attorney-in-chief of the Legal Aid Society in 1905 for about a year. He practiced in New York in 1908. He served on the City…
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  • William Outis Allison was a banker and philanthropist. He acted as vice president of the Palisades Trust and Guaranty Company of Englewood, president of the National Reserve Bank of New York, president of the publishing company that owned Oil, Pain and Drug Reporter, Druggist's…
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