Englewood Makes History

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  • Constance Cutter Morrow Morgan was an educator and author. She graduated from Smith College in 1935. She earned a master's in English Literature from Columbia University in 1938. She wrote a biography about her mother, Elisabeth Cutter Morrow. She became involved with the…
  • Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr. was an educator. He graduated from Amherst College in 1933. He received a master's and PhD from Harvard. He attended Yale Law School from 1936 to 1938. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and struggled with mental health issues. He taught at…
  • Jay Johnson Morrow was a military officer. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1891. He joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He also was an instructor at the US Military Academy from 1895 to 1896. He served as the military governor of the…
  • Priscilla McKenna was an Englewood civic figure whose public life unfolded largely through sustained participation in local government, environmental advocacy, and community organizations from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. Her work intersected with broader citizen-led…
  • Malcolm Carnegie McKenna was a pioneering paleontologist whose career reshaped scientific understanding of mammalian evolution and connected Englewood to some of the most important fossil discoveries of the twentieth century. Born in California in 1930, McKenna developed an…
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  • Josephine English was the daughter of Whittie English Sr. and Jennie English. She and her siblings were raised in Englewood. Her brother, Whittie English Jr. built a successfuly real estate business in Englewood and the surrounding towns.  Dr. English was a trailblazing…
  • 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…
  • Charles Kipps was a songwriter, author, and screenwriter. Some of his work includes Exiled: A Law & Order Movie, his books The Conor Bard Mysteries, and McCoy-Kipps Production Inc.
  • Van Allen Clinton McCoy was a record producer, songwriter, and singer. In high school, he formed a group named Starlighters with his older brother and two friends recording "The Birdland" in 1956. He created a recording company in Philadelphia, Rockin' Records. He worked with…
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  • Thaddeus J. Kropczynski was a respected musician, educator, and choral director whose career shaped music education in northern New Jersey for more than three decades. Trained as both an artist and teacher, he combined rigorous musical standards with a deep commitment to student…
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