Englewood Makes History

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  • Caroline Greenberg was active in the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society. She was married to Charles H. Greenberg and was the sister of Englewood Police Captain Jack Abrams. She had two children, Slyvia and Harold.
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  • Robert L. Daniels was the manager of Music Manor, a downtown record store. He also was a theater critic and actor. He had three children Marc, Lisa Spaulding, and David. He lived in Little Falls and Oakland before moving to Chatham New Jersey for thirty years.
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  • Irwin William Langston “Dominie” Roundtree was born into slavery in Georgia sometime in the mid-1850s, though the precise year of his birth remains uncertain. Census records, seminary files, and Roundtree’s own recollections offer conflicting dates, ranging from 1855 to 1860.…
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  • Charles Henry Booth (1803–1903) was a longtime resident of Englewood, New Jersey, whose life and moral commitments linked the town to some of the most important reform movements of the nineteenth century. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1803, Booth came of age during the…

  • 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…
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  • Dr. Helen C. Moran was a pioneering physician whose career intertwined clinical medicine, public health, and women’s leadership, with a particularly significant impact at Englewood Hospital during the formative decades of the twentieth century. At a time when women physicians…
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  • Michael Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist whose work transformed global understandings of African music and culture in the twentieth century. While he later became internationally known for landmark recordings such as…
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  • Walter Scott Taylor (1916–1984) was a minister, civil-rights leader, publisher, and politician whose career bridged the pulpit, the streets, and City Hall during one of Englewood’s most turbulent eras of racial change. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Taylor was educated…
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  • Florence Haskell Corliss Lamont was a civil leader and philanthropist. She graduated from Smith College in 1893 and received an M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University. Her philanthropic work focused on international peace and education. She supported the New School for…
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  • Samuel Lippincott Griswold Knox was a mechanical engineer. He received a degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. Knox was the chief mechanical engineer for General Electric Company from 1900 to 1902. He was the chief engineer for Bucyrus Erie Company until…
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