Englewood Makes History

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  • Alva Jackson was a widely respected civic leader and community organizer in Englewood, best known for her decades of service to the city’s Fourth Ward and her tireless advocacy for working-class families, children, and seniors. Active during the mid-20th century, Jackson played…
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  • Patricia Elaine Farrar Stuart was a politician and civic leader who emerged as a prominent and independent voice within New Jersey Republican politics in the late 1970s. In 1979, she began serving as Vice Chairman of the Bergen County Republican Party, where she became widely…
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  • John K. Lattimer (1914–2007), long time Englewood resident, was an American urologist whose career spanned medicine, military service, forensic investigation, and historical research, often courting controversy. During World War II, he served as a U.S. Army physician and was…
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  • Dr. Valentine Ruch was a prominent physician, civic leader, and political figure in early twentieth-century Englewood. A graduate of Cornell University Medical School in 1903, Ruch devoted his professional life to public service. He began his medical career as Englewood…
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  • Englewood Police Fourth Platoon was a squad created in May 1970 to patrol "trouble-prone areas" between six p.m. and two a.m. There was public debate over the usefulness of the Platoon and its effect on the relationship between the Fourth Ward and Englewood Police
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  • On June 6, 1970, Smith and Mays Electronic Store was bombed by Julius Smith. This was twelve hours before Smith was set to testify before a Grand Jury where policemen  Warren Lewis, George Howe, and Timothy Toine were accused of beating a man in their custody, Thomas E. Salmon.…
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  • William O’Brien Boldt was a longtime Englewood resident, Democratic activist, and professor whose quiet but persistent style of organizing helped shape local and national progressive movements over several decades. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he earned his Ph.D. in…
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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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  • A newspaper interview of Judge and politician Charles Blakeslee Law. Law describes how in the Amherst Class of 1895 when asked the class voted Dwight Whitney Morrow as the future greatest achiever of the class. However, Morrow voted for Calvin Coolidge.
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  • Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge Jr.) was an attorney, public servant, and the 30th President of the United States whose career reflected a deep commitment to restraint, character, and civic responsibility. Raised in rural Vermont, Coolidge absorbed values of discipline and…
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