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Scheinmann, Vivian (?-?)
Vivian Scheinmann was a journalist and women's rights activist. She opened a bookstore in Englewood with Pamela Sheldrick named Pandora Book Peddlers. It was opened around 1983 on 68 West Palisade Avenue. She also ran the New Directions for Women newspaper. -
Allison, William Outis (1849-1924)
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 Circular, and Painters Magazine, and a director of Lincoln Trust Company. He lived in Englewood Cliffs and developed the W. O. Allison Real Estate Company. He was a member of the Bergen County Historical Society, helped create the Palisades Interstate Park, and donated land that would eventually become Flat Rock Brook Nature Center upon his death. He married Caroline Longstreet Hovey in 1884. After her death, he married Caroline Amelia Shaw in 1897. He had five children, Katharine Floyd Allison MacLean, Frances Cornelia, Allis, William Dana, and Van Kleeck. -
Samuel, William (1926-1989)
William Samuel was a Reverend and mason. He founded Mount Calvary Baptist Church in 1957. He owned Samuel Mason Contracting in Englewood for thirty years. He married Nannie B. Fisher. He had a daughter, Annie R. Thompson.Tags Religion -
Snare, Frederick, Sr. (1862-1946)
Frederick Snare Sr. was a businessman. He founded the Snare & Triest Company, a construction contracting organization. Snare worked with Wolfgang Gustav Triest beginning in 1898. Eventually, the company became the Frederick Snare Company in the 1920s after Gustav and Snare separated. Much of the work done was in Central and South America. He married Ellen Brown in 1883. He had two children, Helen Jeannette Stanwood and Frederick Snare Jr.Tags Business -
Pavon, Armando (1922-2013)
Armando Pavon owned the Santa Barbara Grocery Store with his brother. He married Noewm Fernandez in 1955. He remarried Luz Amparo Sanchez in 1980. He had five children.Tags Businesses -
Rincon, Arely (?-?)
Arely Rincon gained ownership of the Santa Barbara Grocery store in 2012.Tags Business -
McDonald, LeRoy (?-?)
LeRoy McDonald was the manager of the nightclub Harlem-on-Hudson in Englewood Cliffs. -
Coe, Louis Stevenson (1863-1939)
Louis Stevenson Coe was a business owner who grew up in Englewood. He established and owned the New Jersey Paper Tube Company. He ran and was elected to the Board of Freeholders. He was also head of the Englewood Field Club.
His father was William Patten Coe and his brother was George Simmons Coe Jr. He was the nephew of George Simmons Coe Sr. He married Anne E. Burdett. He had two daughters, Julie Burdett Coe Papst and Marie Clinton. -
Holley, Alfred T. (1872-1953)
Alfred T. Holley was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Military. He joined in 1889 and served in the Spanish-American War. He retired in 1909. He was a member of the B.P.O.E Hackensack Elks, Lodge 658, and was elected exalted ruler four times. He was also a businessman and was president of Holley and Smith coal and oil company.
He married Alice Beatrice Herbert in April of 1914. -
Booth, William Agur (1805-1895)
William Angus Booth was a banker and businessman. In 1821 he started a business, Tomlinson & Booth. He was also one of the men who organized the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company. He was a trustee of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad Company and the Director of the Cincinnati, Lafayette, and Indianapolis Railroad Company. He was president of the Third National Bank. He was president of the American Exchange Bank from 1857 to 1860. He became president of the Third National Bank in 1878 and retired in 1892. He was also a member of the First Presbyterian Church. He was involved with missions and charity. He was a trustee of the American Tract Society of Boston and the American and Foreign Christian Union. He was also president of the Children's Aid Society from 1861 to 1889 and of the Trustees of the Syrian Protestant College. He was a trustee of the Robert College in Constantinople as well. His first marriage was to Alida L. Russell. His second marriage was to Louisa Edgar. He had six children, Robert Russell, William Tomlinson, Edgar H., Henry Matthias, Theodore L, and Frederick Augustus.