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Jones, John Wyman (1822-1904)
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 acquaintances. He married Henrietta Dwight Dana in 1946. When she passed Jones married Salmone Marie Hanna. He had two children, James Dana and Dwight Arven. -
Dulles, William (1857-1915)
William Dulles was a lawyer and businessman. He attended Princeton University in 1878 and the University of Pennsylvania in 1880. He began practicing in New York in 1882. He also acted as treasurer of the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago railroads. From 1889 to 1897 he was the treasurer of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. He lived in Englewood. He was a member of the Englewood Board of Education and the Englewood City Council. He married Sophia Perkins Rhea in 1891. After her death, he married Helen Rollins. He had at least four children, including Foster Rhea Dulles and Edith D. Snare. -
Toote, Gloria (1931-2017)
Gloria Toote was a lawyer and real estate developer. She graduated from Howard University in 1952 with a B.A. and in 1954 a J.D. She received a master's from Columbia University in 1956. From 1966 to 1970 she owned Toote Town Records in Englewood. She was also involved in politics. She advised Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. From 1971 to 1973 she acted as the Assistant Director of ACTION. From 1973 to 1975 she acted as Assistant Secretary for Equal Opportunity in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. During Ronald Reagan's administration, she acted as the vice chairman of the United States Office of Private Sector Initiatives. She was a founding member of the National Black United Fund. In the 1980s she became president of the TREA Estates and Enterprises. From 1984 to 1992 she was vice chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women. -
Meltzer, Harold (1909-1998)
Henry Meltzer was a real estate attorney and civic leader. He graduated from Rutgers University Law School. He was heavily involved in the Jewish community He acted as president of Temple Emanu-El. He was also part of numerous Jewish charities. -
Kunstler, William Moses (1919-1995)
William Moses Kunstler was an attorney and civil rights activist. Kunstler graduated from Yale before serving in World War II in the Philippines. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948. He taught at Pace College's Business School and New York Law School in the 1950s. Kunstler helped the Civil Rights Movement members with legal cases and was acquainted with Martin Luther King Jr. He was director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1964 to 1972. He co-founded the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Kunstler is well-known for defending members of the Black Panther Party, the Attica Prison rioters, Yusef Salaam of the Central Park Five cases, El Sayyid Nosair who was charged with the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and the Chicago Seven cases. Kunstler represented Englewood parents in their legal efforts to desegregate Englewood schools.
He married Lotte Rosenberger in 1943. After they divorced in 1976 he married Margaret L. Ratner. He had four daughters, Karin Goldman, Jane Drazek, Sarah, and Emily. -
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Kearney, Joseph F. (1904?-1973)
Joseph F. Kearney was an attorney for Bergen County. He is possibly the first Palisades Park school system graduate to become a lawyer. He attended New York University and John Marshall Law School. He also served as magistrate and was a solider in World War II. -
Huckin, Thomas J. (1876-1958)
Thomas J. Huckin was a Bergen County prosecutor and a judge. He graduated from the Englewood public school system. He became a district judge in 1912 and a prosecutor in 1915. He was a Bergen County Bar Association member and the Englewood Board of Education. He was also president of the Englewood Common Council. He was also the first exalted ruler of Elks Lodge #1157.
He married May E. Bentley in 1905. He had at least two sons, Richard Springer and Paul Thomas, who both were lawyers. His nephew Le Roy was a lawyer as well.Tags Law -
Motley, Constance Baker (1921-2005)
Constance Baker Motley was a politician, lawyer, and judge. She attended Fisk University before transferring to New York University graduating with a B.A. in economics in 1943. She gained a Bachelor of Laws in 1946 from Columbia University. Motley was well known for her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. She became a civil rights lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). She represented Martin Luther King Jr., Freedom Riders, and other activists. She wrote the original complaint in the Brown v. Board of Education case. She was also the first African American woman to argue before the Supreme Court in the Meredith v. Fair case in which she won. She was elected as a member of the New York Senate for a year in 1964 making her the first African American woman to be in the State Senate. In 1965 she served as the Borough President of Manhattan, the first woman to do so. In 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her Judge of the United States District Court for New York. She served in that position until 1986. From 1982 to 1986 she became the Chief Judge of the United States District for New York. Her last position from 1986 to 2005 was as the Senior Judge of the United States District Court for New York. In Englewood, Motley represented the black mothers of Lincoln School students who sued the Englewood school board in 1954 to end its practice of racial segregation. She married Joel Motley Jr. in 1946. She had one child, Joel Wilson Motley III. -
Seham, Phoebe (1932-2019)
Phoebe Seham was the founder and board president of the Englewood Women's Rights Infomation Center. She was also a member of The Advisory Commission on the Status of Women in Bergan County. She was a member of the Women's Rights Committee of the New Jersey Bar Association.
She gave numerous lectures in local community centers and clubs about women's rights, violent crimes against women, discrimination, and women's suffrage.
She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1954. Her husband was Martin Charles Seham. She had four children, Amy, Jenny, Lee, and Lucy.Tags Feminism