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Boldt, William O'Brien (1917-2004)
William O'Brien Boldt was a longtime Englewood resident and activist in progressive issues, in particular as head of the New Jersey Campaign for a Nuclear Freeze. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor's and from the City University of New York with a Ph.D in political science. He was a professor of political science at that same university.
He held administrative positions such as the director of the Housing Office of the Memorial Center for Cancer and was a corporate communications writer. He helped a democratic takeover of the Englewood government in the late 1960s. He was involved with nuclear disarmament, affordable housing, and job creation. He served on the Englewood Planning Board and the Redevelopment Commission of the City of Englewood. He married Elizabeth Roberts. After they separated he married Gladys "Billie" Joan. He had four children, Michael, Christopher Anne Affleck, Linda Fleetwood, and Sally. His grandson is Ben Affleck. -
Brann, Henry Athanasius (1837-1921)
Henry Athanasius Brand was a Rector and Reverand. His family moved to New Jersey when he was twelve. He graduated from Francis Xavier College. He also attended St. Mary's Seminary and the North American College in Rome in 1860. He was ordained in Rome before returning to New Jersey and being ordained in Newark, New Jersey in 1862. He was a part of the New York diocese by 1870. He was a pastor at St. Mary's, St. Peter's, and St. Agnes churches in New Jersey and New York. He helped begin the construction of the St. Cecilia Church in Englewood and three other churches. He also was a professor, teaching philosophy at Seton Hall from 1862 to 1864. -
Morrow, Dwight Whitney, Jr. (1908-1976)
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 Lincoln and Temple Universities and co-founded the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1955. He married Margot Loines in 1937. After they separated he married Nancy E. Schallert Lofton in 1970. He had three children including Stephen Dwight and Constance Morrow Fulenwider. He was the son of Dwight Morrow and Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. His siblings were Anne, Elisabeth, and Constance.Tags Education -
Dwight, Cornelia Porter (1846-1941)
Cornelia P. Dwight was a missionary of the American Board of Foreign Missions in Turkey. She was also a mathematics professor at Elmira College from 1886 to 1910. She was the daughter of minister Harrison Gray Otis Dwight. She was the half-sister of James Harrison Dwight. -
Roundtree, Irwin William Langston "Dominie" (1855?-1948)
Irwin William Langston "Dominie" Roundtree was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was born into slavery sometime between 1855 and 1865. Princeton University alumni files place his birth on September 15, 1855.
He was one of Princeton's earliest African American graduates, earning a Master of Arts in 1895. He served as pastor of the Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Trenton for twenty-five years. He also was heavily involved in politics in New Jersey. He ran for state government positions, specifically the State Board of Arbitration. He ran for Delegate-At-Large for the Republican Convention in 1936.
He might have been in Englewood and involved with the AME church in the town in 1890 and 1891.
He married Fannie Colson on June 21, 1888. -
Farrand, Livingston (1867-1939)
Livingston Farrand was a physician, anthropologist, psychologist, and public health activist. He graduated from Princeton in 1888. He earned a M.D. from the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1891. He also attended Cambridge and Berlin University. In 1905 he became the secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. He taught as an adjunct psychology professor at Columbia and eventually a full anthropology professor until 1914. He then went on to become the president of the University of Colorado until 1919. He was the director of the International Health Board in France during World War I and became the chairman of the American Red Cross committee. After the war Farrand became the president of Cornell University, expanding relations with China and the Soviet Union. He retired in 1937. He was a member of numerous organizations including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Anthropological Association. He lived in Englewood for a short time. -
DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963)
W.E.B. DuBois was a famous African American scholar, writer, historian, sociologist, and Civil Rights Activist. He was one of the founding members of the NAACP. From 1892 to 1894 he traveled through Germany and became influenced by the historical work of Albert Bushnell Hart and the Philosophical work of William James. He focused heavily on history and sociology, publishing numerous articles.
DuBois along with other African American leaders founded the Niagara Movement in 1904 which militantly advocated for full civil and political rights for blacks. The movement only succeeded in 1909, when the NAACP was founded after rioting in August of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois caused a biracial conference over concerns of violence against blacks. DuBois also finally achieved his desire for a journal as he became the editor of The Crisis. During World War I he became involved in peacework. He also supported the use of Marxism to fight against racial discrimination through economic programs and institutions, which caused him to become at odds with the NAACP president. He resigned from the organization but returned in 1944. He again became at odds with the organization as he supported socialist organizations and the Progressive Party during the rise of anti-communism. In October 1961, he officially joined the American Communist Party.
He met Nina Gomer, a student at Wilberforce University where he taught for two years, and married her in 1896. In 1950, he married Shirley Graham after his first wife passed away. She had a child from a previous relationship, David, who took on the DuBois name. -
Lamont, Corliss (1902-1995)
Corliss Lamont was an American socialist and philosopher. He received a degree from Harvard and spent 1924 at Oxford. He received a PhD from Columbia University and taught philosophy there.
During the 1930s he became involved in political activism becoming a board member and eventual director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He wrote several books including The Philosophy of Humanism (1949). He admired the Soviet Union and was the head of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF). He was targeted as a communist by Joe McCarthy but was able to overturn the charges against him. While he supported Marxism, he never joined the Communist Party. In 1952 he ran for senator under the Labor Party and again in 1958 as an Independent-Socialist. In 1964 Lamont sued the Postmaster General for reading and refusing to deliver his mail. The justification was the anti-propaganda law of 1962 that allowed the Postmaster General to destroy possible communist political propaganda. The case went to the Supreme Court and Lamont v. Postmaster General deemed the law unconstitutional.
He married Margaret Hayes Irish on June 8, 1928. After they separated, he married Helen Boyden Lamb in 1962. She passed in 1975. His last marriage was to Beth Keehner. He had four children, Margaret "Margot" Hayes Heap, Florence Parmelee Antonides, Hayes Corliss, and Anne Sterling Jafferis.