Englewood Makes History

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    Anna Howard Shaw was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement, a physician, and an ordained Methodist minister. 

    Despite opposition to her preaching, she continued for years, receiving a local preacher's license in 1873.  She was rejected in 1880 from the Methodist Episcopal Church but was ordained but the Methodist Protestant Church. 

    Shaw became heavily involved in the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and eventually the American Woman Suffrage Movement. She was encouraged by Susan B. Anthony to join the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Shaw helped to merge the American Woman Suffrage Association and the NWSA into the NAWSA. She opposed militant techniques used by fellow NAWSA members during World War I. She was president until her resignation in 1915.

    During the war, she was the head of the Women's Committee of the United States Council of National Defense and was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Service Medal.

    Shaw had a thirty-year relationship with her lover, Lucy Elmina Anthony, niece of Susan B. Anthony. Lucy was also a women's rights activist and leader. She served as secretary for both Shaw and Susan B.
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    The Congregation Ahavath Torah is an Orthodox synagogue in Englewood. The synagogue was developed first in 1895 and evolved into the Ahavath Torah. In 1911 a location was purchased at 33 Humphery Street. It moved to Englewood Avenue in 1958. According to the synagogue, Rabbi Issac Swift became a leader of the synagogue in 1960 and was succeeded by Rabbi Shmuel Goldin in 1984. Rabbi Chaim Poupko succeeded him in 2017. 
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    The Ebenezer Baptist Church began in 1913 under Reverand Samuel Lightfoot. Reverand W. B. Booker was his successor. Reverand Clarence E. Richardson was the church's third pastor and a new church building was constructed on Fourth Street beginning in 1972. The other three pastors of the church were Reverand William Holt Hargrave, Reverand William Marcus Small, and Reverand Jovan T. Davis.
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    Mount Calvary Baptist Church was created in 1957 by Reverand William Samuel. The parishioners would meet at his home until a building was constructed at 1375 Boston Road in the Bronx. The church moved to 181 Warren Street in Englewood in 1962. Another building which was the previous location of a Christian Reformed Church at 90 Demarest Avenue was acquired in 1972.

    Samuel's successor was Reverand Michael J. Jordan until 1992 when Reverand Claybon Lea Jr. replaced him. The fourth pastor was Reverand Veron C. Walton, who according to the church, developed Cavalry Cares Inc. The fifth pastor is Reverand Eddie Spencer IV. 
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    The Community Baptist Church was founded in 1932. The parishioners are majority African American. Under Reverand Joseph M. Wilson two plots of land were purchased to build a new church in the 1940s. In 1949, a cornerstone for the new church was laid. From the 1970s to the 1990s, Reverand Clarence Kenner improved the facilities. In the 1990s, Reverand Lester W. Taylor Jr. started a motion to create a new facility. Construction on the new church began in June 2008 and was finished in 2011.
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    The Galilee United Methodist Church was founded in 1913 by Reverand Edward L. Pearson and Reverand Frank D. McQueen. They came from "Old Galilee" in Bennettsville South Carolina, founded in 1895. They began teaching in Englewood in 1905. A building was created in the 1910s. Another parsonage was bought on Forest Avenue in 1949. The original church was destroyed in 1958 due to a fire. In 1959, Galilee became the first African American church to enter the Newark Conference. In 1960, construction for a new building on Genesee Avenue was started. Merging with the Evangelical United Brethren Churches, Galilee became the Galilee United Methodist Church. 
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    Albert Moskin was the mayor of Englewood from 1954 to 1959. His political career began when he was appointed to the board of the Englewood Board of Police Commissioners. He served for 36 years in municipal and county governments. He was a councilman of the fourth ward from 1933 to 1951. He retired from public service in 1965 and worked as a pharmacist. He owned Moskin's Pharmacy on West Palisade Avenue from 1962 to 1980. He was a member of the Ahavath Torah.

    He was married to a woman named Rose. He had two sons, Donald and Alan. 
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    In 1866, the Catholic Church completed the construction at St.Cecilia’s Church after Reverand Dr. Henry Brann initiated the building in 1865. 

    The church opened its doors to the growing Italian and Irish Catholic population in Englewood. Reverand Silverius J. Quigley founded the first Catholic coeducational high school in Bergen County in 1924. St. Cecilia’s elementary, junior high, and high school educated generations of Englewood youth. The high school closed in 1986 and the elementary school closed in 2011 or 2012. 

    St.Cecilia’s gained national recognition in the 1940s after it hired a young coach named Vince Lombardi, who turned the basketball and football programs into state champions.
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