Collection Description The Biography Index (Biographical Vertical Files) is an open, artificial collection of files arranged alphabetically by name. Many men and women who lived and/or worked in Newark are represented in the collection.

Collection Contents The files may contain originals or photocopies of clippings, articles, other items of printed ephemera, and typed and handwritten notes. Newarkers represented in the collection include, but are not limited to, the following:

Abeel, Neilson; Addonizio, Hugh; Agens, Col. Frederick G.; Alagna, Ace; Aldworth, Col. Richard; Alexander, Dr. John; Allen, Jesse; Allen, Lyman Whitney; Alling, Dr. Frederick

Baldwin, Joseph; Bamberger, Louis; Baraka, Amiri (see also, Jones, LeRoi) Barringer, William; Bigelow, Moses; Birdsall, Capt. Amos; Boudinot, Elisha; Burnet, William; Burr, Aaron, Sr.

Cerrigone, Alfredo Cosmo; Clark, George A.; Clark, William; Crane, Stephen; Cummings, Charles

Dana, John Cotton; Del Tufo, Elizabeth; Doby, Larry; Doremus, Henry M.

Eagleton, Wells Phillips; Edison, Thomas A.

Fewsmith, Rev. Joseph; Freylinghuysen, Frederick; Freylinghuysen, Theodore

Gibson, <span class="highlight_word">Kennethspan>; Ginsberg, Louis

Halsey, William; Haynes, Joseph E.; Higbie, James S.; Holden, Dr. Edgar;

James, Sharpe; Jeliff, John; Jones, LeRoi (see also Baraka, Amiri)

Kinney, William Burnet; Kriebl, Oscar Schultz; Krueger, Gottfried

Lang, Henry; Lee, Mary Dodd (Mrs. William)

Manning, Max; Miller, James; Mockridge, Oscar A.; Moses, John E.; Murphy, Vincent J.

Ogden, Josiah

Parker, Cortlandt, Jr.; Parker, Elizabeth Wolcott (Mrs. Cortlandt); Peddie, Thomas B.; Poinier, Philip C.; Price, Clement A.

Raymond, Thomas L.; Reichenstein, Harry; Rice, Ronald; Ricord, Frederick; Roth, Philip

Shafer, Joseph; Soaries, Buster; Spong, Bishop John Shelby; Stark, Bishop Leland; Stryker, Josiah; Swaine, Elizabeth

Terhune, Mary Virginia (aka Marion Harland); Tice, George; Treat, Robert

Urquhart, Frank J.; Vaughn, Sarah; Vermilye, Jacob D.

Ward, Marcus L.; Ward, Phebe; Whitehead, Willam A.; Winser, Beatrice; Winters, Robert; Zwillman, Abner (Longy)

NOTE: For a full list of folder titles in the Biography Index (Biographical Vertical Files) collection, see the link to the NJHS online inventory list below. For similar biographical material, see also the NJHS Family Vertical Files collection.

FormatTextual materials

SubjectsAfrican-American History / Civil Rights; Business / Commerce; Education; Ethnic History; German-American History; Irish-American History; Italian-American History; Jewish-American History; Law / Lawyers / Courts; Medicine / Public Health; Politics and Government; Religion / Churches; Theater / Performing Arts; Women's History

LanguageEnglish

Access policyOpen for research

ProcessedYes

Finding AidYes