List of people from South Orange, New Jersey
Appearance
Notable current and former residents of South Orange, New Jersey include:
- Platt Adams (1885–1961), athlete who won a gold medal in the standing high jump and a silver medal in the standing long jump at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm[1]
- Jessica Antiles (born {1996), competitive swimmer[2]
- Mark Armstrong, college basketball player for the Villanova Wildcats[3]
- Paul Auster (1947–2024), author known for works blending absurdism and crime fiction[4]
- Olivia Baker (born 1996), middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800 meters[5]
- Louis Bamberger (1855–1944), department store founder and philanthropist[6]
- Jane Barus (1892–1977), member of the Constitutional convention that formulated the 1947 New Jersey State Constitution[7]
- Kelly Bishop (born 1944), actress, current resident[8][9][10]
- Ken Bloom, particle physicist[11]
- Bisa Butler (born 1973), fiber artist known for her quilted portraits and designs celebrating black life[12]
- Joshua Braff (born 1967), novelist[13]
- Zach Braff (born 1975), actor on the TV series Scrubs; writer and director of the movie Garden State[14]
- Andre Braugher (1962–2023), actor[15]
- Chris Broussard (born 1968), sports analyst for ESPN, current resident[16]
- Chris Browne (born 1952), cartoonist, Hägar the Horrible[17]
- Mark Bryant (born 1965), former NBA player[18]
- Gerardo Catena (1902–2000), mobster[19][20]
- Tom Courtney (1933–2023), athlete and winner of two gold medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics[21]
- Jonah David (born 1977), drummer/percussionist[22]
- James Delany (born 1948), commissioner of the Big Ten Conference[23]
- Joetta Clark Diggs (born 1962), retired track and field champion, specializing in middle distance running[24]
- John Dossett (born 1958), actor, current resident[25]
- John B. Duff (1931–2013), historian who served as the 8th President of Columbia College Chicago[26]
- Walter Dukes (1930–2001), center who played in the NBA for the New York Knicks, Minneapolis Lakers and Detroit Pistons[27]
- Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886), painter[28]
- Roy Eisenhardt (born 1939), lawyer and former president of the Oakland Athletics[29]
- John Franklin Fort (1852–1920), 33rd Governor of New Jersey, 1908–1911[30]
- Felix Fuld (1868–1929), co-founder of the L. Bamberger & Company department store[31]
- Jared Gilman (born 1998), actor who appeared in the film Moonrise Kingdom[32]
- Kai Greene (born 1993), soccer player for Rio Grande Valley FC Toros in the United Soccer League[33]
- Bessie Pease Gutmann (1876–1960), artist and illustrator[34]
- Ronnie Hickman, American football safety who played college football at Ohio State[35]
- Isaiah Hill (born 2002), model and actor, known for his role as Jace Carson in the Apple TV+ series Swagger, a character loosely based on Kevin Durant[36]
- Lauryn Hill (born 1975), musician, solo and with The Fugees[37]
- Jerome Hines (1921–2003), opera singer with the Metropolitan Opera[38]
- Alberto Ibargüen (born 1944), President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and former publisher of The Miami Herald[39]
- Andrew Jacobs, journalist for The New York Times, documentary film director and producer[40]
- Wyclef Jean (born 1969), member of The Fugees[41]
- Hallett Johnson (1888–1968), career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Costa Rica[42]
- James Kaplan (born 1951), novelist[43]
- Peter W. Kaplan (1954–2013), newspaper editor best known for his 15-year-long stint as Editor-In-Chief of The New York Observer[44]
- Stacey Kent (born 1968), singer and recording artist Blue Note Records[45]
- Alfred Kinsey (1894–1956), sex researcher, who moved to the town in 1904[46]
- Robert Kirsch (born 1965/1966), state court judge from New Jersey who is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[47]
- Jessica Kirson, stand-up comedian and producer[48]
- Michael Lally (born 1942), poet and author[49]
- Frank Langella (born 1938), actor[50]
- Lee Leonard (1929–2018), journalist, current resident, husband of Kelly Bishop[9]
- David Levin (1948–2017), balloonist, who is the only person to have completed the "triple crown" by winning the World Gas Balloon Championship, the World Hot Air Ballooning Championships and the Gordon Bennett Cup[51]
- William Lowell Sr. (1863–1954), dentist and an inventor of a wooden golf tee patented in 1921[52]
- Selah Marley (born 1998), fashion model and singer[53]
- Joe Martinez (born 1983), Major League Baseball pitcher who has played for the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks[54]
- Elmer Matthews (1927–2015), lawyer and politician who served three terms in the New Jersey General Assembly[55]
- Sean McCourt (born 1971), Broadway actor[25]
- Walter I. McCoy (1859–1933), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district, 1911–1913, and the 9th district, 1913–1914; village trustee 1893–1895, 1901–1905, and in 1910[56]
- Roderick Fletcher Mead (1900–1971), painter best known for his engravings[57]
- T. S. Monk (born 1949), jazz musician[58]
- Charles Murray (born 1968), retired boxer who boxed at light welterweight[59]
- Micol Ostow (born 1976), author, editor and educator[60]
- Michele Pawk (born 1961), actor[25]
- Thomas J. Preston, Jr. (1862–1955), professor of archeology at Princeton University; married Frances Cleveland, widow of President Grover Cleveland[61]
- James Rebhorn (1948–2014), actor whose films include Independence Day and Meet the Parents[62]
- Marc Roberts (born 1959), entrepreneur, sports manager, real estate developer and businessman[63]
- Don Rogers (born 1936), former NFL and AFL offensive lineman[64]
- Alan Sagner (1920–2018), politician, businessman and philanthropist who served as New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation, as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and as Chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting[65]
- David M. Satz Jr. (1926–2009), attorney who served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1961 to 1969[66]
- Joseph Scheuerle (1873–1948), painter and illustrator best known for his portraits of Native Americans[67]
- Peter Shapiro (born 1952), financial services executive and former politician who was the youngest person ever elected to the New Jersey General Assembly and went on to serve as Essex County Executive[68]
- Andrew Shue (born 1967), actor; co-founder of CafeMom[69]
- Elisabeth Shue (born 1963), actress[70]
- Joel Silver (born 1952), director and producer[71]
- Kiki Smith (born 1954), artist[72]
- Michael Peter Smith (1941–2020), singer-songwriter[73]
- Seton Smith (born 1955), artist and photographer[74]
- Tony Smith (1912–1980), sculptor[75]
- Kevin Spacey (born 1959), actor[76]
- Edwin Stern (born 1941), lawyer and judge who served as acting justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court[77]
- Mason Toye (born 1998), soccer player with CF Montréal of Major League Soccer[78]
- Jeff Van Note (born 1946), former Atlanta Falcons player and Georgia Tech broadcaster[79]
- Jeffrey Vanderbeek, owner of the New Jersey Devils[80]
- Max Weinberg (born 1951), drummer for E-Street Band and Late Night with Conan O'Brien[81]
- Lonnie Wright (1944–2012), professional basketball and football player; played in the same season for the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association and the Denver Broncos of the American Football League before switching to basketball on a full-time basis[82]
- Aaron D. Wyner (1939–1997), information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory[83]
References
[edit]- ^ Staff. "Platt Adams, Former Olympic Champion, Made Chief Boxing Inspector in Jersey", The New York Times, March 25, 1923. Accessed October 12, 2015. "Assemblyman Platt Adams of South Orange, one of the Republican delegation from Essex County was named Chief Boxing Inspector under the new Stevens bill today."
- ^ Ginsberg, Johanna. "Faster, faster; Golda Och alum at Olympic swimming trials", New Jersey Jewish News, July 13, 2016. Accessed October 27, 2017. "Jessica Antiles of South Orange stood behind the block at the Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb., on June 26, and closed her eyes, visualizing herself doing her best. She repeated her mantra, 'Try 100 percent. The rest is up to God.'... Antiles, 19, a graduate of Golda Och Academy in West Orange and a member of the Maplewood Jewish Center where her father is president, qualified for the Olympic trials two summers ago while swimming with a club team in Israel, for the 400-meter long course individual medley (two laps each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle)."
- ^ Ragozzino, Joe. "South Orange resident and Villanova University-bound Mark Armstrong enjoys stellar hoops career at Saint Peter’s Prep", EssexNews Daily, April 14, 2022. Accessed January 17, 2023. "Next season, the Wildcats will be getting one of the top players in the country in Mark Armstrong, a 6-foot-2 point guard from South Orange."
- ^ Begley, Adam. "Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist", The New York Times, August 30, 1992. Accessed September 19, 2008. "The grandson of first-generation Jewish immigrants, he was born in Newark in 1947, grew up in South Orange and attended high school in Maplewood, 20 miles southwest of New York."
- ^ Olivia Baker, Stanford Cardinal. Accessed March 10, 2022. "High School: Columbia; Hometown: South Orange, N.J."
- ^ Staff. "Get Good-Will Citations; Three Essex County Residents Honored by Civic Groups", The New York Times, February 28, 1941. Accessed February 1, 2011.
- ^ Staff. "Jane Barus, Jersey Civic Leader And Women Voters Official, Dies", The New York Times, August 13, 1977. Accessed December 7, 2013.
- ^ Robertson, Campbell. "Chorus Line Returns, as Do Regrets Over Life Stories Signed Away", The New York Times, October 1, 2006. Accessed March 25, 2012. "Caption: Kelly Bishop, performing as Sheila in A Chorus Line, top, and last week in her home in South Orange, N.J."
- ^ a b "Theater; Two Mature Lives on Stage and Screen, Now Playing in New Jersey", The New York Times, September 19, 1999. Accessed November 3, 2018. "She and her husband, Lee Leonard, the host of Jersey Talking on News 12 in Edison, have been living in South Orange for four years."
- ^ Worth-Baker, Marcia. "Mother's Always Right: Kelly Bishop has played the mother many times over", Maplewood Matters, accessed April 22, 2007. "Ask Kelly Bishop, South Orange resident and star of Gilmore Girls, what drew her to the role of Emily Gilmore, and she recalls, 'The pilot was simply the best script I ever read.'"
- ^ 2017 AAPT Winter Meeting program, American Association of Physics Teachers. Accessed April 22, 2021. "Ken Bloom is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and a Visiting Scientist in the Scientific Computing Division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He grew up in South Orange, NJ, where he met his first physics teacher in fourth grade and then was the captain of the Columbia High School Physics Team."
- ^ Bisa Butler, Black Prism. Accessed July 30, 2019. "Bisa Butler was born in Orange, NJ and raised in South Orange, the youngest of four siblings."
- ^ Joshua Braff, MFA Fiction '97, Saint Mary's College of California. Accessed February 10, 2020. "Joshua Braff grew up in South Orange, New Jersey, and went to Columbia High School."
- ^ Scrubs cast profile of Zach Braff, accessed December 26, 2006
- ^ Andre Braugher Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, TV.com, accessed April 7, 2007. "Braugher has been busy at home as well; in 1991 he married writer/actress Ami Brabson, who portrayed his wife on Homicide, and they are currently residing in South Orange, New Jersey, with their two sons, Michael (born in 1992) and Isaiah (born in 1996)."
- ^ Smith, Brian. "Hoops for a haven: Game to benefit Project Oasis", The Montclair Times, May 6, 2010. Accessed June 3, 2011. "Cummings, Montclair born and bred, and ESPN colleague Chris Broussard, a South Orange resident, grew tired of jawing back and forth about which of their towns would win a pick-up hoops game. Spectators will, if enough creaky bodies remain upright, find out tomorrow."
- ^ “Hagar” Cartoonist Featured in Conference at Augustana, Augustana College press release, dated September 6, 2005. Accessed August 19, 2007. "Browne was born in South Orange, N.J., in 1952, and grew up in suburban Wilton, Conn."
- ^ Martinez, Michael. "College Basketball '87: Seton Hall; Carlesimo starts to lookup", The New York Times, January 11, 1987. Accessed March 15, 2012. "The team's pivotal player is Mark Bryant, a 6-foot-9-inch junior from South Orange, who had 24 points and 15 rebounds against Georgetown."
- ^ Flynn, Ed. "Who's Who On The Mafia Tapes", The Record, January 11, 1970. Accessed March 31, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Gerardo (Jerry) Catena of South Orange is reputed to be the top Mafia boss in New Jersey."
- ^ "The Gangster Next Door", Sun-Sentinel, September 24, 1989.
- ^ Litsky, Frank. "Tom Courtney, Runner Who Lunged to Grab Olympic Gold, Dies at 90", The New York Times, August 22, 2023. Accessed August 25, 2023. "Thomas William Courtney was born on Aug. 17, 1933, in South Orange, N.J., and grew up nearby in Livingston."
- ^ MU3 Jonah David, Navy Band Great Lakes, backed up by the Internet Archive as of August 12, 2011. Accessed November 12, 2018. "Musician Third Class Jonah David is a native of South Orange, New Jersey. He studied percussion at the Mannes School Of Music, Mason Gross School of Performing Arts, Musicians Institute, and Rutgers University."
- ^ Staff. "Big Ten Commissioner, Jim Delany", Chicago Tribune. Accessed July 28, 2011. "The 62-year old Delany is a native of South Orange, N.J. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of North Carolina in 1970 and juris doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1973."
- ^ Leach, Melinda Stivers. "Her running outdistanced the arts", The Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 1980. Accessed August 3, 2019. "When Joetta Clark entered Columbia High School here four years ago, she was faced with a monumental decision: to pursue a running career or one equally as promising in either dance or piano.... 'I don't think the athletes should be used as bait. It's said. The government has never supported us, so I don't think we ought to be used,' the articulate South Orange resident said."
- ^ a b c Rockland, Kate. "Where the Midtown Direct, Oz and Springsteen Meet", The New York Times, December 25, 2005. Accessed February 3, 2008. "But amid the hustle and bustle came the strains of the decidedly un-Oz-like Bruce Springsteen album The Rising. Following that music -- like the Yellow Brick Road -- led to the dressing room of the actor Sean McCourt, who lives in South Orange.... Mr. McCourt recently helped John Dossett and Michele Pawk, two stars of the Abba musical Mamma Mia! move into a house in his neighborhood."
- ^ Marquard, Bryan. "John B. Duff, 82, state’s first higher education chancellor", The Boston Globe, October 7, 2013. Accessed December 2, 2017. "Born in South Orange, N.J., to John Duff Sr. and the former Mary Cunningham, John Bernard Duff Jr. was the oldest of four brothers.... He graduated from Our Lady of the Valley High School in Orange, N.J., and studied history as an undergraduate and graduate student, receiving a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University in the Bronx, N.Y., a master’s from Seton Hall University in South Orange, and a doctorate from Columbia University in New York City."
- ^ Goldstein, Richard. "Walter Dukes, 70, a Standout At Seton Hall and in the N.B.A.", The New York Times, March 16, 2001. Accessed November 2, 2007. "A native of Rochester, Dukes moved to South Orange, N.J., in 1948 to attend Seton Hall Prep."
- ^ "An Old-Time Artist Dead.; What American Art Owes To Asher Brown Durand.", The New York Times, September 20, 1886. Accessed July 15, 2008.
- ^ Angell, Roger. Season Ticket, p. 160. Open Road Media, 2013. ISBN 9781453297834. Accessed November 12, 2018.. "Emil Roy Eisenhardt (the first name is vestigial) grew up in South Orange, New Jersey – a suburb just west of Newark that is so self-consciously tidy and green that it looks like a World's Fair replica of a turn-of-the-century village – in what he describes as 'the middle of the middle class.'"
- ^ The New Jersey Law Journal, Volume 43, p. 353. Accessed December 2, 2017. "Ex Governor John Franklin Fort - Ex-Governor and former Justice John Franklin Fort died on November 18 at his home, 262 Charleton avenue, South Orange, after eighteen months of illness. In April, 1919, while delivering an address at Carlisle, Pa., he received a paralytic stroke. He spent the Summer afterward at his seaside home at Spring Lake but then returned to South Orange."
- ^ Staff. "Felix Fuld, Merchant and Philanthropist, Dies at Age of 61", Jewish Telegraphic Agency, January 22, 1929. Accessed May 23, 2018. "Felix Fuld, American Jewish philanthropist, merchant and patron of the arts, died of pneumonia Sunday night at his home in South Orange, N. J."
- ^ Maynard-Parisi, Carolyn. "Maplewood Rolls Out Red Carpet for Local Movie Stars; Maplewood Theater hosts a premiere of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, featuring two hometown boys." Archived 2012-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, SouthOrangePatch, June 12, 2012. Accessed November 19, 2012. "South Orange teen Jared Gilman and Maplewood resident Wyatt Ralff, actors in the critically acclaimed Wes Anderson film Moonrise Kingdom, will be on hand for a special local premiere of the film on Thursday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Maplewood Theater."
- ^ Kai Greene, Seton Hall Pirates. Accessed November 3, 2018. "Hometown: South Orange, N.J.; High School: Columbia"
- ^ Brown, James S. "Still life artist Peto led parade to retreat", Asbury Park Press, February 8, 1981. Accessed May 29, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Another artist who summered for many years at Island Heights was Bessie Pease Gutmann, noted for her pictures of babies and small children that were widely distributed in this country and abroad as chromolithographs.... She established a summer home in Island Heights in 1925 and the balance of the year lived in South Orange."
- ^ Evans, Alex. "Ronnie Hickman committed to Ohio State but focused on DePaul",The Record, July 13, 2018. Accessed February 17, 2023. "But the South Orange native wanted a school that offered the best fit for himself and his family, and one that would offer him the most off the field as well as on the field.... With the business of where he’ll play football for the next three or four years taken care of, Hickman’s attention turns completely towards helping DePaul repeat as Non-Public Group 3 state champions and win its third title in the last four years."
- ^ Kuperinsky, Amy. "Isaiah Hill has that Swagger. Kevin Durant’s Apple basketball series stars N.J. teen.", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 28, 2021. Accessed February 22, 2024. "Isaiah Hill in Swagger, a new series on Apple TV Plus. The basketball player from South Orange took a hiatus from high school ball to star in the show, inspired by Kevin Durant's experiences in youth basketball."
- ^ That thing: Lauryn Hill sets Grammy record, CNN.com, February 24, 1999. "Hill, a native of South Orange, New Jersey, saw her musical career take off after critics heard her gritty alto performance on the Fugees' 1993 debut, 'Blunted on Reality.'"
- ^ Smolowe, Jill. "A Film About Hope", The New York Times, July 16, 1978. Accessed March 15, 2012. "Together, they wrote the script, which is narrated by Jerome Hines of South Orange, the opera star."
- ^ Matza, Michael. "Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibarguen never far from own immigrant story", The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2017. Accessed August 3, 2019. "When the father was reassigned to New York, they moved to South Orange, N.J. Alberto graduated from high school there and went on to Wesleyan, where he was editor of the school newspaper."
- ^ Haley Sweetland Edwards (March 27, 2009). "A Homegrown Director who had to tell this Story", The New York Times
- ^ Baker, Steven; and Hoppock, Julia. "Nightline Playlist: Wyclef Jean - The Haitian Hip-Hop Artist Shares the Inspiration Behind His Music", ABC News, December 8, 2007. Accessed December 28, 2008. "Jean was thrust into music at the age of 3 when he sang at his father's church. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1981, living in Brooklyn for a year and then moving to South Orange, N.J. "
- ^ "Hallett Johnson Goes To Madrid Embassy; South Orange Career Officer Is Transferred From The Hague—Other Changes.", The New York Times, December 10, 1933. Accessed June 13, 2022. "Hallett Johnson of South Orange, N. J., an experienced career officer in the foreign service, who has been counselor of the legation at The Hague, has been named counselor of the embassy at Madrid."
- ^ Kaplan, James. "Hanging On In The Burbs; Too Rich For Their Blood", The New York Times, April 9, 2000. Accessed February 1, 2011. "Neighboring South Orange, where I grew up (the two communities shared a school system), was the first stop for Jewish Americans migrating west from Newark -- there was plenty of new money, and even a fancy neighborhood for it (piquantly named Newstead) at the top of the hill."
- ^ Lee, Edmund. "Peter W. Kaplan, Who Made News From New York’s Rich, Dies at 59", Bloomberg News, November 30, 2013. Accessed December 1, 2013. "Peter Wennik Kaplan was born on Feb. 10, 1954, in South Orange, New Jersey. His father, Robert, was an executive at a clothing firm and his mother, Roberta Wennik, was a psychotherapist. Kaplan grew up in northern New Jersey, making the occasional trip to New York."
- ^ Radanovich, John. "Stacey Kent is the American Songbook idol", The Record, October 22, 2004.
- ^ Rhodes, Richard. "Father of the Sexual Revolution: A new biography of the man who studied sex the same way he studied insects.", The New York Times, November 2, 1997. Accessed July 30, 2007. "Kinsey suffered a rigid, inhibited childhood, growing up in Hoboken and South Orange, N.J., under the thumb of a dictatorial petit-bourgeois father who taught at the Stevens Institute."
- ^ Sherman, Ted. "Ex-federal prosecutor is sworn in as Union County Superior Court judge", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, April 18, 2010. Accessed December 22, 2022. "Kirsch grew up in South Orange and played varsity basketball for Columbia High School in Maplewood."
- ^ Mattheiss, Derek Josef. "You've Seen Her on TV, but Hometown Comedian Jessica Kirson is Funnier in Person", South Orange, NJ, Patch, November 4, 2011. Accessed April 20, 2023. "Kirson has produced, taught, and performed all over the world for many years, but growing up in South Orange instilled her with some key values."
- ^ Stewart, Susan. "Food, Drink, and Plenty of Literary Dish", The New York Times, November 25, 2007. Accessed July 28, 2011. "Michael Lally, a New Jersey poet, did not seem to be suffering from a surfeit of fame. He sat at the writers’ table and waited his turn at the lectern.... Mr. Lally read next, from a work-in-progress he called “Poor Moth Boy on the Moon,” about growing up Irish Catholic in South Orange, N.J."
- ^ Venutolo, Anthony. "From heroes to villains, Frank Langella finds the heart in them all", The Star-Ledger, November 29, 2008. Accessed June 14, 2011. "The family moved to South Orange, where Langella graduated from Columbia High School before heading off to Syracuse to study drama."
- ^ Grimes, William. "David Levin, the Only Triple Crown Balloonist, Dies at 68", The New York Times, May 18, 2017. "David Norman Levin was born on June 10, 1948, in Newark.... David grew up in South Orange, N.J., and took flying lessons before he passed his driving test, pedaling his bicycle to a nearby airport."
- ^ Staff. "Gold Tee Designer Dead. Dr. William Lowell of Jersey Patented Reddy Device in '21", The New York Times, June 25, 1954. Accessed August 6, 2019. "East Orange, N.J., June 24- Dr. William Lowell, designer of the Reddy Golf Tee, which came into universal use in the sport, died yesterday at Orange Memorial Hospital after a short illness.... Born in Hoboken, he lived in South Orange, Maplewood and Summit before moving here four years ago."
- ^ Weinstock, Tish. "Meet selah marley and her beautiful family", Vice, February 3, 2017. Accessed March 11, 2023. "As a kid, Selah's family moved around a lot. Born in Miami, it wasn't until she moved to South Orange, New Jersey, that she was finally able to put down roots."
- ^ Costa, Brian. "Seton Hall Prep product Joe Martinez still recovering after taking line drive to head while pitching for San Francisco Giants", The Star-Ledger, May 18, 2009. Accessed February 11, 2012. "Joe Martinez was laying in a San Francisco hospital bed last month, his right eye swollen and black and blue, when something on TV caught his attention. It was him. After four years in the minor leagues, the South Orange native wasn't just pitching for the Giants. He was being talked about on ESPN. But not for the reason he had envisioned."
- ^ Staff. "Elmer M. Matthews, veteran, lawyer and former N.J. legislator, dies", Palm Beach Daily News, February 7, 2015. Accessed November 23, 2015. "Elmer M. Matthews of Palm Beach and Sea Girt, N.J., died Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, after a brief illness. He was 87. Born in Orange, N.J., Mr. Matthews lived in South Orange, Verona, Bernardsville and Sea Girt, N.J., before moving to Palm Beach."
- ^ Walter Irving McCoy biography, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 3, 2007.
- ^ Roderick Mead, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Accessed March 1, 2023. "Born South Orange, New Jersey, United States"
- ^ Ratliff, Ben. "Nellie Monk, 80, Wife, Muse And Mainstay of a Jazz Legend", The New York Times, June 27, 2002. Accessed April 5, 2015. "She is survived by her son, Thelonious Monk Jr. (known as T. S. Monk) of South Orange, N.J., a drummer, composer and chairman of the Thelonious Monk Institute; a grandson, Thelonious Monk IV; and a granddaughter, Sierra."
- ^ Charles Murray, New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame. Accessed March 13, 2024. "Birthplace: South Orange, New Jersey, USA"
- ^ Rubin, Debra. "Day school and punk rock collide in teen novel", New Jersey Jewish News, December 6, 2010. Accessed October 8, 2018. "In her latest book, So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint your Mother), Ostow, a graduate of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Essex and Union in West Orange, outlines the misadventures of four New Jersey suburban day school teens who form a punk rock band and make a splash on the bar mitzva circuit.... The South Orange native author spoke to NJJN by phone from her Manhattan home, where she lives with her Emmy Award-winning filmmaker husband Noah Harlan, a Cranbury native who grew up attending Congregation Beth Chaim in Princeton Junction."
- ^ Staff. "Dr. T. J. Preston Jr., Educator, Was 93", The New York Times, December 26, 1955. Accessed February 11, 2012.
- ^ Filichia, Peter. "Actor reflects on 'Luck,' parenthood and hard work", The Star-Ledger, May 3, 2002. Accessed August 1, 2007. "James Rebhorn, 53, is one of those actors whose name you may not know, but you never forget his face, from such films as 'Meet the Parents,' 'The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle' and 'The Talented Mr. Ripley.' Now the South Orange resident is appearing on Broadway in Arthur Miller's first play, 'The Man Who Had All the Luck,' which closed after only four performances in 1944."
- ^ "Roberts brings boxing back to the people", Herald News, August 15, 1989. Accessed February 20, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "Marc Roberts, a 29-year-old entrepreneur, is a man with a dream and a vision....He was born in Newark, grew up in West Orange, now lives in South Orange."
- ^ Staff. "Birds Hope To Lanch On One Of Best Years", The Gamecock, November 7, 1958. Accessed October 21, 2015. "Up front the Gamecocks have a solid line, anchored by two of the conference's best tackles, Ed Pitts of Clinton and Don Rogers of South Orange, N. J."
- ^ Oser, Alan S. "About Real Estate New Project by Sagner Reflects Weakness in Jersey Sales", The New York Times, November 28, 1980. Accessed March 28, 2016. "Mr. Sagner lives in South Orange and he is producing customized homes meant to appeal to many of his affluent neighbors -- those who have perhaps tired of caring for their finely landscaped private houses."
- ^ via Associated Press. "David M. Satz", The Daily Register, June 26, 1961. Accessed May 5, 2022, via Newspapers.com. "David M. Satz, Jr., wasn't exactly overcome with surprise at news that he had been appointed U. S. attorney for New Jersey.... Satz lives at 283 West End Rd., South Orange, with his wife Susan, and his children, Constance Ellen, 4, and David, 18 months."
- ^ "Joseph Scheuerle", The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 9, 1948. Accessed December 31, 2020, via Newspapers.com. "Services for Joseph Scheuerle, widely known painter of American Indians and wildlife, will be held at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow in the Spring Grove Cemetery chapel, with burial in Spring Grove. Mr. Scheuerle died Wednesday at his home in South Orange, N. J. He was 75 years old."
- ^ Perlez, Jane. "Man In The News; Democratic Victor In Jersey Prepares: Peter Shapiro To Battle A Popular Incumbent: Political Success From Early Age", The New York Times, June 6, 1985. Accessed January 20, 2020. "Peter Shapiro was born in Newark on April 18, 1952, the second child of Dr. and Mrs. Shapiro. He grew up in Orange and then South Orange, attending the Millburn Grammar School."
- ^ Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something", Horizon magazine, September 1, 2003. "Shue and Do Something president Sanchez grew up together in South Orange, N.J., where, at 14, Shue became a Boy Scout dropout, mostly because the troop's weekend excursions cramped his soccer schedule."
- ^ A new Shue, South Orange Journal, June 27, 2006. "Belated congratulations to South Orange's own Elisabeth Shue and her husband, film director Davis Guggenheim--they recently became third-time parents with the birth of their daughter Agnes."
- ^ Madigan, Nick. "Producer honoree Silver agonizes over 'the process': The 'gyroscopic force of inertia' in films make filmmaking difficult", Variety, August 27, 2001. Accessed July 30, 2007. "Silver acknowledges that his movies may not leave the same legacy as the classics he watched growing up in South Orange, N.J., like The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia or The Dirty Dozen."
- ^ Tony Smith Sculpture Project, Lennie Pierro Memorial arts Foundation. Accessed August 31, 2011. "Today Kiki Smith, Tony’s daughter, is one of the foremost artists of her generation. Her sister, Seton, a photographer, is also well known in the art world. Both grew up in South Orange and attended Columbia High School."
- ^ Biography, MichaelPeterSmith.com. Accessed December 2, 2017. "Michael Peter Smith was born in South Orange, New Jersey in September of 1941 and raised in the area, attending Catholic schools later referenced in a few of his songs.... I sang bass with an a capella doowop group in high school (Passaic Valley Regional, in Little Falls, New Jersey)."
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