Phisician / Poet

Co-Founder of Becton Dickinson University)

Co - Founder of Becton Dickinson University

Represented Bergen County in New Jersey Senate from 1935 - 1940

Medal of Honor Recipient

Builder

Cartoonist

Early Modernist Artist

U.S. Senator

Writer and Publisher

Chemist and University Professor

Aide to Woodrow Wilson

Member of New Jersey Senate 1968

Senator 1875 - 1877

New Jersey District Judge 1924 - 1928
New Jersey Senator 1932 - 1934

Linguist

Author

Luthier (Violin)

Lyric Tenor

New York Jets Unofficial Mascot

County Executive of Bergen County, New Jersey.
Previously County Clerk and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida.

Folk Music Artist and Promoter

Playwright and Director

Actress

Republican Politician and Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida

Author of Seven Books and was Special Assistant to to Former President Ronald Reagan

United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 - 1992

Singer with the B-52’s

News Anchor for WCBS - TV

Represented Bergen County in the N.J. Senate from 1863 - 1865

Former Professional Baseball Outfielder

Professional Anatomist at Columbia University

Actress

Former American Football Fullback

is a former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. She previously served as Under Secretary of the Air Force.

was an American Negro league shortstop in the 1920s.

was an educator and school administrator known for her innovative teaching methods.

American former professional baseball pitcher

American Professional Wrestler

United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Playwright and Noveslist

American Football Player, Coach and Scout.

former head football coach for the Kean University Cougars

medical anthropologist and author

American arts organization leader

American professional baseball player who pitched in the major leagues from 1965 to 1975.

American former backstroke and freestyle competition swimmer.

American former professional baseball pitcher.

American professional basketball player.

Writer, Educator and Community Activist.

American entomologist who founded the Insect Pest Survey of the U.S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine.

American former professional baseball pitcher.

American cell biologist and micrographer

Violinist

is a retired American lieutenant general.

American rabbi who serves as spiritual leader of New York City's Congregation Beit Simchat Torah

Actress

American Painter

Professional Wrestler

Professional Baseball Pitcher

American Writer

Character Actor

Sound Artist, Composer Performer.

Sailboat Designer

American Professional Football Player

Cartoonist

Baseball Pitcher

American Football Player

Computer Scientist

English Amateur Footballer

American Football Coach

American Artist know for Sculpture and Land Art

American television analyst for College Basketball on CBS and Former Professional Basketball Player

Was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen,

American Poet

Composer and Music Educator

Land Developer

A Portraitist, Painter, Sculptor, Author and Ordained Minister from South Korea

American Novelist, Editor, and Screenwriter

American Football Coach

American former professional football player

Former American Football Player

Stand-Up Comedian, Actor, Writer, and Director

Founder of “The Woman’s Club of Rutherford”

Builder

Purple Heart Recipient WWII

WWII

WWII

WWII

WWII

WWII

Served as Rutherford's historian for 20 years. He is a founding member of the Rutherford Historic Preservation Committee (1998-2022). He has written extensively on Rutherford and South Bergen County history. He is a former trustee of the Meadowlands Museum.

First Black Family (Former Slaves) to own property in Rutherford.

Founder of Rutherford’s Christian Science Church

Theatre Manager; said to be the last person to speak to John Wilkes Booth before the actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Former Chairman of the RHPC. Co-Founder and Chairman of the “Rutherford Historic Preservation Society”

Famed Civil War Author, Was imprisoned in Andersonville.

One of the founder of the “Town Improvement Association”. Canvassed throughout Rutherford in support of establishing Lincoln Park.

Original member of the RHPC, “Friends of the Foreign Students”, “Williard and Marjorie Reenstra Memorial Park”

Member of the Borough Council, Liaison to “The Civil Rights Commission”, Liaison to “The Fire Department”, “Planning Board” and “Police and Finance Committees”.

Arena Football League

Football Center NFL

Basketball (Icelandic National Basketball Team)

Boxer

is an American mixed martial artist currently competing in the Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
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He went from the gym at St. Mary’s Rutherford to the storied court at Madison Square Garden, and now, Nick Boyd is headed to the center of the college basketball world.

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New Jersey “All State Football, Basketball and Baseball Teams.” Combat Pilot and Control Commander WWII. Presidential Citation and Distinguished Air Medal.

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Comedian · writer · actor · speaker · substitute teacher.

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Civil War Author “My Country Needs Me”.

Enlisted April 24, 1917 with Company L, 7th Division New York National Guard, Everett was assigned to 107 U.S Infantry 27th Division.

Architect.

Inventor of the camera tripod along with his brother Mark Marchioni.

Photo courtesy of “Meadowlands Museum” and “Carol Kowalski”.

Painter, designer.

Born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and received his art training at Parsons School of Design and The Famous

Artist School of Illustration.

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Luigi Vellucci of Rutherford was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1913.

Mr. Vellucci made his career as an opera singer, where he achieved some renown as a comprimario

tenor, the operatic equivalent of a character actor.

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First Violinist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein and subsequent

conductors in other orchestras. Well known constructor of crossword puzzles.

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Graduated Rutherford High School in 1969

Technical Deputy Program Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope

program at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Recognized for numerous NASA awards.

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DescriptioBarbara served as a Rutherford Councilwoman from 1976 until 1978. In 1978, she became the first elected female Mayor of Rutherford in which capacity she served until 1988. She was also a Bergen County Freeholder from 1981 until her retirement in 2001. During her tenure as Freeholder, she primarily concentrated on health and human services, focusing on children, senior citizens, and the disabled. In 2001, the multi-purpose room at the Bergen County Administration Building was named for Barbara H. Chadwick and the plaque on the wall reads: “Wife and mother, human services activist, nurse, civic leader, and public official. ‘A tireless advocate for those in need.’” Her legacy of service lives on in the thousands of people she helped over the years.

Barbara was a past president of the Rutherford Woman’s Club, past captain of the Rutherford First-Aid Ambulance Corps, chairwoman of the NJ League of Municipalities, and Director Emeritus of the Rutherford Kip Center . She belonged to the Rutherford Republican Club, Rutherford Methodist Church , Rutherford Garden Club, William Carlos Williams Center Board of Directors, St. Mary’s Hospital Board of Directors, NJ Association of Counties, Order of the Eastern Star, and Meals on Wheels. She was also a former member of the Union School Parent-Teacher Association as well as a Den Mother for her sons’ Cub Scout troops. Among her many awards were the Rutherford Chamber of Commerce “Man of the Year” in 1974 and the Rutherford High School Distinguished Graduate in 2001.

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Dr. Hollister was one of South Bergen’s pioneer physicians and a resident of Rutherford for more than 40 years. Dr. Hollister received his medical degree from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York in 1862. He came to Rutherford in the early 1870s and lived at 168 Chestnut Street which is now the home of the “The Rutherford Schoolhouse”, a popular Day Care Center. Dr. Hollister had a wide practice throughout South Bergen and was known to thousands of settlers in the boroughs. Dr. Hollister took an active part in the building of Rutherford and was once Rutherford’s Republican Candidate for Mayor and was defeated in a three-corner fight. Dr. Hollister retired from his medical practice in 1910 and remained in Rutherford until 1915 when he moved to Wyoming to be with his children, Dwight Hollister, an attorney, and daughter Miss Maude Hollister.  On May 31, 1932, Dr. Hollister died in Cody, Wyoming at the age of 91 years old and was buried in Hillside Cemetery in Lyndhurst.