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In 1964, Kinney purchased Walter B. Cooke, Inc., which operated nine funeral homes in New York. [2] By 1964, the company had $29 million in sales and 6,000 cars in its fleet with 100 franchised auto dealers in six states who leased cars under the Kinney brand. [2]
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
As New Jersey's largest city, Newark played a major role in New Jersey's journalistic history. At its apex, The News was widely regarded as the newspaper of record in New Jersey. [1] For much of its life it had the largest circulation of any New Jersey newspaper, and in 1963 was the 20th ranked national newspaper by evening circulation numbers.
This is a list of newspapers in New Jersey. There were, as of 2020, over 300 newspapers in print in New Jersey. Historically, there have been almost 2,000 newspapers published in New Jersey. [1] The Constitutional Courant, founded in 1765 in Woodbridge, New Jersey, is the earliest known New Jersey newspaper. [2]
Funeral services for Whitney Houston, [4] a lifelong member of the congregation, were held at the New Hope Baptist Church. [5] [6] NJ Governor Chris Christie began his inauguration activities at the church in 2009 and 2014. [7] [8] In 2024, Cissy Houston’s funeral was held at the church.
William Pennington (1796–1862), 13th Governor of New Jersey and Speaker of the House during his single term in Congress; Nehemiah Perry (1816–1881), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, Mayor of Newark; Theodore Runyon (1822–1896), Civil War general, Newark mayor, and U.S. ambassador to Germany
After graduation from Yale, Peace taught biology and coached water polo for five years at his high school alma mater in Newark, New Jersey, winning a Teacher of the Year award. [7] He persisted in his efforts to establish his father’s innocence until Robert Douglas received a diagnosis of brain cancer and died while incarcerated, Peace was 26 ...
Mary R. Denman (1823-1899), first president of the New Jersey Woman's Christian Temperance Union [245] Ida Wharton Dawson (1860-1928), social worker; President, New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs [246] Muriel Fox (born 1928), feminist activist who was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women [247] [248]