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5 unusual facts about East Orange


Chris Tsakis

He started working as a WFMU volunteer DJ during the 1980s when the station was located at Upsala College in East Orange, New Jersey.

Edward L. O'Neill

He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.

Frank Joseph McNulty

He was buried in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

In 1959, Hobby left Pfizer to specialized in chronic infectious diseases as chief of research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

Henry Randall Waite

Henry Randall Waite (born Copenhagen, New York, 16 December 1845; died East Orange, New Jersey, 8 May 1909) was a United States editor and clergyman.


Dee Dee Warwick

Warwick was born in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warwick (1911–1977), who began his career as a Pullman porter and subsequently became a chef, a gospel record promoter for Chess Records and later a Certified Public Accountant; and Lee Drinkard Warwick (1920–2005), manager of The Drinkard Singers.

Lin Carter

He resided in East Orange, New Jersey in his final years, and died in nearby Montclair, New Jersey.

Nickel–iron battery

Edison's batteries were made from about 1903 to 1972 by the Edison Storage Battery Company in East Orange, NJ.

Robert Hathaway

Hathaway was born in East Orange, New Jersey, the third of four sons of the Wall Street banker Charles Hathaway and his wife Cora (née Southworth Rountree).

Walter Iooss

Born in Temple, Texas, Walter Iooss moved at the age of five from Temple to East Orange, New Jersey.

Yictove

Born Eugene Melvin Turk, Yictove was a proponent of rhymed poetry, who mentored high school students in New Jersey, including those at East Orange High School, performed as a poet in the schools courtesy of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, taught creative writing in public libraries and in the Safe Haven program/YMCA in East Orange, New Jersey, and directed poetry series in New York City's Knitting Factory.


see also

Ajay Naidu

Naidu's most recent theatre credits include The Master and Margarita with Complicite, a world tour of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure with Complicite, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Al Pacino, directed by Simon McBurney and The Little Flower of East Orange alongside Ellyn Burstyn at New York's Public Theater directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Double II Set

The East Orange hip hop group Naughty by Nature cultivates the perception of a connection to the Double II Set, double spelling the letter I in album titles (e.g. "IIcons").

Joseph Cryan

Cryan was born on September 1, 1961, in East Orange, the son of John Cryan, an immigrant to the United States from County Roscommon, Ireland, who would later be elected to the General Assembly and served as Sheriff of Essex County.