Influential Women
South Jersey’s boardrooms and governing bodies today show few women in positions of power.
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- Elizabeth Alton was the 'founding mother' of Richard Stockton College
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When Elizabeth Barstow Alton decided something needed to be done, there was no stopping her.
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- Sara Spencer Washington sparked a boom in black hair salons and beauty products
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Remnants of Sara Spencer Washington’s empire are scattered across Atlantic County.
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- Pauline Petway served as Vineland's first black teacher, principal
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Pauline J. Petway showed her courage in many ways.
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- Mildred Fox fought to bring casino gambling to Atlantic City
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One day in 1964, a cadre of Las Vegas casino bosses came to Atlantic City to sit around Mildred Fox’s white-clothed table in the Colony Room at Fox Manor Hotel.
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- Dr. Margaret Mace delivered many of Five Mile Beach's babies
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Dr. Margaret Mace’s connection with the thousands of children she delivered didn’t end the day they were born.
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- Elizabeth Coleman White helped make the blueberry profitable
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Hammonton is known as the Blueberry Capital of the World, but few people know of the woman who made the commercial blueberry farm possible.
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- Vineland's Mary Treat helped Charles Darwin publish his work
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When Charles Darwin needed help finishing his 20th book, the legendary English evolutionist turned to an amateur woman naturalist from Vineland named Mary Treat.
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- Vineland's Mary Tillotson was once jailed for wearing pants
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Spending a night in jail for wearing pants was likely not a moment of shame for Mary Tillotson.
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- Women have many of the top jobs in health care in South Jersey, but fewer in other fields
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Women looking to become power players in southern New Jersey should think about getting into health care.
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