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Helen Homans
Helen Houston Homans McLean (February 8, 1877 – March 29, 1949) was an American tennis champion. Career Homans won the women's doubles title at the 1905 U.S. National Championship and the singles title the next year. Homans played mixed doubles with Marshall McLean as early as 1902 and later married him a/in New York City in 1907. In mixed doubles, she reached the semifinals partnering Harry F. Allen in 1905. In 1911, she won three of the New Jersey State championship titles. In 1913, she regained her title when she defeated Marie Wagner at the Morristown Field Club in Morristown, New Jersey. On September 19, 1913, she was defeated by Clare Cassell at the Montclair Athletic Club. In 1915, Molla Bjurstedt of Norway, the national indoor champion, defeated McLean in the final round of the Class A tennis singles at the West Side Tennis Club The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which at the 2020 United States census had a population of 29,308. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from portions of Ridgefield Township and the remaining portions of Englewood Township.Snyder, John P''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968'' Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 77. Accessed February 14, 2012. History Origin of name Englewood Township, the city's predecessor, is believed to have been named in 1859 for the Engle family. The community had been called the " English Neighborhood", as the first primarily English-speaking settlement on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River after New Netherland was annexed by England in 1664, though other sources mention the Engle family and the heavily forested areas of the community as the derivation of the name. Other sources indicate that the name is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
