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In 1899 Adaline Sterling was serving as president of the Englewood, New Jersey school board. She was elected in this year or shortly prior to 1899. Sterling, a Democrat, was active in the Women's Committee of the party, worked for woman suffrage, helped to raise the funds needed to build Englewood Hospital, and as a founder and leader of the Englewood Women's Club, lobbied to preserve the Palisades and to create a park.
