From collection Candidates
In 1899 Miss 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.
