People
An index of the people documented in the history of Kinnelon and Smoke Rise, New Jersey, each linked to their sourced page.
| Alice Duer Miller(1874–1942) | Mathematician · Suffragist · Poet · Novelist · Screenwriter | American writer and mathematician (1874–1942), best known for the suffrage verse Are Women People? (1915) and the wartime verse-novel The White Cliffs (1940). The chapel Our Lady of the Magnificat on Miller Road in Kinnelon, NJ, was built in her memory. |
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| Dr. Helen L. Miller(1896–1990) | Physician · Obstetrician-gynecologist · Founder, Kinnelon Medical Center | American physician (1896–1990). Born in Corvallis, Oregon, and trained at the University of Oregon Medical School (today OHSU), she became Kinnelon, New Jersey's first resident doctor, built the Kinnelon Medical Center and an early cancer-detection center for women, and willed her home, L'Ecole, to the borough as its museum. |
| Francis S. Kinney | Cigarette manufacturer · Estate owner | New York cigarette magnate (Kinney Tobacco / Sweet Caporal) who assembled the roughly 5,000-acre Kinnelon, NJ mountain estate that gave the borough its name. |
| Laura Benanti(b. 1979) | Actress · Singer | American actress and singer (born 1979), a Tony Award winner known for Broadway, film, and television. She was raised in Kinnelon, New Jersey, and graduated from Kinnelon High School in 1997. |
| Lucy Meyer | Engineer · Mathematical physicist · Conservationist · Local historian | American engineer and mathematical physicist (c. 1930–2019). A Kinnelon, New Jersey, Environmental Commission member and local historian, she led the campaign to save Pyramid Mountain, received a Take Pride in America Award from President Reagan in 1988, and wrote “Kinnelon: A History” (1976). |
| Mary Cogswell Kinney | Mother of Francis S. Kinney of Kinnelon, New Jersey; a friend of Mary Todd Lincoln and one of five women present at President Lincoln's deathbed. The sculpture “The Angel of Resurrection” was originally placed on her tomb and now stands in St. Hubert's Chapel. | |
| Mary Kinney | The devout Catholic wife of Francis S. Kinney of Kinnelon, New Jersey, for whom he built St. Hubert's Chapel (1886–1889) on an island in Lake Kinnelon, decorated by the Tiffany Glass Company. |