A curated, growing encyclopedia of the historic and modern women of Kinnelon & Smoke Rise — every entry reviewed and sourced.
Alice Duer Miller
1874–1942
Suffragist poet and matriarch of the Miller Road family.
Mary Kinney
1880s
The woman St. Hubert's Chapel was built for — its devotional origin.
Beatrice Kinney Lamontagne
early–mid 20th c.
Kinney daughter and steward of the chapel's Madonna statue.
The Women of Smoke Rise
1960s
The women who ran Smoke Rise's community library.
Missy Elliott
b. 1971
Grammy-winning hip-hop artist and a Smoke Rise resident.
Lucy A. Meyer
1976
Author of the borough's definitive published history (1976).
Laura Benanti
b. 1979
Tony Award–winning actress who grew up in Kinnelon.
Elise Testone
b. 1983
Kinnelon-raised singer-songwriter and American Idol finalist.
Jen Singer
1990s–present
Smoke Rise author and founder of MommaSaid.net.
Dr. Helen Miller
early 20th c.
The physician whose home and office is now L'Ecole, the Kinnelon Museum.
Pearl R. Miller
20th c.
Educator honored by the naming of Pearl R. Miller Middle School.