Person:Augustin McEnery (1)

Augustin attended St. Peter's Grammar School, Belleville, Seton Hall Prep, South Orange. He graduated from Seton Hall College in 1900, and joined the staff of the Newark Evening News. He died at home, 30 Warren Place, East Orange, after a brief illness. He was the suburban editor of the Newark Evening News. The funeral Mass was at Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, East Orange. He was one of the founders of the Belleville Times. He died from “an acute attack of indigestion which had weakened his heart.” [Obituary from an unnamed newspaper.]

He was a charter member of the Belleville Knights of Columbus, and was a Fourth Degree. He moved to East Orange about 1914.

According to the Belleville Times, Anniversary Issue, 26 November 1934: “The first issue of this newspaper was published December 4, 1909. James Kennedy, later town recorder and now one of the editors of the Newark Star-Eagle, and the late Augustus McEnery, were the founders. Mr. McEnery was in active charge of publication and Mr. Kennedy contributed from his fund of knowledge of journalism . . . . McEnery and Kennedy relinquished ownership of the Times several weeks after its first issue appeared on the streets, selling the paper to the late John W. Smith, also a Newark newspaper man.”