Editing Allamuchy Township, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Allamuchy Township, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Allamuchy Township include:

* [[Alison Becker]] (born 1977), actress<ref>[[James Barron (journalist)|Barron, James]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/nyregion/action-park-movie.html ""], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 19, 2019. Accessed June 29, 2020. "But it is the nostalgia-tinted legend that remains in people’s memories. Alison Becker, 42, an actress and writer best known for a recurring role on the sitcom ''Parks and Recreation,'' said the risks at Action Park were part of the appeal. She said she had gone to Six Flags Great Adventure, which is also in New Jersey, and nothing equaled the fear factor at Action Park. 'You know the scene in ''Footloose'' where they’re playing a game of chicken with tractors and going at each other?' said Ms. Becker, who grew up about 30 miles from Action Park in Allamuchy Township."</ref>
* [[Stephen Bienko]] (born 1979), entrepreneur behind the [[College Hunks Hauling Junk]] brand<ref>Ruse, Leslie. [http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/2014/09/21/morris-twp-man-collecting-sports-equipment-nicaraguans/15894757/ "Ruse on the Loose: Morris Twp. man collecting sports equipment for Nicaraguans"], ''[[Daily Record (New Jersey)|Daily Record]]'', September 21, 2014. Accessed June 29, 2020. "New Jersey entrepreneur Stephen Bienko, whose Montville company, 42 Holdings, LLC, is the largest owner of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving franchise territories, has been selected by ''NJBIZ'' Magazine as one of its 2014 '40 Under 40' top business people in the state. The 37-year-old Delbarton graduate lives in Allamuchy."</ref>
* [[Ada Lunardoni]] (1911–2003), artistic gymnast who competed in the [[Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics|gymnastics competition]] at the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]<ref>Nutt, Bill. [https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/entertainment/2018/01/30/nj-women-first-us-gymnastics-team-spotlight-centenary/1035438001/ "NJ women on first US gymnastics team in spotlight at Centenary"], ''[[Daily Record (New Jersey)|Daily Record]]'', January 30, 2018. Accessed January 3, 2024. "From researching newspaper articles, Rust learned about the women’s gymnastics team and specifically about Ada Lunardoni, who had since married, divorced, and remarried before moving to the Panther Valley section of Allamuchy."</ref>
* [[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd]] (born 1891), lived in what is now [[Rutherfurd Hall]] where [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|President Franklin D. Roosevelt]] paid at least one call on her "as a friend" before the existence of their [[Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd#Affair with Franklin D. Roosevelt|lifelong romantic affair]] was publicly revealed<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110220053943/http://www.allamuchynj.org/detail.asp?ItemID=190 Freight House repairs are just the beginning], Allamuchy Township, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of February 22, 2011. Accessed January 27, 2020. "The Allamuchy stop received additional notoriety in the 1940s, when Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled to Allamuchy in his private railway car, the Ferdinand Magellan, to call on his close friend Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. The Rutherfurds were a prominent family in the county, whose mansion, now known as Villa Madonna, also was built in 1906."</ref><ref name=RutherfurdHall>[https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/11000592.htm Rutherfurd Hall], [[National Register of Historic Places]]. Accessed January 27, 2020. "Winthrop married Alice Morton, daughter of Vice-President Levi P. Morton, in 1902, a match that prompted him to build a new country house near his family's ancestral estate, Tranquility Farms, in Allamuchy, New Jersey. His second wife, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, was the social secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt and a onetime mistress of Franklin Delano Roosevelt."</ref>
* [[Winthrop Rutherfurd]] (born 1862), socialite and husband of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd<ref name=RutherfurdHall/>