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Encyclopedia Britannica



BLOOMFIELD

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 86 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BLOOMFIELD , a town of Essex county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., about 12 M. W. of New
York
 , and directly adjoining the city of Newark on the N. Pop. (190o) 9668, of whom 2267 were foreignborn;(19o5,state census) IT,668;(191o),15,070. Area, 5.42sq.m. Bloomfield is served by the Erie, and the
Delaware
 , Lackawanna & Western railways, and by several electric lines connecting with Newark, Montclair, Orange, East Orange and other neighbouring places. It is a residential suburb of Newark and New
York
 , is the seat of a German theological school (Presbyterian, 1869) and has the Jarvie Memorial library (1902). There is a Central Green, and in 1908 land was acquired for another park. Among the town's manufactures are silk and woollen goods,
paper
 , electric elevators, electric lamps, rubber goods, safety pins, hats, cream separators, brushes and novelties. The value of the town's factory products increased from $3,370,924 in 'goo to $4,645,483 in 1905, or 37.8%. First settled about 1670-1675 by the Dutch and by New Englanders from the Newark colony, Bloomfield was long a part of Newark, the principal settlement at first being known as Wardsesson. In 1796 it was named Bloomfield in honour of General Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), who served (1775-1778) in the War of American Independence, reaching the rank of major, was
governor
  of New
Jersey
  in 1801-1802 and 1803-1812, brigadier-general in the United States army during the War of 1812, and a Democratic representative in Congress from 1817 to 1821. The township of Bloomfield was incorporated in 1812. From it were subsequently set off Belleville (1839), Montclair (1868) and Glen
Ridge
  (1895).


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