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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 86 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLOOMFIELD , a See also:

town of See also:Essex See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., about 12 M. W. of New See also:York, and directly adjoining the See also:city of See also:Newark on the N. Pop. (190o) 9668, of whom 2267 were foreignborn;(19o5,See also:state See also:census) IT,668;(191o),15,070. See also:Area, 5.42sq.m. Bloomfield is served by the See also:Erie, and the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western See also:railways, and by several electric lines connecting with Newark, See also:Montclair, See also:Orange, See also:East Orange and other neighbouring places. It is a residential suburb of Newark and New York, is the seat of a See also:German theological school (Presbyterian, 1869) and has the Jarvie Memorial library (1902). There is a Central See also:Green, and in 1908 See also:land was acquired for another See also:park. Among the town's manufactures are See also:silk and woollen goods, See also:paper, electric See also:elevators, electric lamps, See also: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 See also:colony, Bloomfield was See also:long a See also:part of Newark, the See also:principal See also:settlement at first being known as Wardsesson. In 1796 it was named Bloomfield in See also:honour of See also:General See also:Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), who served (1775-1778) in the See also:War of See also:American See also:Independence, reaching the See also:rank of See also:major, was See also:governor of New Jersey in 1801-1802 and 1803-1812, brigadier-general in the See also:United States See also:army during the War of 1812, and a Democratic representative in See also:Congress from 1817 to 1821.

The township of Bloomfield was incorporated in 1812. From it were subsequently set off See also:

Belleville (1839), Montclair (1868) and Glen See also:Ridge (1895).

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